DONALD CLARKE's weekly movie quiz.
QUESTIONS
1.Who's missing: Gummo, Zeppo, Chico and Harpo?
2.Which of this week's releases features a showdown between Sister Aloysius Beauvier and Father Brendan Flynn?
3."He is afraid. He is totally alone. He is 3 million light years from home." Who? (Or what?)
4."Let me tell you what
Like a Virgin's about." The first line of which contemporary classic?
5.Fear of heights. Compass point. Mad person. Of the class aves. (In that order) Which master?
6.Turner, Ned Kelly and - for those with very good memories - Vacondek. Which rocker?
7.In which upcoming film will Ozymandius be investing the death of the Comedian?
8.The title of which early Steve Martin film was inspired by the name of a Dostoevsky novel?
9.
Ghostbustersand
Juno.
Gloriaand
The Notebook.
Lola Montesand
The Sorrow and the Pity. What are we talking about?
10.Spain. South Africa. Germany. Austria. Japan. (In that order) Which honour?
ANSWERS
1.Groucho. The question refers to The Marx Brothers.
2.
Doubt.
3.ET.
4.
Reservoir Dogs.
5.Alfred Hitchcock. The question refers to successive Hitchcock classics:
Vertigo,
North by Northwest,
Psychoand
The Birds.
6.Mick Jagger. He played those roles in
Performance,
Ned Kellyand
Freejack.
7.
Watchmen.
8.
The Jerk. Martin had recently been reading The Idiot.
9.Father and son directors. The question refers to Ivan and Jason Reitman, John and Nick Cassavetes, and Max and Marcel Ophuls.
10.Winners of the most recent Oscar for foreign language film.