Questions and answers to this week's movie quiz
Questions:
1. Who was commander of the Millennium Falcon?
2. Whose opponents included Apollo Creed, Ivan Drago and
Mason Dixon?
3. "Be afraid. Be very afraid." Of what?
4. Who is the odd one out: Tom Hagen, Rupert Pupkin, Jimmy
Conway, Neil
McCauley?
5. Richard Dreyfus plays a music teacher. Cary Grant's house
falls about
his ears. Michael Keaton becomes a housewife. Gary Cooper
inherits a
fortune. Which honorific?
6. According to the end titles, one character became a
gynaecologist,
another was killed by his own troops in Vietnam and a third
worked for
Nixon before going to prison (where he was raped). Which
bawdy college
comedy?
7. What will you find in Vantage Point, Rashomon, Basic and
The Outrage?
8. For which film did Michael Douglas win his first Oscar?
9. Which long-suffering materfamilias later united Jimmy
Stewart's best
pal in Vertigo and his wife in It's a Wonderful Life?
10. What do Diane Hall, Michael Douglas and Joseph Keaton
have in
common?
Answers:
1. Han Solo (Harrison Ford)
2. Rocky Balboa
3. The Fly. That was the film's catchphrase.
4. Tom Hagen. All the others were played by Robert De Niro.
Hagen -
consigliere in The Godfather - was played by Robert Duvall.
5. Mister. The films referenced are Mr Holland's Opus, Mr
Blandings
Builds his Dream House, Mr Mom and Mr Deeds Goes to Town.
6. National Lampoon's Animal House
7. Different perspectives on the same sequence of events.
8. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. A producer of the film,
Douglas
received the Oscar for Best Picture.
9. Miss Ellie Ewing. Both Barbara Bel Geddes and Donna Reed
played that
part on Dallas.
10. They are all Keatons. These are the birth names of Diane
Keaton,
Michael Keaton and Buster Keaton.
