Questions and answers for this week's movie quiz
Questions
1. Which white-tailed deer hung out with Thumper and Flower?
2. Who were Curly, Larry and Moe?
3. Which waspish English actor, of Flemish descent, began
life as Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde?
4. Which Oscar-nominated actor once played for his country's
national rugby team?
5. 50 First Dates, The Bourne Identity, Random Harvest, The
Long Kiss Goodnight. Which medical condition?
6. Which classic thriller ended with the "things dreams are
made of "?
7. Mrs Doubtfire, Home Alone, Children of Men, Notting Hill
(in that order). Which franchise?
8. Samantha Morton's boyfriend commits suicide. Lawyer George
Clooney watches as his colleague goes nuts. Ryan O'Neal plays an
18th-century Irish rogue. Al Pacino is a racing driver. What's the
connection?
9. What did the O in Roger O Thornhill stand for?
10. Ripley's cat, the protagonist of Paul Schrader's latest
and Tom Hanks's volleyball might, in the 1970s, have been under the
command of which bank manager?
Answers
1. Bambi
2. The Three Stooges
3. Dirk Bogarde
4. Javier Bardem
5. Amnesia
6. The Maltese Falcon
7. Harry Potter. These are films directed by people
responsible for successive episodes of that series.
8. The characters full name appears in the title. The
pictures in question are Morvern Callar, Michael Clayton, Barry
Lyndon and Bobby Deerfield.
9. Nothing. Thornhill is the hero of Hitchcock's North by
Northwest.
10. Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army. The question refers to
Jones, (The) Walker and Wilson.
