Questions from the blood simple to the die hard.

Questions

1. Which two animated television series - now expanded for the big screen - square up against one another in two weeks' time?

2. What word appears on Charles Foster Kane's sled?

3. Stand by Me, The Shawshank Redemption, Dolores Claiborne and, by some estimates, another 37 movies. Which New Englander?

4. What word unites Pie, Beauty, Psycho and Graffiti?

5. How, between 1982 and 2002, were certain guns melted down into walkie-talkies?

6. Who or what were Figaro, Jones, Mr Bigglesworth and Thomas O'Malley?

7. In what film might you discover one Bud Ekins failing (just) to make it into Switzerland?

8. Where might you find Buster Keaton playing bridge with fellow silent stars Anna Q Nilsson and H B Warner?

9. "Do you realise that because of you this city is being overrun by baboons?" the mayor asks. How does the unshakable Frank Drebin respond?

10. In which film do Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews and Eve Channing conspicuously fail to appear?

Answers

1. Transformers and The Simpsons

2. Rosebud

3. Stephen King. It is said that 40 films have been made from his stories.

4. American

5. In the reissue of ET The Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg digitally transformed the police officers' revolvers into walkie-talkies.

6. Cats in, respectively, Pinocchio, Alien, Austin Powers and The Aristocats.

7. The Great Escape. Ekins stood in for Steve McQueen on the most difficult motorbike stunt.

8. In Sunset Blvd

9. "Well, isn't that the fault of the voters?" Dialogue from The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

10. In Sleuth. They are listed in the opening credits, but, for reasons explained in the final scene, do not actually appear in the picture.