Questions from the blood simple to the die hard . . . by Donald Clarke

1. Who played The Quiet Man?

2. He's pregnant. He has a much shorter, much fatter twin. He's teaching infants. Which actor's high-concept comedies?

3. Batman. Annie Hall. The General. Which family?

4. Who came after Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak and Janet Leigh?

5. What creature links Sonia Braga, Tobey Maguire and - by most people's reckoning - the funniest scene in The Simpsons Movie?

6. The voice of which former postman has appeared in every Pixar movie?

7. Scripts by Terence Rattigan, William Shakespeare, Edward Albee and (with others) Joseph L Mankiewicz brought together which two tempestuous lovers?

8. Why might the hero of The Day of the Locust -- Nathanael West's satire of Hollywood, later filmed by John Schlesinger - remind you of this summer's biggest film?

9. Which British comedy begins with King Curtis and ends with Hamlet?

10. Which is the odd one out: Jaws II, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, Rocky 2, Die Hard 2?

Answers

1. John Wayne

2. Arnold Schwarzenegger

3. The Keatons. Michael, Diane and Buster of that ilk played those roles.

4. Tippi Hedren. Hitchcock blondes in North by Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho and The Birds.

5. Spider. The question refers to Kiss of the Spider Woman, Spider-Man and Spider-Pig.

6. John Ratzenberger, who once played the mighty Cliff in Cheers.

7. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The couple appeared together in The VIPs, The Taming of the Shrew, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Cleopatra.

8. He is called Homer Simpson.

9. Withnail and I. Curtis's music plays over the opening credits. Withnail delivers a soliloquy from Hamlet in the final scene.

10. Die Hard 2. It is the only one whose title is rendered correctly. It should be Jaws 2; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (or, sometimes, just Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan) and Rocky II.