Questions and answers for this week's movie quiz.
Questions
1. Brad Pitt turns up next week as which iconic outlaw?
2. Where might I hear about the "Circle of Life" and "Hakuna
Matata"?
3. Which two extraterrestrial monsters will shortly have at
one another once again in a flick abbreviated as AVP2?
4. I may have a pain in my Gulliver, but that will not
stop me from listening to a bit of Ludwig Van, indulging in
ultraviolence and having a bit of in-and-out. Who am I?
5. Why might Bryan Singer's debut and a film written by
and starring(though not directed by) Woody Allen make us think of a
1942 classic?
6. Rex Harrison, Kenneth Williams and Louis Calhern
have all worn whose toga?
7. Who is the odd one out: Michael Caine (1992), Alistair Sim
(1951), Bill Murray (1988) and Albert Finney (1970)?
8. When it was mentioned in this film, the Sarah Siddons
Award was fictional, but it was subsequently turned into a
genuine acting honour and,> in 1968, was presented to one of the
stars of the original picture. Which film? Which actor?
9. Which feisty heroine began life being played by Kirsty
Swanson?
10. The Apartment. When Harry Met Sally. The Poseidon
Adventure. Strange Days. Which Robert Burns lyric springs to
mind?
Answers
1. Jesse James.
2. In The Lion King
3. Alien and Predator
4. I am Alex DeLarge (or some other Droog) in A Clockwork
Orange
5. Both The Usual Suspects and Play it Again Sam (sic) take -
or make as
if to take - their titles from lines in Casablanca
6. Julius Caesar in Cleopatra, Carry on Cleo and Julius
Caesar
7. Bill Murray. The rest all played Scrooge. Murray played a
scrooge-like
character named Frank Cross in Scrooged?
8. All About Eve. Celeste Holm eventually won the award.
9. Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the film of the same name.
10. Auld Lang Sang. All these films feature conspicuous New
Years Eve
celebrations.
