Donald Clarke's weekly movie quiz
1.In which animated classic might you find cheeky crows singing, "When
I see an elephant fly"?
2."Check in. Relax. Take a shower." The tagline for which 1960 shocker?
3.In 1924, Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures came together to form what?
4.If you feel 50/50 about seeing one of this week's releases you might phone a friend or ask the audience. Which film?
5.Who's Kate Winslet chatting to? (See picture.)
6.The T-1000, the 800 Series and the T-X are models of what?
7.Carl Franklin put one in a red dress. Taylor Hackford lent one an advocate. Guillermo del Toro examined another's backbone. Why are you thinking of Ken Russell?
8.What began with The Deadly Companionsand ended with The Osterman Weekend?
9.Sonically speaking, which is the odd one out: Out of Africa, Born Free, Dances with Wolvesand Tomorrow Never Dies?
10.What unique achievement did our own Barry Fitzgerald achieve at the 1945 Oscars?
Answers
1.Dumbo
2.Psycho
3.MGM
4. Slumdog Millionaire. The film revolves around an episode of the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
5.It's director Sam Mendes, her husband, on the set of Revolutionary Road
6.The Terminator
7.The question refers to films featuring the word "devil". Ken directed The Devils.
8.The directing career of Sam Peckinpah.
9. Tomorrow Never Dies. All the rest had scores by John Barry. (That James Bond film was the first on which Barry did not work.)
10.He remains the only actor to be nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same role in the same film ( Going My Way)