Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

This week's movie quiz

1. Which of this week’s film is a prequel to a 1979 classic?

2. Identify the horror film from the still.

3. What links Continental Drift, The Meltdown and Dawn of the Dinosaurs?

4. What have Bryan Singer, Brett Ratner, Gavin Hood and Matthew Vaughan all done?

5. What links Alcatraz (1979), New York (1981) and Planet of the Apes (1971)?

6. Which film was known as Rory O’Shea Was Here in the US?

7. Michael Haneke recently became the seventh (or possible eighth) film-maker to achieve which feat?

8. What links the directors of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, John Carter, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and 21 Jump Street?

9. What links Here Comes Mr Jordan, 10 Days That Shook the World, a comic strip by Chester Gould and a rapping politician?

10. Who was born as Lucille Fay LeSueur in 1905?

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1. Prometheus

2. Rosemary’s Baby

3. Sequels to the Ice Age films

4. Directed X-Men films

5. Escape from…

6. Inside I’m Dancing

7. Win the Palme d’Or on two occasions. (The confusion results from the fact that one of the other directing units to achieve the feat is the Dardenne brothers.)

8. They all began in the world of feature animation.

9. The directing career of Warren Beatty (source film for Heaven Can Wait, source book for Reds, source for Dick Tracy, plot of Bullworth)

10. Joan Crawford