Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

Questions...and answers

Questions

1. Friendship with the heroine of which 1939 film has come to be seen as a good-natured euphemism for homosexuality?

2. Which of this week’s releases references an aquatic mammal of the genus castor in its title?

3. Breathless Mahoney, Eve Peron and (simply) Susan. Of whom are we thinking?

4. What record is held by Ben-Hur, Titanicand Lord of the Rings: Return of the King?

5. Who gave her name to a concoction of ginger ale, orange juice and grenadine?

6. What links the title characters of Nancy Drew, Pretty Womanand The Coca-Cola Kid?

7. Orson Welles’s second. Jane Wyman goes blind. John Sturges restages Kurosawa. Morecambe and Wise travel to South America. How are we feeling?

8. Paul Thomas Anderson’s third. Peter Bogdanovich directs Henry James. Bette Midler is a version of Janice Joplin. Carré Otis romps with Mickey Rourke. What’s the connection?

9. Who, between 1940 and 1960, lost to John Ford, Leo McCarey, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan and (again) Billy Wilder?

10. What comes next: Still Life; Lust, Caution; The Wrestler; Lebanon?

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1. The Wizard of Oz(Friend of Dorothy)

2. The Beaver

3. Madonna (in Dick Tracy, Evitaand Desperately Seeking Susan)

4. Most wins at the Academy Awards

5. Shirley Temple

6. All played by members of the Roberts family (Emma, Julia and Eric)

7. Magnificent! ( The Magnificent Ambersons, Magnificent Obsession, The Magnificent Seven, The Magnificent Two)

8. Flowers. ( Magnolia, Daisy Miller, The Rose, Wild Orchid)

9. Alfred Hitchcock (winners when he was nominated for the best director Oscar)

10. Somewhere(successive winners of the Golden Bear at the Venice Film Festival)