Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1.Which cranky bald gentleman is often seen hunting "wabbits"?

2."Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." Which 1960s classic?

3. Which Oscar-winning thriller follows the adventures of Popeye Doyle?

4.A Spike Lee biopic. Ed Norton is a neo-fascist. Bryan Singer directs mutant superheroes. Which defunct cinema certificate springs to mind?

5.What (ahem) links The 39 Steps, The Defiant Ones, Fledand this week's You Instead?

6.Which piece of music is featured prominently in Platoon, The Elephant Manand Amélie?

7.What have Kate Winslet, Jean Simmons, Julia Stiles, Helena Bonham Carter and Marianne Faithfull all done? 

8.What is conspicuously missing from After the Thin Manand The Return of the Pink Panther(and all subsequent sequels to both)?

9.Identify the voguish film star enjoying herself at the current Toronto Film Festival (photo).

10.Why, when rendered correctly, might MASH, Batteries Not Includedand Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)make you think of a French warrior?

ANSWERS


1. Elmer Fudd

2. Dr Strangelove

3. The French Connection

4. X (Malcolm X, American History X, X-Men)

5. Features characters handcuffed together

6. Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings

7. They have all played Ophelia in films of Hamlet

8. The Thin Man (murder victim in the first film) and the Pink Panther (jewel in the first film)

9. Jessica Chastain

10. They are all missing at lest one asterisk from their title. Asterix is, of course, French for "asterisk".