Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

Questions and answers

Questions and answers

Questions

1Who will Meryl Streep be playing in the upcoming The Iron Lady?

2Which film focuses on the racy interactions between Frank-n-Furter, Janet Weiss and Brad Majors?

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3What links Heat, The Godfather Part IIand Righteous Kill?

4Which sci-fi series takes its name from – in mathematics – a rectangular array of numbers or symbols?

5Where might you encounter Grace Kelly, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire. Ginger Rogers and "Harlow, Jean"?

6What links Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, Nic Roeg and Danny DeVito?

7Looking glass. Hunter. Sentimental recollection. The giving up of something. Whose last four?

8Who links Lon Chaney, Claude Rains, Herbert Lom and Gerard Butler?

9 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Fifth Element(above), Bad Education. Whose mad clothes?

10Name the odd one out: Bleak Moments, Kes, Gumshoe, Shallow Grave.

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Answers

1.

Margaret Thatcher

2.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

3.

Films starring both Robert De Niro and Al Pacino

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The Matrix


5

. In the lyrics of Madonna’s Vogue.

6.

All directed films based on Roald Dahl novels (

Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, Matilda

).

7.

Andrei Tarkovsky (

Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia, The Sacrifice

)

8.

The Phantom of the Opera


9.

Jean-Paul Gaultier

10.

Kes. All the rest are first films by British directors. (Ken Loach’s debut was Poor Cow.)