DONALD CLARKE'Sweekly movie quiz
Questions
1. Which film has the secondary title How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?
2. Which of this week's releases shares it title with that of a Talking Heads song?
3. What are The African Queen, Poseidon, The Black Pearl and Orca?
4. Tim Burton, Nic Roeg, Wes Anderson, Danny DeVito and Henry Selick have all directed adaptations of work by whom?
5. Which veteran actor was born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez?
6. Guns, War on Terror, Health, Money (in that order). Which burly polemicist?
7. Who has been Isadora Duncan, Agatha Christie, Mary Queen of Scots and Anne Boleyn?
8. Jack Clayton directs Laurence Harvey as a social climber. Shane Meadows makes a film about Romeo Brass. Merchant Ivory direct E M Forster. Bryan Forbes directs Leslie Caron. What four-letter word?
9. In what field are Jack Pierce and Rick Baker greatly respected?
10. What linked feats did Dear John and Lost in Space achieve at the US box-office?
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Answers
1. Dr Strangelove
2. Life During Wartime
3. Ships or boats in famous films. (The African Queen, The Poseidon Adventure, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jaws).
4. Roald Dahl.
5. Martin Sheen.
6. Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story).
7. Vanessa Redgrave (Isadora, Agatha, Mary Queen of Scots, A Man for All Seasons)
8. Room (Room at the Top, A Room for Romeo Brass, A Room With a View, The L-Shaped Room)
9. Monster make-up.
10. They finally knocked the most successful film of the era of the top spot (Avatar and Titanic).
