Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz
1Evita. Desperately Seeking Susan. Body of Evidence. Who's that Girl? Well, who is that girl?
2Who is known jokingly as The Governator?
3What opened at Anaheim, California in July 1955?
4Why might Bruce Willis's current thriller and the final part of Krzysztof Kieslowski's triptych make you think of a Warren Beatty picture?
5Who gave us Henry Gondorff, Luke Jackson, Eddie Felson and Robert LeRoy Parker?
6Who first attracted attention as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide?
7What links Night of the Hunter, Nil by Mouth and One Eyed Jacks?
8Why might Team America: World Police and North by Northwest make you think of Wes Anderson?
9The original soundtrack to which film includes tracks such as The Delta, Nung River and Chef's Head?
10Innocents put themselves to death. Meaning garbled during conversion. The fifteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa. A tune from West Side Story. What's the connection?
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1. Madonna.
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
3. Disneyland.
4. One "Red" added to another gives you Reds.
5. Paul Newman (
The Sting,
Cool Hand Luke,
The Hustlerand
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
6. Clint Eastwood
7. All the only films directed by prominent actors (Charles Laughton, Gary Oldman, Marlon Brando).
8. They are all connected with Mount Rushmore (Team America's base, setting for final scene, Anderson directed Rushmore)
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Apocalypse Now
10. The complete works of Sofia Coppola (
The Virgin Suicides,
Lost in Translation,
Marie Antoinette,
Somewhere).
