DONALD CLARKE's Weekly Movie Quiz
Questions
1. Which of this week’s releases carries the bald strap-line “The God of Thunder”?
2. Who is the sports star pictured in a still from an upcoming documentary?
3. Seen by a young Jennifer Jones. Played by Dorothy McGuire and Siobhan McKenna. AKA Ms Ciccone. Who?
4. Why might Richard Harris, Clive Owen and Nigel Terry remind you of a current underwhelming comedy?
5. Peter Sellers in 1963. Divine in 1972. Bob Geldof in 1982. Molly Ringwald in 1986. What’s the link?
6. Who has been played by Jean Gabin, Liam Neeson, Fredric March and (on telly) Gerard Depardieu?
7. Whose signature song was Don’t Laugh at Me (‘Cause I’m a Clown)?
8. Which actor’s two books took their titles from an e e cummings poem and a garbled direction by Michael Curtiz?
9. Which cult bounty hunter was played by Jeremy Bulloch?
10. Who was the only winner of an acting Oscar to be murdered?
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Answers:
1. Thor
2. Ayrton Senna
3. Madonna (Jones saw Mary in Song of Bernadette. McGuire and McKenna played her in, respectively, The Greatest Story Ever Told and King of Kings. Ciccone is the pop star’s surname.)
4. They all played King Arthur. The comedy is Arthur.
5. Pink (The Pink Panther, Pink Flamingos, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Pretty in Pink)
6. Jean Valjean in Les Miserables
7. Norman Wisdom
8. David Niven (The Moon’s a Baloon and Bring on the Empty Horses)
9. Boba Fett from the Star Wars series
10. Hang S Ngor, winner for The Killing Fields.
