Quizmaster, DONALD CLARKE...
QUESTIONS
1. Which of this week’s releases might better have been released in 2008 or 2012 (or, better yet, not at all)?
2. In which 1970s classic might you hear
Duelling Banjos
?
3. Lon Chaney Jr, Griffin Dunne, Jack Nicholson and (most recently) Benicio Del Toro have all become what?
4. What began with In
Which We Serve
and ended with
A Passage to India
?
5. Which Eric were they looking for in
Looking for Eric
?
6. Formerly Robert Englund. Soon to be Jackie Earle Haley. Which monster?
7. Which director’s production company is called 1492 (the clue’s in the name of the company)?
8. Why might Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton and Ioan Gruffudd make you think of
Trainspotting
?
9. Who’s missing: Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sofya Tolstoy, Jenny Mellor and Julia Childs?
10. Manhattan hooligans. Flyer. Those no longer here. Window cover isle. The last four what?
ANSWERS
1.
Leap Year
2.
Deliverance
3.
Werewolves
4. The directing career of David Lean
5. Eric Cantona
6. Freddie Kruger
7. Chris Columbus (get it?)
8. Because they are all Welsh (as in Irvine)
9. Precious. (These are the characters played by nominees for this year’s best actress Oscar.)
10. The last four films of Martin Scorsese (
Gangs of New York. The Aviator. The Departed. Shutter Island
)
