Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz
1. Which James Bond was raised in Navan?
2. Which distinguished star, a native of Ranelagh, Dublin turned 90 this
week?
3. Who's the odd one out: Statham, Willis, Van Damme, Schwarzenegger,
Stallone?
4. Which shocker concerns peculiar events in the rented house of Chris
MacNeil?
5. Deborah Kerr in
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
. Peter Sellers in
Dr Strangelove
. Alec Guinness in
Kind Hearts and Coronets
. What's the
connection?
6. Lindsay Anderson's last.
Star Trek's
fourth. An isolated interlude
for
Pinocchio
(pictured). Keisha Castle-Hughes's breakthrough. What's the link?
7. Tim Burton (2003), Charles Crichton (1988), Francis Ford Coppola
(1983), Andrea Arnold (2009). What's on the menu?
8. Ramis. Carrey, Rutherford, Wayne, Curtis, Gekko, Lynch. Christian
names at which address?
9. In which film did we first encounter Anton Karas?
10. What begins with Misirlou and ends with Surf Rider?
Answers
1. Pierce Brosnan
2. Margaret O'Hara
3. Van Damme. All the rest appear in this week's
The Expendables.
4.
The Exorcist
5. All played several parts
6. Whales:
The Whales of August. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
featured
Whales. Pinocchio was swallowed by a whale. Whale Rider.)
7. Fish (Big Fish, A Fish Called Wanda, Rumblefish Fish Tank)
8. Number 10, Downing Street (in order: Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan,
Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron)
9.
The Third Man
. The great zither player performed the score.
10.
Pulp Fiction
