DONALD CLARKE'Sweekly movie quiz
Questions:
1 Which naturalist gets the biopic treatment in this week’s Creation?
2 Canines near the water supply. Trashy crime stories. An air stewardess’s name. Annihilate William. The first four by whom?
3 Which band were named after a lumbar puncture?
4 Which film is known in its own country as Lola Rennt?
5 The heroine of which classic is known only as “the second Mrs de Winter”?
6 Marcello frets about his next film (pictured). Brad and Morgan solve crimes in the rain. Holly’s daughter goes ballistic. A musical remake of the first item in this list. What are we on about?
7 Who is the odd one out: Capt John Miller, Jim Lovell, Ron Kovic, Robert Langdon?
8 Where might you meet Terry Malloy, Charlie Malloy and Father Barry?
9 Which manly looking actress played the hospital administrator in the soap Southwest General?
10 “When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions.” An opening subtitle to which film?
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Answers:
1. Charles Darwin
2. Quentin Tarantino. The question refers to Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill.
3. Spinal Tap.
4. Run, Lola, Run.
5. Rebecca.
6. Numbers. The question refers to 8 ½, Se7en, Thirteen and Nine.
7. Ron Kovic. The rest were played by Tom Hanks. Tom Cruise played Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July.
8. On the Waterfront.
9. Dorothy Michaels (Dustin Hoffman) in Tootsie.
10. Wings of Desire.
