DONALD CLARKE's Weekly Movie Quiz

Questions

1. Which musical concerns the Von Trapp family?

2. Which of this week’s releases combines the talents behind The BFG and The Royal Tenenbaums?

3. Daniel Day Lewis (three times), Richard Harris, Paddy Considine, 50 Cent. Which Dubliner?

4. Game of Death, The Crow, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Something’s Gotta Give. What’s the connection?

5. Motor vehicles, stewed vegetables, (sounds like) hard to locate fellow in stripy jumper, not down. The last five what?

6. I, Monster and Mary Reilly are both versions of which horror classic?

7. Where might you hear Louis Prima, George Sanders, Phil Harris and Sebastian Cabot?

8. Why might John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot remind you of Roger O Thornhill?

9. Nancy Drew, King of the Gypsies, Stepmom. Link up the title characters.

10. Which cinema legend is commemorated by a mural at Leytonstone Undergound station?

Answers

1. The Sound of Music.

2. Fantastic Mr Fox (Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson)

3. Jim Sheridan. These are the male leads on Jim's films.

4. The star died during the making of each. The question refers to Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee, Heath Ledger and Marilyn Monroe.

5. Pixar films. The question refers to Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E and Up.

6. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

7. Disney's The Jungle Book.

8. Archie Leach, hero of Wanda, was the real name of Cary Grant, who was impersonated by Tony Curtis in Some Like it Hot. Grand played Thornhill in North by Northwest.

9. They are all members of the Roberts clan. Emma, star of Nancy Drew, is the daughter of Eric, star of King of the Gypsies, who is the brother of Julia, star od Stepmom.

10. Alfred Hitchcock.