The Movie Quiz: What substance was used to portray the blood in Psycho?
Plus: What was the first film Woody Allen directed in which he did not appear?
Movie Quiz
The Movie Quiz: How many films in the Rambo franchise?
Plus: How well do you know the Ocean’s Eleven cast?
The Movie Quiz: How many films are there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Plus: To whom did Chris Rock eventually present an Oscar after being smacked by Will Smith?
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of Quentin Tarantino’s fictional cigarette brand?
Plus: Which movie does not feature a credit for a member of The Beatles?
The Movie Quiz: Who has yet to direct a feature in black and white?
Plus: Which is the only Shakespeare play to have won the best picture Oscar?
The Movie Quiz: How many actors have won Oscars for roles in Christopher Nolan films?
Plus: Which Odyssey character is played by a veteran of the Dark Knight trilogy?
The Movie Quiz: Which is the first Alfred Hitchcock film in colour?
Plus: Who flew Heywood Floyd to Space Station Five?
The Movie Quiz: Who shouldn’t really be playing dead in Toy Story?
Plus: Which film is the least likely to be a favourite of Andy Dufresne?
The Movie Quiz: In which of these decades has an Indiana Jones film not been largely set?
How many of The Magnificent Seven were also in The Great Escape?
The Movie Quiz: How many actors have won Oscars for roles in Martin Scorsese films?
Plus: What might have come into your head before, say, Singin’ in the Rain or A Night at the Opera?
The Movie Quiz: Which Toy Story do we reach next week?
Plus: What is, at time of quizzing, the highest grossing film of 2026?
The Movie Quiz: Who recently directed Billie Eilish?
Plus: Which TV cartoon hero returns to cinemas this weekend?
The Cannes Movie Quiz: Which Irish actor is on this year’s jury?
Plus: What won last year’s Palme d’Or?
The Movie Quiz: Who has not directed a Fast & Furious title?
Plus: Which golfer makes a celebrity cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2?
The Movie Quiz: Who has not played title character in a Francis Ford Coppola film?
Plus: What sort of beans did Hannibal Lecter like with his liver?
The Movie Quiz: How many Christopher Nolan features have just one word as a title?
Plus: Who has not written a novel that became an Oscar best-picture winner?
The Movie Quiz: Who has not played the title character in a John Boorman film?
Plus: What’s missing: White, Orange, Blonde, Pink, Brown?
The Movie Quiz: The Maltese Falcon ends with a slight misquote from what play?
Plus: What film just broke the all-time record for the most losses at the Oscars?
The Movie Quiz: Who missed out at this year’s Oscars?
Plus: Which class of Italian professional lands back in cinemas this week?
The Movie Quiz: Which film does not feature a briefish Harrison Ford performance?
Plus: Who, apart from the director himself, has appeared in the most Woody Allen films?
The Movie Quiz: Who has not provided the source for a Hitchcock film?
Plus: Oscar Levant’s famous quote ‘I knew her before she was a virgin’, was about whom?
The Movie Quiz: Which film is nominated for the most Oscars this year?
Plus: Who claimed that the Oscar was so named as she had noted its backside resembled that of her uncle Oscar?
The Movie Quiz: Who was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar?
Plus: Which of these stars has worked with the most female directors?
The Movie Quiz: Who has not played the title character in a Martin Scorsese film?
Plus: What was the first film to take a billion dollars at the world box office?
The Movie Quiz: Who is not a Looney Tuner?
Plus: The director of which sequence has just stepped up as the first lady’s official chronicler?
The Movie Quiz: Who has never been in a James Bond film?
Plus: What song plays under the Walt Disney logo at the start of their films?
The Movie Quiz: Which decade has seen the most Die Hard films?
Plus: Who just passed out Scarlett Johansson’s record, set last July, as the highest grossing film star ever?
The Movie Quiz: Where will the Sundance Film Festival be from next year?
Plus: Which Grease song was not in the original 1971 stage musical?
The Movie Quiz: What is now the highest grossing Disney animation ever?
Plus: What is the only film to have won the best picture Oscar with no other nominations?
The Movie Quiz: Which is the correct Mary Poppins song?
Plus: Who is not mentioned in the longest song on Highway 61 Revisited?
The 2025 Movie Quiz: What Irish drinking song could you hear this year in Sinners?
Plus: Which director did not have a film released in Irish cinemas this year?
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