MOVIE QUIZ # 1                             

For something a little different I have compiled the first movie quiz of fifty questions. Whether or not there will be more of these depends entirely on how energetic I become. I have left a sizeable gap between the questions and the answers at the bottom of the page. For what it is worth, my lovely wife (who is not really a movie buff) scored 26/50. Enjoy

Q1       NAME THE 1967 RACIAL DRAMA SET IN THE TOWN OF SPARTA, MISSISSIPPI.

Q2       WHAT WERE THE TWO GIRL’S NAMES OF TONY CURTIS AND JACK LEMMON IN THE 1959 HIT COMEDY ‘SOME LIKE IT HOT’?

Q3       IN WHICH 1995 PERIOD PICTURE WOULD YOU ENCOUNTER THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS? – COLONEL BRANDON, EDWARD FERRARS &                JOHN WILOUGHBY?

Q4       CLINT EASTWOOD PLAYS A DESTITUTE KANSAS HOG FARMER NAMED WILLIAM MUNNY IN WHICH OSCAR-WINNING 1992 WESTERN?

Q5       NAME THE MALE AND FEMALE STARS OF ‘HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON’ (1957).

Q6       NAME THE TWO SCREEN BEAUTIES WHO PORTRAYED LENORE AND ALINE DE GAVRILLAC IN THE 1952 SWASHBUCKLER ‘SCARAMOUCHE’.

Q7       WHAT WAS THE NAME OF MICHAEL J. FOX’S CHARACTER IN THE ‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’ FILMS?

Q8       GIVE THE THREE DARLING CHILDREN’S CHRISTIAN NAMES IN THE 1953 WALT DISNEY CLASSIC ‘PETER PAN’.

Q9       IN WHICH 1977 DISCO MOVIE WOULD YOU FIND THE CHARACTER TONY MANERO?

Q10     NAME THE 1988 ACTION THRILLER IN WHICH CHARACTERS NAMED HOLLY, JOHN AND HANS GRUBER APPEAR.

Q11     IN WHICH 1953 DRAMA DOES JOSEPH COTTEN’S CHARACTER KILL MARILYN MONROE’S CHARACTER?

Q12     IN THE 1979 COMEDY ‘MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN’, WHICH ACTOR SINGS ‘ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE’?

Q13     IN THE 2002 ROMANCE ‘UNFAITHFUL’, WHICH ACTORS PORTRAY EDWARD AND CONNIE SUMNER?

Q14     MEXICAN-BORN KLINTON SPILSBURY PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER IN WHICH ABOMINABLE 1981 WESTERN MOVIE?

Q15     WHO PORTRAYED THE LEGENDARY FIGHTER PILOT DOUGLAS BADER IN THE 1956 FILM ‘REACH FOR THE SKY?’

Q16     THE ROLE OF D’ARTAGNAN IN THE 1948 VERSION OF ‘THE THREE MUSKETEERS’ WAS PLAYED BY WHICH AMERICAN DANCER/ACTOR?

Q17     WHO STARRED AS ROY NEARY IN THE 1977 SCI-FI FILM ‘CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3^RD KIND’?

Q18     IN THE ‘TOY STORY’ FILMS, WHO PROVIDES THE VOICE FOR BUZZ LIGHTYEAR?

Q19     ‘SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS’ (1954) IS A MUSICAL SET IN 1850 IN WHICH  STATE? IS IT VERMONT, OREGON OR OHIO?

Q20     WHICH BRITISH ACTRESS PLAYS STEVE MCQUEEN’S GIRLFRIEND IN ‘BULLITT’ (1968)?

Q21     WHAT WAS THE NAME OF GLORIA SWANSON’S CHARACTER’S IN 1950’S ‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’?

Q22     WHO PLAYED MONA LISA VITO IN THE 1992 COMEDY ‘MY COUSIN VINNY’?

Q23     WHO PLAYED JOHNNY CASTLE IN ‘DIRTY DANCING’ (1987)?

Q24     WHO PLAYED ‘FEATHERS’ IN THE JOHN WAYNE WESTERN TITLED ‘RIO BRAVO’ (1959)?

Q25     WHO BOTH WROTE AND DIRECTED ‘PLATOON’ (1986)?

Q26     WHICH 1981 SPORTING FILM, SET IN 1924, FEATURED THE NAMES HAROLD ABRAHAMS AND ERIC LIDDELL?

Q27     RODDY MCDOWALL AND KIM HUNTER WERE CORNELIUS AND ZIRA IN WHICH 1968 SCI-FI HIT FILM?

Q28     WHO PROVIDED THE VOICE FOR PRINCESS FIONA IN ‘SHREK’ (2001)?

Q29     NAME THE STARS WHO PLAYED SATINE AND CHRISTIAN IN ‘MOULIN ROUGE’ (2001).

Q30     GENE HACKMAN WAS THE STAR OF ‘THE FRENCH CONNECTION’ (1971). WHAT WAS HIS CHARACTER’S NAME?

Q31     RAY LIOTTA WAS HENRY HILL IN WHICH 1990 MOB FILM?

Q32     WHICH TWO TEAMS FOUGHT OUT THE WORLD SERIES IN THE 1992 COMEDY ABOUT WOMEN’S  BASEBALL  – ‘A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN’?

Q33     WHO PLAYED THE TWO LOVERS IN ‘LOVE STORY’ (1970)?

Q34     WHICH 1960 WESTERN FEATURED CHARACTERS NAMED CHRIS ADAMS, VIN TANNER AND CALVERA?

Q35     WHO PORTRAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER IN ‘MRS. MINIVER’ (1942)?

Q36     NAME THE AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS WHO PLAYED QUEEN ELIZABETH 1 IN ‘ELIZABETH’ (1998).

Q37     STEPHEN BOYD AND RAQUEL WELCH (IN A SUBMARINE) ARE INJECTED INTO A MAN’S BLOODSTREAM IN WHICH 1966 SCI-FI FILM?

Q38     WHICH 1989 DISNEY ANIMATED FILM FEATURED A CARIBBEAN CRAB NAMED SEBASTIAN?

Q39     IN WHICH CITY AND COUNTRY IS ‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’ (1965) SET?

Q40     THE ONE-WORD TITLE OF WHICH 1962 ADVENTURE MOVIE MEANS ‘DANGER’ IN SWAHILI?

Q41     THE CHARACTER TERRY MALLOY WAS THE HERO OF WHICH GRITTY 1954 DRAMA?

Q42     FREDDY BENSON AND LAWRENCE JAMIESON, TWO CONMEN IN THE 1988 COMEDY ‘DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, ARE PLAYED BY WHOM?

Q43     NAME THE TWO STARS WHO PLAYED THE LOVERS IN ‘OUT OF AFRICA’ (1985).

Q44     WHO PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER IN ‘SHANE’ (1953)?

Q45     WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE MISSION DEFENDED BY THE BRITISH SOLDIERS IN THE 1964 FILM ‘ZULU’?

Q46     IN WHICH 1971 FILM DID MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAY A GERMAN MERCENARY CAPTAIN DURING THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR?

Q47     WHO PLAYED THE THREE ASTRONAUTS ABOARD APOLLO 13 IN THE 1995 FILM OF THE SAME NAME?

Q48     WHO PROVIDES THE VOICE FOR SCARLET OVERKILL IN ‘MINIONS’ (2015)?

Q49     WHAT WAS JUDY GARLAND’S CHARACTER’S FULL NAME IN ‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’ (1939)?

Q50     WHO PLAYED MOBSTER DOYLE LONNEGAN IN ‘THE STING’ (1973)?

ANSWERS BELOW:

ANSWERS

Q1       IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

Q2       JOSEPHINE & DAPHNE

Q3       SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

Q4       UNFORGIVEN

Q5       ROBERT MITCHUM & DEBORAH KERR

Q6       ELEANOR PARKER & JANET LEIGH

Q7       MARTY MCFLY

Q8       WENDY, JOHN & MICHAEL

Q9       SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

Q10     DIE HARD

Q11     NIAGARA

Q12     ERIC IDLE

Q13     RICHARD GERE & DIANE LANE

Q14     THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER

Q15     KENNETH MORE

Q16     GENE KELLY

Q17     RICHARD DREYFUSS

Q18     TIM ALLEN

Q19     OREGON

Q20     JACQUELINE BISSET

Q21     NORMA DESMOND

Q22     MARISA TOMEI

Q23     PATRICK SWAYZE

Q24     ANGIE DICKINSON

Q25     OLIVER STONE

Q26     CHARIOTS OF FIRE

Q27     PLANET OF THE APES

Q28     CAMERON DIAZ

Q29     NICOLE KIDMAN & EWAN MCGREGOR

Q30     ‘POPEYE’ DOYLE

Q31     GOODFELLAS

Q32     THE RACINE BELLES & THE ROCKFORD PEACHES

Q33     ALI MACGRAW & RYAN O’NEAL

Q34     THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

Q35     GREER GARSON

Q36     CATE BLANCHETT

Q37     FANTASTIC VOYAGE

Q38     THE LITTLE MERMAID

Q39     SALZBURG, AUSTRIA

Q40     HATARI!

Q41     ON THE WATERFRONT

Q42     STEVE MARTIN & MICHAEL CAINE

Q43     MERYL STREEP & ROBERT REDFORD

Q44     ALAN LADD

Q45     RORKE’S DRIFT

Q46     THE LAST VALLEY

Q47     TOM HANKS, BILL PAXTON & KEVIN BACON

Q48     SANDRA BULLOCK

Q49     DOROTHY GALE

Q50     ROBERT SHAW