Enter the multiverse of mad movie-title mashups in this week’s film quiz, which features 30 questions with answers smashed or unsmashed…
Where has the year gone? Two quizzes left before Christmas, and we haven’t even done one of our occasional movie title mashup rounds yet. By now, we reckon everyone’s heard of the Thursday Murder Club and his smashy answers game (even though our lawyers tell us we still haven’t) but the game involves telling us which two movies we’ve mixed together in each phoney plot summary.
If you haven’t played this round before, Doctor Strangelove Actually doesn’t work for various reasons, but “Peter Sellers plays multiple roles in multiple stories at Christmas” would get you there. For another Marvel example, “Peter Parker has a New York romance with a girl his own age” would be Spider-Manhattan. Or on the trickier end, “Owen Wilson takes money from kids to do every album in one concert” is Drillbit Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.
Basically, we’ve made another fine mess and it’s your job to clear it up, but don’t worry, there are some nice normal movie trivia questions on either side too. When you’ve finished all three rounds, you’ll find a link to a separate post with the correct answers at the bottom of this post. As always, this is just for fun, but please let us know how you did in the comments (scores out of 30 this week!) and leave us any other lovely feedback. We’ll be back next week with a Christmassy quiz…
ROUND ONE – December In Movie History
This round is about UK cinema releases and general film history from this month in years past – we’ve given you the year at the start of each question to help out!
1. 2014 – Complete the film trilogy – An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation Of Smaug…
2. 1982 – Amblin Entertainment’s logo features a bicycle flying past the moon in reference to which 1980s family film?
3. 1999 – Which comic book movie features Mr Furious, Blue Rajah, and The Shoveler?
4. 1971 – Born this week, who replaced Sally Hawkins as Mary Brown in 2024’s Paddington In Peru?
5. 2020 – In what year is the sequel to Wonder Woman set?
6. 1959 – Who plays Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur?
7. 1967 – Also born this week, who directed the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Funny People?
8. 1985 – What is the name of Marty McFly’s mother in the Back To The Future trilogy?
9. 2001 – Which comedy movie’s title character connects “Blue Steel”, “Ferrari”, and “Le Tigre”?
10. 1973 – Complete the title of the live-action Disney comedy: Digby, The Biggest… what?
ROUND TWO – Movies For The Mashes
“The Last Airbend It Like Beckham”??? Is that anything? Nah, probably not. Anyway, can you identify these other mashed-up movie titles based on their combined plot descriptions?
11. George Clooney teams up with Kevin Costner to save Nottingham.
12. Princess Ariel loses her voice for three days wooing Ralph Fiennes in a New York hotel.
13. In this classic French horror, a plastic surgeon swaps his daughter’s face with Nicolas Cage’s face.
14. Broadway star Bette Davis’s personal relationships are challenged by a spaceship lost in orbit around Neptune.
15. The Ludlow brothers spend 50 years pulling jaw-dropping stunts and searching for a missing movie star.
16. Robert Englund has an absolute nightmare fighting Matt Damon.
17. Martin Lawrence has a convincing fat suit and a not-very-convincing Italian accent.
18. Anthony Hopkins is a devoted butler, whatever the weather – and it’s getting a bit cold.
19. Frankenstein director Ian McKellen scares because he cares.
20. Blake Lively draws the line at one sequel to 1993’s The Fugitive.
ROUND THREE – Pot Luck
Let’s finish with a random selection of pot-luck film quiz questions – these could come from any era, any genre, or any level of difficulty. Enjoy!
21. What title connects a 2003 movie directed by Park Chan-wook and a 2013 American remake directed by Spike Lee?
22. Who plays Uncle Buck in the 1989 comedy Uncle Buck?
23. Which city goes after characters played by Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson to make the title of a 2008 romantic comedy-drama?
24. Who connects the 1990s films Demolition Man, A Time To Kill, and While You Were Sleeping?
25. As of 2024, how many James Bond films have the word “gold” in their title?
26. Which festive neo-noir connects Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan?
27. Who was born earliest: Michael Douglas or Michael Keaton?
28. Which Spanish-language horror franchise includes sequels subtitled Genesis and Apocalypse?
29. Who plays “Amazing” Amy Dunne in 2014’s Gone Girl?
30. And finally, what word goes on the end of a 2003 film directed by Peter Jackson to make a title mashup with the next film he made, released in 2005?
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Ready for the answers?
That’s the end of this week’s film quiz – when you’re ready to check your answers, click here to get them (it’ll take you to another page) and let us know your scores in the comments below. We’ll be back next Friday with a special Christmas-themed film quiz, but until then, check out Issue 52 of Film Stories Magazine, which features 50 all-new questions about billion-dollar blockbusters, the films of 1991, and the movies so good they named them twice!
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