Here are the answers to our quiz from 12th July 2024 – how did you do?
1. Born this week, who plays Morticia Addams in 1991’s The Addams Family and its sequel?
Anjelica Huston
2. What is the full title of the prequel to Monsters Inc?
Monsters University
3. The Oscar is a drama about the Academy Awards: true or false?
True (it follows fictional Best Actor contender Frankie Fane, played by Stephen Boyd)
4. Raccoon City is a fictional setting in which video-game movie franchise?
Resident Evil
5. Back in cinemas this week for its 50th anniversary, which drama stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul?
The Conversation
6. Kevin, Stuart, and Bob are among the title characters of which animated film?
They’re all Minions, in Minions
7. Who plays Dick Tracy in Dick Tracy?
Warren Beatty
8. “It’s The Hard Knock Life” is a song from which movie musical?
Annie
9. What goes before The Center Of The Earth and The Mysterious Island to make the titles of two adventure movies starring Josh Hutcherson?
Journey To (or 2)…
10. Also born this week, who connects the British films Love Actually, Kinky Boots, and Children Of Men?
Chiwetel Ejiofor
11. Simple Jack (2008)
Tropic Thunder
12. Angels With Filthy Souls (1990)
Home Alone
13. The 14 Fists Of McCluskey (2019)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
14. Jack Slater IV (1993)
Last Action Hero
15. The Case (2011)
Super 8
16. The Dancing Cavalier (1952)
Singin’ In The Rain
17. The Dirk Diggler Story (1997)
Boogie Nights
18. Metalstorm (2024)
The Fall Guy
19. Chubby Rain (1999)
Bowfinger
20. Stab and its sequels (1997 – 2023)
Scream
21. Nicolas Coppola is the real name of which Oscar-winning actor?
Nicolas Cage
22. Complete the title of the Terrence Malick-directed 1978 drama: Days Of… what?
… Heaven
23. Who connects the films Pleasantville, Seabiscuit, and Babylon?
Tobey Maguire
24. What is the title of the 2019 remake of 2000’s What Women Want?
What Men Want
25. Which real-life figure does Robert De Niro play in 1987’s The Untouchables?
Al Capone
26. Who directed 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty?
Kathryn Bigelow
27. In the news! Saving Bikini Bottom is an upcoming film in which animated franchise?
Spongebob Squarepants (there’s a trailer out now)
28. Jamie New is the title character in which 2021 movie musical?
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
29. Who was born earliest: Anna Kendrick or Anna Paquin?
Anna Paquin, by three years
30. And finally, what connects Alec Guinness in 1949, Michael J Fox in 1989, and Eddie Murphy in 1996?
They all play multiple characters in families, in Kind Hearts And Coronets, Back To The Future Part II, and The Nutty Professor, respectively.
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