Here are the answers to our quiz from 13th September 2024 – how did you do?
1. Which road comedy stars Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear, and Abigail Breslin as three generations of the Hoover family?
Little Miss Sunshine
2. Who plays Private James Francis Ryan in Saving Private Ryan?
Matt Damon
3. Which nursery rhyme lyric is also the title of a comedy mystery starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan?
See How They Run
4. Born this week, Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar for playing Effie White in which 2006 movie musical?
Dreamgirls
5. Who plays female news anchor Veronica Corningstone in Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy and its sequel?
Christina Applegate
6. What is the full title of the sequel to 1981’s Escape From New York?
Escape From LA
7. “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight” is a song from which rock mockumentary?
This Is Spinal Tap
8. Also born this week, who connects the 1990s films Bad Boys, The Fugitive, and The Matrix?
Joe Pantoliano
9. Which “Die Hard in the White House” action movie was directed by Roland Emmerich: Olympus Has Fallen or White House Down?
White House Down (Antoine Fuqua directed Olympus Has Fallen)
10. “It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does?” Which sci-fi film (usually) ends with this quote?
Blade Runner
11. George Valentin is the title character in which Best Picture Oscar winner?
The Artist
12. In Buster Keaton’s The General, who or what is the General?
It’s a train
13. Who plays fictional silent-movie star Nellie LaRoy in 2022’s Babylon?
Margot Robbie
14. Which elephant is the first non-verbal protagonist of a Disney animated feature?
Dumbo, in Dumbo
15. 1925’s The Pleasure Garden is the debut feature by which British director?
Alfred Hitchcock
16. Complete the title of the 2024 slapstick comedy – Hundreds Of… what?
… Beavers
17. The character Silent Bob first appeared in which 1994 comedy?
Clerks
18. Who plays real-life silent-movie star Charlie Chaplin in 1992’s Chaplin?
Robert Downey Jr
19. The 2012 Spanish film Blancanieves is a black-and-white silent adaptation of which Brothers Grimm fairy tale?
Snow White
20. They have more dialogue than you’d think, but how many A Quiet Place movies have been released to date?
3 (A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part II, and this year’s A Quiet Place: Day One)
21. The sequel to The Hustler is called Hustlers: true or false?
False, it’s called The Color Of Money and Hustlers is a true-crime story about strippers
22. Which UK Prime Minister does Michael Sheen play in The Queen?
Tony Blair
23. Which 1975 film connects Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer?
The Man Who Would Be King
24. 1990’s The Two Jakes is a sequel to which 1974 drama?
Chinatown
25. “The movie was fake. The mission was real.” Which 2012 drama used this tagline?
Argo
26. Who connects the 1980s movies Coming To America, Conan The Barbarian, and Return Of The Jedi?
The late, great James Earl Jones
27. Which German composer is also the name of a dog in a family comedy franchise?
Beethoven, as in Beethoven
28. Who plays Madame Web in 2024’s Madame Web?
Dakota Johnson
29. What colour goes after Soldier, Perfect, and Betty to make the titles of three different movies?
Blue, as in 1970’s Soldier Blue, 1986’s Betty Blue, and 1997’s Perfect Blue
30. And finally – in cinemas now, Speak No Evil is a British-American remake of a 2022 psychological horror thriller made in which country?
Denmark
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