Here are the answers to our quiz from 16th May 2025 – how did you do?
1. Misery Chastain is the title character of which psychological thriller?
Misery (she’s the character created by James Caan’s author Paul Sheldon)
2. Born this week, who plays Jennifer Check in Jennifer’s Body?
Megan Fox
3. Cable, Domino, and Vanisher are all characters in which Marvel sequel?
Deadpool 2
4. Who was Oscar-nominated for playing an alien in Starman?
Jeff Bridges
5. “Marilyn Monroe and her bosom companions… Tony Curtis… Jack Lemmon.” Which comedy used this tagline?
Some Like It Hot
6. Fill in the missing movie in this Tom Hanks trilogy: The Da Vinci Code > what? > Inferno
Angels & Demons
7. Which British punk band stars in the mockumentary The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle?
The Sex Pistols
8. Who plays US president Tom Bell in Deep Impact?
Morgan Freeman
9. Also born this week, who connects the 2010s movies Machete, Machete Kills, and Muppets Most Wanted?
Danny Trejo
10. Which movie monster appears with a large pregnant belly on the poster for A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child?
Freddy Krueger
11. Who directed 1996’s Mission: Impossible?
Brian De Palma
12. Which Dubai landmark does Ethan Hunt climb up and down in Ghost Protocol?
The Burj Khalifa
13. What part of animal anatomy is the name of the bio-hazardous MacGuffin in Mission: Impossible III?
A rabbit’s foot, as in THE rabbit’s foot (no, us neither)
14. Who plays rogue agent Ilsa Faust in Rogue Nation and its sequels?
Rebecca Ferguson
15. Including The Final Reckoning, how many Mission: Impossible films has Christopher McQuarrie directed to date?
4 (Rogue Nation, Fallout, Dead Reckoning, and The Final Reckoning)
16. What name connects the actors who play Max Mitsopolis and her daughter, Alana, a.k.a the White Widow?
Vanessa (Redgrave and Kirby, respectively)
17. Who plays arms dealer Owen Davian in Mission: Impossible III?
Philip Seymour Hoffman
18. In M:I 2, the vaccine for the Chimera virus is named after which Greek mythological character?
Bellerophon (try not singing that to the tune of “Bananaphone” for the rest of your day)
19. August Walker’s moustache was notable by its absence in which 2017 film, whose reshoots clashed with the filming of Mission: Impossible – Fallout?
Justice League (in which Superman was notoriously shaven with CGI)
20. Other than Tom Cruise, who is the only actor who appears in all eight Mission: Impossible films?
Ving Rhames, who plays Cyber-Ops IMF agent Luther Stickell
21. What name goes after Austin, Gerard, and Sarah to make the names of three actors?
Butler (as in Butlerian Jihad – The Final Reckoning, in cinemas soon…)
22. Who directed the films Booksmart and Don’t Worry Darling?
Olivia Wilde
23. Who was born earliest: Tom Holland or Tom Hollander?
Tom Hollander, by about 29 years
24. Complete the title of the 2009 animated comedy: Cloudy With A Chance Of… what?
… Meatballs
25. “We spared no expense” is a repeated quote from which 1990s blockbuster about an ill-advised tech startup?
Jurassic Park
26. Which of these is longer – a 1986 erotic drama starring Mickey Rourke or a 2000 comedy-drama starring Sandra Bullock?
The 1986 Mickey Rourke movie – 9½ Weeks is longer than 28 Days (the film is longer too)
27. Who directed and starred in the 2014 film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty?
Ben Stiller
28. Complete the title of the 2016 animated fantasy: Kubo And The Two… what?
… Strings
29. Who plays socialite Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager: Bette Davis or Joan Crawford?
Bette Davis
30. And finally, in Shrek 2, which character does the often-spoofed Tom Cruise suspended on wires stunt while the Mission: Impossible theme plays?
Pinocchio
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