Quiz Answers: 17th January 2025 (Buenos Diaz)

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Here are the answers to our quiz from 17th January 2025 – how did you do?

1. Back in cinemas this week for its 30th anniversary, which crime thriller starts with gluttony and ends with wrath?

Seven (or Se7en, if you like)

2. “City Of Stars” is a song from which movie musical?

La La Land

3. Who plays Bill S. Preston Esq. in the Bill & Ted movies: Keanu Reeves or Alex Winter?

Alex Winter

4. Herbert West is the title character in which comedy horror movie?

Re-Animator

5. Which singer does Johnny Flynn play in the music biopic Stardust?

David Bowie

6. As well as sharing a birthday, Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel also co-starred in which 2008 comedy?

Yes Man

7. Sweeney! is the first film adaptation of the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street: true or false?

False, itā€™s a movie spin-off of the TV series The Sweeney, and the musical didnā€™t debut until 1979

8. Who plays Eli in The Book Of Eli?

Denzel Washington

9. What title connects a heist movie starring Steve McQueen and a 1999 remake starring Pierce Brosnan?

The Thomas Crown Affair

10. Also born this week, who played Muhammad Ali in the 1977 biopic The Greatest?

Muhammad Ali

11. Cameron Diaz made her film debut as Tina Carlyle in which 1994 comedy?

The Mask

12. Diaz starred in two Charlie’s Angels movies in the 2000s – what is the full title of the second movie?

Charlieā€™s Angels: Full Throttle

13. Who stars opposite Diaz as Roy Miller a.k.a. Matthew Knight in 2010’s Knight And Day?

Tom Cruise

14. In the Shrek franchise, what is the name of Princess Fiona’s parents’ kingdom?

Far Far Away

15. Which 2002 comedy connects Diaz, Christina Applegate, and Selma Blair?

The Sweetest Thing

16. “Woogie” is a major character in which 1990s comedy?

Thereā€™s Something About Mary

17. Which other famous Cameron directed 2001’s Vanilla Sky?

Cameron Crowe

18. In which Martin Scorsese movie does Diaz play Jenny Everdeane?

Gangs Of New York

19. John Cusack and Catherine Keener are both romantically involved with Diaz’s character in which 1999 movie?

Being John Malkovich

20. Other than Diaz, who connects her most recent role in 2014ā€™s Annie and this weekā€™s new release Back In Action?

Jamie Foxx

21. In cinemas now! 2024’s Here reunites director Robert Zemeckis with stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, 30 years after which Oscar-winning collaboration?

Forrest Gump

22. 1953’s Roman Holiday is set in which European city?

Rome!

23. “The snozzberries taste like snozzberries” is a quote from which 1970s movie?

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

24. Who connects the 1990s films Freeway, Pleasantville, and Election?

Reese Witherspoon

25. Complete the title of the 2003 drama starring Bob Dylan: Masked And… what?

ā€¦ Anonymous

26. In 2012, which Star Wars film was the first shown in cinemas in Real-D 3D?

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (read Ryanā€™s feature about it here)

27. Who directed the 1990s films Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia?

Paul Thomas Anderson

28. In Disney’s The Jungle Book, what type of animal is Kaa?

A snake

29. Which Batman actor was born earliest: Ben Affleck or Christian Bale?

Ben Affleck, by two years

30. And finally, which animated characters were also Back In Action in a 2003 comedy of the same name?

Looney Tunes (OR Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and Porky Pig et al, if youā€™re feeling pedantic and/or modular ā€“ thatā€™s all folks!)

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