Here are the answers to our quiz from 18th April 2025 – how did you do?
1. In cinemas now! Which new release marks the fifth collaboration between Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler?
Sinners
2. Born this week, who directed 2021’s Last Night In Soho?
Edgar Wright
3. Who plays Secret Service agent Mike Banning in Olympus Has Fallen and its sequels?
Gerard Butler
4. In which decade is Escape From New York set?
The 1990s (it’s set in the far-off futuristic world of 1997, specifically)
5. Which former Spice Girl covered “It’s Raining Men” by The Weather Girls for the soundtrack of Bridget Jones’s Diary?
Geri Halliwell
6. Ren McCormack is the main character in which musical drama?
Footloose
7. Which action thriller connects John Travolta, Christian Slater, and Delroy Lindo?
Broken Arrow
8. Who plays optimistic learner driver Poppy Cross in Happy-Go-Lucky?
Sally Hawkins
9. Also born this week, Maria Bello replaced Rachel Weisz as Evie O’Connell in the third Mummy movie: what was the threequel’s full title?
The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
10. “The junk food movie that just eats you up.” Which sci-fi horror satire used this tagline?
The Stuff
11. Owen Wilson and a yellow Labrador retriever (2008)
Marley & Me
12. James Cromwell and a Yorkshire pig (1995)
Babe
13. Suraj Sharma and a Bengal tiger (2012)
Life Of Pi
14. Charlize Theron and a giant mountain gorilla (1998)
Mighty Joe Young
15. Jordan Peele and a tabby kitten (2016)
Keanu
16. Jason James Richter and an orca (1993)
Free Willy
17. Jeremy Irvine and a bay Irish hunter (2011)
War Horse
18. Virginia McKenna and a lion cub (1966)
Born Free
19. Michael Caine and a great white shark (1987)
Jaws: The Revenge
20. Samuel L Jackson and a Burmese python, among others (2006)
Snakes On A Plane
21. Which 2023 movie completes this sequence: Murder On The Orient Express > Death On The Nile > … what?
A Haunting In Venice – these are Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot movies
22. Who directed, wrote, and starred as multiple characters in 1940’s The Great Dictator?
Charlie Chaplin
23. In the Rocky franchise, which character does Rocky face in three different boxing matches?
Apollo Creed
24. Which UK city connects Four Lions, The Full Monty, and Threads?
Sheffield
25. Who was born earliest: Alicia Silverstone or Alicia Vikander?
Alicia Silverstone, by 12 years
26. In the news! Which James Cameron film is now available to stream uncut in 4K on Disney+ UK?
The Abyss – more on that here
27. In which 2017 comedy does James Franco play actor and filmmaker Tommy Wiseau?
The Disaster Artist
28. Complete the title of the 1953 Doris Day musical: Calamity… who?
… Jane
29. Who connects the 1990s films Edward Scissorhands, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Alien: Resurrection?
Winona Ryder
30. And finally, “No penguins were harmed in the making of this film. Jim Carrey, on the other hand, was bitten mercilessly. But he had it coming.” Which 2011 comedy ends with this disclaimer?
Mr Popper’s Penguins
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