Here are the answers to our quiz from 21st April 2023 – how did you do?
1. In which movie does Alec Baldwin play CIA analyst Jack Ryan?
The Hunt For Red October
2. Born this week, who plays Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men: Dark Phoenix?
James McAvoy
3. Complete the title of the comedy starring Nicolas Cage – The Unbearable Weight Of… what?
… Massive Talent
4. Which sport features prominently in Gregory’s Girl?
Football
5. What title connects a 1979 horror film starring James Brolin and a remake starring Ryan Reynolds?
The Amityville Horror
6. Who plays time-travelling prisoner James Cole in 12 Monkeys?
Bruce Willis
7. In cinemas now! Missing is a standalone sequel to which 2018 desktop mystery thriller?
Searching
8. Also born this week, who connects the 1990s films Four Weddings And A Funeral, Groundhog Day, and Muppets From Space?
Andie MacDowell
9. In which British film does Eddie Marsan play Sally Hawkins’ driving instructor?
Happy-Go-Lucky
10. Chris Adams and Vin Tanner are among the title characters of which western?
The Magnificent Seven
11. What is Ripley’s first name in the Alien franchise?
Ellen
12. Who plays the android Bishop in Aliens?
Lance Henriksen
13. What is the full title of the 2017 sequel to Prometheus?
Alien: Covenant
14. Who made his feature directorial debut with 1992’s Alien 3?
David Fincher
15. “Nine Lives On The Nostromo” is a 2018 picture book that re-tells the plot of Alien from the perspective of which feline character?
Jones
16. Who plays the androids David and Walter in the Ridley Scott-directed prequels of the 2010s?
Michael Fassbender
17. In Aliens, which character delivers the line “They mostly come at night… mostly”?
Newt
18. The battleground for the Aliens and the Predator in Alien Vs Predator is nearest to what location – the North Pole or the South Pole?
The South Pole – it takes place in Antarctica
19. Who plays Annalee Call in 1997’s Alien Resurrection?
Winona Ryder
20. In which 1987 sci-fi spoof does John Hurt revisit his role as Kane and produce an all-singing, all-dancing chest-burster?
21. Who directed the 2010s films Sunshine On Leith, Eddie The Eagle, and Rocketman?
Dexter Fletcher
22. In which 2020 slasher comedy do Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton swap bodies?
Freaky
23. Who plays T.E. Lawrence in 1962’s Lawrence Of Arabia?
Peter O’Toole
24. Which 2021 monster movie has an upcoming sequel subtitled The New Empire?
Godzilla Vs Kong
25. Which acting sibling is older – Mark Wahlberg or Donnie Wahlberg?
Donnie Wahlberg, by 2 years
26. In Disney’s Robin Hood, what type of animal is Robin Hood?
He’s a fox
27. Also in cinemas now! What is the full title of the new Evil Dead movie?
Evil Dead Rise
28. Who plays Cher Horowitz in 1995’s Clueless?
Alicia Silverstone
29. Which 1960s film is the subject and title of a 1995 UK number 1 single by American rock band Deep Blue Something?
Breakfast At Tiffany’s (did you remember the film?)
30. And finally, which day of the week connects films directed by John Frankenheimer, Paul Greengrass, and Oliver Stone?
Sunday, as in Black Sunday, Bloody Sunday, and Any Given Sunday
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