Here are the answers to our 2023 quiz of the year – how did you do?
1. Ember and Wade are the main characters in which 2023 Pixar movie?
Elemental
2. In which 2023 crime drama does Lily Gladstone play Mollie Kyle?
Killers Of The Flower Moon
3. Complete the trilogy – Magic Mike, Magic Mike XXL…?
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
4. What is the name of the villain played by Esai Morales in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: Dante or Gabriel?
Gabriel (Dante is Jason Momoa in Fast X)
5. Which horror movie franchise’s fifth instalment is subtitled The Red Door?
Insidious
7. Who directed Creed III?
Michael B. Jordan
8. The films No Hard Feelings, Past Lives, and Scream VI are all primarily set in which US state?
New York
9. Which young heroes contended with Mutant Mayhem in the animated film of the same name?
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
10. Whose 2023 acting credits include Barbie, Fast X, and Shazam! Fury Of The Gods?
Helen Mirren
11. Which real-life figure does Tom Conti play in Oppenheimer?
Albert Einstein
12. Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, and Tom Wilkinson all returned for a TV series spin-off of which Oscar-nominated 1997 comedy?
The Full Monty
13. Which superhero gets his powers from an artefact called the Scarab?
Blue Beetle, in Blue Beetle
14. Who directed the Netflix short films The Swan, The Rat Catcher, and Poison?
Wes Anderson – he also directed The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar and…
15. … And which feature film, also directed by Q14’s answer, landed in cinemas in June?
Asteroid City
16. Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, Eileen, and Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget are all primarily set in what decade?
The 1960s
17. Blumhouse enjoyed its biggest opening weekend to date with which 2023 video-game adaptation?
Five Nights At Freddy’s
18. Iman Vellani, Teyonah Parris, and Brie Larson play the title characters in which movie?
They play the Marvels, in The Marvels
19. Which sitting English MP made his film acting debut in the British comedy Sumotherhood?
Jeremy Corbyn
20. Whose 2023 acting credits include 80 For Brady, Book Club: The Next Chapter, and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken?
Jane Fonda
21. Who directed November’s neo-noir thriller The Killer?
David Fincher
22. Also in cinemas now! What is the full title of the Japanese Godzilla prequel released in 2023?
Godzilla Minus One
23. And finally, which 2023 sequel’s title character clocks a step count of 444 at the Rue Foyatier in Paris?
John Wick, in John Wick Chapter 4 (he climbs the stairs twice!)
BONUS ROUND: If you got all five of the underlined films in any order, you get the full 10 points. Otherwise, 1 point each for any five of these ten films…
1. Barbie
2. Oppenheimer
3. The Super Mario Bros Movie
4. Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 3
5. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
6. The Little Mermaid
7. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
8. Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
9. Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny
10. Wonka
All answers are correct as of 22nd December 2023. At the time of writing, Wonka is at #10 after two weeks on release.
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