Here are the answers to our quiz from 22nd November 2024 – how did you do?
1. 50 years old this year, which horror franchise-starter stars Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface?
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. Complete the title of the Mike Myers comedy: So I Married An…
… Axe Murderer
3. Born on 22nd November, who connects Ghost World, Don Jon, and Marriage Story, all released this week in years past?
Scarlett Johansson
4. … and sharing the same birthday, which actor first starred opposite the answer to Q3 in 2012’s The Avengers?
Mark Ruffalo
5. What is the full title of the fifth and final movie in The Twilight Saga?
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
6. Who directed Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me?
David Lynch
7. Which fantasy epic’s title character is played by both Ray Winstone and Alan Ritchson?
Beowulf, in Beowulf (Winstone provided the voice and facial performance, while Ritchson was the digital body double)
8. Who plays US Marshal Rooster Cogburn in True Grit?
John Wayne
9. Which 2001 song by Sophie Ellis Bextor returned to the UK Singles Chart Top 10 after it featured in Saltburn?
“Murder On The Dancefloor”
10. Which horror threequel features a serial killer called the Gemini?
The Exorcist III
11. Which Oscar winner plays Maleficent in Disney’s live-action Maleficent movies?
Angelina Jolie
12. Which 1998 movie stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, and Dianne Wiest as witches?
Practical Magic
13. Which DC Comics movie features an evil sorceress called Enchantress?
Suicide Squad (2016)
14. Which lion king battles the White Witch in The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe?
Aslan
15. Which 1996 witch movie stars Winona Ryder: The Craft or The Crucible?
The Crucible
16. Which American town are 1993’s Hocus Pocus and its sequel set in?
Salem
17. Which actor plays witches in both The Witches Of Eastwick and Stardust?
Michelle Pfeiffer
18. Which Marvel Cinematic Universe movie features the first appearance of Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch?
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (she’s in the mid-credit scene)
19. 2020’s Earwig And The Witch is the first CG-animated feature by which animation studio?
Studio Ghibli
20. “I’m scared to close my eyes, I’m scared to open them! We’re gonna die out here!” Which 1999 horror movie features this quote?
The Blair Witch Project
21. Which song from The Wizard Of Oz won an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1940?
“Over The Rainbow”
22. Now streaming! What title connects a 2011 action movie starring Jason Statham and Apple’s new wartime drama starring Saoirse Ronan?
Blitz
23. Who plays Max Payne in the 2008 video-game adaptation Max Payne?
Mark Wahlberg
24. In the news! Kevin Smith has announced he’s writing a sequel to which 1999 comedy?
Dogma (more on that here)
25. Who plays Sandy Olsson in 1978’s Grease?
Olivia Newton-John
26. Which crime movie stars Kevin Costner, Andy Garcia, Charles Martin Smith, and Sean Connery as its title characters?
The Untouchables
27. Sean Ambrose and Castor Troy are major characters in which 1998 action movie?
Face/Off
28. Which 2011 sci-fi thriller is named after a motion-picture film format?
Super 8
29. “Anyone can cook” is a repeated quote from which animated movie?
Ratatouille
30. And finally, to date, there are only two films that could each complete the sequence of answers starting in Q26, Q27, Q28, and Q29 – for a point each, name them. (2 points)
The Way Of The Gun and Jack Reacher – the previous answers are all non-Mission: Impossible films directed by Brian DePalma, John Woo, J.J. Abrams, and Brad Bird, and these are Christopher McQuarrie’s.
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