Quiz Answers: 23rd May 2025 (Stitched Up)

Here are the answers to our quiz from 23rd May 2025 – how did you do?

1. Which movie connects Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan?

The Great Gatsby

2. Who plays the Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns?

Dwayne Johnson

3. Which classic World War II film dramatises the RAF’s Operation Chastise?

The Dam Busters

4. Who directed Zodiac?

David Fincher

5. According to the title of a Hammer horror sequel starring Peter Cushing, who Must Be Destroyed?

Frankenstein, as in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

6. What character name connects Charlize Theron in a sequel and Anya Taylor-Joy in a prequel?

Furiosa, in Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, respectively

7. Born this week, which singer has acting roles in Moonstruck, Mermaids, and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again?

Cher

8. Also born this week, who plays detective Billy Rosewood in all four Beverly Hills Cop movies?

Judge Reinhold

9. What is the full title of the 2004 sequel to The Whole Nine Yards?

The Whole Ten Yards

10. Complete the famous quote by Wesley Snipes’ character in Passenger 57: “Always bet on… what?

… black.”

11. A runaway prince gets over the death of his father in time to declare World War II.

The Lion King’s Speech

12. … and when that’s all over, a traumatised kamikaze pilot tries to kill a large number of spotty dogs.

Godzilla Minus 101 Dalmatians

13. A chieftain’s daughter sails down the Amazon River to hunt a big green snake.

Moanaconda

14. Meryl Streep drinks a potion that turns her from zero to hero.

Death Becomes Hercules

15. Marvel superheroes come of age in John Hughes’ directorial debut.

Big Hero Sixteen Candles

16. Nicolas Cage follows clues on the Declaration of Independence all the way into outer space.

National Treasure Planet

17. A homeless lad travels in disguise from the Middle East to Belgium, where Ralph Fiennes wants him dead.

Aladdin Bruges

18. Margaret Thatcher embarks on an unpopular romance with a stray dog.

The Iron Lady And The Tramp

19. A flying baby elephant becomes the star of an indie sci-fi movie without realising it.

Dumbowfinger

20. The Darling children wake up to find Jared Leto has broken into their house.

Peter Panic Room

21. Who was born earliest: Benicio del Toro or Guillermo del Toro (no relation)?

Guillermo del Toro, by three years

22. “We’ve gone on holiday by mistake!” Which 1980s comedy features this famous quote?

Withnail And I

23. Who plays Jackie Brown in Jackie Brown?

Pam Grier

24. What word comes fourth in this sequence: Night > Dawn > Day > … ? (And for a bonus point, what word comes fifth?)

Land – these are the first words of the George A. Romero-directed Dead movies, so Diary would get you the bonus point as the fifth word

25. Complete the title of the 2013 animated comedy: Cloudy With A Chance Of… what?

… Meatballs 2 (the first one was out in 2009, as covered in last week’s quiz)

26. Who connects the 2009 movies Adventureland and Zombieland?

Jesse Eisenberg

27. Which of these 1970s movies was released earliest: Manhattan or Nashville?

Nashville came out in 1975, Manhattan in 1979

28. Who plays Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters movies?

Sigourney Weaver

29. What title connects a 1946 Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a 2009 rap biopic?

Notorious

30. And finally, which Hanna-Barbera cartoon character famously dances with Gene Kelly in the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh: Tom or Jerry?

Jerry

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