Quiz Answers: 24th November 2023 (The Name Game)

Here are the answers to our quiz from 24th November 2023 – how did you do?

1. Back in cinemas this week for its 20th anniversary, which film features the song “Christmas Is All Around”?

Love Actually

2. Anthony Perkins both directed and starred in Psycho III, reprising which iconic horror movie character?

Norman Bates

3. Mattie Ross is a major character in which western?

True Grit

4. Born this week, who plays a man who sues God in 2001’s The Man Who Sued God?

Billy Connolly

5. The movie version of What We Do In The Shadows is set in which country?

New Zealand

6. In which comedy does Whoopi Goldberg play lounge singer Deloris Wilson?

Sister Act

7. Also born this week, Auliʻi Cravalho is best known as the voice of which Disney title character?

Moana, in Moana

8. Who plays teenage outsider J.D. in Heathers?

Christian Slater

9. Which 1976 horror film has a belated sequel subtitled The Rage?

Carrie

10. What title connects a 1962 political thriller starring Frank Sinatra and a remake starring Denzel Washington?

The Manchurian Candidate

11. Which famous Judy does Renée Zellweger play in 2019’s Judy?

Judy Garland

12. Who directed 1960’s Spartacus?

Stanley Kubrick

13. “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” is a song from which 1996 movie musical?

Evita

14. Who plays model-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey in 2005’s Domino?

Keira Knightley

15. 2014’s Selma is a biopic of the American social activist Selma James: true or false?

False – it’s set in Selma, Alabama

16. Which famous Ray does Jamie Foxx play in 2004’s Ray?

Ray Charles

17. Who plays Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh’s 2008 biopic duology Che?

Benicio del Toro

18. Elizabeth Taylor earned a then-record-high salary of $1 million for playing the title character in which 1963 historical epic?

Cleopatra

19. Who directed 2022’s Elvis?

Baz Luhrmann

20. 2009’s All About Steve is a biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs: true or false?

False – it’s not a biopic at all, it’s a Razzie-winning romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper

21. Complete the title of the sci-fi adventure starring Peter Cushing: Dr Who And The… what?

… Daleks

22. In The Fugitive, Harrison Ford’s character is wrongly accused of what crime?

Killing his wife

23. Which singer recorded the title track in Despicable Me and “Happy” in Despicable Me 2?

Pharrell Williams

24. In which US city is Chinatown set: New York or Los Angeles?

Los Angeles

25. “I’ll live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I’m going to ram it into your stomach and break your goddamn spine!” Which Arnold Schwarzenegger film features this quote?

The Running Man

26. In cinemas now! What is the title of the new Disney animated feature starring Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine?

Wish

27. What job features prominently in the 1991 drama Backdraft?

Firefighting

28. Who was born earliest: Hugh Grant or Richard E Grant (no relation)?

Richard E Grant, by three years

29. Which M. Night Shyamalan film is based on a Nickelodeon animated series?

The Last Airbender

30. And finally, in which 1980s movie does Napoleon Bonaparte visit a California water park called Waterloo?

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

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