Here are the answers to our film quiz from 26th July 2024 – how did you do?
1. “Atomic Blonde” is an alternative viewing order for which two movies, both released on 21st July?
Oppenheimer and Barbie (as opposed to Barbenheimer’s Barbie then Oppenheimer)
2. The French Connection is set in France: true or false?
False, but the 1975 sequel French Connection II is
3. Which action movie stars Liam Neeson as Colonel “Hannibal” Smith?
The A-Team
4. Born this week, who plays the vampire Selene in Underworld and its sequels?
Kate Beckinsale
5. What type of dance features prominently in The Red Shoes?
Ballet
6. Who won a Best Original Score Oscar for the rock musical Purple Rain?
Prince
7. Which Jurassic Park actor also stars in Jurassic Park III: Jeff Goldblum or Sam Neill?
Sam Neill (“Alan!”)
8. Also born this week, who connects the 1990s films Money Train, Anaconda, and Out Of Sight?
Jennifer Lopez
9. In Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, who plays Meryl Streep’s mother and Amanda Seyfried’s grandmother?
Cher
10. Which comic-book villain does Julian McMahon play in Fantastic Four and its sequel?
Doctor Doom
11. “Mutation: it is the key to our evolution.” Which actor narrates the opening sequence of 2000’s X-Men?
Patrick Stewart
12. In the Deadpool movies, what is Deadpool’s real name?
Wade Wilson
13. What is the full title of the thirteenth X-Men movie, finally released in 2020 and starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Maisie Williams?
The New Mutants
14. In which country is 2013’s The Wolverine largely set?
Japan
15. What specifically connects En Sabah Nur, Kurt Wagner, Raven Darkholme, Hank McCoy, and no other X-Men movie characters?
They all have blue skin (a.k.a. Apocalypse, Nightcrawler, Mystique, and Beast)
16. In Deadpool 2, director David Leitch is billed as “one of the guys who killed the dog in” which 2014 movie?
John Wick
17. X-Men 2’s villain is a military scientist called William… who?
Stryker
18. In which decade is 2019’s Dark Phoenix set?
The 1990s
19. Which music star made his live-action film acting debut as teleporting mutant John Wraith in X-Men Origins: Wolverine?
Will.i.am
20. Including Deadpool & Wolverine, how many films have featured Hugh Jackman playing Logan/Wolverine to date?
10 (or X in Roman numerals, if you like)
21. Which title character does Jennifer Garner play in a 2005 Daredevil spin-off?
Elektra, in Elektra
22. Who plays Wanda Gershwitz in A Fish Called Wanda?
Jamie Lee Curtis
23. In the news! Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein is a character in which medieval sports movie?
A Knight’s Tale (read more about its forthcoming stage musical adaptation)
24. “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” Which 1948 movie features this famous quote?
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
25. Whose characters include Count Olaf, Colonel Stars and Stripes, and Doctor Robotnik?
Jim Carrey, in Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Kick-Ass 2, and the Sonic The Hedgehog movies, respectively
26. “Rewrite The Stars” is a song from which movie musical?
The Greatest Showman
27. Back in cinemas next week! Complete the title of the 1988 Studio Ghibli film: My Neighbour… ?
… Totoro
28. Also in the news! Whose director’s cuts of the Rebel Moon movies are due on Netflix in August?
Zack Snyder (read more on those here)
29. Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro star in 1999’s Analyse This and which 2002 sequel?
Analyse That
30. And finally, what connects the comic book movie characters Nick Walker, Hannibal King, and Hal Jordan?
They’re all played by Ryan Reynolds, in R.I.P.D., Blade: Trinity, and Green Lantern, respectively
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