Here are the answers to our quiz from 27th September 2024 – how did you do?
1. Back in cinemas this week for its 20th anniversary, which comedy shares its name with a movie musical released in cinemas earlier this year?
Mean Girls
2. Which sport features prominently in Major League and its sequels?
Baseball
3. Which duo Face The Music in their sci-fi comedy threequel?
Bill and Ted, as in Bill & Ted Face The Music
4. Lovell, Swigert, Haise, and Mattingly are the crew of which vessel in the true-story drama of the same name?
Apollo 13, in Apollo 13
5. What title role connects Christopher Lee, Arnold Vosloo, and Sofia Boutella?
They’re mummies in different versions of The Mummy
6. Also in cinemas this week! Which Tim Burton movie has been reimagined as a Matthew Bourne dance show?
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Edward Scissorhands
7. Born this week, who connects the Iron Man, Insidious, and Scream franchises?
Jenna Ortega (she’s in Iron Man 3, Insidious Chapter 3, and the last two Scream movies)
8. Which World War II movie revolves around a suicide mission called Project Amnesty?
The Dirty Dozen
9. In Drive, what type of animal is embroidered on the reverse of the Driver’s jacket?
It’s a scorpion
10. Which Oscar-winning couple both celebrate their birthdays on 25th September?
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones
11. In cinemas now! Which Star Wars actor plays futuristic architect Cesar Catilina in Megalopolis?
Adam Driver
12. What is the name of Al Pacino’s character in the Godfather trilogy?
Michael Corleone
13. Which John Grisham novel inspired a 1997 film directed by Coppola and starring Matt Damon?
The Rainmaker
14. Who plays overgrown schoolboy Jack Powell in 1996’s Jack?
Robin Williams
15. Complete the title of the 1986 time-travel romcom: Peggy Sue Got… what?
… Married
16. Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse is a 1991 documentary about the making of which Coppola film?
Apocalypse Now
17. Who plays Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
Winona Ryder
18. Darry, Cherry, and Ponyboy are characters in which coming-of-age crime movie?
The Outsiders
19. … And which actor connects the answer to Q18 and Coppola’s Rumble Fish, both released in 1983?
Matt Dillon is in both movies
20. The Godfather Part II was one of two 1974 Coppola films up for Best Picture at the 47th Academy Awards: what was the other?
The Conversation
21. Which action movie marked Alan Rickman’s feature film debut?
Die Hard
22. Who was born earliest: Patricia Arquette or Rosanna Arquette?
Rosanna Arquette (by 9 years)
23. In which country are The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel set?
India
24. Who connects the characters Shaun Riley, Nicholas Angel, and Gary King?
Simon Pegg, in Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End, respectively
25. Now streaming! Wolfs marks the first on-screen acting collaboration between George Clooney and Brad Pitt since which 2008 film?
Burn After Reading
26. In the news! What is the full title of Danny Boyle’s upcoming sequel to 28 Days Later?
28 Years Later
27. Which 1980s movie theme song was remixed as a UK number 1 single for Crazy Frog in 2005?
Axel F (Beverly Hills Cop)
28. Whose real-life characters include Molly Brown, Gertrude Stein, and Queen Victoria?
Kathy Bates, in Titanic, Midnight In Paris, and 2004’s Around The World In 80 Days, respectively
29. Charlie B. Barkin is the main character in which 1980s animated film?
All Dogs Go To Heaven
30. And finally, which 1994 follow-up to Bram Stoker’s Dracula was produced by Coppola and directed by Kenneth Branagh?
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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