Here are the answers to our quiz from 8th November 2024 – how did you do?
1. In cinemas now! Who provides the voice of Paddington inthe Paddington movies?
Ben Whishaw
2. What title connects a political thriller starring Frank Sinatra and a 2004 remake starring Denzel Washington?
The Manchurian Candidate
3. Who plays Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age?
Cate Blanchett
4. In The Sixth Sense, what is Cole Sear’s sixth sense?
He sees dead people!
5. Born this week, which celebrity chef made his film acting debut playing himself in the 2011 romcom Love’s Kitchen?
Gordon Ramsay
6. Who directed Argo?
Ben Affleck
7. “Welcome to the witching hour.” Which supernatural teen horror film used this tagline?
The Craft
8. Who plays Hooper in the stuntman action-comedy Hooper?
Burt Reynolds
9. Which Powell and Pressburger fantasy romance was released in the US as Stairway To Heaven?
A Matter Of Life And Death
10. Also born this week, who connects the sequels Mission: Impossible 2, The Chronicles Of Riddick, and Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget, and no other films in those franchises?
Thandiwe Newton
11. What is the only James Bond movie with a country in its title?
From Russia With Love
12. Which Police Academy movie was released earliest: Assignment Miami Beach or Mission To Moscow?
Assigment Miami Beach was the fifth instalment, Mission To Moscow was the seventh
13. Which city connects sequels to The Muppet Movie, Agent Cody Banks, and Olympus Has Fallen?
London (in The Great Muppet Caper, Agent Cody Banks 2, and London Has Fallen, respectively)
14. Which 1980s movie has a 2004 sequel set in Cuba, subtitled Havana Nights?
Dirty Dancing
15. In Taken, Liam Neeson kills a lot of people in Paris. In Taken 2, Liam Neeson kills a lot more people but it’s different this time because it’s in which city?
Istanbul
16. What is the full title of the 1990 sequel to Disney’s The Rescuers?
The Rescuers Down Under
17. In which country is the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid set?
China
18. The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift is a prequel to all the other Fast & Furious films: true or false?
False – in fact, the third movie is set after movies 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6…
19.In Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter Parker’s European tour begins in which Italian city?
Venice
20. Which two cities feature in the titles of sequels to Crocodile Dundee? (2 points)
Los Angeles (as in Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles) and Dundee (as in all the Crocodile Dundee movies)
21. As of 2024, how many Final Destination movies have been released to date?
5
22. Which of these 1990s westerns stars Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer: Tombstone or Wyatt Earp?
Tombstone
23. Who plays Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany’s?
Audrey Hepburn
24. What sport connects the films Big Wednesday, Blue Crush, and Point Break?
Surfing
25. Complete the title of the 1957 film noir starring Tony Curtis: Sweet Smell Of… what?
… Success
26. “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” Not a quiz question, but a repeated lyric from which Oscar-winning movie musical?
The Sound Of Music
27. Which famous Billy plays ex-pirate Billy Bones in Muppet Treasure Island?
Billy Connolly
28. Which Steve Martin comedy shares its title with a 1978 song by The Police?
Roxanne
29. Harrison Ford and Morgan Freeman have each played multiple fictional US presidents, but which of the two actors was born earliest?
Morgan Freeman by 5 years
30. And finally, what connects Shaquille O’Neal, Bruce Willis, and Pharrell Williams?
They’ve all voiced the LEGO versions of themselves (in The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Movie 2, and this week’s Piece By Piece, respectively)
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