The standard of entries to the quiz was higher than ever before and produced some remarkably high scoring. However, there was only one all-correct entry - congratulations to Conor McMahon of Navan Road, Dublin, who scored 170 points and receives two season tickets to the 13th Dublin Film Festival, which runs from March 3rd to 13th, and two tickets to the festival's opening night party.
Runner-up prizes go to the following who each scored 167 points: Clare Francis, Sutton Park, Dublin; Anne Downey, Blanchardstown, Dublin; Michael Walsh, South Circular Road, Dublin; and Donal Caine, Beaumont, Dublin; and to three entrants who each scored 166 points - Denis O'Hearn, College Green, Belfast; David Corcoran, Collins Avenue, Dublin; and Mark D. Byrne, Blackrock, Dublin. Please allow three weeks for receipt of prizes.
A few notes on the quiz. The question which confounded most entrants was 1 (a), the picture of Rupert Graves. In 2 (b) many answered replied Simone Signoret, but she was born in Weisbaden, Germany. Claudette Colbert, who won her Oscar in 1934, was born in Paris.
In 2 (c) Marilyn Bergman for Yentl was not acceptable as that Oscar was for "original song score or adaptation score" and not for "best original music score". A number of readers answered with Carmen Dragon for Cover Girl. However, the late Carmen Dragon was a man, not a woman.
In 2 (f), La Strada was the first film to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film. However, replies giving Shoeshine were also acceptable, although the Oscar it received was an honorary one.
The Answers
1 (a) Rupert Graves (b) Marcello Mastroianni (c) Tara Fitzgerald (d) Kate Winslet (e) William H. Macy (f) Jamie Lee Curtis (g) Guy Pearce (h) Tom Selleck
2 (a) Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, Louis Gosset Jr, Whoopi Goldberg, Denzel Washington, Cuba Gooding Jr. (b) Claudette Colbert for In Happened One Night (c) Rachel Portman for Emma (d) Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine; Vanesa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave (e) Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson (f) La Strada and Kolya (g) Any three of the following sufficed: Edmund Gwenn for Miracle On 34th Street; Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend; Hugh Griffith for Ben-Hur; Anthony Hopkins for The Silence Of The Lambs
3 (a) Jean-Louis Trintignant in A Self Made Hero (b) James Sapder in Crash (c) Harrison Ford in The Devil's Own (d) Gabriel Byrne in Trigger Happy (e) Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin (f) Julie Walters in Intimate Relations (g) Stephen Fry in Wilde (h) Cameron Diaz in A Life Less Ordinary
4 (a) Fahrenheit 451 (b) War Hunt (c) Jonny Lee Miller
5 (a) All three have played Jesse James in movies (b) Two are characters played by Tina Turner; the other is an actress who played Tina Turner (c) Each features a principal character named Ripley (d) All three were the names of radio presenters in different movies
6 (a) Day For Night (b) The Stunt Man (c) Guilty By Suspicion (d) The Barefoot Contessa (e) 8 1/2
7 (a) Dolores Del Rio (b) Mickey Rooney (c) Rock Hudson (d) Beau Bridges (e) Peter Finch (f) Boris Karloff (g) Carole Lombard (h) Roy Rogers (i) Jerry Lewis (j) Mike Nichols
8 (a) Winona Ryder in Alien Resurrection (b) Tom Wilkinson in Wilde (c) Antony Sher in Mrs Brown (d) Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in The Disappearance of Finbar (e) Tom McCamus in Long Day's Journey Into Night (f) Tim Robbins in Nothing To Lose (g) John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank (h) Peter McDonald in I Went Down (i) John Travolta and Alessandro Nivola in Face/Off (j) Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci in Big Night
9 (a) Meryl Streep in Postcards From The Edge (b) Susan Sarandon (c) Day For Night
10 (a) The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (b) In A Lonely Place (c) The Maltese Falcon (d) The Harder They Fall (e) Casablanca
