Answers to this week's film quiz
1. The Godfather.
2. Jane Austen.
3. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The beasts are named
Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael.
4. A Clockwork Orange.
5. They all played Andy Warhol in feature films.
6. Pluto. The body of that name was demoted from a planet to
a dwarf
planet last year.
7. Elvis Costello. Blood and Chocolate is an album by
Costello.
Napoleon Dynamite is an alter-ego of the musician and Less
Than Zero
is a song from the album My Aim is True.
8. The original titles all featured some typographical
oddity.
Properly rendered they would appear: Se7en, Th13teen Ghosts,
Swimf@n
and S1m0ne.
9. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the
Bomb (54 letters) had the longest title of any dramatic
feature
nominated for an Oscar until Borat: Cultural Learnings of
America for
Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (71 letters) came
along.
10. Tom Dick and Harry were the names of the tunnels in The
Great
Escape. The question refers to Tom Jones, Dick Lester and
Harry Potter.
