1.Which cranky bald gentleman is often seen hunting "wabbits"?
2."Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." Which 1960s classic?
3. Which Oscar-winning thriller follows the adventures of Popeye Doyle?
4.A Spike Lee biopic. Ed Norton is a neo-fascist. Bryan Singer directs mutant superheroes. Which defunct cinema certificate springs to mind?
5.What (ahem) links
The 39 Steps, The Defiant Ones, Fledand this week's
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6.Which piece of music is featured prominently in
Platoon, The Elephant Manand
Amélie?
7.What have Kate Winslet, Jean Simmons, Julia Stiles, Helena Bonham Carter and Marianne Faithfull all done?
8.What is conspicuously missing from
After the Thin Manand
The Return of the Pink Panther(and all subsequent sequels to both)?
9.Identify the voguish film star enjoying herself at the current Toronto Film Festival (photo).
10.Why, when rendered correctly, might
MASH, Batteries Not Includedand
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ANSWERS
1. Elmer Fudd
2.
Dr Strangelove
3.
The French Connection
4.
X (Malcolm X, American History X, X-Men)
5. Features characters handcuffed together
6. Samuel Barber's
Adagio for Strings
7. They have all played Ophelia in films of
Hamlet
8. The Thin Man (murder victim in the first film) and the Pink Panther (jewel in the first film)
9. Jessica Chastain
10. They are all missing at lest one asterisk from their title. Asterix is, of course, French for "asterisk".