'Tis the season to be brainracked. First prize this year consists of two season tickets to the 13th Dublin Film Festival, which runs from March 3rd to 12th, 1998 - and two tickets for the opening-night party. Runner-up prizes, to be allocated, will be presented to the next highest scoring entrants.
The scoring system is noted in brackets after each question, and the quiz has a total value of 170 points. And don't worry if you don't get everything right - this quiz has rarely produced all-correct entries. The closing date for entries is Thursday, January 9th, and the correct answers and the names of the winners will be published on the Vision page on Friday, January 16th.
Snap happy (16 points)
Identify each of the eight actors pictured on this page.
Reel Oscars (42 points)
(a) Only six black actors have won Oscars in the 69-year history of the Academy Awards. Name all six.
(b) In March Juliette Binoche became the second French-born actress to win an acting Oscar. Who was the first, and for which film?
(c) Only one woman has won the Oscar for best original music score. Who? And for which movie?
(d) Twice in the Oscars' history sisters have been nominated against each other for the best actress Oscar in the same year. Name all four actresses.
(e) (e) Who won an Oscar for a character he created on screen 25 years earlier? And what was the name of that character?
(f) What was the first film to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film? And what was the most recent?
(g) Three Welsh-born actors have won Oscars for acting. Name all three, and the films for which they won.
The line kings (16 points) Which actor, and in which 1997 movie, said:
(a) "The best lives are invented."
(b) "Can I give you a lift? I somehow find myself driving again."
(c) "Sometimes it's good to have someone around who can pee standing up." (d) "I'm a Ben Buddhist."
(e) "Let's kick some ice."
(f) "I like your pyjamas - they're very distinguished."
(g) "I feel like a city that's been under siege for 20 years and the gates have just been flung open."
(h) "You have the demeanour of someone who's been left by his partner for an aerobics instructor."
Miscellany (9 points)
(a) Which movie took its title from the temperature at which paper burns?
(b) Of the many movies on which Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack worked together, what was the first?
(c) Which of these Trainspotting actors is not Scottish?: Ewan Bremner, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle?
Connections (12 points)
Who, or what, very specifically links each of these groupings?
(a) Tyrone Power, Robert Wagner, Robert Duvall.
(b) The Acid Queen, Aunty Entity, Angela Bassett.
(c) The American Friend, Plein Soleil, Alien Resurrection.
(d) Abby Barnes, Dave Garland, Adrian Cronaeur.
Playing director (10 points)
In which movie (narrative and not documentary) did each of the following play a movie director? (a) Francois Truffaut.
(b) Peter O'Toole.
(c) Martin Scorsese.
(d) Humphrey Bogart.
(e) Marcello Mastroianni.
Reel names (20 points)
By which names are the following much better known? (a) Lolita Dolores Martinez Asunsolo Lopez Negrette.
(b) Joe Jule Jr.
(c) Roy Harold Scherer Jr.
(d) Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
(e) William Mitchell.
(f) William Pratt.
(g) Jane Alice Peters.
(h) Leonard Slye.
(i) Joseph Levitch.
(j) Michael Igor Peschkowsky.
Reel lives (26 points)
Who played these characters, and in which 1997 releases? (a) Call.
(b) The Marquis of Queensbury.
(c) Disraeli.
(d) Finbar.
(e) Ed Exley.
(f) Edmund Tyrone.
(g) Nick Beam.
(h) Martin Q. Blank.
(i) Git Hynes.
(j) Castor and Pollux.
(k) Primo and Secondo.
More miscellany (9 points)
(a) Who, and in which movie, sang Check- ing Out Of The Heartbreak Hotel?
(b) Who has played the mother of Brooke Shields in two different movies?
(c) In which movie did Graham Greene have an acting role?
The Bogie round (10 points)
In which movie did Humphrey Bogart
(a) say: "Nobody gets the best of Fred C. Dobbs."
(b) play a paranoid screenwriter.
(c) say: "Sorry, angel, I have a pressing date with a fat man."
(d) play a washed-up sportswriter.
(e) say: "I remember every detail. The Germans wore grey; you blue."
Entry form
Complete this coupon and send it with your entry to The Reel Test, Arts Dept., The Irish Times, 10-16 D'Olier Street, Dublin 2.
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