Questions and answers to this week's movie quiz

Questions

1.Who phoned home in 1982?

2. Which ursine prankster sang about the "bare necessities"?

3. How did Orson Welles get up the nose of William Randolph Hearst in
1941?

4. What begins with a run in the woods and ends with the anti-hero
"having an old friend for dinner"?

5. The Agony and the Ecstasy. Lust for Life. Love is the Devil. Which
creative activity?

6. Beneath. Escape. Conquest. Battle. What are we talking about?

7. Who (gender aside) is the odd one out: Talia Shire, Jason
Schwartzman, Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola?

8. Hal Holbrook and Linda Lovelace will be forever associated with which
two words?

9. At last week's Oscars, something happened with the actors awards that
had not happened since 1964. What?

10. Who is the odd one out: Lon Chaney, Herbert Lom, Paul Williams,
Claude Rains?

Answers


1. ET.

2. Baloo in The Jungle Book.

3. He made Citizen Kane. The title character is clearly modelled on
Hearst.

4. Silence of the Lambs

5. Painting. The films are biopics of Michelangelo, Van Gogh and Francis
Bacon.

6. Planet of the Apes.

7. Jason Schwartzman. The rest were all born with the surname Coppola.
Schwartzman is, however, part of the family.

8. Deep Throat (in All the President's Men and Deep Throat itself).

9. None of the acting awards went to Americans.

10. Paul Williams. The rest all played the Phantom of the Opera. The
pint-sized balladeer was, however, the villain in Brian DePalma's
Phantom of the Paradise.