Questions and answers to this week's movie quiz

Questions

1. I am green, flatulent and inexplicably Scottish. I currently live in
the swamp with my wife Fiona. Who am I?

2. Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker and - coming at you this summer
- Tony Stark. What are we talking about?

3. What begins in the UN and (almost) ends on Mount Rushmore?

4. Which recent Oscar winner was, last week, revealed to have questioned
the official explanation for the collapse of the World Trade Center?

5. "She's my sister." Slap! "She's my daughter." Slap! "My sister, my
daughter." Which copper-bottomed classic?

6. David Lean, Carol Reed and Roman Polanski all had a crack at what?

7. Rickman, Sadler, Irons, Olyphant (in that order). What are we talking
about?

8. It is said that a key dance sequence in this picture was influenced
by a similar scene in The Aristocats. Which film?

9. He was born John Martin Feeney, but sometimes claimed to have been
christened Sean Aloysius O'Feeny? By what name was he best known?

10. Who were Perdita and Pongo?

Answers

1. Shrek.

2. Alter-egos of superheroes. The heroes in question are Superman,
Batman, Spider-Man and Iron Man.

3. North by Northwest (there is a brief coda in a train, hence the
"almost".)

4. Marion Cotillard.

5. Chinatown.

6. Filming Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist.

7. Villains from successive Die Hard films.

8. Pulp Fiction

9. John Ford.

10. The canine leads in 101 Dalmatians.