By Donald Clarke

1. Who was Luke Skywalkers dad?

2. Which film holds the record for the biggest ever three-day opening
weekend in the United States?

3. Which raucous college comedy takes place in and around the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity?

4. Heres to swimming with bow-legged women. Which earthy fisherman?

5. Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford (twice) and Ben Affleck. Which hero?

6. Where might you encounter a romance between Mr Dawson and Ms DeWitt
Bukater?

7. Richard Nixon, Margaret Thatcher, Ron Kovic, George W Bush. Whos the odd
one out?

8. What took the Oscar for best picture the year Beauty and the Beast, JFK,
Bugsy and (no, really) Prince of Tides lost?

9. Hall, Nelson, Ringwald, Sheedy. Whos missing?

10. The hero of Paris, Texas. Mad scientist in Barbarella. George C Scott
imagines himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Whats the connection?

Answers

1. Darth Vader

2. The Dark Knight

3. Animal House

4. Quint (Robert Shaw) in Jaws

5. Jack Ryan, hero of Tom Clancys thrillers

6. Titanic

7. Mrs Thatcher. The rest have been the subject of biopics by Oliver Stone
(he was rumoured to be making a film about Thatcher.

8. Silence of the Lambs. These are the Oscar nominees for best picture in
1991

9. Estevez. The question refers to those serving detention in The Breakfast
Club: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald and
Ally Sheedy

10. They all gave their names to bands. The question refers to Travis,
Duran(d) Duran(d) and They Might be Giants.