Questions from the blood simple to the die hard . . . by Donald Clarke
1. Who managed to be both the fifth and sixth husband of Elizabeth Taylor (pictured right)?
2. My feet are bleeding. I am wearing a vest. I am somewhere in the Nakatomi Plaza. Who am I?
3. Which iconic spy film was - before the distributors spotted the error - set to be released in Japan under a title that translated as We Don't Want a Doctor?
4. What comes in between "Saigon" and "The Horror"?
5. Uncle Ernie. Buster Edwards. The Pope in Lisztomania. Choking on somebody else's vomit. Which instrument?
6. In 1992 what set Tim Robbins and Richard E Grant apart from Andie MacDowell, Bruce Willis, John Cusack, Harry Belafonte and many, many others?
7. Who is the odd one out: Jeffrey Hunter, Jim Caviezel, Graham Chapman, Max Von Sydow?
8. Which Upper West Side layabouts might you encounter in Trial and Error, Bee Movie, Pretty Woman and Fathers' Day?
9. Which dubious honour is shared jointly by The Colour Purple (left, 1985) and The Turning Point (1977)?
10. What's wrong with Mars Attacks, Them, Oliver, Viva Zapata and Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill?
Answers:
1. Richard Burton
2. John McClane (Bruce Willis) in Die Hard.
3. Dr No
4. Apocalypse Now (those are the first and last lines of that film).
5. The drums. Keith Moon, drummer in The Who, played Uncle Ernie in Tommy. Phil Collins, drummer for himself and Genesis, played Buster Edwards in Buster. Ringo Starr played that Pope. One of Spinal Tap's drummers died after ingesting another persons vomit.
6. Robbins and Grant, unlike the rest, played fictional characters, rather than themselves, in Robert Altman's The Player.
7. Graham Chapman. The rest have all played Jesus. Chapman played Brian in The Life of Brian.
8. The cast of Seinfeld. The films listed feature, respectively, Michael Richards, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
9. The films share the record for most Oscar nominations (11) without a win.
10. All these titles should be followed by an exclamation point!
