Questions from the blood simple to the die hard by Donald Clarke.

1. Which director lives and works at the Skywalker Ranch?

2. The censor's certificate to which comedy, released last week, is accompanied by the following note: "Contains frequent crude innuendo and references to sexual orientation"?

3. Alfred Pennyworth, Nigel Powers, Harry Palmer. Which knight?

4. Bill Murray (1993), Nicolas Cage (2005), Steve Martin (1991), Nicole Kidman (1995). What job?

5. The Future is Unwritten. Some Kind of Monster. End of the Century. What's the connection?

6. "David is 11 years old. He weighs 60 pounds. He is 4 feet, 6 inches tall. He has brown hair. His love is real. But he is not." The strap-line - and virtually a synopsis - for which film?

7. Sara Crowe, Sophie Thompson, Andie MacDowell, Simon Callow, Anna Chancellor. What are we talking about?

8. What begins with a blazing sun in Iraq and ends with a flight of steps in Washington DC?

9. What was, at that stage, unique about the score for Forbidden Planet?

10. Which of the following did play Hannibal Lecter: Aaron Thomas, Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox, Gaspard Ulliel?

Answers

1. George Lucas.

2. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

3. Sir Michael Caine. He played these roles in Batman Begins, Austin Powers in Goldmember and The Ipcress File.

4. Weatherperson. In Groundhog Day, The Weather Man, LA Story and To Die For.

5. Music documentaries on, respectively, Joe Strummer, Metallica and The Ramones.

6. AI

7. Four Weddings and a Funeral. These are the brides and the corpse in the five ceremonies.

8. The Exorcist

9. It was cinema's first entirely electronic score.

10. Brian Cox. All played the notorious cannibal - Thomas and Ulliel in Hannibal Rising, Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (and others), Cox in Manhunter - but Cox's character spelled his surname "Lecktor".