Questions from the blood simple to the die hard.

1. Which regal virgin returns to annihilate the Spanish Armada next month?

2. What might you expect to find behind a poster of Rita Hayworth in Tim Robbinss cell?

3. What comes between "I owe everything to George Bailey" and "Attaboy Clarence"?

4. How is Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo best known in this territory?

5. Which sinister establishment had "12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies".

6. Nicholson's Jakes x Bo's rating + Carl Franklin's False Move divided by John Landis's Amigos = ?, a popular thriller.

7. What short-lived phenomenon united Midway, Rollercoaster and Earthquake?

8. Who (aside from gender) is the odd one out: Bernard Lee, Edward Fox, Judi Dench, Peter Lorre, Robert Brown?

9. Which former film star was US ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution?

10. Which is the odd one out: Evening, The Heartbreak Kid, It Runs in the Family, Wall Street?

Answers

1. Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

2. A tunnel. The question refers to The Shawshank Redemption

3. Its a Wonderful Life

4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

5. The Bates Motel in Psycho

6. Se7en. The sum refers to The Two Jakes, 10, One False Move and Three Amigos.

7. Sensurround.

8. Peter Lorre. The rest played M in one or more Bond films. (Lorre was, however, in M.)

9. Shirley Temple Black

10. Evening. The rest all feature a son acting alongside his father. Evening features two separate mothers acting alongside their daughters. The actors are, respectively, Jerry and Ben Stiller, Michael and Kirk Douglas, Martin and Charlie Sheen. In Evening, Vanessa Redgrave appears with Natasha Richardson, and Meryl Streep appears with Mamie Gummer.