The weekly movie quiz

The Ticket movie quiz

The Ticket movie quiz

Questions

1. How many Dalmatians did Cruella de Vil originally seek?

2. From which Quentin Tarantino film was Planet Terror recently separated?

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3. "Auntie Em. There's no place like home." Which film ends thus?

4. What class of creature are Harry Plopper, Wilbur and Babe?

5. I like listening to the Goldberg Variations, eating census takers and staring manically at FBI agents. Who am I?

6. In whose films might you encounter a Big Kahuna Burger?
 
7. Denzel Washington smuggles drugs. Jason Biggs does something terrible with a dessert. Kevin Spacey has a midlife crisis. Richard Gere sells sexual favours. What's the connection?

8. Which is the odd one out: Boys in the Hood, Pet Cemetery, Singing in the Rain, Goodfellas?

9. Who, perhaps rather surprisingly, went by the name of Blondie, Joe and Monco?

10. Another odd one out: Roger O Thornhill, Scottie Ferguson, John Robie, T R Devlin?

Answers

1. 101

2. Death Proof

3. The Wizard of Oz

4. Pigs.

5. Hannibal Lecter

6. Quentin Tarantino

7. American. The films in question are American Gangster, American Pie, American Beauty and American Gigolo.

8. Goodfellas. It is the only title misspelled as the film-makers intended. The others should be rendered Boyz n the Hood, Pet Sematary and Singin' in the Rain.

9. Clint Eastwood's erroneously nicknamed Man With no Name.

10. Scottie Ferguson. These are all heroes of Hitchcock films. Ferguson was played by Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo. The others were played by Cary Grant.

Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke, a contributor to The Irish Times, is Chief Film Correspondent and a regular columnist