1. He was busking on Grafton Street at the end of his first film in 1991 and still busking there at the beginning of his second film, released this year. Who is he?
2. This two-time Oscar winner will star next in PS I Love You, the Cecilia Ahern adaptation that opens here at Christmas. Who is she?
3. This director's sister played Adrian in the Rocky movies. His daughter won a screenplay Oscar. One of his nephews is Nicolas Cage, and another is Jason Schwartzman. His first film in 10 years opens here next Friday. Who is he?
4. How many of the following "Australian" actors were actually born in Australia? Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts?
5. This actor, who has appeared on stage in Dublin, has portrayed such real-life characters as Peter Sellers, Leon Trotsky and the Marquis de Sade. Who is he?
6. In which illustrious profession did all the following toil before they directed their own movies: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Peter Bogdanovich, Paul Schrader?
7. "Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love." Woody Allen delivered that line in the movie that won him Oscars for direction and screenplay (although he didn't turn up at the ceremony). What was the movie?
8. This 2004 Dublin-set drama starring James McAvoy was released in the US as Rory O'Shea Was Here. By which title was it known when it opened on this side of the Atlantic?
9. Name the Oscar-nominated US actor who has co-starred in the latest films from Irish directors Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan.
10. What connects the following films: Funny Games, The Vanishing, The Man Who Knew Too Much and The Ten Commandments?
ANSWERS
1. Glen Hansard (in The Commitments and Once)
2. Hilary Swank
3. Francis Ford Coppola
4. None of them. Mel Gibson was born in New York; Nicole Kidman in Hawaii; Guy Pearce in Cambridgeshire, England; Russell Crowe in Wellington, New Zealand; and Naomi Watts in Kent, England.
5. Geoffrey Rush
6. All five were film critics.
7. Inside I'm Dancing
8. Annie Hall
9. Terrence Howard (in The Brave One, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and August Rush).
10. Each film was remade by the director of the original version (Michael Haneke, George Sluizer, Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B DeMille, respectively).
