For the Film Buffs

1 In which film did Robert Duvall announce, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”?

2 Which boxer did Charles Shufford portray when Will Smith played Muhammed Ali?

3 Which movie icon nicknamed The Love Goddess married Orson Welles in 1943?

4 In which 1970 film did Dinah Sheridan play the mother of Jenny Agutter?

5 Which actor founded the lobby group The International Campaign for Tibet?

6 What is the traditional colour of a film censors pencil?

7 Which 1976 hit for the pop group Sailor shared its title with a 1962 film starring Elvis Presley?

8 What title is shared by a Buddy Holly hit of 1959 and a Kathleen Turner film of 1986?

9 Who did Morgan Freeman portray in The Long Walk to Freedom?

10 Which star of the Bond movies voiced the character of Atlanta in Stingray?

11 Which was the first film to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature?

12 In which Bond film does the character of Q appear for the first time on screen?

13 Which movie car has the number 53 emblazoned on its side?

14 Which two films earned Tom Cruise Oscar nominations in the 20th century?

15 Who played Bat Girl in the 1997 film Batman and Robin?

16 In which 1985 film did Glenn Close kill Jeff Bridges?

17 Which star of 24 Carry On films died in 2001 aged 71?

18 The 2005 film Walk the Line chronicles the turbulent life of which singer?

19 Which actor voices Stuart Little?

20 What is the family link between Don’t Look Now and Young Guns?

21 Who played Kenny Larkin in Neighbours and went on to win an Oscar?

22 In which film does Leopald Stokowski shake hands with Mickey Mouse?

23 “The wrong man in the wrong place at the right time”, the tag line for which film?

24 In which film did Sheila Hancock play Senna Pod?

25 Of which film star was it said, “Wet she’s a star, dry she ain’t”?

26 Which was the first Carry On film in colour?

27 Who did Janet Brown portray in For Your Eyes Only?

28 Which 1989 film was advertised with the blurb, “The man with the hat is back and this time he’s brought his dad”?

29 Who was born William Claude Dukenfield?

30 What year witnessed the deaths of both Jack Lemmon and Anthony Quinn?

31 Which classic movie was based on the novel The Tin Star by John W Cunningham?

32 In which film does Johnny Depp portray JM Barrie?

33 In which 1994 film did Maria de Medeiros play the girlfriend of Bruce Willis?

34 Which siblings connects the films Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow?

35 Which Oscar winning actor was born William Mitchell?

36 Who on film killed Daryl Hannah, Lucy Lui and David Carradine?

37 Which 1997 comedy was a remake of The Absent Minded Professor?

38 In which cult movie does Sister Mary Stigmata run an orphanage?

39 In which film did James Caan play an author called Paul Sheldon?

40 Which duo are associated with the signature tune Dance of the Cuckoos?

41What do the initials CGI indicate in the film world?

42 Who was the first male actor to receive twelve Oscar nominations?

43 In an alphabetical list which destination comes last in The Road movies starring Hope and Crosby?

44 Which movie star on splitting with her husband said, “At least I can wear high heels now”?

45 In which film did Julie Walters play the role of June Edwards?

46 Who played the gay lover of Tom Hanks in Philadelphia?

47 Who did Sigourney Weaver play in Gorillas in the Mist?

48 In which film did Ian Charleson play the athlete Eric Liddell?

49 Who said, “Some people collect art, I collect husbands”?

50 What provides the connection between the end of the films King Kong and Sleepless in Seattle?

Answers to Film Buffs

1 Apocalypse Now
2 George Foreman
3 Rita Hayworth
4 The Railway Children
5 Richard Gere
6 Blue, hence the phrase blue movies
7 Girls, Girls, Girls
8 Peggy Sue Got Married
9 Nelson Mandela
10 Lois Maxwell
11 Shrek
12 From Russia with Love
13 Herbie or the Love Bug
14 Jerry Maguire and Born On the Fourth of July
15 Alicia Silverstone
16 Jagged Edge
17 Joan Sims
18 Johnny Cash
19 Michael J Fox
20 Father and son Donald and Kiefer Sutherland
21 Russell Crowe
22 Fantasia
23 Good Morning Vietnam
24 Carry On Cleo
25 Esther Williams
26 Carry On Cruising
27 Margaret Thatcher
28 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
29 WC Fields
30 2001
31 High Noon
32 Finding Neverland
33 Pulp Fiction
34 Randy and Dennis Quaid
35 Peter Finch
36 Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill movies
37 Flubber
38 The Blues Brothers
39 Misery
40 Laurel and Hardy
41 Computer generated image
42 Jack Nicholson
43 Zanzibar
44 Nicole Kidman
45 Buster
46 Antonio Banderas
47 Dian Fossey
48 Chariots of Fire
49 Elizabeth Taylor
50 Both reached their climax on the Empire State Building