The Big Screen

1 Who played the role of M in eleven Bond movies?

2 Which Star Wars spoof was directed by Mel Brooks?

3 Which 1953 film saw Marlon Brando sitting astride a Triumph motorbike?

4 Which woman married stars of the films The Amityville Horror and MASH?

5 Which film released in Britain in 2007 recounts the early years of the cannibalistic Dr Lecter?

6 In films of the same title what are the Blue Dahlia, the Blue Angel and the Blue Gardenia?

7 In April 2007, which Hollywood star sparked an uproar when he kissed Shilpa Shetty in public?

8 According to Walt Disney which Hollywood star provided the inspiration for the wicked witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

9 Which film witnessed the deaths of Robert Wagner, Richard Chamberlain and Robert Vaughan?

10 When George Clooney played Batman, who played Robin?

11 Who directed Johnny Depp in the films Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

12 Which 1950s musical features the song The Heather on the Hill?

13 The brief life story of Ritchie Valens was chronicled in which 1986 film?

14 Who directed the TV series Twin Peaks and the film Dune?

15 In the 21st century who became the oldest person to date (2007) to win a Best Director Oscar?

16 Who is the mother of the actor Toby Stevens?

17 Which actor was briefly married to Lisa Marie Presley in 2002?

18 Which Disney animation features an owl called Archimedes?

19 Who did Michael Sheen play in the 2006 film The Queen?

20 What are the only four musicals that won eight or more Oscars in the 20th century?

Answers

1 Bernard Lee

2 Spaceballs

3 The Wild One

4 Barbra Streisand, married James Brolin and Elliot Gould

5 Hannibal Rising

6 Nightclubs

7 Richard Gere

8 Joan Crawford

9 The Towering Inferno

10 Chris O’Donnell

11 Tim Burton

12 Brigadoon

13 La Bamba

14 David Lynch

15 Clint Eastwood

16 Maggie Smith

17 Nicolas Cage

18 The Sword in the Stone

19 Tony Blair

20 West Side Story, Gigi, Cabaret, My Fair Lady