THE SILVER SCREEN

1 What was the name of the male strip tease troupe in The Full Monty?

2 In which film were scientists invited to play the five tones?

3 Which Disney character sang “One Day My Prince Will Come”?

4 What connects the films Dead Ringers, Raising Cain and The Parent Trap?

5 Who played on film by Sigourney Weaver was murdered in 1985?

6 Who voices the lion Aslan in the 2005 fantasy film Narnia?

7 Who did Steve McQueen marry in 1973 and divorce in 1978?

8 In which Hitchcock thriller was James Stewart confined to a wheelchair?

9 Which Oscar winning is divided into six sections, two of which are named The Set Up and The Hook?

10 Who did Judy Garland co-star with in ten films?

11 Who directed the films Terminator and Titanic?

12 Which 2002 film opens with a violent confrontation between the Nativists and the Dead Rabbits?

13 What was the title of the 1975 sequel to Alfie?

14 In which city was the Alan Parker film The Commitments set?

15 Which singer sang Beauty School Dropout in Grease?

16 Who said, “There is no terror in a bang, only the anticipation of it”?

17 Which 2005 film, the third directed by Sam Mendes, is set during the Gulf War?

18 Which cousin of Ian Fleming has played a Bond villain on film?

19 When Errol Flynn played Robin Hood who played Maid Marian?

20 In which 1995 film did Susan Sarandon play Sister Helen Prejean?

21 The 1951 film The Desert Fox was a film biography of whose life?

22 Who directed the 2001 version of Planet of the Apes?

23 What was Fatty Arbuckle’s real first name?

24 Who played Ophelia opposite Mel Gibson’s Hamlet?

25 In which 1996 film did Anthony Hopkins play the artist that painted Guernica?

26 Who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in An Officer and a Gentleman?

27 What five word phrase spoken by Ronald Reagan in a 1985 speech was borrowed from a 1983 film starring Clint Eastwood?

28 Who played the wife of Gregory Peck in The Omen?

29 In which 1989 film did Sylvester Stallone play a prison inmate and Donald Sutherland a ruthless prison governor?

30 Which actress married two stars of the film The Great Escape?

31 Sharing its name with an Arnold Schwarzenegger film, what name is given to the line that divides the dark and light portions of the moon?

32 Which Disney film had the working title of The Concert Feature?

33 Which biblical character was portrayed by David Bowie in The Last Temptation of Christ?

34 Which comedy film featured an organisation called The People’s Front of Judea?

35 Which historical figure was played by Kathy Bates in the 2004 film Around the World in 80 Days?

36 Which film marked the directorial debut of Clint Eastwood?

37 Which controversial 1971 film was advertised with the blurb, “The knock at the door meant the birth of one and the death of seven others”?

38 Who played the father of Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can?

39 In which film was Harrison Ford accused of the murder of Greta Saatchi?

40 Which novel by Paul Gallico saw Gene Hackman die in the film version?

Answers
1 Hot Metal
2 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
4 Twins are central to the plot
5 Diane Fossey
6 Liam Neeson
7 Ali McGraw
8 Rear Window
9 The Sting
10 Mickey Rooney
11 James Cameron
12 Gangs of New York
13 Alfie Darling
14 Dublin
15 Frankie Avalon
16 Alfred Hitchcock
17 Jarhead
18 Christopher Lee
19 Olivia de Havilland
20 Dead Man Walking
21 Erwin Rommel
22 Tim Burton
23 Roscoe
24 Helena Bonham Carter
25 Surviving Picasso
26 Louis Gossett Jnr
27 Go ahead make my day
28 Lee Remick
29 Lock Up
30 Jill Ireland, who married Charles Bronson and David McCallum
31 Terminator
32 Fantasia
33 Pontius Pilate
34 The Life of Brian
35 Queen Victoria
36 Play Misty for Me
37 Straw Dogs
38 Christopher Walken
39 Presumed Innocent
40 The Poseidon Adventure