The Christmas quiz: film and TV
- Which actress played Nurse Ratched in the film version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
- Metropolis, made in Germany in 1927, is regarded as one of the most influential films of early cinema. Who directed it?
- Which two characters feature in all of the Skywalker Saga Star Wars films?
- This Hollywood screenwriter and director won four Oscars over two years for two films – A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. Who was he?
- With what film did Jordan Peele make his directorial debut in 2017?
- For which 1965 film did Julie Christie win the best actress Oscar? And for which 1963 film did Omar Sharif win his only Oscar?
- Steve McQueen’s TV drama series Small Axe takes its title from a lyric in a song by which singer-songwriter?
- What musical instrument is indelibly associated with Carol Reed’s 1949 film The Third Man? And for a bonus point, who played it on the soundtrack?
- Name the characters played by Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman in the 1988 box office smash Die Hard; and the skyscraper in which they do battle.
- Ben Wheatley’s new film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers. Who played her in the 1940 film?
- By what name are the following actors and musicians better known: a) Farrokh Bulsara b) Betty Perske c) Issur Danielovitch d) Michael J. Douglas e) Stevland Judkins f) Calvin Broadus Jr?
- Robert Downey Jr starred as Dr Dolittle in a widely panned new film based on Hugh Lofting’s books. Which two actors had played the doctor in the 1967 and 1998 adaptations?
- In which 1960s cartoon series did Penelope Pitstop appear, along with the likes of Dastardly and Muttley?
