Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1 Which film carries the subtitle Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb?


1 Which film carries the subtitle Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb?

2 What began on Wednesday with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris?

3 If Elliot Gould became Wayne Rogers and Donald Sutherland became Alan Alda, who did Sally Kellerman become?

4 Mangled while being rendered in another language. Maria Antonia of Austria. A tune from West Side Story. Whose complete oeuvre?

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5 What links Machete, Hobo with a Shotgun, Werewolf Women of the SSand Thanksgiving?

6 Which 1985 drama takes its title from electrical discharge famously seen at the tip of ship’s masts?

7 How is Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios(pictured) known in English?

8 Which film follows the violent decline of the D’Ascoyne family?

9 Which actor has played Dracula, the Wolfman, the Frankenstein Monster and (nearly completing the set) the “son of Dracula”?

10 Which British comedy features a protagonist with Cary Grant’s real name?

And the answers . . .

1. Dr Strangelove

2. The Cannes Film Festival

3. Loretta Swit (recasting the film of M*A*S*Hfor television).

4. Sofia Coppola ( Lost in Translation, Mare Antoinette, Somewhere)

5. They are all fake trailers in Grindhouse. (Though both Macheteand Hobo With a Shotgunhave since become real films.)

6. St Elmo's Fire

7. Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

8. Kind Hearts and Coronets

9. Lon Chaney Jr

10. A Fish Called Wanda