The Ticket weekly movie quiz.

Question

1. Which film, released next week, brings together the current James Bond and a former Mrs Cruise?

2. Which politically minded actor was, following a visit to North Vietnam, once dubbed Hanoi Jane?

3. Who caused some controversy a few years back by declining the freedom of his hometown of Ballymena?

4. Which English star grew up to become both Gloria Stuart and Judi Dench?

5. American Gangster, Titanic, Zodiac, A Very Long Engagement (in that order). Which franchise?

6. Which Anglo-Irish actor had a parent who was once Poet Laureate of Great Britain?

7. Doc Brown's dog. Yahoo Serious. Walter Matthau. Which genius?

8. Which is the odd one out: Love Story, The Paper Chase, A Beautiful Mind, Good Will Hunting?

9. Ray, HI McDunnough, Tom Reagan. Which eponymous screenwriter comes next?

10. Why might Morrissey regret a particular alteration to the original text of Anthony Schaffer's Sleuth in the new film version?

Answers

1. The Golden Compass.

2. Jane Fonda

3. Liam Neeson

4. Kate Winslet (In Titanic and Iris).

5. Alien. These are the most recent films from the directors of those four films (yes, we have omitted Alien vs Predator).

6. Daniel Day-Lewis

7. Albert Einstein. Einstein was the Doc's dog in Back to the Future. Yahoo Serious was Young Einstein. Matthau played the physicist in IQ.

8. A Beautiful Mind. The others take place largely in Harvard. Ron Howard's film revolves around Princeton.

9. Barton Fink. These are the heroes of the first three Coen brothers movies.

10. Harold Pinter cut the phrase "a jumped up pantry boy who doesn't know his place" from the script. Morrissey paraphrased the line in the Smiths' This Charming Man.