Who began life as Maurice Micklewhite?

Questions

1 “I wouldn’t say I’m the best manager in the business, but I’m in the top one.” The hero of which of this week’s releases?

2 Where might you encounter Renton, Spud and Sick Boy?

3 Who began life as Maurice Micklewhite?

4 River. Shoes. Sorghum. Heat. Corner. What colour?

5 Which film dealt with the battle for Rorke’s Drift?

6 “Sport” Matthew. Jimmy Fingers. Judas Iscariot. The Lieutenant. Which New Yorker?

7 Which is the odd one out: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Phantom Menace, Star Trek (2009), The Godfather Part II (pictured below), Terminator Salvation?

8 The titles of whose films almost invariably appear in a white Windsor font on a black background?

9 Howe, Ekland, Quarry, Frederick. (In that order.) What are we talking about?

10 Carry On Wayward Son, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, Rosanna and an HBO prison drama. What classic are you thinking of?

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Answers

1. The Damned United

2. In Trainspotting

3. Michael Caine

4. Red

5. Zulu

6. Harvey Keitel

7. The Godfather Part II. All the rest are prequels (though The
Godfather II does feature some prequel elements).

8. Woody Allen

9. The wives of Peter Sellers

10. The Wizard of Oz. The question refers to songs by Kansas, Wizzard,
Toto and to the series Oz.