The weekly movie quiz

Questions and answers to this week's movie quiz

Questions

1. "Say hello to my little friend." Who was introducing his acquaintance?



2. I was born in Squatney. I have played guitar in such bands as The Thamesmen, The Originals and The New Originals. I wrote Lick My Love Pump. Who am I?


3. Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night. 2001 Odyssey. Tony Manero.
Which 1970s smash?


4. Who received a writing credit on both Troy and O Brother, Where Art
Thou? (but not on The Simpsons Movie)?


5. Alex DeLarge's great passion. A troublesome St Bernard. Ed Harris and
Gary Oldman. Who are we talking about?


6. New Jack City. Boyz N the Hood. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The
Secret of the Ooze. Which crystalline solid?


7. Who died on the set of Game of Death?



8. What began with The Major and the Minor and ended with Buddy Buddy?



9. Who named his production company after Jean-Luc Godard's Bande a
Part?



10. HW Plainview, Harry Dunne and Lieut Col Frank Slade. Which of Ken
Russell's kids springs to mind?


Answers


1. Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in Scarface



2. I am Nigel Tufnell from Spinal Tap.



3. Saturday Night Fever. The question refers to the article that
inspired the film, the disco the kids attend and John Travolta's
character.



4. Homer



5. Beethoven. Alex from A Clockwork Orange adored the composer. He had a
dog named after him. Those actors played him.



6. Ice. Those films featured Ice T, Ice Cube and Vanilla Ice.



7. Bruce Lee



8. Billy Wilder's career as a solo feature director. (He co-directed one
film before The Major and the Minor.)



9. Quentin Tarantino. The company is called Band Apart.



10. Tommy, the deaf, dumb and blind kid. Young Plainview goes deaf in
There Will Be Blood. Harry Dunne is (most people think) Dumb in Dumb and
Dumber. Slade is blind in Scent of a Woman.