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Limited edition Martyn TurnerThe weekly movie quiz.
1 Whose food did Morgan Spurlock, back this week with a new film, eat a lot of in Super Size Me?
2 Who is the late singer Rosemary Clooney's most famous nephew?
3 Julie Andrews (1964), Emma Thompson (2005), Scarlett Johansson (2007). Which profession?
4 Delicatessen. Alive. Silence of the Lambs. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. What's for dinner?
5 "I'll be right here." Whose last words to us?
6 "If you want results you have to go to the Schwarzeneggers, the Stallones, and to a lesser extent, the Van Dammes". Whose sage advice?
7 Which film is known in its home territories as Der Himmel Über Berlin?
8 Bereaved for Nicholas Roeg. Blind for John Sturges. Angry when a duck. Self-referential when a quiz-master. Who?
9 Where will you encounter a paparazzo called Paparazzo?
10 What began with a window cleaner and ended in a holiday camp?
Answers:
1 McDonald's
2 George Clooney
3 Nanny. In Mary Poppins, Nanny McPhee and The Nanny Diaries.
4 People. The films all involve cannibalism
5 ET
6 Bart Simpson
7 Wings of Desire
8 Donald. The question refers to Donald Sutherland (in Don't
Look Now), Donald Pleasence (in The Great Escape), Donald Duck and
Donald Clarke.
9 In La Dolce Vita.
10 The Confessions of… films.
© 2008 The Irish Times


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