Movie Feature
RTÉ Guide Christmas Movie Quiz Answers 2011
Monday 9 January 2012
The Questions
1) As ever, we start with a Great Escape question. What vegetable did the American prisoners use to make their Fourth of July brew?
2) Apart from lollipops, name two of the confectionary inducements offered by The Child Catcher to lure the 'kiddie-winkies' from their hiding places?
3) Which two Oscar-winners fell victim to the virus in Steven Soderbergh's Contagion?
4) Who was the last Irish-born person to win an Academy Award?
5) Name the actress?
6) Which actress was the leading lady in one of the most successful movies of all time during the '70s, but didn't get another movie role until the same director gave her a walk-on part ('Woman in Subway') in a movie 14 years later?
7) "The dress is for sale, not me." Name the movie?
8) In which year did the following events take place: Olivia Wilde was born, Ghostbusters was a smash-hit, Amadeus swept the Oscars?
9) According to The Guinness Book of Records, who is the highest grossing movie star of all time, with a career-to-date gross of $7.4 billion? (clue: it's not Tom, Brad or George).
10) Des Bishop's memoir and stage show is called My Dad Was Nearly James Bond. If Mr Bishop had passed that audition, which 007 movie would he have starred in?
11) How did William Shatner get his mug, but not his body, into one of the most celebrated horror films of the 1970s?
12) In Bridesmaids, what type of food was responsible for the er, digestion problems for the girls in the bridal shop?
13) Name the movie?
14) Who played The Woman in the Window (1944), Woman in Hiding (1950) and The Woman in Red (1984)?
15) What did Audrey Hepburn's breakfast at Tiffany's actually consist of?
16) Which Oscar-winning screen musical features the following numbers: People, My Man and Don't Rain on my Parade?
17) Orson Welles, Colin Clive, George C Scott, William Hurt, and now Michael Fassbender have all played which famous literary character on screen?
18) In which of her movies did Saoirse Ronan share the screen with a bloke from London, a guy from New Jersey and a fella from Castleknock?
19) In which 007 movie does the baddie cheat at golf, a game with which the actor playing Bond would soon become obsessed?
20) Devious question alert! Which of this year's Hollywood dramas had a plot twist that was linked to somebody whose statue stands at the entrance to Trinity College?
21) If the fellow with the pointy cap is Leonard and the guy with the curly hair is Adolph, who's the chap with the moustache?
22) Name the actor?
23) The late Elizabeth Taylor co-starred with one of her great pals in a routine MGM musical. A year later, she acted as bridesmaid at that pal's wedding. One year on, the pal returned the compliment and was bridesmaid for Liz's wedding. Name the pal?
24) In which classic screen comedy does Trudy Kockenlocker marry Ignatz Ratzkywatzky?
25) Which 1990s drama co-starred Ashton's wife, Katie's husband and Anjelica's former beau?
26) Which movie from the 1990s co-starred the guy who is currently the voice of the BirdsEye bear, the guy who voices Fat Tony in The Simpsons, and the gal whose voice has sold more than 300 million albums?
27) It's reckoned that John Wayne was killed or died in eight of his 170 movies. Name three of them?
28) Which actress graces the cover of the December edition of Sight and Sound?
29) Which English actor turned down the lead role in The King's Speech because he wanted to spend more time with his Oscar-winning wife and their young family?
30) And finally, on a seasonal note, which of the children was the first to win their golden ticket in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
The Answers
1) Potatoes
2) Two from Cherry Pie, Cream Puffs, Ice Cream, Treacle Tart
3) Gwyneth Paltrow & Kate Winslet
4) Richard Baneham
5) Emma Stone
6) Karen Lynn Gorney
7) Indecent Proposal (1993)
8) 1984
9) Samuel L Jackson
10) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
11) His face was the mask used in Halloween (1978)
12) Brazilian meat (churrasco)
13) Harold and Maude (1971)
14) Joan Bennett, Ida Lupino, Kelly LeBrock
15) Coffee & Croissant
16) Funny Girl (1968)
17) Edward Rochester
18) The Way Back (2010)
19) Goldfinger (1964)
20) Seeking Justice aka The Hungry Rabbit Jumps aka Justice (2011)
21) Julius Henry
22) Eugene Pallette
23) Jane Powell
24) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
25) A Few Good Men (1992)
26) Body of Evidence (1993)
27) Three from Central Airport (1933), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944), Wake of the Red Witch (1948), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), The Cowboys (1972), The Shootist (1979), The Alamo (1960), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
28) Rachel Weisz
29) Paul Bettany
30) Augustus Gloop
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