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1. a) The Overlook Hotel is the setting for which film? b) Name the concierge at the Grand Budapest Hotel c) In which film are Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall trapped in a hotel in Florida?
2. Elizabeth Taylor married two famous British actors. Who were they?
3. In the film King Richard, which came out this year, who is Richard? Who played King Richard in the 1955 film King Richard III? And who played him in 1996’s Looking for Richard?
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4. The 2021 film The Dig is about an archaeological excavation on which British estate?
5. Who was the first woman to win a best director Oscar? And for a bonus point, name the film and the year.
6. Which was Hollywood’s first animated feature film?
7. For what movie did Steven Spielberg win his first best director Oscar?
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8. On the set of which 2003 movie flop did “Bennifer” first form?
9. Which British-born star of the Hitchcock film Notorious (1946) was brought up in such poverty that all but two of his 11 siblings died of malnutrition?
10. In which movies would you find the following lines: a) “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” b) “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” c) “It’s shite being Scottish” d) “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate” e) “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in”?
11. Which three films make up what is known as the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy?
12. Who played Emma Thompson’s cheating husband in Love Actually?
13. 1960’s The Magnificent Seven is a remake of which iconic Japanese film?
1. a) The Shining b) Gustave H c) Key Largo, 2. Michael Wilding; Richard Burton, 3. Richard Williams (father of Venus and Serena); Laurence Olivier; Al Pacino, 4. Sutton Hoo, 5. Kathryn Bigelow; The Hurt Locker; 2010, 6. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 7. Schindler’s List, 8. Gigli, 9. Claude Rains, 10. a) Apocalypse Now b) Dr. Strangelove c) Trainspotting d) Cool Hand Luke e) The Godfather Part III, 11. Shaun of the Dead; Hot Fuzz; The World’s End, 12. Alan Rickman, 13. Seven Samurai
