The Festive Film Quiz: The Undiscovered Post

“Oh FFS, I thought this guy had finally gone away”

In time-honoured fashion,
there are 80 points at stake. Also in time-honoured fashion there are zero
prizes. Unless someone wants to donate some??? Thought not.


Disclaimer: The Screening Room accepts no responsibility for any quiz-related arguments that result in name-calling, finger-pointing, hair-pulling, food-fights, fist-fights, sobbing in the toilets, dredging up of old family feuds, revelations of true parentage, or any incidents which result in injury, coma or death.


QUESTIONS

1. The Passion of the Christ
2. The Last Temptation of Christ
3. Jesus of Nazareth
4. The Greatest Story Ever Told
5. King of Kings (1961)
6. Mary Magdalene
7. Superstar
8. Jesus Christ Superstar (1977)

1. What film won Best Picture at the Oscars
   in 2018?
2. What major film studio did Disney
   complete the purchase of in 2018?
3. What was the biggest worldwide box-office
   hit in 2018?
4. The latest film in the Fifty Shades
   franchise was released. It was called…?
5. Which Stephen King-inspired film featured
   prominently in a key sequence of Ready Player One?
6. A Quiet Place marked the directorial
   debut of which Office star?
7. How many upper-case ‘K’s were there in
   the official title of Spike Lee’s latest film?
8. According to the movie title, where did
   The Teen Titans go this year?

Round 3: All
Aboard!

1. Orca
2. Andrea Gail
3. SS Venture
4. Molly Aida
5. Pequod
6. Belafonte
7. Argo
8. HMS Surprise

1. ‘Baby’ Houseman in Dirty Dancing
2. ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Top Gun
3. ‘Indiana’ Jones in, er, the Indiana Jones movies.
4. ‘Bluto’ Blutarsky in Animal House
5. ‘Verbal’ Kint in The Usual Suspects
6. ‘The Dude’ in The Big Lebowski
7. ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in M*A*S*H
8. ‘The Bride’ in Kill Bill films

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish version)
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (US version)
3. The Girl in the Spider’s Web
4. The Girl with all the Gifts
5. The Girl Next Door (2004)
6. The Girl on the Train (2016)
7. The Girl With a Pearl Earring
8. The Girl on a Motorcycle

1. Iron Maiden
2. McFly
3. Fine Young Cannibals
4. The Fratellis
5. Moloko
6. Travis
7. Duran Duran
8. Wu Tang Clan

1. What is wrong with these film titles?
   Girl Interrupted ; Paris Texas ; Love Simon ; Hail Caesar
2. Why would the films below make you think of Paul
   Scofield?
3. Which is the odd one out? Liar ; Tora ; New
   York ; Jamón
4. What have the characters below got in common?
5. What connects the following films? The
   Vanishing (1988); Funny Games (1997) ; Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) ; Bangkok
   Dangerous (2000)
6. What comes next: SC ; GL ; SC ; RM ; TD ;
   PB ;
7. Which film is the odd one out below?
8. Who is musically not quite right in the sequence below?

1. Iron                  [          ]        Business
2. War                  [          ]        Feathers
3. The Black         [          ]        People
4. Atomic              [          ]        Tale
5. Big                   [          ]        Tank
6. Alpha                [          ]        Soldiers
7. Teen                 [          ]        Creek
8. Lady                 [          ]        Box

Round 9: A Good
Sense of Direction

1. Viggo Mortensen in a naked knife fight
2. Cary Grant attacked by a crop duster
3. I like to be in America!
4. Laurel & Hardy sing On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine
5. Music by Rodgers & Hammerstein
6. Jack Nicholson escapes the hangman’s noose to mine gold
7. Won the first Oscar for Outstanding Production
8. Starring James Dean

1. Only 1 film in the Top 10 Worldwide box-office list for 2018 was not
   a sequel or a Marvel character film. What was it?
2. What film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2018?
3. What day was Humphrey Bogart born on?
4. The father of which Oscar-nominated actress was Pink Floyd’s road
   manager?
5. Which French footballer appeared in a brief role as a doctor in the
   Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything?
6. Which Irish actor had a Top 10 UK hit with ‘MacArthur Park’?
7. A cocktail made of ginger ale with a splash of grenadine, garnished with
   a cherry is named after which famous child actress?
8. The more common name for NaAlSi₂O₆ is also a dire erotic thriller from
   1995. What is it? 

 
ANSWERS

Okay, have you got your ‘I actually knew that’ reaction ready to go? Here we go….

1. Jim Caviezel
2. Willem Dafoe
3. Robert
   Powell
4. Max von
   Sydow
5. Jeremy
   Hunter
6. Joaquin
   Phoenix
7. Will Ferrell
8. Ted Neeley

1. The Shape of
   Water
2. Fox
3. Avengers :
   Infinity War ($2,048million)
4. Fifty Shades
   Freed
5. The Shining
6. Jon Krasinski
7. Two. BlacKkKlansman is the official title
8. Teen Titans
   Go! To the Movies.

1. Frances
2. Pete
3. Henry
4. John
5. Roger
6. Jeffrey
7. Margaret
8. Beatrix

1. Noomi Rapace
2. Rooney Mara
3. Claire Foy
4. Sennia Nanu (a tough one, and incidentally the only actual girl on this list)
5. Elisha
   Cuthbert
6. Emily Blunt
7. Scarlett
   Johansson
8. Marianne Faithful

1. The Man in
   the Iron Mask
2. Back to the
   Future
3. All the Fine
   Young Cannibals
4. The Goonies
5. A Clockwork
   Orange
6. Paris, Texas
7. Barbarella
8. Shaolin and
   Wu Tang

1. They are
   missing a comma between the two words.
2. Seasons. Those
   are stills from Ingmar Bergman films The Virgin Spring, Summer with Monika,
   Autumn Sonata and Winter Light. Paul Scofield won an Oscar for A Man for All
   Seasons
3. Tora, which
   appeared three times in a film title (Tora! Tora! Tora!), whereas the others
   only twice (Liar, Liar ;  New York, New
   York ; Jamón Jamón)
4. They were
   the subject of ballads in the films they appeared in (The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The
   Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The Ballad
   of Jack and Rose)
5. All foreign-language films remade
   by the same director(s) in English language version
6. DC for
   Daniel Craig. The initials of actors who played James Bond in order of
   appearance in official Bond films.
7. Boys Don’t Cry was a film about a woman disguised as a man. Mrs Doubtfire, Tootsie and Some Like it Hot feature men disguised as women.
8. Rango was one letter away from being a Beatle, whereas John, Paul, and George were all spelled correctly.

1. Iron            [ Monkey    ]        Business
2. War            [ Horse       ]        Feathers
3. The Black  [ Cat        
     ]        People
4. Atomic       [ Shark    
     ]        Tale
5. Big             [ Fish          ]        Tank
6. Alpha         [ Dog          ]        Soldiers
7. Teen           [ Wolf         ]        Creek
8. Lady           [ Bird          ]
          Box

1. Eastern Promises
2. North by
   Northwest
3. West Side
   Story
4. Way Out West
5. South Pacific
6. Goin’ South
7. All Quiet on
   the Western Front
8. East of Eden

1. Bohemian
   Rhapsody. (For info the top ten according to boxofficemojo.com were: Avengers:
   Infinity War, Black Panther, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Incredibles 2,
   Venom, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Deadpool 2, Bohemian Rhapsody, Ant-Man
   and the Wasp, Fantastic
   Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald)        
2. Shoplifters
3. Christmas
   Day (Good guess. Bonus point for knowing the year was 1899)
4. Naomi Watts’
   father Pete was the band’s road manager
5. Frank Le
   Boeuf
6. Richard
   Harris, reaching No. 4 in 1968
7. A Shirley
   Temple
8. Jade

HOW DID YOU DO?

Well I hope that promoted mental health and well-being in your house.

You are probably finished, but if you are hungry for more, you can view previous instalments of the Festive Film Quiz here.

Meanwhile, I’m off on my Christmas party! Mine’s a Shirley Temple!

A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!