Mastermind Club

Quiz 2020

No 7

Film

Answers

Set by Mel Kinsey

1/ What is the name of the scientist who produces James Bonds gadgets?

Geoffry Boothroyd (Known as Q)

2/ For which two films did Marlon Brando win an Oscar?

On the Waterfront (1954) and The Godfather (1972)

3/ Who played the male and female leads in the 1950 film King Soloman's Mines?

Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr

4/ After twenty years away from the cinema, director Terence Malik returned with which 1988 war movie? 

The Thin Red Line

5/  "Doctor Octopus" is the baddie in which 2004 movie?

Spiderman 2

6/ Which rock singer played Eddie in The Rocky Horror Show? 

Meatloaf

7/ What is the name of the character played by Sean Bean in Goldeneye?  

Alec Trevelyan (006 code name Janus)

8/ Two actors have played the character Shaft in the cinema. Which two?

Richrd Roundtree  and  Samuel L Jackson

9/  Who provided the voice of Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Kathleen Turner

10/  What were the robots in Blade Runner called?

Replicants

11/  What is the name of the arch-enemy in Star Trek The Next Generation?

The Borg

12/ Which was the first colour picture to win the Best Picture Oscar?

Gone with the Wind (1939)

13/ The Sesame Street characters Ernie & Bert were names after a policeman and a taxi driver in which classic film?

It's a Wonderful Life (1948)

14/ Who played the villain Hans Gruber in Die Hard?

Alan Rickman

15/ What was the name of John  Travolta's character in Pulp Fiction?

Vincent Vega

16/  Who was the other male lead alongside Bing Crosby in White Christmas?

Danny Kaye

17/ Who directed the 1987 classic Bonnie and Clyde with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty?

Arthur Penn

18/ What was the name of the boy who befriended ET?

Eliot

19/ Linda Hunt won an Oscar for her role in The Year of Living Dangerously in 1982.

What was unique about her Oscar?

The only actor/actress to have won an Oscar portraing a character of the opposite sex. (This was not Linda Hunt playing a woman pretending to be a man like Barbra Streisand did in Yentil  or in reverse, as Dustin Hoffman did in Tootsie, but playng a man in a serious drama)

20/ Which of The Dirty Dozen  was also one of  The Magnificent Seven?

Charles Bronson