Monday, April 24, 2006

Just Another Movie Quiz

1. "In feudal Japan, the warrior class of samurai were sworn to protect their liege lords with their lives.Those samurai whose liege was killed suffered great shame, and... were no longer referred to as samurai...Such men were called X”. Opening lines of which movie.

RONIN

2. In the 1982 comedy movie Tootsie, X played the role of Dustin Hoffman’s casting agent George Fields, whois exasperated with Hoffman’s perfectionism. X had many an argument off screen with Hoffman over Tootsie,and it was Hoffman in fact who suggested that X play the role.

SIDNEY POLLACK

3. Complete the series Group Capt Lionel Mandrake,President Merkin Muffley and ________.

DR.STRANGELOVE

4. Connect the movie A Fish Called Wanda with CaryGrant.

ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER LEACH

5. Founder member of the experimental theater group The Wooster, he was noted for his harsh facial features due to which he ended up playing negative roles. When he played Jesus Christ, Sergio Leone remarked, “This is the face of a murderer, not of ourLord”. He himself remarked “To this day, I cant thinkI was so brazen to think I could pull off the Jesus role”. Who?

WILELM DAFOE

6. Apart from Alien, in which other 1992 Ridley Scott movie did Sigourney Weaver play a major role. Starring Gerard Depardieu in the lead role, the movie was however a disappointment at box office. Name the movie and the role also.
1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE

7. By what name are Dr.Egon Splender, Dr. Ray Stantz and Dr.Peter Venkman collectively known as?

GHOSTBUSTERS

8. “How Happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot,

The world forgetting, by the world forgot,

________________________________,

Each pray’r accepted and each wish resign’d”


ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF SPOTLESS MIND


9. Fill in the blanks : __________ Highlands and_______ Farms.


GLENGARY, GLENROSS


10. This 1974 movie has Dustin Hoffman as Babe and Sir Laurence Olivier as Nazi doctor Dr.Szell. Famous for a graphic torture scene where Szell drills into histeeth without using anaesthesia asking all the while“Is it safe?”.


THE MARATHON MAN