Here are the answers to our quiz from 15th July 2022 – how did you do?
1. Fairuza Balk plays Dorothy in the unofficial sequel Return To Oz, but who played the role in 1939’s The Wizard Of Oz?
Judy Garland
2. Which Oscar-winning coming-of-age film was shot by director Richard Linklater in real-time from 2002 to 2013?
Boyhood
3. Born this week, who plays Letty Ortiz in the Fast & Furious franchise?
Michelle Rodriguez
4. How many of the four Madagascar films are set in Madagascar?
Just one – the original
5. What comes next in this sequence – Rise Of The… > Dawn Of The… > ?
War For The… – these all go before Planet Of The Apes to make the titles of the 2010s trilogy starring Andy Serkis
6. Which fantasy adventure film connects John Cleese, Sean Connery, and David Warner?
Time Bandits
7. “Be Afraid. Be Kind Of Afraid” is the tagline for which live-action adaptation of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon series?
Scooby Doo
8. Also born this week, which actor’s first three films were Fast Times At Ridgemont High, The Color Of Money, and Platoon?
Forest Whittaker
9. Who plays astronaut Sam Bell in Moon?
Sam Rockwell
10. In what form of transport does Marty McFly travel back to 1985 in Back To The Future Part III?
The DeLorean – the train only pushes the car down the tracks, and you should know that no train question will arrive early…!
11. Who reprises her role as Bobbie Waterbury from 1970s The Railway Children in its 2022 sequel?
Jenny Agutter
12. Which Marvel Studios movie features a giant Thomas The Tank Engine toy in its finale?
Ant-Man
13. Who directed 1951’s Strangers On A Train?
Alfred Hitchcock
14. In which London railway station is Harry Potter’s Platform 9¾ located?
Kings Cross
15. What time is the train To Yuma in a 1957 Western and a 2007 remake of the same name?
3:10, as in 3:10 To Yuma
16. In The Polar Express, what is the Polar Express’ destination – the North Pole or the South Pole?
The North Pole
17. Which 1990s blockbuster ends with an explosive encounter in and around the TGV train to Paris?
Mission: Impossible
18. Who plays Helen Quilley, the woman who alternately misses and catches her train on the London Underground in 1998’s Sliding Doors?
Gwyneth Paltrow
19. Which train circumnavigates a snowball Earth in Bong Joon-Ho’s dystopian actioner of the same name?
The Snowpiercer, in Snowpiercer
20. Which silent-movie legend wrote, directed, and starred in 1926’s The General?
Buster Keaton
21. Which superhero movie connects Will Smith, Jason Bateman, and Charlize Theron?
Hancock
22. Which Speed star declined to return for 1997’s Speed 2: Cruise Control and starred in The Devil’s Advocate instead?
Keanu Reeves
23. Also in cinemas this week! Which Netflix action-thriller connects Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas?
The Gray Man
24. Who plays Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values?
Christina Ricci
25. In the news! According to the BBFC, which movie’s 15 certificate attracted the most complaints from the public in 2021 – The Suicide Squad or Venom: Let There Be Carnage?
The Suicide Squad got 10 complaints, Venom got 7, and they were the most complained-about decisions of last year – more on that here…
26. Who plays Sonny Corleone in The Godfather?
The late, great James Caan
27. In what decade is Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy set?
The 1970s
28. What word goes before the words Arizona, Cain, and Helen to make the titles of three different movies released in successive decades?
Raising, as in 1987’s Raising Arizona, 1992’s Raising Cain, and 2004’s Raising Helen
29. Who directed 2019’s Booksmart?
Olivia Wilde
30. And finally, Adrian Woodhouse is the title character of which 1968 horror movie?
He’s Rosemary’s baby in Rosemary’s Baby
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