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     BOB KELL DIGS OUT HIS BIG THICK BOOK AND POSES SOME QUESTIONS



      Do you enjoy watching films?

      Would you say you knew a fair bit about them?

      Do you like to test yourself with competition questions but can't
      be bothered to actually send your answers in?   Well someone must
      because nobody seems to enter the competitions do they?


  If the answer to any or all of  the above questions is yes,then this quiz
is for you.There are no  prizes,it`s  purely  a  fun test of your celluloid
knowledge.The answers are at the end and there  is also a rating for you to
see how you have done.To  be  fair,there  is  a  section  for most types of
movie.

  Pen and paper ready?Are you sitting comfortably,good,then we`ll begin.


SECTION 1 - HORROR
==================

1.Which actor famous for his  Hammer  Film  roles,starred in the big screen
version of Dennis Wheatley`s "The Devil Rides Out".

2.What is the screen name of the psychopathic killer in "Halloween".

3.Everyone is familiar with  the  classic  film  "The Exorcist",but in what
year was it made.

4.The movies "House",and "House 2",share a  "cheery" link in the casting of
a couple of co-stars.What is it.

5.In the "Hellraiser" series,the  Pinhead  character  is one several pretty
disgusting characters  that  are  menacing  our  heroes,but  what  are they
collectively known as.


SECTION 2 - COMEDY
==================

6.Dan Aykroyd played it by the book  as  Sgt Joe Friday in the 1987 version
of a classic 50`s police serial,what was it.

7.In "National Lampoon`s Christmas Vacation",Chevy  Chase drained the USA`s
national grid by connecting up what to his power supply.

8.Complete the quote from the Woody  Allen  film "Sleeper". "Oh my God,I`ve
just knocked a man senseless with a ..................?"

9."Blazing Saddles" is one of everyones favourite comedy movies and starred
the excellent Gene Wilder,but who  played  alongside  him  as the towns new
black sheriff.

10.The unusual combination of Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Danny Devito worked
very well in the film "Twins".What were their on screen christian names.


SECTION 3 - WAR MOVIES
======================

11.In the 1953 film Albert  RN,there  was  something decidedly wooden about
the acting of the character in the title,why.

12.Charlie Sheen  played  the  new  recruit  and  Tom  Berenger  the battle
hardened veteran in which 1986 Vietnam war film.

13.In one famous war movie,starring Clint Eastwood,the plot revolved around
the theft of 14,000 bars of gold from an occupied French bank,which movie.

14.The 1978 film,The Deer Hunter,is probably one  of the most well known of
"modern"  war  movies.It   starred   Robert   De   Niro,but   who  was  the
director,(whose career  incidentally  almost  ended  with  the  1980  total
disaster Heaven`s Gate).

15.The 1951  film  The  Desert  Fox,was  the  story  of  the  German  Field
Marshall,Rommel.Which British actor played the lead role.


SECTION 4 -FUTURE FANTASY
=========================


16.In 1975,Sylvester  Stallone  made  a  "road  "  movie,featuring  a cross
country  car  race  where  extra   points   were  given  for  running  over
pedestrians,what was it.

17.Name the policeman whose "death" enabled Robocop to live.

18.Total Recall was yet another smash hit for Arnold Scharzenegger,the plot
revolved around the discovery  of  "  alien  artifacts  ",but what were the
miners looking for at the time.

19.A fairly youthfull Sean Connery,starred in a wholly British film in 1973
which involved a flying bust of  Zeus travelling the countryside giving out
arms and ammo to " exterminators " to enforce the law,what was it.

20.Fahrenheit 451,is set in a future society where television is everything
and books are banned,what is the relevance of the title.



SECTION 5 - SPACE
=================


21."Valley Forge",is the name  of  a  botanic  space  station orbitting the
Earth containing the remnants of the world`s forests in which film starring
Bruce Dern.

22.The  acclaimed  director  John  Carpenter`s   very  first  feature  film
concerned four astronauts on a mission  to destroy meaningless planets with
the aid of their intelligent bombs.That is until one of the bombs begins to
question it`s own mortality.Name the film.

23.A ship sent up to examine  Halleys  Comet  brings  back to earth a buxom
alien who duly springs to life  and  begins  to  suck the vital energy from
humans causing a vampire-like chain reaction and turns London into a throng
of sex crazed zombie vampires,(not a documentary is it?),name the film.

24.The film 2001 is probably one  of the best,most famous,and most examined
of all space movies.When was it made.

25.The Star Wars trilogy was the most  watched of all space movies,the main
characters becoming household  names.Which  British  actor  sweated  it out
inside Darth Vaders costume but was  switched  to an American actor when he
was unmasked.


SECTION 6 - MONSTER MOVIES
==========================


26.In the film " Predator ",which  black  actor  played the part of Arnie`s
old army buddy who conned him  into  taking  the mission and went along for
the ride.

27.Jeff Goldblum in " The Fly  ",gives  himself  a nickname as he begins to
mutate,what is it.

28.The original Boris  Karloff  version  of  Frankenstien  is  still a very
credible film and Karloff himself is  excellent.Name the year in which this
film was made.

29.Ridley Scott directed "Alien", but who directed the sequel "Aliens".

30.Fay Wray provided the "babe"  for  King  Kong  in  the 1933 film,but who
provided the glamour for the 1976 version.


SECTION 7 - WESTERNS
====================

31.In the 1970 western,"The  Cheyanne  Social  Club",James Stewart inherits
the club of the title,and his partner played by Henry Fonda tags along to
see exactly what the club is,but do you know.

32.Who plays the young girl,(as a  teenager),who  has been kidnapped by the
indians,in the all time classic,"The Searchers".

33.Name John Waynes last  western  when  he  played a gunslinger ironically
dying of cancer,as he was himself at the time.

34.Which 1964 western was released in  the  country  in which it was filmed
under the title,"Per Un Pugno di Dollari".

35.Lee Marvin and Jane Fonda played excellently alongside each other in the
comic western "Cat Ballou",but which extremely  famous singer had a role in
the film.


SECTION 8 - GANGSTERS
=====================

36.Everyone knows the classic gangster  movie  "The Godfather",but in which
year was it made.

37.James Cagney`s much imitated quote,"Top  of  the world Ma",came in which
1949 movie.

38.Who was surrounded by Japanese gangsters in the 1974 film,"The Yakuza".

39.Name the actor that connects "Home Alone" with "The Goodfellas".

40.Who starred in the 1972 movie "Prime Cut".


SECTION 9 - ACTION/ADVENTURE
============================

41.What was special about  the  Chinese  girl  that  was kidnapped Lo Pan`s
henchmen in the movie "Big  Trouble  In  Little  China",and then rescued by
Kurt Russel.

42.In which action  movie  does  Arnold  Schwarzenegger  play "Colonel John
Matrix",who`s daughter has been kidnapped.

43.Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito were  the  male leads in "Romancing The
Stone",but who took the female lead.

44.Who plays the American President in "Escape From New York".

45.Who plays the drug running head of  the corrupt South African embassy in
the film "Lethal Weapon 2".


SECTION 10 - PRISON
===================

46.In 1961,Burt Lancaster played  the  part  of  Robert Stroud,sentenced to
life.How was he better known.

47.Who starred in the excellent British prison pic,"Scum".

48.In which country was the 1978 film "Midnight Express" set.

49.In the classic  1939  movie  "Each  Dawn  I  Die"  James  Cagney plays a
reporter who is framed and jailed,inside  he  meets  a hardened con who be-
friends him.Which famous gangster actor plays this character.

50.Who stars alongside Clint Eastwood  as  the  governor of Alcatraz,in the
film "Escape From Alcatraz".


Well,there we are,nobody said it  was  easy.To  check your answers,carry on
down.




















ANSWERS
=======

1.CHRISTOPHER LEE.
2.MICHAEL MYERS.
3.1973.
4.JOHN RATZENBERGER AND  GEORGE  WENDT,WERE  IN  EACH.THEY  PLAYED NORM AND
CLIFF IN CHEERS.
5.CENOBITES.
6.DRAGNET.
7.HE PLUGGED IN HIS HUGE CHAIN OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS.
8.STRAWBERRY.
9.CLEAVON LITTLE.
10.JULIUS AND VINCENT.
11.HE WAS A DUMMY,MADE TO FOOL THE GUARDS WHEN THEY COUNTED THE PRISONERS.
12.PLATOON.
13.KELLY`S HEROES.
14.MICHAEL CIMINO.
15.JAMES MASON.
16.DEATH RACE 2000.
17.ALEX MURPHY.
18.TRIBIDIUM.
19.ZARDOZ.
20.IT`S THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH PAPER BURNS.
21.SILENT RUNNING.
22.DARK STAR.
23.LIFEFORCE.
24.1968.
25.DAVE PROWSE,BETTER KNOWN AS THE GREEN CROSS CODE MAN.
26.CARL WEATHERS.
27.BRUNDLEFLY.
28.1931.
29.JAMES CAMERON.
30.JESSICA LANGE.
31.IT WAS A BROTHEL.
32.NATALIE WOOD.
33.THE SHOOTIST.
34.A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS.
35.NAT KING COLE.
36.1971.
37.WHITE HEAT.
38.ROBERT MITCHUM.
39.JOE PESCI.
40.LEE MARVIN.
41.SHE HAD GREEN EYES.
42.COMMANDO.
43.KATHLEEN TURNER.
44.DONALD PLEASANCE.
45.JOSS ACKLAND.
46.THE BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ.
47.RAY WINSTONE.
48.TURKEY.
49.GEORGE RAFT.
50.PATRICK McGOOHAN.


RATING
======

If you managed to score 50,then you  must either be a total genius,have the
same film book as me,or  you  bloody  cheated  and  came  to the answer bit
first.

40 - 50 ,still a very good score,you must have a full video cabinet.

30 - 40 ,not bad really,probably still a good score.

20 - 30 ,hmmm,about half,average.

20 - 30 ,either you don`t like films,or you`ve a memory like a string vest.

10 - 20 ,you obviously have better things to do than watch films,pervert.

0 - 10 ,HELLO! is there anybody in?