Round 1: Name that film (you can click on the image below to enlarge it)
1. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
2. Batman Begins
3. One Hour Photo
4. How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days
5. The Lives of Others
6. From Here to Eternity
7. Moon
8. On The Waterfront
9. Howl's Moving Castle
10. Eastern Promises
Round 2: Books and the films they became
1. Matt Damon played which
Patricia Highsmith character in a 1999 film? Tom Ripley
2. The film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is in cinemas at the moment.
Who wrote the book on which it is based? Jonathan Saffron Foer
3. The films Get Shorty and Be Cool starred John Travolta as a loan shark who
gets into the film industry. Who wrote the original books? Elmore Leonard
4. The 2009 film Precious is based on which book, written by Sapphire? Push
5. The film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on a short story by
which classic American author? F Scott Fitzgerald
6. Which 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film is based on a novel by Daphne Du Maurier?
Rebecca
7. Apocalypse Now is based on which Joseph Conrad short story? Heart of Darkness
8. Which 1968 novel has been filmed twice, with the male lead played first by
John Wayne and then by Jeff Birdges? True Grit
9. The 1981 novel Red Dragon, which introduced the world to Hannibal Lecter,
was filmed in 1986. What was the name of the film? Manhunter
10. The 1960 horror film The Village of the Damned was based on a novel by which
British author? John Wyndham
Round 3: Cult TV
1. What was the name of
the villainous television set in 1980s cartoon Willo the Wisp? Evil Edna
2. What was the alter ego of The Incredible Hulk in the 1970s tv show of the
same name? David Banner (note: he's Bruce Banner in the comics)
3. Which premiership football team always takes to the pitch to the theme tune
of cult police show Z-Cars. Everton
4. Buffy The Vampire Slayer is set in which fictional California town? Sunnydale
5. Which mystery show, which started in the late 1970s starred David McCullum
and Joanna Lumley as the title characters? Sapphire and Steel
6. In what year did the BBC start broadcasting Match of the Day? (a point if
you're within 3 years) 1964
7. In Lost, what is the name of the airline that the characters are travelling
on when they crash onto the island? Oceanic
8. What was the name of the butler/chauffeur in 1980s detective series Hart
to Hart? Max
9. What was the nickname
of head Nurse Margaret Houlihan in M*A*S*H? Hot Lips
10. What fictional
part of London was The Bill set in? Sun Hill
Round 4: Name that
tune.
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1. The Happy Mondays -
Step On
2. White Stripes - Icky Thump
3. Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
4. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
5. Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
6. The Style Council - Shout to the Top
7. Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
8. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
9. Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
10. The Faces - Ooh La La
Round 5: Here are 10 celebrities and 10 causes of death. Link them up correctly (this round is a bit depressing).
Natalie Wood - drowned
Jayne Mansfield - car crash
Vic Morrow - decapitated by low-flying helicopter
Big Bopper - plane crash
Tennessee Williams - choked on the lid of a bottle of eye drops
Sonny Bono - crashed into a tree whilst skiing
Sam Cooke - shot in a motel
Sal Mineo - stabbed in alleyway
William Holden - slipped on a rug
Del Shannon - shot himself in the head
Round 6: Global currencies (a very boring round). Here's some countries. Name their currency.
1. Egypt - The Pound
2. Argentina - The Peso
3. Finland - The Euro
4. South Africa - The Rand
5. Tanzania - Shilling
6. Vietnam - Dong
7. Poland - The Zloty
8. China - the Yuan
9. Sweden - the Krona
10. Pakistan - the Rupee