Round 1: Name that film (you can click on the image below to enlarge it)
Round 2: Books and the films they became
1. Matt Damon played which
Patricia Highsmith character in a 1999 film?
2. The film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is in cinemas at the moment.
Who wrote the book on which it is based?
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?
4. The 2009 film Precious is based on which book, written by Sapphire?
5. The film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on a short story by
which classic American author?
6. Which 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film is based on a novel by Daphne Du Maurier?
7. Apocalypse Now is based on which Joseph Conrad short story?
8. Which 1968 novel has been filmed twice, with the male lead played first by
John Wayne and then by Jeff Birdges?
9. The 1981 novel Red Dragon, which introduced the world to Hannibal Lecter,
was filmed in 1986. What was the name of the film?
10. The 1960 horror film The Village of the Damned was based on a novel by which
British author?
Round 3: Cult TV
1. What was the name of
the villainous television set in 1980s cartoon Willo the Wisp?
2. What was the alter ego of The Incredible Hulk in the 1970s tv show of the
same name?
3. Which premiership football team always takes to the pitch to the theme tune
of cult police show Z-Cars?
4. Buffy The Vampire Slayer is set in which fictional California town?
5. Which mystery show, which started in the late 1970s starred David McCullum
and Joanna Lumley as the title characters?
6. In what year did the BBC start broadcasting Match of the Day? (a point if
you're within 3 years)
7. In Lost, what is the name of the airline that the characters are travelling
on when they crash onto the island?
8. What was the name of the butler/chauffeur in 1980s detective series Hart
to Hart?
9. What was the nickname
of head Nurse Margaret Houlihan in M*A*S*H?
10. What fictional
part of London was The Bill set in?
Round 4: Name that tune.
Round 5: Here are 10 celebrities and 10 causes of death. Link them up correctly (this round is a bit depressing).
Natalie Wood
Jayne Mansfield
Vic Morrow
Big Bopper
Tennessee Williams
Sonny Bono
Sam Cooke
Sal Mineo
William Holden
Del Shannon
Shot himself in the head
Car crash
Stabbed in an alleyway
Decapitated by low-flying helicopter
Shot in a motel
Choked on the lid of a bottle of eye drops
Slipped on a rug
Plane Crash
Drowned
Crashed into a tree whilst skiing
Round 6: Global currencies (a very boring round). Here's some countries. Name their currency.
1. Egypt
2. Argentina
3. Finland
4. South Africa
5. Tanzania
6. Vietnam
7. Poland
8. China
9. Sweden
10. Pakistan
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