Williamstown Film Society COVID Quiz
Q1 Name the film. It’s A Wonderful Life
Q2 Are you able to name the 3 actors pictured? David Gulpilil (as Gumpilil) Jenny Agutter Luc Roeg (as Lucien Jon)
Q3 Name this film (hint: we have screened it) My Name Is Khan.
Q4 Name the 3 characters pictured & the actors who provided their voices. L to R: Baloo the bear (Phil Harris), Mowgli (Bruce Reitherman) Bagheera the panther (Sebastian Cabot)
Q5 Name these young stars from Peter Weir’s stunning Gallipoli and if you can their character names. (Bonus: Are you able to name the actors in the image here, who were cropped out from our home page?) From Left to Right: David Argue (Snowy), Mark Lee (Archy), Mel Gibson (Frank) & Robert Grubb (Billy) Q6 Audrey Tautou played the title role in this wonderful French comedy. What was her character’s first name (also the film’s title)? Amelie
Q7 Name this comedian. Buster Keaton and the film is The Electric House (1922 short)
Q8 Name the film and how many times that you have seen it. The Sound of Music and the WFS record is 4,580,567 viewings!
Q9 Robert who? Paul who? Film name…please? (and if you’re keen, who did their costumes?) Robert Redford, Paul Newman, The Sting Edith Head dressed them. Q10 Your favourite 3D movie please?
Q11 Name the 1965 film directed by David Lean. A grand romantic drama starring Julie Christie as Lara and Omar Sharif as Yuri. Doctor Zhivago. & Lara’s Theme Q12 Who played the Wizard of Oz? Frank Morgan was the Wizard & the Gatekeeper, Professor Marvel, the Guard, the Carriage Driver. Other classics from 1939? Most popular response GWTW. See Blog article for a 1939 top 20. My favourites (that I’ve seen): Stage Coach, Goodbye Mr Chips, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I think we need to have a 1939 selection every year, so that I can at least see the others on the list. What do you reckon?
Q13 Only one principal from ‘Gone with the Wind’ is still alive today. Are you able to name him/her?
Olivia de Havilland turns 104 On July 1st. See Blog article for more details.
Q14 Which TV show brings back the most memories for you?
Plenty of love for Disneyland, IMT Hey Hey It’s Saturday…
Q15 Name the brothers Marx
From left to right in the picture, Groucho (Julius), Chico (Leonard), Harpo (Adolph). & not pictured Zeppo (Herbert) and Gummo (Milton). Manfred, the first born of the brothers, died in infancy.
Q16 Say you had the choice to sit next to one of these Australian movie characters and watch a movie, which would it be – Muriel, The Bloke, Jedda, Max, Miranda, Kenny or Priscilla? Or would you select another? My pick – Alvin (Purple) Others chose – Kenny, Darryl (Kerrigan), Patrick …
Q17 Name any film scored by Ennio Morricone, & a favourite as well. The Mission is a favourite of mine… A glance at his filmography shows that he wrote the music for shorts, documentaries, TV shows (movies, documentaries & series). It’s a long list.
Q18 Name the 1949 British comedy in which Alec Guinness played 9 different roles. Why are there only 8 pictures? Kind Hearts and Coronets In the 9th role, Mr Guinness was not in disguise. Q19 Name the actor who played multiple roles In ‘Dr Strangelove’? Peter Sellers played three roles – *US President Merkin Muffley *Dr Strangelove *Group Captain Lionel Mandrake
He was to play a fourth but was unable to play Air Force Major T J ‘King’ Kong – (the picture above shows the crossed out fourth role, eventually played by Slim Pickens – see Blog for the interesting explanation).
Q20 Name the animated film from our 2019 program that was created by animating 120 paintings by the artist responsible for the painting shown on the right?
The film ‘Loving Vincent’ & the artist was Vincent Van Gogh.
Q21 Name the star who autographed the wall of Daylesford’s Rex Cinema in 1954?
Chips Rafferty (see article on Blog page)
Q22 Complete the Mae West line from ‘I’m No Angel’. “When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad, …”
I’m better.
Q23 Who was Fiona in love with?
Charlie played by Hugh Grant (watch the scene on our BLOG) In the credits Fiona is seen in a snap with her new hubby, Prince Charles!
Q24 What is the English title of this 2007 B&W silent film, made in Melbourne?
The English title is Dr Plonk. The keen eyed may have spotted the English title in small print below the large print Russian title
Q25 Clint was also a singing cowboy in which of our 2016 films?
Paint Your Wagon
Q26 Wadjda hopes to use the Koran recitation prize money to buy - a bicycle, a green one.
Q27 Simply name two of the films represented in this poster of ‘props’.
From bottom R to L: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2001 (the bone), The Seventh Seal (chess board), American Beauty (plastic bag), a million movies (the pistol), Citizen Kane (sled), Legally Blond (fuzzy pen – pink), etc Go to BLOG page for a bigger picture and a full list.
Q28 Laurel and Hardy trading cards came out in the 1930's in both W D and HO Wills cigarette packets and Agulitas Cuban cigarette packets. Thanks to Kevin Castle for the details.
Q29 Thomas Keneally played Father Marshall in Fred Schepisi’s ‘The Devil’s Playground’ filmed at Werribee Mansion. Watch him deliver a sermon to the boys at the seminary at our BLOG page. Keneally’s ‘The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith’ and also ‘Schindler’s Ark’ have been filmed, the second as Schindler’s List. Q30 The ‘bachelor boy’ who turned 80 on the 14th October was none other than Sir Cliff Richard himself and the film in which he drove a London Bus was ‘Summer Holiday’.
Q31 The top image was ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’,
leaving the bottom image as ‘The Golem’.
Q32 Marge Champion was the model the Disney
Animators referred to when drawing
Snow White (they were all men). The
picture shows Snow, young Marge and a more
mature Marge.
Marge was also the inspiration for the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio, Hyacinth Hippo in Fantasia and Mr Stock in Dumbo – all Disney animations.
Q33 The extremely young, sleeping Sean Connery
was taking a break on the set of ‘Dr No’.
Q34 W.S. Gilbert was born on the 18th of November.
Q35 In Teacher’s Pet, who was the teacher
and who was the pet?
Doris Day played the teacher
and Clark Gable was the student.
Q36 Claudia Karvan & Ben Mendelsohn
are the kids in love in the film,
‘The Big Steal’, shot in and around
Seddon & Footscray.
Q37 Clark Gable won his Oscar for his role in
‘It Happened One Night’, which is one of only three films to win the top 5 Oscars (see BLOG for details).
Q38 ‘Mank’ is the movie I most want to see
at the moment.
The Translators is another must see…
Q39 Member’s Christmas Favourites –
We’re No Angels; It’s A Wonderful Life; The Greatest Story Ever Told; Joyeux Noel; Love Actually; Die Hard…and of course there must be many more…you just didn’t tell me.
Q40 Name the actress who plays Rosalie Blum.
Noemie Lvovsky Q41 Rosalie Blum won the Cesar award for Best First Film in 2017.
Q42 Vincent, the male lead character in Rosalie Blum, is a hairdresser.
Q43 Vincent, the hairdresser, lives with his mother.
Q44 Cristina Pozzan produced ‘Return Home’ and is our
special guest at the February screening.
Q45 Frankie J Holden plays Ben Mendelsohn’s boss
in Return Home and as most of you knew, he fronted Ol’ 55 in the 70’s & 80s.
Q46 Ben Mendelsohn was 21 when he filmed Return Home in 1990, which means he will turn 52 in April this year.
Q47 Ray Argall won the AFI for his direction of Return Home.
Q48 The Farewell takes place in two countries, name them please.
China & the USA.
Q49 Billi is played by Awkwafina and Zhao Shuzhen plays Billi’s grandmother.
Q50 Lulu Wang is the writer and director of The Farewell and the story is drawn from events in her own life.
Q51 The Farewell is ‘based on an actual lie’ but who lies? In fact the entire family does.
Q52 Awkwafina, who plays Billi, is a stage name. Her real name is Nora Lum.
Q53 Miss Saigon opened at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney on July 29, 1995 and did not open in Melbourne until March 29, 2007, at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
Q54 From L to R: 2 Kims (Rachelle Ann Go & Lea Salonga); 2 Engineers in red Jon Jon Briones in front, hugged by Jonathan Pryce; 2 Chrises – Simon Bowman & Alistair Brammer.