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Bfi-Film-Quiz-Questions-And-Answers BFI Film Quiz: December 2015 QUESTIONS General Knowledge 1 Name the 1951 Technicolor western film, directed by Irving Pichel and starring Randolph Scott, which was based on a novel by James Vance Marshall. 2 Keanu Reeves played the character of Ted “Theodore” Logan in 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, but who played the titular Bill S. Preston Esq? 3 Which actor links the classic silent movies The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Blood and Sand and The Son of the Sheik? 4 Name the controversial 1965 Japanese film, directed by Kuroi Yuki, in which a sex worker murders an American G.I. 5 Which actress played the Bond-woman Dr. Christmas Jones, a nuclear physicist assisting 007 in the film The World is Not Enough? General (Festive) Knowledge 1 Which 1946 Christmas drama lost out to William Wyler’s The Best Years of our Lives in the Best Film, Actor, Director, Film Editing and Sound Recording at that year’s Academy Awards? 2 Name the seasonal comedy, released last month and starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, about an annual reunion of three childhood friends on Christmas Eve. 3 Name the Japanese director of films including In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. 4 The film Holiday Inn won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song, thanks to which Irving Berlin classic? 5 Who directed the 2004 comedy-drama Millions, in which a family dispose of stolen money by undertaking a mammoth Christmas Eve spending spree? (Follow That) Star Wars 1 Name the English actor who was inside Darth Vader’s suit for the original Star Wars trilogy. He was reportedly disappointed that his West Country drawl was replaced by the booming tones of James Earl Jones. 2 Which recurring Star Wars character was named after a piece of film editor’s jargon referring to reel and dialogue? BFI Film Quiz: December 2015 3 Which actor originally auditioned for the part of Han Solo, before eventually being offered that of Lando Calrissian? 4 A key Imperial attack vehicle during the Battle of Hoth in Return of the Jedi, what does the acro- nym AT-AT stand for? 5 After deciding not to direct the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas instead gave the job to one of his former professors at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. What was his name? (Festive) Guilty Pleasures 1 Which 2009 British comedy has spawned sequels subtitled Danger in the Manger and Dude, where’s My Donkey? 2 Name the 1964 festively-inclined science fiction film, directed by Nicholasebster, W which regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. 3 Which actors play the brothers Fred and Nick in the 2007 festive comedy Fred Claus? 4 Name the black comedy horror film, released last week, based on a figure fromAlpine myth who punishes naughty children during Christmas week. 5 Which Scottish actor provided the voice of Arthur Claus in the 2011 animated film Arthur Christmas? Christmas Comedies 1 In the festive comedy Christmas with the Coopers, released last month, which comedian and actor provides the voices of both the Narrator and of Rags the Dog? 2 Name the 1955 Christmas comedy which stars Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov as a trio of escaped convicts. 3 Name the 2002 French language comedy-musical, set around a Christmas murder, which stars Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert and Emmanuelle Beart, amongst others. 4 Who directed the 1983 comedy Trading Places, set over the Christmas period, in which the wealthy Duke Brothers make a wager which involves switching the lives of two people at opposite sides of the social hierarchy and observing the results? 5 Which 1940 romantic comedy starred Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart as a pair of feuding co-workers in a Budapest store who come together as a couple on Christmas Eve? BFI Film Quiz: December 2015 ANSWERS Picture Round – Father Christmas in Film Poster Round – Christmas Films 1 David Huddleston – Santa Claus: The Movie 1 White Christmas 2 Billy Bob Thornton – Bad Santa 2 Holiday Affair 3 Edmund Gwenn – Miracle on 34th Street 3 Deck the Halls 4 James Cosmo – The Lion, the Witch & the 4 The Polar Express Wardrobe 5 Ernest Saves Christmas 5 Dan Ackroyd – Trading Places 6 This Christmas 6 Whoopi Goldberg – Call Me Claus 7 Four Christmases 7 Jonathan Taylor Thomas – I’ll Be Home For 8 Jingle All the Way Christmas 9 Scrooged 8 Jan Rubes – One Magic Christmas 10 The Bishop’s Wife 9 Monty Woolley – Life Begins at Eight Thirty 10 Tim Allen – The Santa Clause (Follow That) Star Wars 1 DAVE PROWSE General Knowledge 2 R2D2 1 SANTA FE 3 BILLY DEE WILLIAMS 2 ALEX WINTER 4 ALL TERRAIN ARMOURED TRANSPORT 3 RUDOLPH VALENTINO 5 IRVIN KERSCHNER 4 BLACK SNOW 5 DENISE RICHARDS (Festive) Guilty Pleasures 1 NATIVITY! General (Festive) Knowledge 2 SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS 1 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 3 PAUL GIAMATTI & VINCE VAUGHN 2 THE NIGHT BEFORE 4 KRAMPUS 3 NAGISA OSHIMA 5 JAMES McAVOY 4 WHITE CHRISTMAS 5 DANNY BOYLE Christmas Comedies 1 STEVE MARTIN 2 WE’RE NO ANGELS 3 8 WOMEN 4 JOHN LANDIS 5 THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER .
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