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Coronavirus Quiz 6 - Film Titles All of these clues relate to well-known popular films. Some of the clues are straightforward, some cryptic, some anagrams (indicated in BLOCK CAPITALS). To further help you the date of first release (may vary a little from country to country) is shown and they are in chronological order.

1. 1943 Largest city in Morocco but not the capital (10) Casablanca 1953 musical comedy starring Jane Russell and – 2. Gentlemen prefer blondes guys go for lighter hair! (9,6,7) 1953 A LECTURE SHE arranged for WWII naval film about the 3. The Cruel Sea unmerciful ocean (3,5,3)

1954 Version of CHART HIT WE MISS yielding film and earlier 4. White Christmas best-selling festive record (5,9) 1959 Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis classic – much warmer 5. please (4,4,2,3) 6. 1961 Early meal at jeweller’s starring Audrey Hepburn (9,2,8) Breakfast at Tiffany’s 7. 1962 “To hurt someone who has done no wrong." (2,4,1,11) To Kill a Mockingbird 8. 1963 Feathered creatures created by Hitchcock (3,5) The Birds 9. 1964 FIND LOGGER for Bond villain with the Midas touch (10) Goldfinger 1965 “They go up, Tiddley up, up, They go down, Tiddley Those magnificent men in 10. down, down” (5,11,3,2,5,6,8) their flying machines 11. 1965 What the hills are alive with – SHOUT I’M CONFUSED! (3,5,2,5) The Sound of Music 12. 1971 Violinist on top of the building with Topol (7,2,3,4) Fiddler on the Roof 13. 1971 WRECK CAR ON OAK LOG dystopian crime film (1,9,6) A Clockwork Orange 14. 1972 Somehow HE FORGED THAT film about the Mafia (3,9) 15. 1973 Final dance in French capital with Marlon Brando (4,5,2,5) Last tango in Paris 16. 1975 Literally a single flight above a mental hospital? (3,4,4,3,7,4) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 17. 1975 Spielberg shark movie (4) Jaws 18. 1976 movie (3,3,10,3) All the President's Men 19. 1977 Bird of prey touched down to capture Churchill! (3,5,3,6) The Eagle has landed 20. 1977 Celebrity conflicts – maybe between Ford and Guinness? (4,4) 21. 1977 High temperature late on the Jewish sabbath (8,5,5) Saturday Night Fever 1977 Spielberg sci-fi about bronze (not gold or silver) UFO Close Encounters of the Third 22. meetings (5,10,2,3,5,4) Kind 23. 1978 Well-oiled performances by John and Olivia (6) Grease 24. 1978 WORSHIP WANTED by rabbits on Hampshire hill (9,4) Watership Down 25. 1980 horror movie was made in the HIGHEST INN (3,7) The Shining 26. 1980 Otherwise known as “Flying High!” (8!) Airplane! 1981 film about 1924 Olympic games the title of which was 27. inspired by words from Blake’s “Jerusalem” (8,2,4) 28. 1981 The first film to star as (7,2,3,4,3) Raiders of the Lost Ark 29. 1982 Father of India directed by Richard Attenborough (6) Gandhi 30. 1982 LETS IT GROPE around anywhere for a mischievous spirit (11) Poltergeist 1982 RE EARTH TEXTILE STARTER strange little alien in short and 31. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in French then spelt out (1,1,3,5-11) 32. 1982 EARN BLUNDER science fiction film starring Harrison Ford (5,6) 33. 1983 Sounds like there might be eight cats in this Bond movie! (9) Octopussy 34. 1984 I.E. IT'S A P AND O SAGA journey to the East (1,7,2,5) A Passage to India 35. 1984 Mass graves in Cambodia (3,7,6) The Killing Fields 36. 1984 THE TRAITOR MEN hide eradicator (3,10) The Terminator 37. 1984 Spirit breakers BOUGHT STRESS for this comedy movie (12) 38. 1985 Book superior accommodation? (1,4,4,1,4) A Room with a View 1985 CUT REBUKE OF THAT complicated film about time 39. travel (4,2,3,6) 40. 1985 POPE RULER CLOTH Royal hue American style (3,5,6) The Color Purple 41. 1985 Set on a coffee farm not in second largest continent? (3,2,6) Out of Africa 42. 1988 ACES HAD A WINDFALL in John Cleese heist comedy (1,4,6,5) A Fish Called Wanda 43. 1989 Not much opera in Manchester but lots of this, Mr. (4,3) 44. 1991 Young sheep keep quiet in award winning horror film (3,7,2,3,5) The Silence of the Lambs 1992 Whitney Houston acting debut provided the armour and 45. The Bodyguard GOT HER A BUDDY (3,9) 1994 “Fear can hold you prisoner; hope can set you free” is the 46. The Shawshank Redemption theme of HASTENED THE WORKMANSHIP (3,9,10) 47. 1994 Series of matches with just one sending off (4,8,3,1,7) Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Tom Hanks movie about a slow-witted but kind-hearted 48. person (7,4) 49. 1996 GIANTS TO PRINT once a boy’s favourite hobby (13) Trainspotting 50. 1997 Everything - Sheffield-based film (3,4,5) 51. 1997 A huge, massive film in budget, takings and name!! (7) Titanic 52. 2000 Roman swordsman (9) Gladiator 2001-3 series of three epic fantasy adventure films based on J. R. R. 53. Tolkien novel (3,4,2,3,5) 54. 2003 NOD IN FIN GEM movie about a lost clownfish (7,4) Finding Nemo 2003 YOU CALL VALET romcom written and directed by Richard 55. Love actually Curtis (4,8) 56. 2008 My Goodness, this has some fine Abba songs! (5,3) Mamma Mia 2008 ORIGINAL MEMO IS DULL but transforms beggar into 57. wealthy individual (7,11) 58. 2009 Incarnation (6) Avatar 59. 2012 AIMLESS REBELS shaping musical based on Hugo novel (3,10) Les Misérables 60. 2012 film for which Adele performed the theme song (7) Skyfall

Compiled by Mike Neale March 2021