Annual Cryptic Movie Quiz 2025 Answers

Quizwoz Answers

Okay everybody. Thanks for all who took part in my Annual Cryptic Movie Quiz for the end of 2025. This year’s winners are returning winners from last year with full marks... Chris and Ross from Manchester. Well done lads.

For all you who want to know which ones you got wrong (or indeed right), here are the puntastic and cryptic answers for you all.

1. Egyptian corpse owns technical equipment. 
An Egyptian corpse would be a mummy. If a person owns technical equipment then he/she “has tech”, so aztec. So we get the first film in The Aztec Mummy Trilogy.

2. What you give people for Christmas.
Well, presents so... yeah... Presence.

3. A central stage for spherical objects used in sports.
A spherical object used in a sport could be a ball. A central stage used in sports could be an arena. So we get John Wick spin off Ballerina.

4. The pride of lions’ fierce vocals are just over 19 decibels.
Lions fierce vocal sounds are a roar. One decibel over 19 decibels would be 20 so... The Roaring Twenties.

5. Suffering a disease in which a high temperature is a prominent symptom, on an evening at the weekend.
A disease could be a fever. An evening at the weekend could be a Saturday night. So... Saturday Night Fever.

6. A non X-rated firebird was polished up for the plan.
A firebird could be a phoenix but, non x-rated means you have to take away the x, which leaves phoeni. If you polished something up then it shone. Another term for a plan could be a scheme. So, phoeni-shone scheme... Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme.

7. Burglar belonging to the father of a kind of sack.
A sack could be a bag. The father could be a dad. The burglar is a thief. So we have, The Thief Of Bagdad.

8. A choice between two indefinite articles.
Two indefinite articles are an and a. A choice implies one or another... so an or a, or rather Oscar winning Anora.

9. A dagger of frozen water.
Frozen water is ice. A dagger is a knife. So we have one of have Carrol Baker’s Italian gialli, A Knife Of Ice.

10. A musical composition made out of soup.
Simply unscramble the letters of soup to get a type of musical composition, so O P U S. Recent John Malkovich thriller Opus.

11. The incorrect leg wear.
Trousers but they’re wrong. It’s the second Wallace And Gromit short film The Wrong Trousers.

12. The specific nomenclature of a prickly stemmed flower.
Nomenclature denotes a name. The prickly stemmed flower is a rose. So Sean Connery does Umberto Eco thriller The Name Of The Rose.

13. Bond villain’s tool for accessing his front door.
The Bond villain I was thinking of was Largo (played by Adolfo Celli in Thunderball and Klaus Maria Brandauer in Never Say Never Again). To access his front door he would surely need a front door key. So the Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson movie Key Largo.

14. Equine’s wing plumage.
Equine implies horse. Plumage is traditionally feathers. So we have the classic Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers.

And that’s it for 2025’s end of year quiz. As always, I hope it gave some of you something to keep you occupied in any Christmas downtime and that you enjoyed having a crack at it. Let me know if you want me to keep coming up with these end of year quizzes. Feedback is always welcome. 

Quizwoz 2024

 

 

The Annual Cryptic
Movie Quiz 2024

Quizwoz ‘24

It’s that time again!

Welcome to  this year’s Cryptic Movie Quiz for the festive period.

How you play...

Check out the grid above and you’ll see spaces for 14 movie titles running horizontally and, below this intro, are the cryptic clues to assist you in working out what these 'non-Christmas' movie titles are. To help out, I’ve filled in a line of letters vertically downwards spelling out HAPPY CHRISTMAS... so you have a letter in its correct position for each of the titles. Please don’t forget to click on the grid to see a larger version of it and maybe print it off to help yourself.

Email your answers to me at nuts4r2@hotmail.com by the end of January 9th 2025 to get your entries in. A few days after that, I’ll stick up the name of the winner (or winners, if it’s a tie or a group effort), along with all the answers, here on my blog. No prizes, it’s just for fun but, if you like solving puzzles and have some down time during the Christmas break, maybe give it a go.

By way of an example, here’s a question from last year’s quiz, followed by the answer...

Example question:
An Ancient Roman cannibal ate his mother in law. He was...

Example answer:
Glad he ate her, so... Gladiator.

Or just check out the January solution pages from the last few years to get a feel for how to put these things together (you often have to make adjustments for the puntastic nature of the solutions). If you keep checking back in the comments section below, I will probably put the odd extra clue down there every now and again to help you out throughout the Christmas period.

Full marks are rarely scored by pretty much anyone so... if you’re feeling a bit stuck, there’s still everything to play for. Some people have won it with less than half the grid correct. So send me what you’ve got anyway.

I hope you enjoy playing. Make sure you have lots of fun this Christmas period, drink responsibly and play irresponsibly. Here are the questions..

1. A place where the deities of armed conflict can go to build sandcastles. 

2. Two donkeys in this killer. 

3. Taking a long and distinct period of history along for a surgical operation. 

4. Arachnid dedicated to God. 

5. New Musical Express but extracted from its initials. 

6. Assassins perilous to dark nylons everywhere. 

7. Kubrick’s black slabs metamorphose into frightening, imaginary creatures. 

8. Jazz legend Fitzgerald goes to see a men’s hair stylist. 

9. Red Cheeked, male offspring of Richard sends health care worker to the dark period following day. 

10. Amorous untruths losing blood from the circulatory system. 

11. Quickly spun around like a spinning top, to the left of the compass.

12. Three kisses in King’s New England state of the US. 

13. Daniel on the bridge on the river.

14. An Englishman’s home is the fluid of his circulatory system.

Quizwoz 2023 - The Annual Cryptic Movie Quiz

 

The Annual Cryptic
Movie Quiz 2023

Welcome back, once again, for this year’s Cryptic Movie Quiz for the festive period.

How you play...

Check out the grid above and you’ll see spaces for 14 movie titles running horizontally and, below this intro, are the cryptic clues to assist you in working out what these 'non-Christmas' movie titles are. To help out, I’ve filled in a line of letters vertically downwards spelling out MERRY CHRISTMAS... so you have a letter in its correct position for each of the titles. Please don’t forget to click on the grid to see a larger version of it and maybe print it off to help yourself.

Email your answers to me at nuts4r2@hotmail.com before January 9th 2024 to get your entries in. A few days after that, I’ll stick up the name of the winner (or winners, if it’s a tie or a group effort), along with all the answers, here on my blog. No prizes, it’s just for fun but, if you like solving piuzzles and have some down time during the Christmas break, maybe give it a go.

By way of an example, here’s a question from last year’s quiz, followed by the answer...

Example question:
Game of an Egyptian God as a North American warrior.

Example answer:
So Game, an Egyptian God could be Ra and a North American warrior could be called a Brave.
So put those three together and you get... Gamera The Brave.

Or just check out the January solution pages from the last few years to get a feel for how to put these things together (you often have to make adjustments for the puntastic nature of the solutions). If you keep checking back in the comments section below, I will probably put the odd extra clue down there every now and again to help you out throughout the Christmas period.

Full marks are rarely scored by everyone so... if you’re feeling a bit stuck, there’s still everything to play for. Some people have won it with less than half the grid correct. So send me what you’ve got anyway.

I hope you enjoy playing. Make sure you have lots of fun this Christmas period, drink responsibly and play irresponsibly. Here are the questions...

1. Somebody visually recorded Italy’s capital city.

2. 16th Century firearm demonstrating one more organ of auditory processing than the average human.

3. The monster maker swore at his creation.

4. Using oars to steer thre author of Delta Of Venus towards the shore.

5. Scrambled by the hello.

6. If the four lettered town in Switzerland started and ended with the same two letters.

7. Enthusiastically expelled breath on a device manufactured to give out light.

8. Auditory organ sandwiched in a backwards, long playing record album.

9. The cannibal ate his girlfriend. He was...

10. What you get if a Pokémon goes down with a nasty skin condition... from a certain point of view.

11. Family tribe of the light coloured James Bond car in The Spy Who Loved Me

12. “Oh, Mr. Neeson!” called John Thaw’s Detective Inspector.

13. Daniel goes for a walk next to The Bridge On The River...

14. This verion of the International Space Station is powered entirely by the sun.

Post 2300 - Annual Movie Quizwoz

 

My 2300th Post

The Annual Cryptic
Movie Quiz 2022

Welcome back, once again, for this year’s Cryptic Movie Quiz for the festive period.

How you play...
Check out the grid above and you’ll see spaces for 14 movie titles running horizontally and, below this intro, are the cryptic clues to assist you in working out what these 'non-Christmas' movie titles are. To help out, I’ve filled in a line of letters vertically downwards spelling out MERRY CHRISTMAS... so you have a letter in its correct position for each of the titles. Please don’t forget to click on the grid to see a larger version of it and maybe print it off to help yourself. A quick note... one of the titles includes numerical digits. Punctuation such as commas are left off the grid.

Email your answers to me at nuts4r2@hotmail.com before January 9th 2023 to get your entries in. A few days after that, I’ll stick up the name of the winner (or winners, if it’s a tie or a group effort), along with all the answers, here on my blog. Again, there are no prizes offered as I used to do because, well, times are hard... but if you like solving piuzzles and have some down time during the Christmas break, maybe, give it a go. All answers should be with me by the end of January 9th 2023.

By way of an example, here’s a question from last year’s quiz, followed by the answer...

Example question:
Shoo! It was a bit of a scramble yesterday evening.

Example answer:
Yesterday evening was Last Night. Shoo scrambled up is Soho so... Last Night In Soho.

Or just check out the January solution pages from the last few years to get a feel for how to put these things together. If you keep checking back at the comments section below, I will probably put the odd extra clue down there every now and again to help you out through the Christmas period.

Full marks are rarely scored by anyone (sometimes not even half marks) so... if you’re feeling a bit stuck, there’s still everything to play for. Send me what you’ve got anyway.

I hope you enjoy playing. Make sure you have lots of fun this Christmas period, drink responsibly and play irresponsibly but, don’t spread Covid. And here are the questions...

1. Game of an Egyptian God as a North American warrior.

2. Revisiting where the last shot was fired from half a dozen six shooters.

3. Opposite of a southern lady

4. Ian is the king of the Elephants.

5. A week of non-stop sexual intercourse with a girlfriend named after a month.

6. Sexy texting where 10 becomes 100.

7. Bound from dusk ‘til dawn.

8. Multiple negative sentiments for a droid in Star Wars.

9. Lying and jeering in her final resting place.

10. This Scottish Loch is certainly not happy?

11. This good man is under financial obligation to another.

12. By a body of water, singing that “You got women, you got women on your mind...”

13. Taking a dive from those Autumnal heights.

14. Own up to acting in a lustful manner to the 6th letter of the alphabet.

Annual Cryptic Movie Quiz 2021

 

Annual Cryptic Movie Quiz 2021

And already it’s time for this year’s
Cryptic Movie Quiz for the festive period.

How you play...

 Check out the grid above and you’ll see spaces for 16 movie titles running horizontally and, below this intro, are the cryptic clues to assist you in working out what these 'non-Christmas' movie titles are. To help out, I’ve filled in a line of letters vertically downwards spelling out SEASON’S GREETINGS... so you have a letter in its correct position for each of the titles. Please don’t forget to click on the grid to see a larger version of it and maybe print it off to help yourself.

Email your answers to me at nuts4r2@hotmail.com before January 9th 2021 to get your entries in. A few days after that, I’ll stick up the name of the winner (or winners, if it’s a tie or a group effort)... along with all the answers... here on my blog. Again, there are no prizes offered as I used to do because, well, times are hard but, if you like solving puzzles, give it a go.

By way of an example, here’s a question from
last year’s quiz, followed by the answer...

Example question:
Sheriff Ross, go back and get your men.

Example answer:
Ross backwards is Ssor. A sheriff’s men are usually called a Posse.
So the answer is Brandon Cronenberg's movie POSSESSOR.

Or just check out the January solution pages from the last few years to get a feel for how to put these things together. If you keep checking back at the comments section below, I will probably put the odd extra clue down there every now and again to help you out through the Christmas period.

Full marks are rarely scored by everyone so... if you’re feeling a bit stuck, there’s still everything to play for. Send me what you’ve got anyway.

I hope you enjoy playing. Make sure you have lots of fun this Christmas period, drink responsibly and play irresponsibly but, don’t catch Covid! And here are the questions...

1. Take a detailed look at the bed linen that backwards lad brought in!

2. Travelling atop the back of the European Community.

3. A gap situated between two of their typical structures for this
large body of beavers united by common descent, history or culture.

4. An ion passes through... it’s one of many similarly unlawful acts.

5. The perfect fusion of VHS and homo sapien.

6. Shoo! It was a bit of a scramble yesterday evening.

7. It’s solely an alliance of frozen water.

8. The first games player is a militarised ant of a behemoth.

9. Not a light person to pull your stranded vehicle away.

10. The backwards glance.

11. The act of devouring the coverings on top of her fingers.

12. I’m dreaming of a Shark Father Christmas!

13. ... as sunlight power does!

14. It’s crimson... negative on the frozen water.

15. Had all the violence and bloodshed taken out of it.

16. Carnal relations at the Overlook Hotel.

NUTS4R2’s Cryptic Movie Quiz - Christmas 2019

Annual Cryptic Movie Quiz

It’s that time again!

Merry Christmas and welcome to this year’s Cryptic Movie Quiz for the festive period.

If you look at the grid above you’ll see spaces for 16 movie titles running horizontally and, below this intro, are the cryptic clues to help you work out what these 'non-Christmas' movie titles are. To help you out, I’ve filled in a line of letters vertically downwards spelling out SEASON’S GREETINGS (minus the apostrophe)... so you have a letter in its correct position for each of the titles. Please don’t forget to click on the grid to see a larger version of it and maybe print it off to help yourself.

Like always, depending on my finances after Christmas... I’ll probably award a small, strange or possibly customised prize (customised if I know you from Twitter ... or even real life)... to the person with the most correct answers, pulled from a hat in the unlikely event of a draw (although that’s never happened yet).

Email your answers to me at nuts4r2@hotmail.com and, since I posted this a lot later this year, you have until the end of January 9th 2020 to get your entries in. A few days after that, I’ll stick up the name of the winner (or winners, if it’s a tie or a group effort), along with all the answers, here on my blog.

By way of an example, here’s a question from last year’s quiz, followed by the answer...

Example question:
I go with the French green.

Example answer:
The French word for green is Vert. Literally add “I go” onto the end and you get another Hitchcock classic, Vertigo.

Or just check out the January solution pages from the last few years to get a feel for how to put these things together. If you keep checking back at the comments section below, I will probably put the odd extra clue down there every now and again to help you out through the Christmas period.

Because a lot of stuff that’s been happening in my life, the quiz is perhaps a little easier than usual. I can tell you that half of the movies this year are from films which were released in the cinema in the UK in 2019. So those eight would have all been reviewed by me this year on this very blog. The first clue this year is probably the hardest while the easiest one, I reckon, is clue number five (if you know the movie, of course).

Full marks are rarely scored so... if you’re feeling a bit stuck, there’s still everything to play for. Send me what you’ve got anyway.

I hope you enjoy playing and, above all, have fun this Christmas, drink responsibly and play irresponsibly. And here are the questions...

1. No identification... but it’s only half that you’re in.

2. It’s dark but it’s all there.

3. Back in the morning.

4. MD peels back.

5. They’re not in stereo.

6. Palindromic lady assassin.

7. Two days before tomorrow.

8. The absence of violent bloodshed.

9. The ‘not very polite’ bee.

10. His life lived backwards. 

11. Cannibal serial killer is promoted to the rank of colonel.

12. He slipped into the trademark.

13. The Sun God raises his hand at the auction.

14. Ellie isn’t around as this pachyderm takes over from Peter Lorre as a Fritz Lang serial killer.

15. A file mix up ascends.

16. Plus a scrambled, heavenly body that appears as a fixed, luminous point in the sky.

NUTS4R2's Cryptic Movie Quiz - Christmas 2017

Annual Cryptic Movie Quiz

It’s that time of year once more when I post my Cryptic Movie Quiz for the Christmas period.

If you look at the grid above you’ll see spaces for 24 movie titles running horizontally and, below this intro, are the cryptic clues to help you work out what these non-Christmas movie titles are. To help you out, I’ve filled in a line of letters downwards spelling out WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS... so you have a letter in its correct position for each of the titles. Click on the grid to see a larger version of it.

Depending on my finances after Christmas... I’ll probably award a small, strange or possibly customised prize (if I know you from Twitter) to the person with the most correct answers, pulled from a hat in the unlikely event of a draw (that's never happened yet).

Email your answers to me at nuts4r2@hotmail.com and you have until the end of January 5th 2018 to get your entries in. A few days after that, I’ll stick up the name of the winner (or winners, if it’s a tie), along with all the answers, here on my blog.

By way of an example, here’s a question from last year’s quiz, followed by the answer.

Example question:
None scrambled at the demonstration of the fourteenth letter of the alphabet.

Example answer:
Okay, so the fourteenth letter of the alphabet is ‘n’. A demonstration could be a demo.
So, demon. None unscrambled is neon. So... The Neon Demon.

If you keep checking back at the comments section below, I will probably put the odd clue down there every now and again to help you out.

Full marks are rarely scored so... if you’re feeling a bit stuck, there’s still everything to play for. Send me what you've got anyway.

Hope you enjoy playing and, above all, have fun.

1. You received a new chauffeur for coming first place in that competition.

2. A laboratory test to see if a ringing object can knock you out.

3. I didn’t lose the red back for the lady.

4. You’d be one of these if you were taking the toddler out for a spin.

5. The examination of the religious ending of a British drink is medically assaulted for the thousandth time.

6. Jazz trumpeter wears head gear for the satellite of the apiarist's favourite spread.

7. Your audible, sorrowful breath is covered in hair!

8. Drowned swimming location.

9. Finally, a double consonant for an emasculated Clark Kent.

10. It’s almost a mixed up kangaroo, if you let it defrost.

11. Tab back personified... but not quite a Hobbit.

12. I happen to be a foot.

13. Noah’s 4th vessel comes complete with urban environment.

14. No, I see... this gent is made with the opposite of it’s literal meaning.

15. Cunning but why is it a mix of red and green?

16. A cloned feline.

17. She is the pun!

18. Mutilated drone makes a bad guy.

19. 54A

20. I wish I was dead.

21. A very quiet Lord Of The Rings species makes a hasty retreat.

22. Saw her feller.

23. Journal for you to keep track of the misplaced young lady.

24. Prejudiced against a villanous fantasy race no longer.

NUTS4R2s Cryptic Movie Quiz Christmas 2016

The Annual Quiz

So here we are again.

Time for another Cryptic Movie Quiz for the Christmas period.

If you look at the grid above you’ll see spaces for 18 movie titles running horizontally and below are the cryptic clues to help you work out what these non-Christmas movie titles are (I'm sorry if it looks a bit blurry but the new Photoshop is absolute rubbish). To help you out, I’ve filled in a line of letters downwards spelling out EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY... so you have a letter in its correct position for each of the titles. Click on the grid to see a larger version of it.

Once again... and depending on my finances after Christmas... I’ll probably award a small, strange or possibly customised prize (if I know you from Twitter) to the person with the most correct answers.

Email your answers to me at nuts4r2@hotmail.com and you have until the end of New Year’s Day (January 1st 2016) to get your entries in. A few days after that, I’ll stick up the name of the winner (or winners, if it’s a tie), along with all the answers, here on my blog.

By way of an example, here’s a question from last year’s quiz, followed by the answer.

Example question:
One thousand quid for rooms to rent for that annoying, enlightened soul. 21 letters.

Example answer:
One thousand pounds is also known as "a grand" in the UK. An enlightened soul could be Buddha but, if he's annoying, then he could be a bit of a Pest. If he's renting a room then it could well be in a hotel. Hence we have The Grand Budapest Hotel.

If you keep checking back at the comments section, I may put the odd clue on every now and again to help you out.

Full marks are rarely scored so if you’re feeling a bit stuck, there’s still everything to play for. Send me what you've got anyway.

Hope you enjoy playing and, above all, have fun.

1. A less egotistical, traditionally English adopted drink behaving much more like a flaming headed Johnny! (13 letters)

2. Placed upon an Apple branded, bleeting sheep. (7 letters)

3. Unusual, backwards fish on a rocky pinnacle. (13 letters)

4. Drifting, frozen plasma is a tramp. (13 letters)

5. Whether it’s this Linda or that Linda, it should make an interesting activity. (20 letters)

6. A couple of bonfire night dummies from a city in France. (11 letters)

7. None scrambled at the demonstration of the fourteenth letter of the alphabet. (12 letters)

8. A loose Emergency Room. (7 letters)

9. An unhappy and confused oak is speaking in poetry. A spiritual entity is proceeding positively but in reverse. (14 letters)

10. Rearrange the angle slightly and reshuffle the end of the earth. (10 letters)

11. That young lady stuck between Sunday and Tuesday. (17 letters)

12. Diminuitively speaking James, it’s a greeting. (7 letters)

13. Get in a couple of big fights just above the thigh. You can put this example of typographic spacing in a container if you are family. (18 letters)

14. See the insect and then send a letter to one. (11 letters)

15. To derive, by reasoning, in the negative. (7 letters)

16. A single stalk of wheat gets very angry while wearing a couple of French hats. (16 letters)

17. Great French fiction writer finds himself in a muddle. (5 letters)

18. Unlock to gain access on the Monday and the man is royalty. (13 letters)

NUTS4R2 Cryptic Movie Quiz

NUTS4R2s Cryptic Movie Quiz Christmas 2015

It’s that time again.

Since last years extra cryptic quiz seemed so popular among my readers, I thought I’d give it another go this year.

If you look at the grid above you’ll see spaces for 16 movie titles running horizontally and below are the cryptic clues to help you work out what these non-Christmas movie titles are. To help you out, I’ve filled in a line of letters downwards spelling out Season’s Greetings... so you have a letter in its correct position for each of the titles (a fair few of which are from movies released this year). Click on the grid to see a larger version of it.

I’ll probably award a small, strange or possibly customised prize (if I know you from Twitter) to the person with the most correct answers this year too... a NUTS4R2 first.

Email your answers to me at nuts4r2@hotmail.com and you have until the end of New Year’s Day (January 1st 2016) to get your entries in. A few days after that, I’ll stick up the name of the winner (or winners if it’s a tie), along with all the answers, here on my blog.

By way of an example, here’s a question from last year’s quiz, followed by the answer.

Example question: You keep banging on about a third of a dog!

Example answer: You bang on a drum. A famous Hollywood dog star was Rin Tin Tin... so a third of that could be Tin. Therefore, the answer is The Tin Drum.

If you keep checking back at the comments section, I may put the odd clue on every now and again to help you.

Full marks are rarely scored so if you’re feeling a bit stuck, there’s still everything to play for. Send me what you've got anyway.

Hope you enjoy playing and, above all, have fun.


The Questions.

1.  The missing planet.

2.  The fifth letter of the alphabet has its superhero costume cliché removed.

3.  A sudden, nervous muscular spasm aided by a really great external skeleton, renting a room with the precious metal that it’s married.

4. Massive soundtrack to accompany a lift (US: elevator) on its journey.

5.  Yesterday Air, Today Sea...

6.  Bending her to your will... but not quite.

7.  A Macauly Caulkin movie interrupts a young lady’s evening stroll.

8.  Put your BFG on the floor.

9.  The last curve of a backside looks just like a planet.

10. Ten down from Wolverine, Cyclops, Ice Man and the others.
Addendum: You know, depending on how you visualise things and count, some people might see this as "Nine down"... but whichever way you count it, "it's all for you".

11. More than casual acquaintance of the United Nations loses life.

12. Thinner was a great book by Stephen King but... what King book came out after it?

13. Go back in your den with a firearm.

14. The tip of a candle protruding from the top of the toilet.

15. The father of the satchel was stolen by this character.

16. The dirt from this Apple Maciffied piece of Real Estate.

Quizwoz Answers - Christmas 2012

Christmas Quizwoz: 
The Answers

Hi there.

Thanks to all of you who played. Had some very impressive answers back but nobody got a full house of correct answers on their first entry. However, very special shout out and congratulations to... drumroll please...

Leilani Holmes aka @momentsoffilm

I was very happy she had a go at this because she’s a good writer/director and I’ve reviewed her work before, here and here. So loads of respect to her for being the winner of this year's Christmas Quizwoz by getting the most right with a whopping 17 out of 20! Power to her.

Right then... here are those questions with the answers in full...

Q1. 
Which two directing K’s made contemporary movie versions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and what were the two films called?
Well the K’s who I was looking for were the directors Kurosawa and Kaurismäki, who both made their own versions of Hamlet in a contemporary setting. Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well (1960) and Aki Kaurismäki's Hamlet Goes Business (1987).

Q2. 
What is a common factor, which is fairly unique in films, of the 1952 version of The Prisoner Of Zenda, the 1991 version of Cape Fear and the 1998 version of Psycho?
Only one person got this question right in their original entry. People quite rightly pointed out that all of these films were remakes... but that in itself is not really unique to these three films. We’re at a stage right now in movie history where we have remakes coming out our ears. 

These three movies are quite special in that, for each of these, the original musical score from the previous version was reused for the remake. 

So for the 1952 version of The Prisoner Of Zenda, Alfred Newman reused his own musical score from the 1937 version. For the 1991 version of Cape Fear, Elmer Bernstein was called in to re-record/adapt Bernard Herrmanns famous score for the 1962 version (along with a cue or two from his rejected score to Torn Curtain I believe) and for the1998 version of Psycho, Danny Elfman was called in to adapt Bernard Harrmann’s (once again) iconic score to Hitchcock’s 1960 original.

Q3. 
What do Bob Holness, Barry Nelson and Daniel Craig all have in common?
Well, they’ve all played James Bond. Barry Nelson played him first in the original TV version of Casino Royale in 1955 then, two years later, Bob (Blockbusters) Holness played him on the radio in an adaptation of Moonraker. Then, of course, Daniel Craig started playing Bond from the third version of Casino Royale onwards.

Q4. 
Mechanismo and Dangerous Days were both early working titles for which movie?
They were both early working titles, at various script stages, of the film that was finally called Blade Runner.

Q5.
What do Robert Siodmak, Don Siegel and Andrey Tarkovsky have in common?
They all made film adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers (Tarkovsky’s was a short). All three are still available, I believe, on a 2 disc DVD set from Criterion.

Q6.
In which movie did Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman first appear together?
They both appeared together in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Portman played Queen Amidala/Padme and Knightley played her loyal decoy/impersonator.

Q7. 
The two Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie were named after characters from which seasonal film favourite?
Named after the cop and the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life.


Q8. 
Keye Luke took over the role of which oriental detective in the last of a running series of films about the character, and which actor did he replace?
Another one which really seemed to fox people. While it’s true that Keye Luke played Lee Chan (Number One Son) in many of the Chan films (and even played the voice of the great detective himself  in the Hannah Barbara cartoon, years later), he also played the Lee Chan character once in a Mr. Moto film too. However, the actual answer is that he took over the role of Mr. Wong, previously played by Boris Karloff in a short series of films, but then replaced by Keye Luke for the last one in a very different interpretation of the role.

Q9. 
Philip K. Dick’s short story Second Variety was adapted into which film?
This was Screamers, one of the more faithful adaptations of Dick’s work to appear on screen. This is not to be confused with the film Island Of The Fishmen, which was also known as Screamers in some territories.

Q10. 
To date, in Doctor Who, which of The Doctor’s companions has appeared, at one time or another, with the most incarnations of The Doctor?
Sarah Jane Smith as played by Elisabeth Sladen. She has appeared with seven of the Doctors, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th and 11th Doctors.

She was a regular companion to both the 3rd and 4th Doctors, then met the 1st (played by Richard Hurndale covering for a dead William Hartnell), 2nd and 5th also, in the anniversary show The Five Doctors. She also appeared with the 10th Doctor a number of times and, most recently before her death, with the 11th Doctor (alongside Katy Manning reprising her role as Jo Grant). 

Q11. 
In television, perceived competition from Davy Jones in The Monkees at a similar time slot lead to the creation of which character for the second series and onwards of the original Star Trek?
Ensign Chekov, as played by Walter Koenig, was brought in from the second series onwards to compete with the popularity of the Davy Jones character in The Monkees. He was a much younger cast member and he even had the same kind of face and was given the same haircut.

Q12. 
The two main protagonists from Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset make an ambiguous cameo appearance in which animated movie?
The two characters pop up in Linklaters animated movie, Waking Life.

Q13. 
Which two Peter Cushing movies also feature the talented Caroline Munro?
The two stars both appeared in Hammer’s Dracula AD 1972 (um... 1972) and Amicus’ At The Earth’s Core (1976).

Q14.
Ron Moody appeared as a character in the pilot episode of a TV show, but was replaced by Roddy McDowell in the actual series of what?
Tales Of The Gold Monkey. Ron Moody played Bon Chance Louie in the original pilot episode but Roddy McDowell took over the role from the next episode.

Q15. 
In the Toho classic that had an alternate US title in one of its early releases as Godzilla VS The Thing... who/what was revealed to be The Thing?
Mothra. Indeed, in many countries the film is known as Mothra VS Godzilla.

Q16. 
“Man Is The Warmest Place To Hide.” Which 80s movie had this tagline on the poster?
And talking about “things”... “Man Is The Warmest Place To Hide” was the poster tagline to John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Q17. 
Which of Roger Corman’s famous Edgar Allan Poe “adaptations” for AIP was actually an uncredited adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward?
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Haunted Palace... which so wasn’t Edgar Allan Poe’s, save for a few lines quoted from a poem at the end.

Q18. 
The title of which Michael Crichton novel (and subsequent film adaptation) is an homage to a famous story by Arther Conan Doyle?
The Lost World (later known as The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2) after the first of the Sherlock Holmes creator’s Professor Challenger stories, which features dinosaurs.

Q19. 
Which Spaghetti Western is a remake of one of the Zatoichi (The Blind Swordsmen) films?
Blindman (1971)... which also featured Ringo Starr as a Mexican villain.

Q20. 
Noel Neill replaced another actress from the second season onwards (1953 - 1958) on a TV show playing the same role which she’d formerly played in two Columbia serials in 1947 and 1950. What was the role?
Lois Lane! Noel Neill took over the role from Phyllis Coates in the famous George Reeves show The Adventures Of Superman. Coates had played her for the first series but ducked out for the other five. Noel Neill was already familiar with playing Lois Lane as she had played her twice before in the two Kirk Alyn Superman chapter serials... Superman (1947) and Atom Man Vs Superman (1950 - the Atom Man was Lex Luthor).

Movie Quizwoz - Christmas 2012

Christmas Quizwoz

Just for fun.

My “hopefully” fiendish Christmas Quizwoz (aka The Quizard Of Woz). Mostly film and TV questions but some books and stuff thrown in for good measure too. Absolutely no prizes, but if you send your answers here... nuts4r2@hotmail.com... I’ll list the people who got the most answers right... along with the actual answers very soon after the closing date (please remember to say how you want to be named in case you are a high scorer).

If you're gonna have a go, please get your answers to me before noon on New Years Eve, UK time.

Good luck.

Q1. 
Which two directing K’s made contemporary movie versions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and what were the two films called?

Q2. 
What is a common factor, which is fairly unique in films, of the 1952 version of The Prisoner Of Zenda, the 1991 version of Cape Fear and the 1998 version of Psycho?

Q3. 
What do Bob Holness, Barry Nelson and Daniel Craig all have in common?

Q4. 
Mechanismo and Dangerous Days were both early working titles for which movie?

Q5.
What do Robert Siodmak, Don Siegel and Andrey Tarkovsky have in common?

Q6.
In which movie did Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman first appear together?

Q7. 
The two Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie were named after characters from which seasonal film favourite?

Q8. 
Keye Luke took over the role of which oriental detective in the last of a running series of films about the character, and which actor did he replace?

Q9. 
Philip K. Dick’s short story Second Variety was adapted into which film?

Q10. 
To date, in Doctor Who, which of The Doctor’s companions has appeared, at one time or another, with the most incarnations of The Doctor?

Q11. 
In television, perceived competition from Davy Jones in The Monkees at a similar time slot lead to the creation of which character for the second series and onwards of the original Star Trek?

Q12. 
The two main protagonists from Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset make an ambiguous cameo appearance in which animated movie?

Q13.
Which two Peter Cushing movies also feature the talented Caroline Munro?

Q14. 
Ron Moody appeared as a character in the pilot episode of a TV show, but was replaced by Roddy McDowell in the actual series of what?

Q15. 
In the Toho classic that had an alternate US title in one of its early releases as Godzilla VS The Thing... who/what was revealed to be The Thing?

Q16. 
“Man Is The Warmest Place To Hide.” Which 80s movie had this tagline on the poster?

Q17. 
Which of Roger Corman’s famous Edgar Allan Poe “adaptations” for AIP was actually an uncredited adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward?

Q18. 
The title of which Michael Crichton novel (and subsequent film adaptation) is an homage to a famous story by Arther Conan Doyle?

Q19. 
Which Spaghetti Western is a remake of one of the Zatoichi (The Blind Swordsmen) films?

Q20. 
Noel Neill replaced another actress from the second season onwards (1953 - 1958) on a TV show playing the same role which she’d formerly played in two Columbia serials in 1947 and 1950. What was the role?