Jerry - Just for Knowledge

QUESTIONS:

1. Who played the lead role in the 1964 release ‘Angelique, Marquise des Anges’?
2. Who played the lead role in the 1945 release ‘The Wicked Lady’?
3. And who played the same part in the 1983 remake?
4. Who played the male and female leads in the 1995 release ‘Angels & Insects’?
5. Who wrote and directed the 1982 release ‘The Draughtsman’s Contract’?
6. The 1999 release ‘Anna and the King’ is a remake of a film that has been made
several times before, notably as a musical. However, who played the role of
Anna in this version?
7. Who played the male and female lead roles in the 1997 remake of Leo Tolstoy’s
‘Anna Karenina’?
8. Who played Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in the 1969 release ‘Anne of a
Thousand Days’?
9. Who played the parts of ‘Robin and Marian’ in the 1976 release of that name?
10. What was the title of the 1997 French/German/Italian release about the
scandals surrounding a 17th century female artist?
11. Who played the parts of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 1968 release
‘The Lion in Winter’?
12. What was the title of the 1993 Peter Greenaway film about a miraculous infant
in the mid-17th century?
13. Who wrote and directed the 1975 release about an 18th century Irish
gentleman-of-fortune ‘Barry Lyndon’?
14. Who played the two leading roles of Thomas a Becket and Henry II in the 1964
film version of Jean Anouilh’s play ‘Becket’?
15. Who won the 1998 Oscar in the category Best Supporting Actress for her role
as Queen Elizabeth I in '‘Shakespeare in Love’?

ANSWERS:

1. Michele Mercier. 2. Margaret Lockwood. 3. Faye Dunaway. 4. Mark Rylance and
Kristin Scott-Thomas. 5. Peter Greenaway. 6. Jodie Foster. 7. Sean Bean and Sophie
Marceau. 8. Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold. 9. Sean Connery and Audrey
Hepburn.10.‘Artemisia’. 11. Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn. 12.‘The Baby of
Macon’. 13. Stanley Kubrick. 14. Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole. 15. Judi Dench.

QUESTIONS.

1. Who were the stars of the 1979 French film comedy ‘A Nous Deux’ released as
‘The Two of Us’ in English speaking markets?
2. Who played the male and female leads in the 1942 release ‘To Be or Not To Be’? (Not to be confused with the very inferior remake from 1983.)
3. Who wrote, directed and starred in the 1975 release ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother’?
4. Who directed the black comedy released in 1985 ‘After Hours’?
5. What was the title of Satyajit Ray’s last film, released in 1991 about a phony
uncle who comes to stay?
6. Who played the hero and heroine of the 1980 release ‘Airplane’?
7. Who played the name part in the highly successful 1966 release ‘Alfie’?
8. Who played the male and female leads in the 1999 release ‘American Beauty’?
9. Who played the lead male role in the 1973 release ‘American Graffiti’?
10. Who played the two male lead parts in the 1999 release ‘Analyse This’?
11. Who directed the 1983 release ‘And the Ship Sails On’?
12. Who wrote, directed and starred in the 1977 release ‘Annie Hall’?
13. And who played his leading lady?
14. What was so unusual about the 1992 release ‘Another Girl,Another Planet’?
15. Who were the two male leads in the 1987 release ‘Stakeout’?

ANSWERS

1. Catherine Deneuve and Jacques Dutronc 2. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. 3.
Gene Wilder 4. Martin Scorsese 5.‘Agantuk’ (The Stranger) 6. Robert Hays and Julie
Hagerty 7. Michael Caine 8. Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening 9. Richard Dreyfuss
10. Robert de Niro and Billy Crystal 11. Federico Fellini 12. Woody Allen 13. Diane
Keaton 14. It was filmed with a Fisher-Price PXL 2000 child’s camcorder 15. Richard
Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez.

QUESTIONS.
1. Everybody knows that in the 1938 release ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ the
part of Robin Hood was played by Errol Flynn, but who played the villainous Sir
Guy of Gisbourne?
2. What was the title of the Mel Gibson 1990 release about C.I.A. pilots playing
fast and loose over and in Laos?
3. Who starred in the 1997 blockbuster ‘Air Force One’?
4. Who starred in the 1998 release about an asteroid threatening the earth
‘Armageddon’?
5. Who starred in the 2000 release ‘The Art of War’?
6. What was the title of the 1979 release based upon a spy novel by Colin Forbes,
centred upon a cross-Europe train journey?
7. What sad events marked the making of this film?
8. Who played the two male leads in the 1995 release ‘Bad Boys’?
9. Who played the name part in the 1996 release ‘Barb Wire’?
10. Who played the lead role in the 1996 release ‘Daylight;?
11. Who played the lead role in the 1995 release ‘Sudden Death’?
12. Who played the lead in the 1998 release ‘Black Dog’?
13. Who were the male and female stars of the 1994 release ‘True Lies’?
14. Who was the director of the 2000 release ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’?
15. What was the title of the 2000 release in which Tom Hanks is marooned on a
desert island?

How much do you know about action films?
ANSWERS.
1. Basil Rathbone 2.‘Air America’ 3. Harrison Ford 4. Bruce Willis 5. Wesley Snipes.
6.‘Avalanche Express’ 7. The death of the star (Robert Shaw) and of the director
(Mark Robson) in mid-production 8.Will Smith and Martin Lawrence 9. Pamela
Anderson 10. Sylvester Stallone 11. Jean-Claude van Damme 12. Patrick Swayze 13.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis 14. Ang Lee 15.‘Castaway’

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QUESTIONS.
What do the following commonly used abbreviations and acronyms mean?
1. IIRC?
2. TTFN?
3. AFAICR?
4. OTT?
5. SOTA?
6. PIM?
7. TTYL?
8. YKWIM?
9. WYSIWYG?
10. FAQ?
11. IMO?
12. NAFAIK?
13. FOC?
14. POV?
15. ATM?

ANSWERS.
1. If I remember correctly. 2.Tata (goodbye) for now. 3.As far as I can recall. 4. Over
the top. 5. State of the art. 6.Personal Information Manager 7.Talk to you later. 8.You know what I mean. 9.What you see is what you get 10. Frequently asked question.
11. In my opinion. 12. Not as far as I know. 13. Free of charge. 14. Point of view. 15. At the moment.