Jerry - Just for Knowledge

QUESTIONS

1. What was the title of the 1949 release about three sailors on shore leave in
New York?
2. Who directed the 1979 release ‘All That Jazz’ starring Roy Scheider and Jessica
Lange?
3. Whose music was celebrated in the 1951 release ‘An American in Paris’?
4. And who played the lead male and female roles?
5. Who played the male and female leads in the 1950 release ‘Annie Get Your
Gun’?
6. Who played the male and female leads in the 1953 release ‘The Band Wagon’?
7. Who played the name role in the 1958 release ‘Gigi’?
8. And who provided the words and the music?
9. Who were the stars of the 1953 remake of ‘The Desert Song’?
10. What was the title of the 1999 release about the trials and tribulations behind
Gilbert and Sullivan’s creation of The Mikado?
11. What was the title of the 1956 release which tells the story of the songwriting
team de Sylva, Brown and Henderson?
12. And who played the parts of the three songwriters?
13. What was the title of the 1998 release, a documentary (more or less) about a
group of elderly Cuban musicians who are brought back into the limelight?
14. Who played the part of Sally Bowles in the 1972 release ‘Cabaret’?
15. Who played the male and female leads in the 1955 release ‘Oklahoma!’?

ANSWERS

1.‘On The Town’ 2. Bob Fosse 3. George Gershwin 4. Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron
5. Howard Keel and Betty Hutton 6. Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse 7. Leslie Caron 8.
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe 9. Kathryn Grayson and Gordon MacRae 10.
‘Topsy-Turvy’ 11.‘The Best Things in Life Are Free’ 12. Gordon MacRae; Ernest
Borgnine and Dan Dailey 13.‘The Buena Vista Social Club’ 14. Liza Minnelli 15.
Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones.

QUESTIONS.

1. Who part-wrote and directed the 1974 release ‘Blazing Saddles’?
2. Who starred in the 1999 release ‘Man On The Moon’?
3. Who starred in the 1997 release ‘The Man Who Knew Too Little’?
4. In London, three young men pursue three women at a salsa club.That is the
storyline of which 2000 release?
5. Three young incompetents decide to embark on a life of crime.That is the
storyline of a 1996 US release.What was its title?
6. Who played the male and female leads in the 2000 release ‘Bounce’?
7. Who played the two male leads in the 1998 release ‘Bowfinger’?
8. What was the title of the 1996 release in which Michael Keaton stars as a
workaholic who clones himself so as to be able to spend more time with his
family?
9. What was the title of the 1961 release which starred Audrey Hepburn as Holly
Golightly?
10. Who played the starring part in the 1999 release ‘Breakfast of Champions’?
11. Who played the part of the central character in the 2001 release ‘Bridget
Jones’s Diary’?
12. Who wrote, directed and starred in the 1984 release ‘Broadway Danny Rose’?
13. What was the title of the 1998 release about an ambulance service team in Los
Angeles?
14. Who part-wrote, directed and starred in the 1998 release ‘Bulworth’ about a
politician who tells the truth during an election campaign, having arranged for
his own assassination?
15. Who played the male lead in the black comedy 1997 release ‘Butcher Boy’?

ANSWERS

1. Mel Brooks 2. Jim Carrey 3. Bill Murray 4.‘Born Romantic’ 5.‘Bottle Rocket’.
6. Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow 7. Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy 8.
‘Multiplicity’. 9.‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ 10. Bruce Willis 11. Renee Zellweger
12.Woody Allen 13.‘Broken Vessels’ 14.Warren Beatty 15. Stephen Rea.

QUESTIONS

1. Who played the male and female leads in the 1949 release, which has become
something of a cult film,‘Gun Crazy’?
2. Who played the lead role in the 2000 release ‘The Gift’?
3. Who played the male and female leads in the famous 1946 release ‘Gilda’?
4. Who played the lead in the 1997 release ‘The Gingerbread Man’?
5. And who directed it?
6. Who played the cop and who the killer in the 1953 release ‘The Big Heat’
directed by Fritz Lang?
7. Who played the lead in the 1953 French production ‘The Wages of Fear’, which
was considered by some to be the greatest suspense thriller ever?
8. Who played the male and female leads in the 1967 release ‘Point Blank’?
9. What was the title of the 1990 French release about a young, female drug
addict who is turned into a professional assassin by an intelligence service?
10. Who starred as the girl in the 1993 American copy ‘Point of No Return’ (The
Assassin in the U.K.) ?
11. And who took the Lee Marvin role in the 1999 remake of Point Blank –
‘Payback’?
12. Who played the lead role in the 1998 release ‘The Big Lebowski’?
13. By now everyone knows that Bogart and Bacall starred in the 1946 release ;The
Big Sleep’, but how many know which ex-cowboy film star played the part of
the gunman Canino?
14. Who directed the 1963 release ‘The Birds’?
15. What was the title of the 1989 release starring Michael Douglas and Andy
Garcia as American cops in Tokyo?

ANSWERS

1. John Dall and Peggy Cummins. 2. Cate Blanchett. 3. Glenn Ford and Rita
Hayworth. 4. Kenneth Branagh. 5. Robert Altman. 6. Glenn Ford and Lee
Marvin. 7. Yves Montand. 8. Lee Marvin and Angie Dickenson. 9. ‘Nikita’. 10.
Bridget Fonda. 11. Mel Gibson. 12. Jeff Bridges. 13. Bob Steele. 14. Alfred
Hitchcock. 15. ‘Black Rain’.

QUESTIONS.

1. Who wrote, directed and starred in the 1996 release ‘Big Night’ ?
2. Who played the part of the Scottish hairdresser in Los Angeles in the 1999
release ‘The Big Tease’?
3. What was the name of the 1963 release starring Tom Courteney as an
undertaker’s clerk living in a world of fantasy?
4. Who played the male and female leads in the 1987 Italian release ‘Dark Eyes’
(U.S. – Black Eyes)?
5. Who played the lead role in the 1980 release ‘Private Benjamin’?
6. Who took the male and female leads in the 1985 release ‘Prizzi’s Honour’?
7. Who played the two lead male roles in the 1983 release ‘Trading Places’?
8. Who was the male star of the 1994 release ‘Trapped in Paradise’?
9. Who played the male and female leads in the 1990 release ‘Tune in Tomorrow’?
10. Who played the part of Turner in the 1989 release ‘Turner and Hooch’?
11. What is the title of the 1997 release in which five friends on the way to a
wedding decide to commit a bank robbery, which goes wrong?
12. Who played the lead male role in the 1990 release ‘Betsy’s Wedding’?
13. Who played the part of Axel Foley in the series of films between 1984 and
1994 about a ‘Beverley Hills Cop’?
14. Who played the male and female leads in the 1959 release ‘A Touch of Larceny’,
one of those very rare films which contained moments when audiences
applauded?
15. Who starred in the 1999 release ‘Big Daddy’?

ANSWERS

1. Stanley Tucci 2. Craig Ferguson 3.‘Billy Liar’ 4. Marcello Mastroianni and Silvana
Mangano 5. Goldie Hawn 6. Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner 7. Dan Aykroyd
and Eddie Murphy 8. Nicholas Cage 9. Keanu Reeves and Barbara Hershey 10.Tom
Hanks 11.‘Best Men’ 12. Alan Alda 13. Eddie Murphy 14. James Mason and Vera
Miles 15.Adam Sandler.

QUESTIONS

1. What is the title of the 1999 release in which Jeff Bridges suspects Tim Robbins
of being a terrorist?
2. Who was the director who began his career with a number of tough, tight little
thrillers like ‘Armoured Car Robbery’ (1950) and ‘The Narrow Margin’ (1952)?
3. And who was the gravel-voiced, hard-faced actor who played the lead in both of
those films?
4. Who played the starring role in the 1999 release ‘The Limey’?
5. Who played the principal antagonists in the seminal thriller from 1955 ‘Bad Day
at Black Rock’?
6. What was the title of the 1991 release starring Michael Douglas and Sharon
Stone?
7. What was the title of the 1999 release starring Alessandro Nivola and Reese
Witherspoon about a thief for whom robberies always go wrong?
8. What was the title of the semi-classic thriller released in 1950 in which the
victim (played by Edmond O’Brien) of a slow poison tracks down his own
killer?
9. Who was the star of the 1995 release ‘Danger Zone’?
10. Who played the name part in the 1944 release ‘Laura’ which brought a new
approach to the thriller genre?
11. And who played three men in her life: her mentor; her fiance and the detective
who investigated her murder?
12. And who directed them all?
13. Who played the male and female lead in the 1946 release ‘The Dark Corner’?
14. What was the title of the Bogart-Bacall vehicle of 1947 in which Bogie played a
convicted murderer who escaped from jail to prove his innocence?
15. Who starred in the 1991 release ‘Dark Wind’, playing a Navajo cop?

ANSWERS

1. ‘Arlington Road’. 2. Richard Fleischer. 3. Charles McGraw. 4. Terence Stamp.
5. Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan. 6. ‘Basic Instinct’. 7. ‘Best Laid Plans’. 8.
‘D.O.A.’ (Dead On Arrival). 9. Billy Zane. 10. Gene Tierney. 11. Clifton Webb;
Vincent Price and Dana Andrews. 12. Otto Preminger. 13.

QUESTIONS

1. Who played the male and female leads in the 1947 thriller ‘Odd Man Out’?
2. Who played the male and female leads in the 1949 thriller ‘The Third Man’?
3. And who played the part of the ‘third man’ (Harry Lime)?
4. Who played the male and female leads in the 1953 thriller ‘The Man Between’?
5. What did these three films have in common, apart from the use of the ‘Man’ in
the titles?
6. Who played the male and female leads in the 1946 thriller ‘The Killers’?
7. And who played the parts of the killers?
8. And who played the part of the ex-boxer waiting to be killed?
9. Who played the male and female leads in the 1950 thriller ‘The Asphalt Jungle’?
10. Who played the male and female leads in the 1941 thriller ‘The Maltese Falcon’?
11. And who played the two chief villains?
12. Who played the male and female leads in the 1948 thriller ‘Key Largo’?
13. Who was the director of the films mentioned in questions 9, 10 and 12?
14. Who played the part of the chief villain in ‘Key Largo’?
15. Who played the male and female leads in the 1949 thriller ‘White Heat’?

ANSWERS.

1. James Mason and Kathleen Ryan. 2. Joseph Cotton and Alida Valli. 3. Orson Welles.
4. James Mason and Claire Bloom. 5.They were all directed by Carol Reed. 6.Ava
Gardner and Edmond O’Brien. 7. Charles McGraw and William Conrad. 8. Burt
Lancaster. 9. Sterling Hayden and Jean Hagen. 10. Humphtey Bogart and Mary Astor.
11. Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. 12. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
13. John Huston. 14. Edward G. Robinson. 15. James Cagney and Virginia Mayo.

QUESTIONS

1. What was the title of the 1995 release starring Christopher Walken and Lili
Taylor about a philosophy student who turns into a vampire after reading
Nietsche?
2. Who played the starring role in the 1970 release ‘Daughters of Darkness’ , a
lesbiavampire, the re-incarnation of Elizabeth of Bathory, a medieval Hungarian
countess?
3. What was the alternative title to the 1967 release ‘The Fearless Vampire Killers’?
4. And who played the two male lead roles?
5. What was the title of the 1972 spoof in which a 150 year old African Prince,
one of Dracula’s victims, is taken to Los Angeles and revivified?
6. Who was the star of the 1998 release ‘Blade’ in which he plays a half-human,
half-vampire?
7. Who played the starring role in the 1992 release ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’?
8. And who played the female lead?
9. What was the title of the 1992 release starring Kristy Swanson which gave
birth to a much more successful TV series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar?
10. Who starred in the 1995 release ‘A Vampire in Brooklyn’?
11. Who were the male and female stars of the 1979 French/German release
‘Nosferatu, the Vampyre’?
12. Who was the star of the original, 1931 release ‘Dracula’?
13. And who played the part of Dracula in the 1958 remake, the first of many
remakes?
14. Who was the star of the 1994 release ‘Interview with the Vampire:The Vampire
Chronicle’?
15. Who plays the part of Van Helsing in the 2000 release ‘Dracula 2000’?

ANSWERS

1, ‘The Addiction’. 2. Delphine Seyrig. 3. ‘Pardon Me, Your Teeth Are in My
Neck’. 4. Jack MacGowran and Roman Polanski. 5. ‘Blacula’. 6. Wesley Snipes.
7. Gary Oldman8. Winona Ryder. 9, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. 10. Eddie
Murphy. 11. Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani. 12. Bela Lugosi. 13. Christopher
Lee. 14. Tom Cruise 15. Christopher Plummer.

QUESTIONS

1. Who played the male and female leads in the 1999 thriller ‘The Talented Mr
Ripley’?
2. A previous version of this film had already been made in France in 1960 with
the rising young star Alain Delon in the principal role. Do you know what that
version was called?
3. What is the name of another French thriller, released in 1955, in which the
central thirty minutes of the film pass in total silence as a robbery is carried
out?
4. Who starred in the 1985 thriller ‘Target’, playing Matt Damon’s father?
5. What was the title of the 1990 thriller in which Richard Gere played (unusually
for him) the villain, a crooked and extremely vicious cop?
6. What was the title of the 1997 thriller about an ageing burglar who sees the US
President become an accessory in the murder of a woman?
7. Who played the burglar and who played the President?
8. Who played the lead in a tough, clever thriller released in 1972 called ‘Across
110th Street’?
9. Who played the male and female leads in the 1984 release ‘Against All Odds’?
10. Who played detective Alex Cross in ‘Kiss the Girls’ (1997) and ‘Along Came a
Spider’ (2001)?
11. Who played the male lead in the 1990 release ‘The Ambulance’?
12. What was the name of the 1955 release directed by and starring Mark Stevens
as an insurance investigator assigned to a robbery he committed himself?
13. Who played the male and female leads in the 1942 classic thriller ‘This Gun for
Hire’?
14. What was Ladd and Lake’s second film together, also released in 1942?
15. Who wrote and directed the 1956 release ‘The Killing’ starring Sterling Hayden?

ANSWERS

1. Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow. 2. ‘Plein Soleil’. 3. ‘Rififi’. 4. Gene
Hackman. 5. ‘Internal Affairs’. 6. ‘Absolute Power’. 7. Clint Eastwood and Gene
Hackman. 8. Anthony Quinn.9. Jeff Bridges and Rachel Ward. 10. Morgan
Freeman. 11. Eric Roberts. 12. ‘Timetable’. 13. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.
14. ‘The Glass Key’. 15. Stanley Kubrick.

QUESTIONS.

1. What was the title of the ‘ultimate disaster movie’ released in 1997, starring
Rowan Atkinson?
2. Who played the two female leads in the 2000 release ‘Beautiful Creatures’?
3. What was the title of the 1999 release in which Serbian and Croatian refugees
try to carry on their dispute in 1993 London?
4. Who played the part of the Devil in the 2000 release ‘Bedazzled’?
5. What was the title of the 1951 release in which a chimpanzee is brought up as
a human baby? It starred a future President of the U.S.
6. And who was the future President?
7. Who played the lead in the 1999 release ‘Being John Malkovich’?
8. What was the title of the 2000 release set in a dog show in Philadelphia?
9. Who played the male and female leads in the 1993 release ‘Dave’ in which a
Baltimore businessman is invited to the White House to impersonate the
President?
10. Who wrote and directed the 1973 French comedy ‘La Nuit Americaine’?
11. What was the title of the 1996 release in which a wronged wife and her family
drive from Long Island to confront her husband in Manhattan?
12. Who played the lead in the 1982 release ‘Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid’?
13. Who played the two female leads in the 1992 release ‘Death Becomes Her’?
14. What was the title of Woody Allen’s 1997 release about a writer who goes to a
ceremony in his honour at his old school?
15. Who played the male and female leads in the 1999 release ‘Galaxy Quest’?

ANSWERS

1.‘Bean’ 2. Rachel Weisz and Susan Lynch 3.‘Beautiful People’ 4. Elizabeth Hurley 5.
‘Bedtime for Bonzo’ 6. Ronald Reagan 7. John Cusack 8.‘Best in Show’.9. Kevin
Kline and Sigourney Weaver 10. Francois Truffaut 11.‘The Daytrippers’. 12. Steve
Martin 13. Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn 14.‘Deconstructing Harry’ 15.Tim Allen
and Sigourney Weaver.

QUESTIONS

1. Who played the male and female leads in the 2001 spy saga ‘The Tailor of
Panama’?
2. Who played the male and female leads in ‘The Spy Who Came In From The
Cold’ (1965)?
3. Who played the male lead in the 1966 film ‘The Quiller Memorandum’?
4. In 1942 Warner Bros. made a spy film which reunited three of the stars of ‘The
Maltese Falcon’ - Bogart,Astor and Greenstreet.What was it called?
5. What was the name of the 1965 film version of a popular Len Deighton book
which introduced us to an intelligence agent named Harry Palmer, played by
Michael Caine?
6. In 1966 James Mason starred in a film version of John Le Carre’s spy novel ‘Call
for the Dead’.What was it called?
7. Who played the female lead role in the 2001 release ‘Enigma’?
8. Who played the male and female leads in the Alfred Hitchcock 1935 release
‘The 39 Steps’, still the best version despite being remade several times since?
9. Who played the two lead male roles in the 1959 release ‘Our Man in Havana’?
10. Who played the starring role in the 1960’s/1970’s series about ‘Our Man Flint’?
11. And who played the starring role in the even sillier 1960’s/1970’s series about a
secret agent named Matt Helm?
12. Who starred in the 1996 release Mission: Impossible and its sequel in 2000?
13. Who played the male and female leads in the 1990 release ‘The Russia House’?
14. Who played the male lead role in the 1985 release ‘The Man with One Red
Shoe’?
15. Who played the male and female leads in the 1938 Hitchcock release ‘The Lady
Vanishes’?

ANSWERS

1. Pierce Brosnan and Jamie Lee Curtis. 2. Richard Burton and Claire Bloom.
3. George Segal. 4. ‘Across the Pacific’. 5. ‘The IPCRESS File’. 6. ‘The Deadly
Affair’. 7. Kate Winslet. 8. Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. 9. Alec
Guinness and Noel Coward. 10. James Coburn. 11. Dean Martin. 12. Tom
Cruise. 13. Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer. 14. Tom Hanks. 15. Michael
Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood.

QUESTIONS

1. Who starred in the 1994 release,‘Death Machine’?
2. Who played the male and female leads in the 1998 release ‘Deep Impact’?
3. What was the title of the 1998 release about a gigantic octopus-like creature
which attacks a luxury liner?
4. Who played the male and female leads in the 1997 release ‘Gattaca’?
5. Who played the name part in the 1987 release ‘Robocop’?
6. Who played the two male lead parts in the 1979 Disney release ‘The Black
Hole’?
7. Who played the two male leads in the 1995 release ‘Twelve Monkeys’?
8. Who played the lead male role in the 1990 release ‘Total Recall’?
9. Who played the two male leads in the 1982 release ‘Blade Runner’?
10. Who directed it?

ANSWERS

1. Brad Dourif. 2. Robert Duvall and Tia Leoni. 3. ‘Deep Rising’. 4. Ethan
Hawke and Uma Thurman. 5. Peter Weller. 6. Maximilian Schell and Anthony
Perkins. 7. Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.. 8. Arnold Schwarzenegger. 9. Harrison
Ford and Rutger Hauer. 10. Ridley Scott.

QUESTIONS

1. Who wrote and directed the 1970 film ‘THX 1138’?
2. Who played the male and female leads in the 1989 Sci-Fi thriller ‘The Abyss’?
3. And who wrote and directed it?
4. Who is the actor who played the part of the man who ‘gave birth’ to the baby
monster in the very first ‘Alien’ in 1979?
5. Who directed ‘Alien’?
6. Who directed the first sequel to ‘Alien’, which was called ‘Aliens’?
7. Who was the star of the 1982 release ‘Android’?
8. What was the name of the first Michael Crichton story to be filmed in 1970?
9. What was the title of the 1996 release starring Charlie Sheen as an astronomer
who realises that aliens are amongst us?
10. Who played the male and female leads in the 1999 release ‘The Astronaut’s
Wife’?
11. What was the title of the 1980 release which was a rip-off of the Seven
Samurai?
12. Who starred in the 2000 release ‘Battlefield Earth’?
13. Who played the lead role in the 1998 release ‘Dark City’?
14. What was the title of the 1982 animated cartoon in which two different species
turn out to be two halves of the same specie which had somehow become
separated?
15. Who played the part of the Alien in the 1951 release ‘The Day the Earth Stood
Still’?

ANSWERS

1. George Lucas. 2. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. 3. James Cameron.
4. John Hurt. 5. Ridley Scott. 6. James Cameron. 7. Klaus Kinski. 8.‘The Andromeda
Strain’. 9.‘The Arrival’. 10. Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron. 11.‘Battle Beyond the
Stars’. 12. John Travolta. 13. Rufus Sewell. 14.‘The Dark Crystal’15. Michael Rennie.

QUESTIONS

1. Who played the two leading roles in the 2000 romantic comedy ‘About Adam’?
2. Who played the two leading roles in the 1986 romantic comedy ‘About Last
Night’?
3. Who played the male and female leads in Hitchcocks’ 1955 ‘To Catch A Thief’?
4. Who played the male and female leads in the 1997 release ‘Addicted to Love’?
5. Who played the male and female lead in the 1957 release ‘An Affair to
Remember’?
6. Who played the male and female leads in the 1951 release ‘The African Queen’?
7. Who directed the 1989 release ‘Always’ in which a dead pilot returns as a ghost
to sort out the romantic problems of another flyer?
8. Who played the male and female leads in the 1995 release ‘The American
President’?
9. Who played the male and female leads in the 1993 release ‘Sleepless in Seattle’?
10. Who played the part of ‘the woman’ in the 1957 release of Roger Vadim’s ‘And
God Created Woman’?
11. Who played the name part in the 1994 release ‘Angie’?
12. What was the title of the 1991 release in which Johnny Depp falls for an older
woman played by Faye Dunaway?
13. Who played the name part in the 1970 release ‘Darling Lili’?
14. Who played the male and female leads in the 1947 release ‘The Ghost and Mrs
Muir’?
15. Who played the male and female leads in the 1957 release ‘The Prince and the
Showgirl’?

ANSWERS

1. Stuart Townsend and Kate Hudson 2. Demi Moore and Rob Lowe 3. Cary Grant
and Grace Kelly 4. Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan 5. Cary Grant and Deborah
Kerr 6. Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn 7. Steven Spielberg 8. Michael
Douglas and Annette Bening 9.Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan 10. Brigitte Bardot 11.
Geena Davis 12.‘Arizona Dream’ 13. Julie Andrews 14. Rex Harrison and Gene
Tierney 15. Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe