Phoenix Pub Quiz

July 2008 Pub Quiz at The Bald Faced Stag

The Phoenix and the Bald Faced Stag have teamed up to create a monthly Film Quiz every third Monday in the bar of the Bald Faced Stag from 7.30pm - 10pm.  Entry is £5 per team, maximum 6 people per team.  There will be prizes for the winners.

Forthcoming film quiz dates:

Monday 18th August

Here are the questions and answers from the last quiz.

The Phoenix Film Quiz – 21st July 2008

Round 1 – In the News (15 points)
1) What film broke all box office records over the weekend in the US? 1 point
2) Which 1970s Blake Edwards sex comedy starring Dudley Moore is to subject to a re-make? 1 point
3) Wall-E tells the environmentally conscious story of a robot living alone on a waste-strewn planet. It was part inspired by another 1970s film, starring Bruce Dern. What was the film and what are the names of the two robots who accompany him on his journey? 3 points
4) Lou Reed finally got round to performing his legendary performed album from the 1970s. It has been filmed by last year’s Cannes Best Director winner. What is the name of the album and the director of the new film? 2 points
5) Two investigators will be setting out to prove that ‘The Truth is Out There’ at the end of the month in X Files: I Want to Believe. What are the full names of the two FBI agents. 2 points
6) What do Eddie Murphy in Coming to America, C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man and Robert Downey Jnr in the forthcoming Tropic Thunder all have in common? 1 point
7) The film of which recently successful stage play, based on a famous television interview in the mid-1970s, will open this year’s London Film Festival in October? 1 points
8) Summer Hours is currently screening at the Phoenix Cinema. It’s director Olivier Assayas shot to fame internationally in 1996, with his entertaining take on the French Film industry and one director’s attempt to remake a classic crime serial. What was the title of the film? 1 point
9) Another actor who appeared in that film, Jean-Pierre Leaud, played the on-screen alter ego, Antoinne Doinel, of one of France’s most acclaimed post-war directors. Name the director? 1 point
10) In the last few days, Quentin Tarantino made the news by meeting with two of Hollywood’s leading male stars to discuss the appearance in his wartime movie, Inglorious Bastards. Name them. 2 points

Round 2 – Barbra Striesand (15 points)
1) How many feature films has Barbra Streisand directed? 1 points
2) What was her much-maligned gender-bending 1983 directorial debut? 1 point
3) Her acting debut was as Fanny Brice in what 1968 film? 1 point
4) In 1976 she starred in the remake of a film that is regarded as one of the most iconic roles played by Judy Garland. What was the name of the film and who played the James Mason role in the remake? 2 points
5) In 1991 Streisand directed the 7 times Oscar-nominated adaptation of Pat Conroy’s tear-jerker. What is the title of the film and which burly actor played the lead role? 2 points
6) Name the two films in which Streisand co-starred with Ryan O’Neal? 2 point
7) The first of those films was director Peter Bogdanovich’s homage to what popular Hollywood genre? 1 point
8) One of the films she starred in, directed by Sydney Pollack, featured a hit title track. What was the name of the film and which actor did Streisand star opposite? 2 points
9) How many features has Barbra Streisand starred in. 1 point
10) In what sequel did she play a sex therapist and who played her husband? 2 points

Round 3 – Name the Composer (10 Points)
1) This was a music round

Round 4 – The Western (30 points)
1) The first film identified as a western was directed by Edwin S. Porter in 1903. What was the title? 1 points
2) Prior to this year, what was the last western to win the Best Film Academy Award 1 point
3) Name the directors of the following western 11 points:
Stagecoach
Winchester 73
The Magnificent Seven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Rio Bravo
3:10 to Yuma (either one or two points for both)
Open Range
The Cimarron Kid
Once Upon a Time in the West
Johnny Guitar

4) What country were the non-studio locations of the majority of spaghetti westerns filmed in? 1 point
5) Name – in the order of their title, the actors who played the Good, the Bad and the Ugly 3 points
6) Following actors appeared in which of these westerns 5 points
James Stewart Chato’s Land
Shirley McLaine Rio Bravo
Audie Murphy The Shootist
Charles Bronson Two Mules for Sister Sarah
Angie Dickinson Gunsmoke
7) In 1969 what director made a film about a group of ageing outlaws who, in the film’s climactic sequence take part in a bloody battle against the army of a Mexican tyrant. Also name the film and two of the veteran actors who appeared in it? 4 points
8) What is the name of the area of land that borders Utah and Arizona and is associated with the films of John Ford? 1 point
9) What was the name given to the Russian variation of the western – mostly shot in Central Asia or the Russian Steppes, which were particularly enjoyed by Joseph Stalin (either of the two names)? 1 point
10) El Topo is probably the best example of what became known in the 1960s as the acid western. Who directed it and what country were they from. 2 points

Round 5 – Quotes (10 points)
1) Do I have to drink my own pee? No, but I do anyway, because it’s sterile and I like the taste 1 point
2) I could dance with you till the cows come home...On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows when you came home. 1 point
3) Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve got me into. 1 point
4) Do you feel lucky. Well do ya punk? 1 point
5) Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it infamy! 1 point
6) Houston, we have a problem 1 point
7) Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room 1 point
8) I’ll have what she’s having 1 point
9) They call me Mr Tibbs 1 point
10) I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way 1 point

Round 6 – Name the film – director & stars – 30s cinema (10 points)
1) Lowell Sherman, Mae West, Cary Grant
2) Michael curtiz, Erroll Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland
3) Howard Hawks, Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant
4) Julien Duvuvier, Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin
5) Frank Capra, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
6) Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll
7) Victor Fleming, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable
8) Johhn Ford, John Wayne, Claire Trevor
9) Victor Fleming, Judy Garland, Frank Morgan
10) William Wyler, Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon

 

The Answers

Round 1 – In the News – 15 points
1. The Dark Knight 1 point
2. 10 1 point
3. Silent Running & Huey & Dewey 3 points
4. Berlin & Julian Schnabel 2 points
5. Fox Mulder & Dana Scully 2 points
6. They all changed their skin colour for a role in thee film 1 point
7. Frost/Nixon 1 point
8. Irma Vep 1 point
9. Francois Truffaut 1 point
10. Bradd pitt and Leonardo di Caprio 2 points

Round 2 – Barbra Streisand – 15 points
1) 3 1 point
2) Yentl 1 point
3) Funny Girl 1 point
4) A Star is Born & Kris Kristofferson 2 points
5) Prince of Tides & Nic Nolte 2 points
6) What’s Up Doc? & The Main Event 2 points
7) Screwball Comedy 1 point
8) The Way We Were & Robert Redford 2 points
9) 17 1 point
10) Meet the Fockers & Dustin Hoffman 2 points

Round 3 – Songs from Films – 10 points
This was a music round
1. Ennio Morricone 1 point
2. Once Upon a Time in America 1 point
3. The Life and Times of David Lloyd George 1 point
4. Cinema Paradiso 1 point
5. A Fistful of Dollars 1 point
6. Desert of the Tartars 1 point
7. The Mission 1 point
8. For A Few Dollars More 1 point
9. The Untouchables 1 point
10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1 point

Round 4 – The Western – 30 points
1. The Great Train Robbery 1 point
2. Unforgiven 1 point
3. 11 points
Stagecoach John Ford
Winchester 73 Anthony Mann
The Magnificent Seven John Sturges
The Outlaw Josey Wales Clint Eastwood
Rio Bravo Howard Hawks
3:10 to Yuma (either one or two points for both) James Mangold and Delmer Daves
Open Range Kevin Costner
The Cimarron Kid Budd Botticher
Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone
Johnny Guitar Nicholas Ray
4. Spain (Almeria – some in Sardinia) 1 point
5. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach 3 points
6. 5 points
James Stewart The Shootist
Shirley McLaine Two Mules for Sister Sarah
Audie Murphy Gunsmoke
Charles Bronson Chato’s Land
Angie Dickinson Rio Bravo
7. Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch – William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmund O’Brien, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Strother Martin 4 points
8. Monument Valley 1 point
9. Red Westerns or Osterns 1 point
10. Alejandro Jodorowsky 1 point

Round 5 – Quotes – 10 points
1. Dodgeball 1 point
2. Duck Soup 1 point
3. Sons of the Desert 1 point
4. Dirty Harry 1 point
5. Carry on Cleo 1 point
6. Apollo 13 1 point
7. Dr Strangelove 1 point
8. When Harry Met sally 1 point
9. In the Heat of the Night 1 point
10. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1 point

Round 6 – Name the Film – 10 points
1. She Done Him Wrong
2. The adventureess of Robin Hood
3. Bringing Up Baby
4. Pepe Le Moko
5. Mr Smith Goes to Washington
6. The 39 Steps
7. Gone with the Wind
8. Stagecoach
9. The Wizard of Oz
10. Wuthering Heights