Curzon and Faber present TEN ROUNDS WITH DE NIRO, in conjunction with the book Ten Bad Dates With De Niro – a compendium of alternative top ten lists.
Our next quiz will be on Wednesday 14 January at Curzon Soho bar. This month, we team up with The London Short Film Festival to present a musically themed movie quiz! Turn up early to reserve a table! 7PM start – £10 per team (max six people). Great prizes and free popcorn!
Here are the questions from the quiz on Tuesday 22 July, for all those who missed out or want to add to their cinematic knowledge!
ROUND 1: HEAT: 5 questions related to high temperature
1. In Francois Truffaut’s film of Ray Bradbury’s novel, what gets burned at Fahrenheit 451?
2. The movie Betty Blue was released in the UK in 1986, but what was its original title in France? (English translation accepted.)
3. In this 1972 picture directed by Elaine May, and remade last year, Charles Grodin takes advantage of his wife’s sunburn while on honeymoon to chase after a blonde. Name the movie.
4. For a half-point apiece, name 2 actresses who have played Joan of Arc (in films about the woman only – e.g. not Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure).
5. In Ice Cold in Alex John Mills drives an ambulance across the fiery Egyptian desert and treats himself to a cold beer on arrival in Alexandria. Name the brand of beer as clearly seen on his glass.
ROUND 2: JACKIE BROWN: 5 Questions about Blaxploitation films
1) Where is the barbershop in the Blaxploiation rip-off – Black Shampoo?
2) Which director did Quentin Tarantino tell, “I know black people better than you do?”
3) Who wrote the soundtracks to a) Superfly? b) Shaft?
4) How many S’s are there in Badasssss in the title of Melvin Van Peebles Sweet Sweetback Badasssss Song? obviously a lot harder when read out!
5) Blaxploitation queen Pam Grier appears as a prostitute in which Paul Newman flick?
ROUND 3: First comes Love. Then Comes the Interrogation: 5 taglines – Name the films they advertised.
1) All the power on earth can’t change destiny
2) Man Has Made His Match… Now It’s His Problem
3) On every street in every city, there’s a nobody who dreams of being a somebody
4) Why so Serious?
5) Paradise has its price
ROUND 4: BORN TO WIN: 5 Questions based on the Olympics in the Movies
1. Apparently when offered a prominent role in the German Film Industry by Josef Goebbels Fritz Lang decided it was a good time to leave the country. Leni Riefenstahl accepted an offer to make films for the Nazi party and went on to make the influential and controversial documentary of the 1936 Berlin Games – Olympiad. Earlier, in her acting career she was best remembered as a star of what specific genre?
2. In the film Cool Runnings, which tells the story of the Jamaican BobSled Team competing in which Winter Olympics?
3. The famous training scenes on a beach accompanied by the synth-majesty of Vangelis in Chariots of Fire were shot alongside what?
4. Steven Spielberg’s Munich deals with the events and aftermath of the Black September Israeli hostage crisis in the 1972 Munich Summer Games. Who won an Oscar for his film on the hostage events of the same Olympic drama?
5. In 1931, 3 years before his death at the age of 29, French avante garde film maker Jean Vigo made a documentary on the technique of a French Olympian. Who was the Olympian and what was his sport?
ROUND 5: ANGEL HEARTS: 5 Questions about Angels or Hearts!
1. Which former ‘Cosby Show’ star played Epiphany Proudfoot in 1987’s ANGEL HEART
2. Wim Wenders’ ‘Wings of Desire’ was remade as CITY OF ANGELS starring Nicolas Cage. In that film who played Dr. Maggie Rice
3. Werner Herzog’s HEART OF GLASS ends with a famous scene atop a craggy seaside cliff – where was this scene shot
4. ‘Apocalypse Now’ was based on the short novel ‘Heart of Darkness’. Who was the author
5. What was the French theatrical release title of ‘Private Fears In Public Places’, released in the UK in 2007 and starring Andre Dussolier
ROUND 6: THIS BOY’S LIFE – 5 Questions about Child Actors
1. Which two former Spielberg child stars recently worked together on a film with one of the key exponents of the New German Cinema?
2. Probably the most famous child actor of all time, Shirley Temple, held the role of U.S. ambassador to which European country between 1989-1992?
3. Who plays Gabe Singer – the imagined child of Tim Robbins’ character Jacob Singer, in the film Jacob’s Ladder?
4. In the film Five Corners John Turturro plays Heinz, who tries to impress the girl he is stalking by stealing two penguins from the Bronx Zoo. The girl he is stalking is played by Jodie Foster. One of Foster’s real life stalkers infamously did something to another famous actor on March 30 1981 supposedly to impress her – What did he do and What was his name?
5. Leonardi DiCaprio made his name playing troubled teens in roles such as the young Tobias Wolf in an adaptation of the American writers autobiographical This Boys Life. He recently teamed up with his Titanic side kicks Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates in a forthcoming Sam Mendes directed adaptation of a novel by another great American writer. What is the name of the novel and the writer?
Round 7: 15 MINUTES. 5 Questions about stars who had a brief brush with fame.
1. Stanley Kubrick cast a now long-forgotten 16-year-old ingenue to play the ttle character in his 1962 version of Lolita. What was her name?
2. Jaye Davidson got an Oscar nomination for his debut performance in The Crying Game, but made only one subsequent big-screen appearance in a 1994 sci-fi blockbuster. What was this second film?
3. The only actor ever to win two Oscars for the same role – Best Supporting Actor and a special award for being an inspiration to returning war veterans—was the double amputee Harold Russell. But which 1946 drama, directed by William Wyler, were they for?
4.Even among Bond girls, the two ladies in License to Kill faded into especially rapid obscurity. Please name either one of them.
5. This round wouldn’t be complete without a question about the Brat Pack. After what should have been his break-out role opposite Molly Ringwald, this young star finished out the Eighties with Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home, Superman IV, Dudes, Hiding Out, and as Third Frat Boy in Penn & Teller Get Killed. Name the actor.
Round 8: DR FRANKENSTEIN, I presume – Identity Crisis Issues in film.
1) In The Usual Suspects, the identikit image drawn from the description of a dying witness tells us, too late, that Kevin Spacey’s character Roger Kint was in fact criminal mastermind ‘Keyser Soyze’. In the film, what is Roger Kint’s nick name?
2) Which fictitious character won a Bafta and was nominated for an Oscar in 2003?
3) Which Identity Crisis film features a lead character who when attending support groups uses, (at different sessions) , the pseudonyms Travis Bickle and Rupert Pupkin?
4) In whose grave is Josef Harbin buried?
5) Which actor plays the Big Lebowski’s main side kick?
ANSWERS
Round 1
1. BOOKS
2. 37°2 LE MATIN / 37.2 DEGREES IN THE MORNING
3. THE HEARTBREAK KID
4. MILLA JOVOVICH, SANDRINE BONNAIRE, KATHERINE T. SHULTS, FLORENCE DALY, JEAN SEBERG, INGRID BERGMAN, MICHELE MORGAN, ANGELA SALLOKER, SIMONE GENEVOIS, MARIA FALCONETTI, SYBIL THRONDIKE, GERALDINE FARRAR, MARIA JACOBINI, JEANNE D’ALCY
5. CARLSBERG
Round 2
1. STRIP
2. SPIKE LEE
3. a) CURTIS MAYFIELD b) ISAAC HAYES
4. FIVE
5. FORT APACHE THE BRONX
Round 3
1. GODFATHER PART III
2. BLADE RUNNER
3. TAXI DRIVER
4. THE DARK KNIGHT
5. THE BEACH
Round 4
1. MOUNTAINEERING FILMS
2. 1988 CALGARY
3. ST ANDREWS GOLF COURSE
4. KEVIN MACDONALD
5. JEAN TARIS – SWIMMER
Round 5
1. LISA BONET
2. MEG RYAN
3. SKELLIG ROCKS, COUNTY KERRY, IRELAND
4. JOSEPH CONRAD
5. ‘COEURS’
Round 6
1. CHRISTIAN BALE AND JEREMY DAVIES IN WERNER HERZOG’S RESCUE DAWN
2. CZECHOSLOVAKIA
3. MACAULEY CULKIN
4. ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATE RONALD REAGAN – JOHN HINCKLEY JNR
5. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD – RICHARD YATES.
Round 7
1. SUE LYON
2. STARGATE
3. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
4. CAREY LOWELL AND TALISA SOTO
5. JON CRYER
Round 8
1. ‘VERBAL’
2. DONALD KAUFFMAN – INVENTED SCREENWRITING BROTHER AND ADAPTATION COLLABORATOR OF CHARLIE KAUFFMAN.
3. FIGHT CLUB
4. HARRY LIME’S
5. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN (NOT JOHN GOODMAN AS THE DUDE IS NOT THE ‘BIG’ LEBOWSKI)
