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 Tuesday 22 July at Curzon Soho bar. Turn up early to reserve a table! 6:30 PMfor 7PM start – £10 per team (max six people). Great prizes and free popcorn!
Here are the questions from the first night on Wednesday 28 May, for all those who missed out or want to add to their cinematic knowledge!
Round 1. TAXI DRIVERS: Questions to do with cabs and cabbies
1. Which Sesame Street character is rumoured to be named after the taxi driver in Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life?
2. Who takes his gloves off in the back of Esmeralda’s taxi?
3. In which 2004 thriller does the cab ride essentially last the whole movie?
4. In which cult film does the main character taking a taxi from Malibu asks the driver to change the music with the complaint, ‘Not the fucking Eagles, man.’
5. In which French movie is a cab-ride to a gay club called Le Rectum interrupted by violence?
Round 2. NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Iconic locations in Manhattan-set movies
1. The subway grate at the corner of 52nd and Lexington is where a young woman in a white dress took a breath of air. Name the film.
2. Midtown 58th & 6th is where a little man with a gammy leg tried to stop the traffic by shouting ‘I’m walking here!’ Name the film.
3. The United Nations building, 1st and 46th often appears as an exterior but which 2005 movie was the first allowed to shoot inside the building?
4. The Dakota apartment building on West 72nd is where John Lennon was shot and killed. It’s also where a young couple move in and are befriended by their elderly neighbours the Castavets in which film?
5. The Time Warner Building on Columbus Circle is where a young woman called Beth waits to be rescued by her boyfriend Rob in which of the many recent movies about New York under attack?
Round 3. GREETINGS: cult movie characters’ distinctive ways of introducing themselves
1. ‘Is it safe?’
2. ‘You’re looking very beautiful today, man.’
3. ‘Do you like our owl?’
4. ‘Where are you from, Willard?’
5. ‘Gotta change my shirt, it’s sticking to me, I’m sweating like a c#nt.’
Round 4. NINETEEN HUNDRED… AND SIXTY-EIGHT: Cinema in 1968
1. Nic Roeg’s and Donald Cammell’s Performance was shot in 1968 but not released until 1970. Name the Notting Hill address of Mick Jagger’s house in the movie.
2. In 1968 the Cannes Festival was cancelled midway through after the jury resigned in solidarity with demonstrating students and workers in Paris. Which of these directors was NOT on the jury in 1968?
a. Francois Truffaut b. Louis Malle c. Roman Polanski d. Terence Young
3. When Cannes reconvened in 1969 a British film – produced and released in the UK in 1968 – won the Palme d’Or. Name it.
4. In 1968 pop group The Monkees made their first and last movie, Head, directed by Bob Rafelson and co-written by Rafelson and – who?
5. True or false? Most heavily tipped among the Oscar nominees for Best Picture of 1968 was Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, but the award went to Carol Reed’s Oliver!
Round 5. AWAKENINGS: scenes where characters wake up with a surprise.
1. In this movie a young girl is relieved to wake up in her own bed and hear her Uncle say, ‘She got quite a bump on the head – we kinda thought there for a minute she was going to leave us.’ Name it.
2. In which film does a policeman renting a room over a pub wake up from a long sleep to find the ‘Hand of Glory’ burning on his bedside table?
3. In a 1976 release this line is said by one movie legend to another: ‘You want to know what woke you up? Lee you just had your throat cut.’ Name the movie.
4. Bill Murray is surprised the first time he wakes up for the second time on Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, but never again thereafter. What’s the song he hears on the clock radio every time?
5. In The Godfather, the movie mogul Jack Woltz wakes up to an offer he can’t refuse, the head of his prize stallion next to him in bed. What was the name of the horse?
Round 6. BLOODY MAMAS: movie mothers who turn violent
1. Which 1950s starlet grew up into the mother who takes a kitchen knife to Sissy Spacek in Brian De Palma’s film of Carrie?
2. In 1994 John Waters cast Kathleen Turner in the title role of which movie?
3. Anjelica Huston is the dangerous Lily Dillon in Stephen Frears’ film of The Grifters. Name the oft-filmed author of the source novel.
4. In Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1970 film of Medea, which iconic female vocalist played the title role?
5. ‘Blood, Mother!’ The most famous of all bloody mamas is Anthony Perkins in drag as Psycho’s Norman Bates. But what is Norman’s mother’s name? (i.e. her Christian name, not just ‘Mrs Bates.’)
Round 7. WE’RE NO ANGELS: Bad Boy Actors
1. Why did Russell Crowe verbally abuse Malcolm Gerrie at an awards ceremony in 2002?
2. A group whose acronym is ABCDEF was organized to support which actor accused (and eventually cleared) of statutory rape?
3. Charlie Sheen was a frequent customer of which Hollywood Madam?
4. Sean Penn was sentenced to prison in 1987 for a combination of three separate offences: the first was an assault in an LA nightclub, the third was drunk-driving. What did he do on the set of the movie Colors that was his second offence?
5. Which seventy-something actress rejected Colin Farrell’s sexual advances in her dressing room?
Round 8. KINGS OF COMEDY: Comic depictions of kings
1. In The History of the World Part 1 Mel Brooks famously says to camera, ‘It’s good to be the king.’ Which historical king does Brook play in the film?
2. In which Terry Gilliam movie does the veteran British comic Max Wall play King Bruno the Questionable?
3. Who provides the voice of the King in Shrek 2?
4. Which actor played Charles II for laughs in 2004, having only the previous year played Charles I reasonably straight-faced?
5. Name the film in which The Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell plays Elvis Presley as the retired resident of a Texas rest home who finds himself fighting a soul-sucking Egyptian mummy.
ANSWERS
Round 1
1. ERNIE
2. BRUCE WILLIS AS BUTCH IN PULP FICTION
3. COLLATERAL
4. THE BIG LEBOWSKI
5. IRREVERSIBLE
Round 2
1. THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
2. MIDNIGHT COWBOY
3. THE INTERPRETER
4. ROSEMARY’S BABY
5. CLOVERFIELD
Round 3
1. LAURENCE OLIVIER AS SZELL IN MARATHON MAN
2. RALPH BROWN AS DANNY IN WITHNAIL AND I
3. SEAN YOUNG AS RACHEL IN BLADERUNNER
4. MARLON BRANDO AS KURTZ IN APOCALYPSE NOW
5. BEN KINGSLEY AS DON IN SEXY BEAST
Round 4
1. 81 POWYS SQUARE
2. TRUFFAUT
3. IF…
4. JACK NICHOLSON
5. FALSE – 2001 WASN’T NOMINATED
Round 5
1. THE WIZARD OF OZ
2. THE WICKER MAN
3. THE MISSOURI BREAKS
4. ‘I GOT YOU BABE’
5. KHARTOUM
Round 6
1. PIPER LAURIE
2. SERIAL MOM
3. JIM THOMPSON
4. MARIA CALLAS
5. NORMA
Round 7
1. CROWE’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH WAS CUT FOR TV
2. ERROL FLYNN
3. HEIDI FLEISS
4. PUNCHING AN EXTRA ON SET
5. EILEEN ATKINS
Round 8
1. LOUIS XVI OF FRANCE
2. JABBERWOCKY
3. JOHN CLEESE
4. RUPERT EVERETT
5. BUBBA HO-TEP
