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1. Which actress married Prince Rainier of Monaco?

2. Which young star of 'East of Eden' died in a car crash aged 24?

3. In what 1935 adaptation of an epic Tolstoy novel did Greta Garbo play the title role?

4. Which playwright won screenwriting Oscars for Dr Zhivago and A Man For All Seasons?

5. Who were Ken Boon?s employers before he became a trouble shooter?

6. Where was the cult drama series ?The Prisoner? filmed?

7. Who was the producer of the Tom and Jerry Cartoons until 1956?

8. What is the world's most syndicated cartoon strip, appearing in 2620 newspapers?

9. Who played the policeman in The Blue Lamp?

10. In which Hitchcock classic does James Stewart play a man hired to follow Kim Novak?

11. In which TV show did the character The Iron Chicken appear?

12. In which TV show did the character Zelda appear?

13. Whose coronation was televised in 1953?

14. Which programme recreated Old Time Music Hall?

15. On whose romance was the 1978 film ?The Greek Tycoon? starring Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset supposedly based?

16. Which TV series was set in Eaton Square?

17. Which car is featured in the film Back to the Future?

18. Who wrote and directed the film High Hopes in 1989?

19. Which famous comedian was the star of the films ?City Lights? and The Gold Rush?

20. Who wrote the film script for ?The Third Man??

21. Trapper, Hawkeye And Radar Appear In Which TV Programme?

22. Which Clanger Owed A Musical Boat?

23. Which American filmmaker made many epic films on Biblical themes including Sign of the Cross, Samson and Delilah, and The Ten Commandments?

24. Which violent action director made the films The Dirty Dozen, The Flight of the Phoenix and Hustle?

25. Marion Morrison, originally a professional American footballer, changed his name to become a famous film star. By what name was he known?

26. Born in 1925, this actor made his debut in Fighter Squadron. He later came to be nicknamed 'The Baron of Beefcake' .Can you name him?

27. In which 1998 film does the line He?d better be worth it. He?d better go home and cure a disease or invent a long-lasting lightbulb

28. Who played Galadriel the Eleven Queen in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?

29. What is the name of the film featured in "Scream 2", which is based upon the murders in "Scream"?

30. Which actress co-starred with Jack Nicholson in "Wolf"?

31. Max von Sydow, Donald Pleasence, Charles Grey and Telly Savalas have all played which character in film?

32. Edward Nigma is better known as which Batman character?

33. Who played Sidney Balmoral James in the 1960s sitcom Citizen James?

34. Which sitcom features the last survivors on a mining spaceship destined to roam the cosmos forever?

35. What is Apu's last name?

36. What game can't Lisa play because she is too sad?

37. In "Alice in Wonderland" what price did the Mad Hatter have on his hat?

38. What was the registration number of Lady Penelope's pink Rolls Royce?

39. What are the genetically engineered robots called in the film 'Blade Runner'?

40. The Andrea Gail is an ill-fated ship in which Hollywood film?

41. If Clancy Brown is the Kurgan, who is McLeod?

42. If Ingrid Bergman is Ilse Lund, who is Rick Blaine?

43. Who played the part of Russian boxer Ivan Drago in ?Rocky IV??

44. In Meet The parents, which animals is Robert De Niro particularly fond of?

45. If one takes inflation into account, which 1960's film was the most expensive film ever made ?

46. Which popular 60s film took place in and around 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, in 1910 ?

47. Only half the man Maxwell Smart was???

48. Name the butler and the dog in Hart to Hart?

49. For which film was Peter Finch awarded an Oscar posthumously?

50. Which actress starred in "Anna Christie" in 1930 and "Anna Karenina" in 1935?

ANSWERS

1. Grace Kelly

2. James Dean

3. Anna Karenina

4. Robert Bolt

5. The Fire Service

6. Portmerrion

7. Fred Quimby.

8. Peanuts (by Charles M. Schulz).

9. Jack Warner

10. Vertigo

11. The Clangers

12. Terrahawks

13. Queen Elizabeth II

14. The Good Old Days

15. Aristotle Onnasis and Jackie Kennedy

16. Upstairs Downstairs

17. De Lorean

18. Mike Leigh

19. Charlie Chaplin

20. Graham Greene

21. Mash

22. General Clanger

23. Cecil B de Mille

24. Robert Aldrich

25. John Wayne

26. Rock Hudson

27. Saving Private Ryan

28. Cate Blanchett

29. Stab

30. Michelle Pfeiffer

31. Ernst Stavro Blofeld

32. The Riddler (E. Nigma)

33. Sid James

34. Red Dwarf

35. Nahasapeemapetilon

36. Dodgeball

37. 10/6

38. Fab 1

39. Replicants (or 'skin jobs')

40. The Perfect Storm

41. Christopher Lambert (The Highlander)

42. Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)

43. Dolph Lundgren

44. Cats

45. Cleopatra "On your knees!!"

46. Mary Poppins

47. Agent 43...Maxwell Smart was agent 86

48. Max and Freeway

49. Network

50. Greta Garbo

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