The Movie Quiz: Ronan, Farrell, Gleeson, Keoghan – who has yet to be directed by Neil Jordan?
Martin Freeman
Ian Holm
Aidan Turner
Andy Serkis
Who is not a Bond villain?
Hugo Drax
Francisco Scaramanga
Max Zorin
Ernő Goldfinger
Which symbol appears in the title of a blockbuster currently in cinemas?
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Who has yet to be directed by Neil Jordan?
Saoirse Ronan
Colin Farrell
Brendan Gleeson
Barry Keoghan
Which film earned Meryl Streep the most recent of her 21 Oscar nominations?
Whose work has not been adapted as an animated feature from Walt Disney?
Rudyard Kipling
Victor Hugo
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Which is the odd title out?
Little Big
Marathon
Better
Rain
Who has not directed a film named for a city?
Kenneth Branagh
Kathryn Bigelow
Jane Campion
Jonathan Demme
Which does not feature the Police man?
Quadrophenia (1979)
The Hunger (1983)
Dune (1984)
The Bride (1985)
Which film features an amalgam of the female protagonists from All About Eve?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Go-Between (1971)
The Devils (1971)
Sleuth (1972)
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