E: 7/1/08 £2,000 worth of MovieMail vouchers and the highly desirable Bergman Box Set

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Introduction
It’s time to sharpen your wits and buff up your collection of film trivia for MovieMail's Bumper Christmas Quiz!

£2000 worth of vouchers are up for grabs, as is our star prize, one copy of the highly desirable, otherwise unavailable, 30-disc Ingmar Bergman Box-Set, worth £299! Closing date is midnight 7th January 2008

We have 32 questions, ranging from the fun to the devilish, so send it round to your friends and see who can get closest to the perfect score!
Invite a friend to take part!

Please answer the questions below:

1 Which Akira Kurosawa film inspired John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven?
Answer Seven Samurai
2 The new Indiana Jones film is titled: Indiana Jones and The...
Answer Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
3 The classic noir The Third Man was directed by whom?
Answer Carol Reed
4 Who starred in the 1994 remake of The Browning Version?
Answer Albert Finney
5 Who wrote the Bourne novels that inspired the Matt Damon espionage thrillers?
Answer Robert Ludlum
6 Nosferatu is an unlicensed adaptation of which classic horror novel?
Answer Dracula
7 Fantasy epic The Golden Compass is based on a trilogy of books written by which author?
Answer Philip Pullman
8 French comedy 3 Hommes et un Couffin was remade as 3 Men and a Baby starring which 3 actors?
Answer Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson
9 La Vie En Rose is a biopic of the late, great Edith Piaf. But what was Piaf’s nickname?
Answer The Sparrow
10 Which Akira Kurosawa film inspired George Lucas’ Star Wars?
Answer Hidden Fortress
11 Which popular author adapted Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the screen?
Answer Roald Dahl
12 Which popular author adapted the James Bond novel You Only Live Twice for the screen?
Answer Roald Dahl
13 Billy Liar was set in which Northern city?
Answer Bradford
14 How many Usual Suspects were there?
Answer 5
15 Which of these horror actors has taken a ride in the TARDIS as the Time Lord himself, Doctor Who?
Answer Peter Cushing
16 Acclaimed animator Jan Svankmajer is from which European country?
Answer The Czech Republic
17 The next Bond girl starred in one of the biggest World Cinema hits of 2007. Was it...
Answer Carice Van Houton in Black Book
18 What does ‘Volver’ mean in Spanish?
Answer Return
19 An anticipated French adaptation of Lady Chatterley is due out next year. But who wrote the infamous book on which it was based?
Answer DH Lawrence
20 The plot of Blade Runner hinges on an origami...
Answer Unicorn
21 Which band’s rise to fame is charted in Anton Corbijn’s film, Control?
Answer Joy Division
22 The Lives of Others was set in pre-Glasnost East Germany. But what does Glasnost mean?
Answer Openness
23 In Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal, the character of Death was played by which actor?
Answer Bengt Ekerot
24 Jindabyne, starring Gabriel Byrne, was based on the Raymond Carver story "So Much Water So Close to Home". So was a Robert Altman film... but which one?
Answer Short Cuts
25 Which Akira Kurosawa film inspired The Outrage, starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey and William Shatner?
Answer Rashomon
26 How many David Lean films did Alec Guinness appear in?
Answer 6
27 Which rock group picked up the rights to film Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange in the hope they could play Alex and his droogs?
Answer The Rolling Stones
28 In The Sound of Music, how many favourite things does Maria have?
Answer 15
29 What was the name of the ship in Noel Coward’s In Which We Serve (1942)?
Answer HMS Torrin
30 What does a rather dusty Lawrence (of Arabia) order on his return to Cairo following the capture of Aqaba?
Answer Two large lemonades
31 Alec Guinness, Denholm Elliott and Rupert Davies have all played the role of John le Carre’s intelligence officer George Smiley. So has James Mason, but for rights reasons Smiley’s name had to be changed – to what?
Answer Charles Dobbs
32 (And finally!) Which Claude Chabrol film on VHS was part of MovieMail's first ever order?
Answer Rue de Corinthe

You should have 100% and eligible to enter the comp and also be included for the Box set

chevalier

came up with 97% so I guess that I missed one out or missed hit a button still got the entry though

silverangel35

Yep I think you may have misclicked somewhere as I have just gone through them again and got..

Your score: 100%

Rharni

Just pressing the Thanks button isnt enough for all this work....

Cheers.....many thanks

kit34

many thanks for all the answers

kirsteenatom

wow thanks!

littlegran

Thank you for all the answers.

Your score: 100%

Ms_Sparkle

I only got 97% aswell - will go through them again and see if that works. Thanks so much for all that work though x

Ms_Sparkle

only got 97 again, but still got the entry so don't care - thanks again

smittenkitten666

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BREX

your a real :A silverangel...this must have taken you ages:beer: :beer: