Minute A Day About Movies

Final Friday Five, the monthly mini-quiz
Quiz No. 8 | August 27, 2010

The Quiz
The Answers (highlighted below)

1.  Fred Astaire and his sister, Adele, were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1971.  How many films did Fred and Adele make together?

a.  6
b.  2
c.  1
d.  0 (Fred and Adele were dance partners onstage.  Fred went on to star in movies.  Adele did not.)
e.  4

2.  Match the dance with the film in which it was performed.

Tango — The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Twist — Pulp Fiction (1994)
Sirtaki — Zorba the Greek (1964)
Jitterbug — Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Ballet — The Red Shoes (1948)
Street dance — Step Up (2006)

3.  Mick Jagger has acted in several movies.  Which one of the following roles was not a Jagger performance?

Ned Kelly in Ned Kelly (1970)
Turner in Performance (1970)
Vacendak in Freejack (1992)
Andy Warhol in Basquiat (1996) (David Bowie played Andy Warhol.)
Luther in The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

4.  Casting for David Fincher’s English-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, due out at the end of 2011, has made news the past few weeks.  Daniel Craig will play the male lead, Swedish journalist Mikael Blomkvist.  Stellan Skarsgård and Robin Wright will co-star.  Little-known Rooney Mara will play the title character.  What is the name of “the girl with the dragon tattoo”?

Lisbeth Salander

5.  A recent article called “The Worst Movie Year Ever?” decried the woeful Hollywood films of 2010.  Who was the author?

a.  Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
b.  A.O. Scott, New York Times
c.  Joe Queenan, Wall Street Journal (Article here, and interview here.)
d.  Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
e.  J. Hoberman, Village Voice

…58…59…60.