Minute A Day About Movies

Final Friday Five, the monthly mini-quiz
Quiz No. 2 | Minute No. 41 | February 26, 2010

The Quiz

The Answers
1.  Shutter Island is Leonardo DiCaprio’s ___ film directed by Martin Scorsese.
      d.  fourth
2.  For the acting duo below, list the movies in which they co-starred in chronological order by release date.
      Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau
          The Fortune Cookie (1966)
          The Odd Couple (1968)
          The Front Page (1974)
          Buddy Buddy (1981)
          Grumpy Old Men (1993)
          The Grass Harp (1995)
          Out to Sea (1997)
3.  The three characters below were portrayed by three of the actors listed to the right.  Name the one actor who did not play the character on film.
      Hannibal Lecter:  James Woods
      Richard Nixon:  Peter Boyle
      William Bligh:  John Mills
4.  For the four films below, select the following four:  year, director, actor, actress.
      a.  The Big Sleep:  1946, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
      b.  The Long Goodbye:  1973, Robert Altman, Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt
      c.  Farewell, My Lovely:  1975, Dick Richards, Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling
      d.  Murder, My Sweet:  1944, Edward Dmytryk, Dick Powell, Claire Trevor
5.  Rearrange the mixed-up titles below to form the names of five films nominated this year for Best Picture.
      a.  Precious
      b.  The Hurt Locker
      c.  An Education
      d.  Up in the Air
      e.  A Serious Man