Minute A Day About Movies

Final Friday Five, the monthly mini-quiz
Quiz No. 11 | November 26, 2010

The Quiz
The Answers (highlighted below)

1.  Sight & Sound, the monthly magazine of the British Film Institute, publishes once every decade what many consider to be the most definitive ranking of greatest movies ever.  Citizen Kane was #1 in the critics’ poll in 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, and 2002.  Citizen Kane tied for #13 in 1952, the year of the first Sight & Sound poll.  What movie was #1 in 1952?

The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) — #4
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931) — #2 (Chaplin was the only filmmaker with two films in the top 10; The Gold Rush tied for #2)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1949) — #1
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916) — #5 (tie)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) — #10 (Renoir’s Grand Illusion tied for #13)

2.  In 2002, Sight & Sound polled critics for the top films of the “past 25 years” (1978–2002).  Which of the following American movies made the top 10 list (11 films in all with a tie for #10)?  (Hint:  five made it, five did not.)

Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) — #5
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980) — #2
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) — #1
Sophie’s Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) — #7
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) — #4

3.  Orson Welles earned his only nomination for a Razzie Award (Worst Supporting Actor) in 1982 for Butterfly, with Pia Zadora (Zadora won a Razzie and a Golden Globe; Welles was also nominated for a Golden Globe).  Name the TV personality who won the Razzie as Worst Supporting Actor for Butterfly.

David Letterman
Pat Sajak
Ed McMahon
Johnny Carson
Howard Cosell

4.  Stephen King is first out of the gate announcing his Top 10 films of 2010.  What is King’s #1 film of the year?  (Keep in mind, it’s Stephen King.)

The King’s Speech
The Social Network — #4
Machete
Jackass 3D — #9
Let Me In — #1
(King:  “Moving and bloodthirty, tender and horrifying, sweet and gruesome…. It’s a story of teenage love and loss that makes the Twilight films look pallid by comparison.”)
Green Zone — #10

5.  List the Harry Potter films in order of release.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1, 2010; Part 2, 2011)