TV/Film
Quiz, 20 Questions with a Nottingham City of Lit connection
THE ANSWERS
This quiz first appeared at the Bromley House Library / Nottingham City of Literature joint Christmas party. The winners were Stephen Lowe and Tanya Myers.
Here are the correct answers.
One:
The 1942 film noir This Gun for Hire,
starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, is based on a 1936 novel set in a
fictionalised Nottingham that was written by?
a)
Graham Greene
b)
Dalton Trumbo
c)
Cecil Roberts
Two:
Who played J M Barrie in Finding Neverland?
a)
Johnny Depp
b)
Brad Pitt
c)
Russell Crowe
Three:
Which Golden Globe winning actor played John Harvey’s Detective Inspector
Resnick in two episodic TV movies that ran in the early 1990s?
a)
Pete Postlethwaite
b)
Tom Wilkinson
c)
Ian McShane
Four:
Ken Russell’s 1969 film adaptation of D H Lawrence’s Women in Love featured a controversial nude wrestling scene in
which Oliver Reed grappled with?
a)
Alan Bates
b)
Kathy Bates
c)
Alan Rickman
Five:
Who has played Lord Byron and
Sherlock Holmes on TV?
a)
Benedict Cumberbatch
b)
Jonny Lee Millar
c)
Basil Rathbone
Six:
Which best-selling crime writer starred in the kids’ sitcom Maid Marian and her Merry Men?
a)
Peter James
b)
Lee Child
c)
Mark Billingham
Seven:
It was a Notts writer, Nigel McCrery, that created the BBC series New Tricks, but who appears in the most
episodes?
a)
Amanda Redman
b)
Alun Armstrong
c)
Dennis Waterman
Eight:
Rowland Emett – he of the Vicky Centre’s Aqua Horological Titinabulator (or
‘Emett Clock’) - designed the inventions of Caractacus Potts for which 1968
film?
a)
The Love Bug
b)
Back to the Future
c)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Nine: Who has not
played the Nottingham born screenwriter and editor Alma Reville on screen?
a)
Imelda Staunton
b)
Helen Mirren
c)
Judi Dench
Ten:
Which Notts playwright has written over 100 episodes of Coronation Street?
a)
Stephen Lowe
b)
Amanda Whittington
c)
William Ivory
Eleven:
Which Notts writer appeared on Coronation
Street as the builder Eddie Ramsden?
a)
William Ivory
b)
Michael Eaton
c)
Stephen Booth
Twelve:
Which Lord of the Rings star played
Arthur Seaton in a stage production of Saturday
Night and Sunday Morning?
a)
Ian McKellen
b)
Christopher Lee
c)
Sean Bean
Thirteen:
Which book by John Lucas and Allan Chadburn was mentioned on Have I Got News for You?
a) A Brief History of Whistling
b) A Brief History of Jazz
c) A Brief History of Beards
Fourteen:
Mary Howitt was born with the same surname as which former A Question of Sport captain?
a)
John Parrott
b)
Ian Botham
c)
Emlyn Hughes
Fifteen:
The Nottingham set BBC drama Murder was
directed by the late Birger Larsen, a man better known for which acclaimed Scandi
drama?
a)
The Bridge
b)
The Killing
c)
Borgen
Sixteen: When Peter Bowles was the subject
of TV’s This is Your Life, which of
his former school teachers appeared as a guest on the show?
a)
Stanley Middleton
b)
William Golding
c)
P D James
Seventeen: Which of these writers/TV presenters
was born in Nottingham?
a)
Penny Smith
b)
Ray Gosling
c)
Dale Winton
Eighteen: Who plays Jake Bugg’s mam in his
music video for Two Fingers?
a)
Vicky McClure
b)
b) Shane Meadows
c)
Su Pollard
Nineteen:
Which comedian praised Jon McGregor’s Even
the Dogs on Channel 4’s review show The
TV Book Club?
a)
Sandi Toksvig
b)
Jo Brand
c)
Dawn French
Twenty:
Which occasional BBC TV presenter, and former LeftLion editor, answers to the name ‘Mr Sex’?
a)
Al Murray
b)
Al Needham
c)
Aled Jones