The Movie Quiz: Where in Dublin was Checkpoint Charlie situated back in 1965?
Happy Gilmore
Little Nicky
Billy Madison
The Waterboy
What was that you said, Jim Garrison?
'Forward and to the right!'
'Back and to the left!'
'Back and to the right!'
'Forward and to the left!'
Who doesn't belong?
Which Oscar-bait film was largely derived from American Prometheus?
Oppenheimer
The Brutalist
The Master
Lincoln
Who was (jointly) the first actor to be Oscar-nominated for a Stephen King adaptation?
Kathy Bates
Piper Laurie
Michael Clarke Duncan
Shelley Duvall
Which creature doesn't belong?
Dark Helmet
Pizza the Hut
Dot Matrix
Ponda Baba
Which is not a Pet Shop Boys single?
The Marx Brothers are cowboys
Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena
Chris Columbus adapts La Bohème
A 1984 Pedro Almodóvar film
A song from which film failed, by one week, to break Bryan Adams's record for the most consecutive weeks at UK No 1?
Notting Hill
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Titanic
The Lion King
How many feature adaptations of Shakespeare did Orson Welles complete?
2
3
4
5
In which current postal district was Checkpoint Charlie situated in 1965?
Dublin 2
Dublin 7
Dublin 8
Dublin 12
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