The Film Quiz remains a high point of the Convention weekend. Held during the Convention Dinner, it is expertly compiled by Adrian Winchester and is enthusiastically contested by the diners. This year, Todd Higginson claimed the prestigious quiz title with a score of 14 out of 15. He is pictured holding his prize bottle of whisky alongside Adrian in the image above.
If you’d like to test your movie knowledge against Todd, the full list of 2025 quiz questions is provided below. The answers can be found at the very bottom of the page.
- Released in 1945, what was the only Rogers and Hammerstein musical written for film and not initially a stage production?
- Which famous French director had a prominent role in the cast of ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’?
- Name the first John Ford Western to star John Wayne?
- Which actress appeared in all three of the following films: ‘The River Wild’ (1996); ‘The Hours’ (2002); and ‘Into the Woods’ (2014)?
- Director David Lynch sadly died in January this year. Name his surreal, black and white, 1977 debut feature?
- A 50th anniversary re-release of ‘Jaws’ recently appeared in cinemas. Which distribution and production company was responsible for making it and its three sequels?
- Name the classic 1944 film noir starring Edward G Robinson, in which a disturbing sequence of events turns out to be a dream.
- Who had major roles in Carry on Doctor and Carry On Up the Jungle, but didn’t appear in any other Carry Ons?
- The Jazz Singer’ is renowned for being the first feature film with both synchronised recorded music and a limited amount of synchronised dialogue. In what year was it released?
- Who sang the song ‘We Have All the Time in the World’, that was written for ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’?
- Which 1976 film had the tagline “His whole life was a million-to-one shot.”?
- Which animation studio made the following films: ‘Spirited Away’ (2001); ‘The Wind Rises’ (2013) and ‘The Boy and the Heron’ (2023).
- Robert Redford sadly also died in September this year. In 1981 he became closely involved in a film festival that was then named after a character he had played in a hit film. What is this name?
- Which 1958 film, nominated for 6 Oscars, starred Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives?
- Name the actor and the film associated with the following words: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
Answers to Quiz
Reveal
- State Fair
- Francois Truffaut
- Stagecoach
- Meryl Streep
- Eraserhead
- Universal
- The Woman in the Window
- Frankie Howerd
- 1927
- Louis Armstrong
- Rocky
- Studio Ghibli
- Sundance
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Jack Nicholson, The Shining
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