Test your movie knowledge with our weekly quiz

Welcome to the first in a series of weekly movie quizzes running over summer. We’ll keep track of the top scorers week by week and announce an overall winner after 10 weeks of quizzing—so check back each week for a new set of questions. Each quiz should just take a few minutes, with ten multi-choice questions. Quiz #4 Flicks Weekly Quiz #4 Bombshell opens this week. Who is the perpetrator of sexual harassment depicted in the film? What is the most-nominated film at the 2020 Academy Awards? In upcoming film Morbius (watch the new trailer on Flicks!), Jared Leto stars as: Ten years ago, in January of 2010, the film Daybreakers was released. Which NZ actor starred as a rich vampire businessman? New NEON series The Outsider is the latest Stephen King adaptation to hit the screen. Approximately how many films and TV adaptations based on Stephen King’s work have there been? Which cinematographer shot the immersive, box-office smashing, war movie 1917? How many Academy Award nominations have Bombshell’s trio of stars – Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie – received between them across their combined careers? Bill and Ted return to the screen this year in Bill & Ted Face the Music. How long will it have been since their last film, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey? Five years ago, which foreign language film – remade starring Will Ferrell and premiering in 2020 – opened on general release in NZ? Which film did Flicks writers vote as the best of last decade? Look at you, you did real good! You did pretty good, but could’ve been a little sharper, no? No, we’re not terribly happy with this score either. What are we going to do with you? Quiz #3 Flicks Weekly Quiz #3 How many female directors were nominated for a Golden Globe this year? How many Best Screenplay Golden Globes has Quentin Tarantino now won? Who won Best Director at the Golden Globes? Why didn’t Russell Crowe attend the Golden Globes to accept his award? What was distinctive about the meals served at this year’s Golden Globes? How did award-winning Parasite director Bong Joon-ho describe the barrier of having to read subtitles? Which actor, accepting their award for a limited TV series, credited their success on the eyebrows provided by the makeup department? Prior to Awkwafina’s win for The Farewell, how many performers of Asian descent had won a Golden Globe in a lead actress film category? What was Netflix’s success rate at this year’s Golden Globes? Who won Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy? Look at you, you did real good! You did pretty good, but could’ve been a little sharper, no? No, we’re not terribly happy with this score either. What are we going to do with you? Quiz #2 Flicks Weekly Quiz #2 Marriage Story is now on Netflix and generating Oscar buzz. What was the first film Noah Baumbach got nominated for at the Academy Awards? A series based on the 2014 hit The Dead Lands is on the way (check out the trailer on Flicks). Who directed the original feature film? The upcoming Wonder Woman sequel – the first trailer for which has just been released – is set in which year? Who is this actor? This is a picture of Taika Waititi in an upcoming film. What is it called? Including next year’s No Time to Die, how many times will Daniel Craig have played 007? 15 years ago, Matthew Macfadyen starred in NZ film In My Father’s Den. Which HBO series has he made us squirm in with excellent performances over the past two years? The house pictured here is the main setting for which 2019 critical fave? Which of the following actors does NOT voice a character in Frozen II? Which war film has the tagline “The first casualty of war is innocence”? Look at you, you did real good! You did pretty good, but could’ve been a little sharper, no? No, we’re not terribly happy with this score either. What are we going to do with you? Quiz #1 Flicks Weekly Quiz #1 This is the first in a series of weekly quizzes. We’ll publish weekly leaderboards and keep track of the top scorers week by week for an overall winner after 10 weeks of quizzing. How many weeks in a row did Jojo Rabbit spend in top spot at the NZ box office? An animated Addams Family film opens in cinemas December 5. When were they last seen on the big screen? M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth is now streaming on Netflix. Who came up with the story? Who is this? What film is this? This character reportedly made which actor/filmmaker cry on set? Which of these actors does NOT appear in Rian Johnson’s whodunnit Knives Out? Anya Taylor-Joy stars in an upcoming film version of Emma. The screenplay (by NZ’s Eleanor Catton) is based on the classic novel by which author? John Travolta slipped up badly when introducing this singer at the 2014 Academy Awards. What is the name of the performer, who’s returned for Frozen II? Keanu Reeves is due to appear as a tumbleweed in which upcoming film? Look at you, you did real good! You did pretty good, but could’ve been a little sharper, no? No, we’re not terribly happy with this score either. What are we going to do with you? Sign up for Flicks updates Sign up

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