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The name of which game, when translated to English, literally means sparrow?

Mahjong

On a monopoly board, how many housing properties are there?

22

Tags: Board Games,

Jenga, the game where you try to build a tower of bricks without it falling down, is named after a Swahili word. What does it translate to in English?

  • Build
  • Fall
  • Brick

build

The artist Frida Kahlo was born in which country?

Mexico

Who remade Solaris in 2002 and who took the lead role?

Steven Soderbergh; George Clooney

As of Star Trek: Beyond, what is the number of films in the official franchise?

  • 9
  • 13
  • 16
  • 18

13

Tags: Star Trek,

Who played the obsessive character at the centre of Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Richard Dreyfuss

the story goes that he virtually had to stalk Spielberg to get the part after the various big box office names turned it down

Serve the trust. Protect the innocent. Uphold the law. Whose mantra was this?

Robocop

In 2005 both Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson revisited classic sci-fi stories for the major movies; what were the two films?

War of the Worlds (Spielberg) and King Kong (Jackson)

Tags: Sci-fi,

Who made Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit 451 into a movie in 1966?

Francois Truffaut

Which classic sci-fi movie concern the invention of a beautiful robot by a scientist called Rotwang?

Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Tags: Classic Cinema, Sci-fi,

In which movie David Bowie appears as Jareth the Goblin King?

Labyrinth

What is Mad Max's surname?

Rockatansky

Who made the 1989 underwater sci-fi chiller The Abyss?

James Cameron

Tags: Sci-fi,

What was the 1982 film starring Jeff Bridges as a computer software programmer battling to escape from being trapped inside his own programme?

Tron

Tags: Sci-fi,

What was the name of the Duncan Jones' 2009 feature debut, and which actor carried the film almost single-handedly

Moon, Sam Rockwell

Tags: Film Debuts,

Who was The Invisible Man in James Whales' 1933 film? And on whose story was the film based?

Claude Rains; H.G. Wells

Tags: Classic Cinema,

Who was the first victim of the psychotic killer in Halloween?

His older sister Judith, seen killed in a flashback at the start of the movie

Tags: Horror,

Which film features Joe Turkel as Lloyd, a polite but sinister barman, and Lisa and Louise Burns as the young Grady Twins?

The Shining

Tags: Horror,

What was the name of the possessed girl, played by Linda Blair in the Exorcist?

Regan

Tags: Horror,

Which later-to-be-very-famous New Zealand director made the 1992 gross-out horror-comedy Braindead?

Peter Jackson

Tags: Horror,

Which 1974 Tobe Hooper slasher movie had to wait twenty-five years to get a rating from the British Board of Film Classification?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Tags: Horror,

What was the compendium chiller movie made in 1945 at Ealing with Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer each directing a segment?

Dead of the Night

Tags: Horror,

Who directed the low-budget horror classic The Evil Dead in 1981? What was the name of the main protagonist played by Bruce Campbell?

Sam Raimi, Ash

Tags: Horror,

Don Siegel in 1956 and Philip Kaufman in 1976 directed two versions of which classic horror movie?

They directed the two versions of the Body Snatchers

Tags: Horror,

Which celestial body features in the title of a 1979 Bond movie?

Moon

Moonraker

Tags: James Bond,

Which 1970s film about a giant ape was a remake of a 1933 movie?

King Kong

Who is Clark Kent better known as?

Superman

Tags: AKA,

Which 1972 film, with Marlon Brando, was about the Mafia?

The Godfather

Tags: Classic Cinema,

Which 1960 Hitchcock film has the most famous shower scene ever?

Psycho

Tags: Classic Cinema,