British Films Quiz Questions and Answers
Round 1 Questions
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Who directed the film in which a Mumbai boy is accused of cheating in agame show?
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For which film did Katharine Hepburn win the first best actress BAFTA?
- In “Love Actually” what is the name of Rowan Atkinson’s jewellery salesman?
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Who played opposite Dirk Bogarde in “Doctor at Sea”?
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Who directed “Four Weddings and a Funeral”?
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Which Ealing comedy was based on Roy Horniman’s “Noblesse Oblige”?
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In the 2006 film, where is the Casino Royale?
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Who was the most prolific writer of “Carry On” scripts?
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In which film did Maggie Smith call her girls “The creme de la creme”?
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Which Carry On film was (very) loosely based on the Scarlet Pimpernel?
Round 1 Answers
- Danny Boyle
- Lion Winter
- Ruffus
- Brigitte Bardot
- Mike Newell
- Kind Hearts and Cornets
- Montenegro
- Talbot Rothwell
- Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Don’t Lose Your Head
Round 2 Questions
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In which Alec Guinness film does a bank clerk carry out a bullion robbery?
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Who played Denis Thatcher in “The Iron Lady”?
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In which Boulting Brothers film did Ian Carmichael star as a graduate who starts work in a factory and causes a national strike?
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Which musical was “the most non‘U subject ever to be given a U certificate”?
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Who directed “Educating Rita” and “Shirley Valentine”?
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Which British film was the first non-French film to win the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1949?
- In which city does “The Italian Job” take place?
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On what instrument is the music for the film “Genevieve” played?
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Who was played by Daniel Day-Lewis in “My Left Foot”?
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Who played Miss Haversham in David Lean’s “Great Expectations”?
Round 2 Answers
- Lavender Hill Mob
- Jim Broadbent
- I’m All Right Jack
- Oliver!
- Lewis Gilbert
- Third Man
- Turin
- Harmonica
- Christy Brown
- Martita Hunt
Round 3 Questions
- In which film was Anne Bancroft writing to a London bookseller?
- What is John Gordon Sinclair called in the credits to “Gregory’s Girl”?
- “The Last Emperor” was a collaboration on film between Britain and which two other countries?
- In which Will Hay movie does he play a haunted stationmaster?
- Who plays Peter’s father in Kenneth Branagh’s “Peter’s Friends”?
- Who starred opposite Cliff Richard in “Summer Holiday”?
- Who played hitman Ray in “In Bruges”?
- What was the alternative title of “Dr Strangelove”?
- Who turned down the role of T. E. Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia”?
- Which film opens with the dedication “No man’s life can be encompassed in one telling”?
Round 3 Answers
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- Gordon John Sinclair
- Italy, China
- Oh, Mr Porter!
- Richard Briers
- Lauri Peters
- Collin Farrell
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Albert Finney
- Gandhi