1. In January, a US teenager in Utah caused a highway collision while driving blindfold – she was taking a challenge, inspired by which movie?

   1. Eyes Wide Shut

   2. Bird Box

   3. The Blind Side

   4. Crash

2. According to Sight and Sound magazine, what was the best film of 2019?

   1. Frozen 2

   2. Last Christmas

   3. The Souvenir

   4. Avengers Endgame

3. This year Barbara Broccoli dispelled rumours that the new Bond film would be named after a dysfunctional body part – an alias used by Bond’s arch nemesis Blofeld in Ian Fleming’s 1964 novel You Only Live Twice. What was the title?

   1. Crackedelbow

   2. Brokenleg

   3. Shatterhand

   4. Dodgyknee

4. The best film Oscar was won this year by Green Book, the real-life story of Frank Vallelonga, an Italian-American guy – nicknamed “Tony Lip” – who in the 1950s got a job driving an African-American jazz musician. The real Tony Lip went on to become an actor, and died in 2013. Which character did he play in The Sopranos?

   1. Carmine Lupertazzi Sr

   2. Corrado “Uncle Junior” Soprano

   3. Patsy Parisi

   4. Christopher Moltisanti

5. In March, it was revealed that Mark Wahlberg got $1.5m for reshooting part of Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World – but his female co-star, Michelle Williams, got less. How much was she paid?

   1. Just under $1,000,000

   2. Just under $100,000

   3. Just under $10,000

   4. Just under $1,000

6. Nicole Kidman caused controversy among animal rights groups in June by revealing that she regularly hikes with a certain animal in her rucksack. Which animal?

   1. A cat

   2. A carp

   3. A crocodile

   4. A caterpillar

7. Which two Hollywood stars were revealed over the summer to have contract clauses that stipulate they cannot lose onscreen fistfights with each other?

   1. Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham

   2. Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Ian McKellen

   3. Kristin Scott Thomas and Isabelle Huppert

   4. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Judi Dench

8. In October, New York publicist Juda S Engelmayer condemned the behaviour of comedian Kelly Bachman as “downright rude”. What was Bachman doing?

   1. Using the wrong spoon for consommé

   2. Wearing the wrong hat for Royal Ascot

   3. Publically denouncing Engelmayer’s client, Harvey Weinstein, whom Bachman had noticed in the audience at an event for emerging actors

   4. Speaking to the Pope without first addressing him as “Your Holiness”

9. Sir Paul McCartney’s planned stage musical is a version of which Frank Capra movie?

   1. Mr Smith Goes to Washington

   2. Lost Horizon

   3. It Happened One Night

   4. It’s a Wonderful Life

10. In November it was announced that a CGI version of James Dean was to be used in a new film. What is the film?

    1. Finding Jack, about a man who bonds with a Labrador called Jack

    2. Saucy Jack, a film version of the Jack the Ripper musical mentioned in This Is Spinal Tap

    3. Divorcing Jack, a Belfast comedy about a cynical man named Jack

    4. Captain Jack, about an eccentric sailor called Jack

11. Which film was controversially pulled from the Vue cinema chain after a fight broke out between gangs at their Star City complex in Birmingham?

    1. Frozen 2

    2. Joker

    3. Marriage Story

    4. Blue Story

12. Which two Steven Spielberg characters were reunited in a TV ad for communications firm Comcast?

    1. Chief Brody and the shark from Jaws

    2. Elliott and ET from ET

    3. Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S Grant from Lincoln

    4. Jeff Goldblum’s scientist and the velociraptor from Jurassic Park

13. Which electronic device did Martin Scorsese plead with movie fans not to use for watching his new film The Irishman?

    1. A smartphone

    2. A 1975 Sony portable TV

    3. An Apple Watch

    4. A microwave

14. The trailer for the movie version of Cats astonished YouTube viewers all over the world by appearing to show feline characters with their tails emerging from an anatomically incorrect orifice. Which was it?

    1. The nostril

    2. The anus

    3. The armpit

    4. The ear

Solutions

1:B, 2:C, 3:C, 4:A, 5:D, 6:A, 7:A, 8:C, 9:D, 10:A, 11:D, 12:B, 13:A, 14:B

Scores

1. 14 and above.

   A perfect score. Congratulations! Your film profile should be viewed on a full-sized cinema screen or perhaps projected on to the white cliffs of Dover.

2. 10 and above.

   Not bad. Your film profile could be viewed on a giant plasma TV.

3. 0 and above.

   Poor. Your film profile is fit to be viewed on an Apple Watch.

4. 5 and above.

   Moderate. Your film profile could perhaps be viewed on a biggish smartphone