Q 01/05

Which film about a football-mad Hounslow Sikh girl was the first Western film aired on North Korean TV?

A) Bhaji on the Beach

B) East Is East

C) Bend It Like Beckham

D) Anita and Me

Answer · why

C) Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham aired on North Korean state TV on Boxing Day 2010, billed by Britain's ambassador as the first Western-made film ever shown there...

Q 02/05

Which rock star set up HandMade Films to fund Monty Python's Life of Brian after EMI pulled out days before shooting?

A) George Harrison

B) Eric Clapton

C) Mick Jagger

D) Elton John

Answer · why

A) George Harrison

George Harrison put up the £3 million budget because he 'wanted to see the movie', a gesture Terry Jones called the world's most expensive cinema tick...

Q 03/05

Which North Yorkshire cheese's flagging sales were revived by the devotion of Aardman's inventor Wallace?

A) Stilton

B) Red Leicester

C) Cheddar

D) Wensleydale

Answer · why

D) Wensleydale

Wensleydale production had slumped between the mid-1980s and early 1990s before Wallace's constant references to it revived the cheese's popularity. I...

Q 04/05

Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End form a trilogy named after which ice cream?

A) Magnum

B) Cornetto

C) Solero

D) Feast

Answer · why

B) Cornetto

The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy takes its name from a passing Cornetto reference in each film, beginning with Ed's hangover cone in Shaun of the D...

Q 05/05

Which Raymond Briggs animation, shown on Channel 4 every Christmas since 1982, had its song sung by choirboy Peter Auty?

A) When the Wind Blows

B) Father Christmas

C) Fungus the Bogeyman

D) The Snowman

Answer · why

D) The Snowman

The Snowman's 'Walking in the Air' was sung by St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty, not by Aled Jones, whose cover became the hit single in 1985. ...