Books and Films

Question 1

What is the title of the fourth Harry Potter book?

Answer 1

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Question 2

What is the title of the 2001 novel by John le Carré that starred Ralph Fiennes?

Answer 2

The Constant Gardener

Question 3

Who starred as Trillian in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Answer 3

Sandra Dickinson

Question 4

What is the title of the 2005 British musical film about a shoe factory?

Answer 4

Kinky Boots

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nick Frost and Joanna Scanlan

Question 5

What is the title of the play written by Alan Bennet that deals with the education of schoolboys and premiered in 2004

Answer 5

The History Boys

Question 6

What is the title of the novel (2003) by Zoe Heller that involves scandal and obsession and who starred in the film (2006)?

Answer 6

Notes On A Scandal

Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench and Bill Nighy

Question 7

What is the title of the 2006 film based on the book by David Nicholls about university life starring James McAvoy?

Answer 7

Starter For 10

Question 8

What is the title of the 2001 novel by Ian McEwan that is set in 3 time periods and that became a film, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightly in 2007?

Answer 8

Atonement

Cast
James McAvoy
Keira Knightley
Saoirse Ronan
Romola Garai
Vanessa Redgrave

Question 9

What is the title of the 2007 British action-comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and starring
Simon Pegg
Nick Frost
Jim Broadbent

Answer 9

Hot Fuzz

Question 10

What is the title of the 2006 film that centres around the lives of skinheads in England during the 1980s and stars Stephen Graham?

Answer 10

This Is England

Question 11

What is the title of the 2008 historical drama starring Kiera Knightley about a character called Georgiana

Answer 11

The Duchess

Question 12

What is the title of the 2008 film starring Dev Patel that tells the story of a boy’s journey in India?

Answer 12

Slumdog Millionaire

Question 13

What is the title of the film about the early life of John Lennon - played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson?

Answer 13

Nowhere Boy

Question 14

What is the title of the 2008 film about a boy and a retired magician on the edge of senility played by Michael Caine?

Answer 14

Is Anybody There?

Question 15

What is the title of the 2009 film, written and directed by Richard Curtis, about a pirate radio station in the 1960s?

Answer 15

The Boat That Rocked

Starring
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bill Nighy
Rhys Ifans
Nick Frost
Kenneth Branagh

Question 16

What is the title of the 2009 film about the 1970s football manager Brian Clough, played by Michael Sheen?

Answer 16

The Damned United