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Quiz: Bob J’s film buff bafflers: January 2022


Here’s your chance to win a $100 JB Hi-Fi voucher, with this month’s STACK Quiz – Bob J’s film buff bafflers: January 2022.

Use your knowledge to answer Bob J’s Film Buff Bafflers for your chance to win a cool $100 JB Hi-Fi voucher prize!

Q1. Which fictional character has been portrayed on screen more often than any others?

Q2. Who played the female who organises underground poker games where millions of dollars are staked?

Q3. Which two actors in 2002 starred in a movie that updated a very successful US TV series?

Q4. Who teams up with three convicts to stage a daring rescue of occupants of a leper colony after a volcano erupts?

Q5. Who directed the remake of a 1916 silent western movie that involved three bandits having to care for a baby after the mother dies in childbirth?

Q6. In which movie does Elvis Presley sing "Return to Sender"?

Q7. After watching Frankenstein, two teenage boys use their computer to conjure up what they assume to be the woman of their dreams. Title please.

Q8. Which Hollywood screenwriter was known to type his scripts in the bathtub with a parrot on his shoulder?

Q9. Which three actors played museum security guards who are so enamoured of the artworks that they hatch a plan to steal them?

Q10. Who directed Humphrey Bogart in which the actor played a demobbed war hero who sets out to learn why his war-time buddy has suddenly disappeared.

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2.    Jessica Chastain plays the role of Molly Bloom. The film received a 2018 Academy Award nomination in the category Best Adapted Screenplay

4.   A crusty, eccentric priest (Spencer Tracy) recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.  (Spencer Tracy in The Devil at 4 Oclock)

6    Girls

8.   Dalton Trumbo    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/screenplay-troubles-dalton-trumbos-96550/

9.    The Maiden Heist (2009) - The Maiden Heist (2009) - IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1107860/reviews
A quaint little heist comedy, with a nifty romantic resolution, THE MAIDEN HEIST stars Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken and William H. Macy as security guards at a Boston art museum

1. Sherlock Holmes
3. Pretty open ended question as both Spiderman ( Tobey Maguire & Willem Dafoe ) and Scooby Doo ( Freddie Prinze Jr. & Sarah Michelle Gellar  ) were in 2002...May be neither??.. - I opted for spiderman ;)

5. John Ford
7. Weird Science
10. Dead Reckoning ??

Pretty sure that Dead Reckoning is not the named of a 40's director