Headlines
Film and Literature Quiz
A Quiz for the Weekend... Quotations from Literature and Film
4th February 2011
Answers below.
1.
Which young female character in a Charles Dickens novel said, ‘You are to go and standthere, boy, till you are wanted.’? Who was she talking to?
2.
In the 1995 film Apollo 13 which person working in Mission Control at Houston said, ‘Failure is not an option’? Who was the Spaceflight Commander of the Apollo 13 mission in 1970?
3.
Deep Thought spent over seven million years thinking of the answer to life, the universe and everything. What was Deep Thought’s answer? What is the name of the novel and who wrote it?
4.
Which youthful Shakespearean character said, ‘O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!’? Who was he referring to?
5.
Towards the end of a Jules Verne novel, a valet said, ‘You have made a mistake of one day! We arrived twenty-four hours ahead of time; but there are only ten minutes left!’ What was the valet’s name and who did he say it to?
6.
In the final few moments of his life in the 1941 film Citizen Kane, the dying newspaper magnate uttered one word. What was it? What was the full name of this character?
7.
Which Count at his home in the Carpathian Mountains said, ‘I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will I trust, excuse me that I do not join you, but I have dined already, and I do not sup.’? Who wrote the novel?
8.
Alvy Singer said, ‘A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.’ What is the name of this 1977 Oscar-winning film directed by and staring Woody Allen?
9.
Which widow in a Thomas Hardy novel said, ‘Farmer Oak is coming here to dine with me to-day!’? What is the name of the novel?
10.
What is the name of the English barrister who said, ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.’? What is the name of this novel set in England and Paris around the time of the French Revolution?
Answers
1.
Estella to Pip in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
2.
In the film this phrase was said by Flight Director Gene Krantz. The Spacecraft Commander for Apollo 13 was James ‘Jim’ A Lovell.
3.
The computer’s answer was ‘42’. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
4.
Romeo when he sees Juliet for the first time in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
5.
Passepartout to Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.
6.
Charles Foster Kane said, ‘Rosebud’.
7.
Count Dracula in Dracula by Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker.
8.
Annie Hall by Woody Allen.
9.
Bathsheba in Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
10.
Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.