As Catwoman opens in August, this month’s movie quiz focuses on cats (and other felines) in the movies. The first five respondents to e-mail us a set of 20 correct answers, along with their names and addresses, will win a long-sleeved Catwoman T-shirt and branded cap. E-mail to [email protected] by August 13, putting ‘movie cat quiz’ in the subject line
The Cat in the Hat (2003) was very loosely based on a book by a famed and beloved children’s author. Name him; and name the star who played the titular Cat. (2 points)
2. Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman starred as a feuding wife and husband in which 1958 adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play? (1 point)
3. Jane Fonda played Cat Ballou in the 1965 western of that name. Which of her co-stars won his only Oscar for his dual performance in the movie? (1)
4. In which horror movie, first made in 1942 and remade in 1982, is a woman likely to turn into a deadly leopard if sexually stimulated? (1)
5. Which of Roman Polanski’s lovers starred in the 1982 version of the above movie? And which filmmaker, who scripted The Last Temptation of Christ for Martin Scorsese, directed it? (2)
6. Name the 1963 movie whose title compares the protagonist, an aristocratic Italian played by Burt Lancaster, to a big cat? (1)
7. Which animated movie of 1972 detailed the adventures of a horny, anarchic feline, earning an X- rating in the United States? (1)
8. Name the animated Disney movie of 1970 about a feline inheritance dispute. (1)
9. The Cat from Outer Space (1978) featured a cat with a magical collar and telekinetic powers. It starred which British actor, who also played (in other movies) an ape and a vampire-hunter? (1)
10. Which scary movie, with a feline and a bird in the title, was first made in 1921 and remade three times, in 1927, 1939 and 1979? And which actress, who elsewhere played both Juliet and Mary, mother of Jesus, starred in the 1979 version? (2)
11. Which comedian played a man jilted by his girlfriend in a note ending “PS Your cat is dead”, thus providing the title of the movie? (1)
12. Which moustache-wearing heart-throb took the title role in the 1973 western The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing? (1)
13. Which of Charlie Chaplin’s wives played Kitty, the low-born girl who gets involved with 18th-century aristocrats, in the 1945 movie of the same name? (1)
14. Name the director of the 1965 exploitation picture Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1)
15. Which comedy of the same year also had a “pussycat” in the title? (Clue: It starred Peter O’Toole, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen.) (1)
16. Which feline was said to be “crouching” in this 2000 martial-arts spectacular by Ang Lee? Give the title of the movie. (1)
17. In the new Coen brothers movie, The Ladykillers, a cat runs away with which body-part of a criminal? (1)