Pastime with Numerical Movie Titles

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Which of the following is a MADE UP movie title? 1941 8½ 355/113 10

2. What is the common bond between "Apollo 13", "Stalag 17", "U-571" and "2001: A Space Odyssey"? All titles contain a prime number All directed by the same director All released on the same year All won Oscars

3. Which movie hides behind the following one-letter cryptic? B Answer: (Three words (3,5,7). Think chemistry.)

4. Which of the following is NOT a member of Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colours" trilogy? Three Colours: Green Three Colours: White Three Colours: Blue Three Colours: Red

5. Someone has encrypted the next movie title: AOL THNUPMPJLUA ZLCLU In order to decrypt it, use the following hints: 1) The encryption algorithm in use is from the ancient Caesar cipher family. Each letter in the original text is shifted up by a constant number of letters. When decrypting, shift back down. The shift is cyclic (Z shifts up to A, A shifts down to Z). 2) The constant number used for the shift is one of the words of the movie title. Answer: (Three words (3, 11, 5))

6. A = the number of ronin in Hiroshi Inagaki's classic samurai epic. B = the number of steps in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller. C = the number of women in Peter Greenaway's comedy (of sorts). Which of the following is a correct statement? A is smaller than (B+C) A is equal to (B+C) A is larger than (B+C) Impossible to tell

7. "The 400 Blows" (1959), "Fahrenheit 451" (1966) and "Two English Girls and the Continent" (1971) were all directed by François Truffaut. True False

8. "Zero Effect", "First Blood", "Air Force One", "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", "The Third Man", "The Five Senses", "8 Mile", "Friday the 13th"; which of the following is the sequel to the above? Hint: a famous mathematical sequence. 48 Hours 28 Days Catch 22 21 Grams

9. Which of the following movies is correctly aligned with its director? "Much Ado About Nothing" - Rob Reiner "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Milos Forman "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" - George Lucas "You Only Live Twice" - Ian Fleming

10. Matthew Broderick's "Infinity" (1996) tells the story of which renowned scientist? American physicist Richard Feynman Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdõs Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan None of these, it is a fictional story