Picture the Scene Trivia Quiz

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

"Niagara" was made at a time when Niagara Falls was still known as the "honeymoon capital of the world", making that city a perfect setting for a mystery involving honeymoon couples and murderous lovers. Marilyn played Rose Loomis who plotted with her lover to do away with her husband George (Joseph Cotten).

Answer: She sank in the North Atlantic whilst on convoy duty.

"The Cruel Sea" was based on Nicholas Monsarrat's novel of the same name and told the story of the ship's captain, Commander Ericson (Jack Hawkins), and crew as they coped with the rigors of convoy duty in the North Atlantic, and later the Mediterranean. After HMS Compass Rose, the corvette, is sunk Ericson and some of the survivors served together in a somewhat larger frigate until the end of the movie, and the war.

The photo is of HMCS Sackville, Canada's Naval Memorial, anchored in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a veteran of WWII.

Answer: Frozen River

In "Frozen River", Melissa Leo played a mother struggling to make ends meet for her and her two sons after being left in a bad situation by her no-good husband. Teaming up with another single mother, a Mohawk from the nearby reservation, to do a bit of smuggling by driving across the frozen river to Canada and back, seemed like a good idea, but inevitably things became complicated.

Leo was Oscar-nominated for her leading role as Ray Eddy, but lost to Kate Winslet in "The Reader".

Answer: Captains of the Clouds

The bush pilots played by Cagney and Morgan were rough, tough, seat-of-the-pants fliers and deemed too undisciplined and too old to make good combat pilots. After some foul ups in training and the obligatory romantic interludes, they made good and proved themselves to be assets to the war effort.

The film was very much a propaganda piece, and featured an a cappella rendition of "There'll Always Be an England" by Reginald Gardiner, who played another bush pilot.

Answer: Michael Redgrave

Michael Redgrave played the extraordinary Barnes Wallis, a scientist, designer and inventor whose brain was always working. The movie spent as much time on his development of the bouncing bomb idea to a workable state as it did on the actual raid on the dams, and made for fascinating viewing. Richard Todd played Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, who led the raid on the Ruhr Dams utilising Wallis's invention.

Answer: Ray Kinsella

In "Field of Dreams" Ray heard voices telling him to build a baseball diamond in his corn field with the promise that "if you build it, he will come". After the diamond was built a number of people, including members of the 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox did indeed arrive in Ray's field. Ray Liotta appeared as Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Answer: Citizen Kane

"Rosebud" was the last word spoken by Charles Foster Kane, and its meaning was not revealed until the very end of the movie, nor will it be revealed here. Welles played Kane, a less than loveable, self-made newspaper tycoon who was not above using his friends to get ahead. Joseph Cotten appeared as one of those friends, Jedediah Leland.

The rosebud in the photo is in my own garden.

Answer: Don Murray

Cowboy Bo tried to force singer Cherie to ride the bus with him to his ranch so they could be married, but his plans started to unravel when they (and the rest of the passengers) got stuck at the "Bus Stop" by a blocked road.

Don Murray's other credits include "Baby the Rain Must Fall" (1965) and "The Hoodlum Priest" (1961).

Answer: Goin' Down the Road

Doug McGrath and Paul Bradley played friends Peter and Joey, and the largely bleak tale of their quest for a perfect (or at least better) life was punctuated by some funny and many poignant scenes, as they sometimes aimed higher than they should have in the job market.

Answer: Quebec City

Clift played a priest, Father Michael Logan, who heard the confession of a murderer and, unable to tell the police what he learned, became a suspect himself to the point of being tried and convicted. The truth did come out in the end, but not before Logan was attacked by an angry mob.