Kings, Queens and other Nobles Quiz

"The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" is a 1994 cult Australian movie. It focuses on three drag queens based in Sydney who make a trip to the central Australian Town of Alice Springs to perform their act at the town casino that is managed by the estranged wife of Tick. With him on the trip is 'Felicia' a younger flamboyant drag queen and 'Bernadette' an older transgender woman whose partner has recently died.

They make the trip in a lavender bus that they name Priscilla and the majority of the movie is about the events that happen and people they meet, many of whom are actively homophobic, on the long drive through the conservative outback.

The movie was known for its soundtrack and magnificent costumes and led to a musical that opened in 2006.

The 2006 historical drama "The Last King of Scotland" is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Giles Foden. It follows a young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan, who travels to Uganda in 1970 to work at a missionary clinic. A series of events lead to his paths crossing with Idi Amin just prior to his coup d'etat and becoming his personal physician.

The movie follows basic historical accuracy of Amin's brutal dictatorship but weaves it with the fictional storyline of Garrigan who falls in love with one of Amin's wives.

After Uganda's independence from Britain in 1962 Amin had become fascinated by Scotland who had also fought against them in the past. When all diplomatic ties were broken during Amin's reign he declared himself 'Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa' and made the offer to Scotland to become their king and free them from them from British oppression. The offer was not accepted.

"The Emperor's New Groove" was a 2000 animated Disney movie set in the Peruvian Incan Empire. It focuses on the spoilt, young Emperor Kuzco who decides to destroy the nearby village for a summer home and fires his advisor, Yzma, both on the night before his eighteenth birthday.

Yzma and her henchmen attempt to poison Kuzco but use the wrong vial and end up turning him into a llama by mistake. Kuzco's fate lies with the leader of the village he intends to destroy.

The movie was originally planned as an epic Disney musical in the manner of "The Lion King", with the same director and original songs by Sting, named "Kingdom of the Sun". Creative differences dragged preproduction out for 6 years, they lost the director and it was eventually released as a light comedy.

"Quarterback Princess" was a 1983 sports drama based on the true story of Tami Maida. The Maida family moved to Philometh, Oregon in 1980 and Tami attended the local high school where she tried out for the high school football team.

The movie follows her struggle to play on the team when everyone else is against her. Not only does she eventually succeed but she gets to play quarterback on the junior varsity team and win the championship. In 1981 she graduated and was elected homecoming princess.

"The Prince of Tides" is a 1991 movie, based on Pat Conroy's 1986 novel, with Barbra Streisand acting, directing and producing. Streisand plays a psychiatrist who is treating a suicidal patient and begins seeing her brother to try and find out the dysfunctional family dynamics.

Tom travels to New York and begins to have flashbacks of his abusive father and manipulative mother. Eventually a story unfolds of three escaped convicts who invaded their home when he was 13 who raped him, his mother and sister. His brother and mother killed them and buried them underneath their house and the incident was never referred to again by the family.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" is a 2002 movie based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is centered around a sailor named Dantes in post Napoleon France, his best friend Fernand wants his girlfriend Mercedes so accuses Dantes of treason.

Dantes is imprisoned on the infamous island prison Chateau d'If. After 13 years he manages to escape and transform himself into the wealthy fictional Count of Monte Cristo and sets about exacting his revenge.

The basic plot follows the novel but both the relationships and ending were modified. Dantes and Fernand are not friends in the novel but the scriptwriters believed that the betrayal would be that much worse if they were.

"My Fair Lady" began as a 1913 stage play called "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. That was then made into a 1938 movie. Lerner and Loewe turned it into a musical in 1956 and the film version followed its success in 1964. All are loosely based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion who created a statue of a beautiful lady and then fell in love with it.

Phonetics professor Henry Higgins believes that someone's accent determines their place in society and that he could turn someone into an acceptable lady by teaching them how to speak correctly. All local cockney London flower seller Eliza Doolittle wants is to work in a flower shop but her accent makes it impossible so she volunteers to take part in the experiment.

Rex Harrison plays Henry Higgins in both the stage and film version but Julie Andrews, who played Eliza on stage, was replaced by Audrey Hepburn in the movie.

"The Student Prince" began as an 1898 novel "Karl Heinrich" by Wilhelm Meyer-Forster. He then turned it into a romantic play in 1901 under its current name, an operetta was performed in 1908 and a full opera in 1924. Six movies followed between 1919 and 1959 and the musical in 1954.

The storyline revolves around Prince Karl, the heir to a small German Kingdom. His bride to be decides he is much too stuffy so his father sends him to the Heidelberg University to learn how to socialise. He figures out how to make friends and falls in love with a local barmaid but then his father falls ill and he has to choose between his country and his own happiness.

"The Last Princess of Manchuria" is a 1990 movie that follows the true life drama of Yoshiko Kawashima, the 14th princess of Prince Su of the Qing dynasty. Prince Su sent Yoshiko to Japan to be trained as a spy and she was married off to a Mongol prince.

She then helped set up Manchuko - a Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, north-eastern China and became a commander in their army and a Japanese spy. After the second Sino-Japanese War she was captured and executed as a traitor by the Chinese.

"The King and I" is a 1956 musical which is based on the successful 1951 stage musical. The musical was based on the Margaret Landon 1944 novel "Anna and the King of Siam" which she based on Anna Leonowens' own memoirs of her time as the school teacher to King Mongkut's children in 1860s Siam.

Yul Brynner starred as the king in both the stage musical, the movie and a 1972 sitcom called "Anna and the King." The sitcom continues the platonic infatuation between the two stars that permeates the musical as two very different cultures clash without any common ground.