Home Movies Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rihanna

"Home" was based on the children's book, "The True Meaning of Smekday" (2007) by Adam Rex and although it performed well at cinemas, critics did say that the plot, concerning the friendship between an oddball alien and a lonely teenage girl was predictable, even for children. The movie also starred the voices of Steve Martin, Jim Parsons and Jennifer Lopez, who played Rihanna's mother.

Answer: Paris

"Home Alone" has, in the years since its release remained popular and is essential Christmas viewing for many families. It was such a successful movie that there were actually four sequels and three "Home Alone" video games released to cash in its popularity, although none of them were as successful as the original which held the Guinness World Record as the highest-grossing live-action comedy from 1990 until 2017.

Answer: Chance, Shadow and Sassy

This movie about an American Bulldog named Chance, Shadow the Golden Retriever and a cat called Sassy was a remake of a 1963 Disney movie called "The Incredible Journey". In the original movie however the animals were a Labrador Retriever named Luath, Bodger the Bull Terrier, and a Siamese cat named Tao, whose journey was across Canada.

Answer: Star Trek

"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" was the 1986 follow up to "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" (1984) and starred the cast of the much loved TV series, as well as being directed by Leonard Nimoy who plays Mr. Spock. The film was a huge success, grossing almost $40 million in its first week of release in USA and Nimoy would go on to direct "Three Men and a Baby", starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson the following year.

Answer: Morgan Freeman

"The Long Way Home" was a documentary about the antisemitism suffered by Jews in Europe at the end of World War II and the formation of the state of Israel. In addition to Freeman, it also features the voices of Miriam Margolyes, Sean Astin and Ed Asner and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, beating out documentaries about the Waco siege, Ayn Rand and the Birmingham, Alabama bombing of 1963.

Answer: Judi Dench

All of the possible answers have been honoured with the title of Dame, but it is Dame Judi Dench who gave us the voice of Mrs. Caloway, the rather prim and proper cow, alongside Barr's game for anything Maggie and Tilly's cow named Grace, who always reminds me of a bovine version of "Friends" character, Phoebe Buffay.

The movie also featured Cuba Gooding Jr. voicing a horse named Buck and Randy Quaid as a yodeling cattle rustler.

Answer: Jodie Foster

Foster who won Best Actress Oscar's for "The Accused" in 1988 and 1991's "Silence of the Lambs" was director on this not so successful movie, having previously directed "Little Man Tate" in 1991. Although critics praised Foster's direction of the movie, it was a a box office failure, grossing less than $18 million at American cinemas and costing $20 million to make.

Answer: Raquel Welch

"A House is not a Home" starred Shelley Winters and Cesar Romano and was based on the autobiography of Polly Adler, a successful brothel madam with ties to mobster Charles "Lucky" Luciano. In the same year as making her debut in this movie, Welch had a small part in the Elvis Presley film, "Roustabout" (1964), but it is for 1966's "One Million Years B.C." that she will always be remembered, even though she had only three lines of dialogue.

Answer: Montgomery Bus Boycott

One of the most famous events in the American civil rights movements was the backdrop for this excellent movie in which Spacek's character is forced to choose between doing what is right or following the wishes of her husband. Interestingly, one of the buses used in the movie is the actual Montgomery Bus Lines bus 2857, the very bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955, providing the catalyst for the boycott.

Answer: Bob Dylan

For well made documentaries on musical icons, Scorsese is the man, having also made movies about the Rolling Stones, the Band and George Harrison. "No Direction Home" covers the five years in Dylan's career from 1961 to 1966, as he moved from a traditional folk sound to rock based music and featured rare concert footage as well as artists such as Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and Dave Van Ronk discussing the impact Dylan has had on music.