10 Questions: Movies by the Number Match Quiz | Movies

Answer: Trick Pony

He was not only the star, but also the scriptwriter for this 1980 film about a former star who has not had a hit for ten years, and is reduced to opening for, rather than being, the headline band in concerts. While trying to organise a new recording deal, he is also trying to save his failing marriage and maintain a positive relationship with his son.

Despite the similarities of the events in Jonah's professional and personal life to Simon's own, the film is not described as autobiographical. The music for the film featured the songs on an album of the same name, released simultaneously, and recorded with the same musicians as in the film (but not identical takes).

Answer: It Takes

In this 1995 romantic comedy, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen play an orphan, Amanda Lemmon, and a wealthy girl, Alyssa Callaway, two identical albeit unrelated girls who meet at summer camp, and decide that Amanda's social worker and Alyssa's widowed father would be perfect for each other.

They swap places to manipulate their respective adults. It works, exactly as it did for Hayley Mills in the 1961 Disney film 'The Parent Trap', and the 1998 remake with Lindsay Lohan. When Roger (Steve Guttenberg) and Diane (Kirstie Alley) realise they are perfect for each other, Amanda is saved from adoption by the evil Butkis family, and Alyssa avoids being sent to boarding school in Tibet by the scheming Clarise, who almost managed to organise a marriage with Roger.

Answer: Coins In The Fountain

This 1954 romantic comedy featured Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters and Maggie McNamara as three women looking for love while working in Rome. The title refers to the superstition that throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain while making a wish will ensure that it comes true. Two of the women perform this ritual near the start of the film, and by the end all three have found love, embracing their partners in front of the fountain.

The 18th century fountain has been popular with filmmakers - it featured in a number of movies, including 'Roman Holiday' (1954), 'La Dolce Vita' (1960) and 'Sabrina Goes to Rome' (1998). Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn won an Oscar for Best Original Song, and the title song has become a standard in the crooner repertoire.

Answer: Weddings and a Funeral

Hugh Grant's character, Charles, is at the centre of the storyline as he attends a series of social events and tries to find love (which he does, of course, with Andie McDowell's character). His famous winsome charm makes a significant contribution to the appeal of this 1994 romantic comedy, but the script gives a real ensemble feel to the movie, with some of the incidental characters providing the most memorable moments of the film. My particular favorite is Rowan Atkinson as Father Gerald, performing the second wedding.

Answer: Easy Pieces

Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) is an oil rig worker with a secret past - he comes from a wealthy family, and was a childhood prodigy on the piano. The title refers to five pieces performed during the movie, two written by Chopin, two by Mozart, one by Bach.

The sound track also features some songs sung by Tammy Wynette, because Bobby's girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) dreams of being a country music star. Neither her pregnancy nor his father's imminent death keep Bobby from acting like a self-loathing alienated narcissist - no mean feat, and a performance for which Jack Nicholson was widely praised.

Answer: Degrees Of Separation

'Six Degrees of Separation' was adapted in 1993 from a play of the same name, both inspired by real events from the 1980s. Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland play the Kittredges, a wealthy couple who are taken in by Paul (Will Smith), who pretends to be a college friend of their children and the son of Sidney Poitier when he shows up at their door injured and claiming to have been mugged outside their place.

He's good - they not only put him up and arrange medical attention, they lend him money and enjoy his company until it all falls apart and they kick him out.

The fallout from this experience leads the Kittredges, especially the wife, to undertake some serious reevaluation of their lives.

Answer: Year Itch

This 1955 romantic comedy contains one of the most famous visuals in film - Marilyn Monroe, as The Girl, standing over a subway grate from which the rising air blows her billowing white skirt all over the place. Richard Sherman (played by Tom Ewell) is a summer widower - his wife and son are in Maine for the summer, and he is on his own in New York City.

He is tempted to have a sexual relationship with the model who moves into the apartment above, but ends up heading off to Maine. Billy Wilder, the director, has said that he dislikes the film, and wishes he had never made it - Hollywood censorship rules meant that nothing could happen between Richard and the girl, whereas the original play did involve a sexual relationship.

Answer: Men Out

In 1919, eight members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team were bribed to make sure their team lost the World Series, an event which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. This 1988 film is a dramatization of the events, exploring the motivation for the players, and the tensions between them and their teammates who were unaware of what was happening.

The Series duly lost, an investigation was launched, and two of the players confessed; while they were acquitted of any legal wrongdoing, they were banned for life from playing in Major League Baseball.

Answer: To Five

Judy (Jane Fonda) is a secretary supervised in her job by Violet (Lily Tomlin); their obnoxious boss Frank Hart (Dabney Coleman) has been spreading rumors that he is having an affair with his personal secretary Doralee (Dolly Parton). Instead of just putting up with his behavior, and/or fantasizing about revenge, the three decide to retaliate with actions.

The theme song for this 1980 comedy, written and recorded by Dolly Parton, became one of her biggest hits, and her performance here was the start of a significant film career.

The idea for the film came from Jane Fonda, who wanted it to illustrate that offices can survive without bosses, but not without the office employees who really make things work.

Answer: Little Indians

Agatha Christie's story of ten people isolated on an island who start to be killed, one by one, in manners the reflect the lines of a nursery rhyme, has been adapted to film multiple times. The 1945 version, released with the title 'And Then there Were None' in the US, was fairly close to the original novel, but the ending was changed to allow the two young people, who were "not all that guilty" and falling in love with each other, to survive.

The 1965 version moved the setting from an island to a snowbound mansion, and kept the changed ending.

The 1989 version involved people who had won an African safari. Then there was a Filipino film, in Tagalog, not to mention a number of other films using the idea but not the exact title.