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The Long Good Friday
 





London on film

The bittersweet, London-set Born Romantic is on release this week. Hop on the trivia Routemaster to navigate the twists and turns of our capital film quiz. Are you at home at 84 Charing Cross Road, or does London Kill You?

Question 1 What does Anthony Hopkins send Anne Bancroft in 84 Charing Cross Road?
 
  Liver, fava beans and a nice chianti
  Train timetables from Charing Cross station
  Rare volumes of first editions
  Back copies of The Listener
 
Question 2 What's Clint's beef with the capital in Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me?
 
  The daily diet of car pollution
  He can't get a job without a new pair of shoes
  He keeps getting knocked down by couriers on bikes
  Japanese tourists clogging up the escalator
 
Question 3 What was the name of Patsy Kensit's character in Absolute Beginners?
 
  Eighth Wonder
  Patsy Pancake
  Suzy Oasis
  Crepe Suzette
 
Question 4 What did James Fox do immediately after making the hallucinatory Notting Hill thriller Performance?
 
  Retired from acting to become a Christian
  Played bass with the Rolling Stones
  Set up a Notting Hill housing co-operative with a 'bohemian atmosphere'
  Starred in the Disney flick The Fox and the Hounds
 
Question 5 Which bit of memorabilia from the film Notting Hill was sold last year for £9,300?
 
  The original manuscript by Richard Curtis
  The blue front door of Hugh Grant's character's house
  Rhys Ifans's grey Y-fronts
  Julia Roberts' T-shirt which got covered in orange juice
 
Question 6 What does Michael Caine call his girlfriends in Alfie?
 
  Er indoors
  Darlin
  It
  A rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear
 
Question 7 Which actor did NOT direct an episode of the flop 1999 portmanteau picture Tube Tales?
 
  Bob Hoskins
  Sean Pertwee
  Jude Law
  Ewan McGregor
 
Question 8 Bob Hoskins finds his Greenwich business empire threatened in The Long Good Friday. What is his business?
 
  An eels and mash chain in the East End
  A chauffeur service for high-class prostitutes
  Building the first Millennium Dome
  Developing Docklands
 
Question 9 What betrays Kevin Kline's ignorance of London in A Fish Called Wanda?
 
  He asks a taxi-driver to go south of the river
  He thinks the London Underground is a political movement
  He thinks Home is a nice cosy place where you can put your feet up
  He thinks rent in central London is rather reasonable
 
Question 10 Which film about London has Dexter Fletcher NOT starred in
 
  Tube Tales
  The Rachel Papers
  The Krays
  Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
 
 


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