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Thelma and Louise
 





Feminist icons

Released this week, Luc Besson's Joan of Arc pays tribute to history's ultimate feminist icon. Take our quiz and see how much you know about cinema's women on top

Question 1 Who plays Jane Fonda's female adversary, the Black Queen, in Barbarella?
 
  Erica Gavin
  Jean Seberg
  Barbra Streisand
  Anita Pallenberg
 
Question 2 What did Madonna send director Alan Parker to persuade him to cast her as the eponymous heroine in Evita?
 
  A million dollars
  A demo tape of her singing Don't Cry For Me Argentina
  A copy of her Take a Bow video
  Her college dissertation on Eva Peron
 
Question 3 Who will be taking over Jodie Foster's role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal, the sequel to Silence of the Lambs?
 
  Hilary Swank
  Cameron Diaz
  Cate Blanchett
  Julianne Moore
 
Question 4 What's unusual about Raquel Welch's character in Myra Breckinridge?
 
  She has no on-screen dialogue
  She is the world's first female serial-killer
  She plays a post-operative transsexual
  She has a multiple personality disorder
 
Question 5 Why did Sigourney Weaver nearly not play Ripley in Alien?
 
  She was recovering from rhinoplasty
  The part was originally written for a man
  She had been offered the lead in Yentl
  She thought a sci-fi film would harm her reputation as a serious actress
 
Question 6 Name the American actress who has made over 40 martial arts films in Hollywood and Hong Kong?
 
  Carrie-Anne Moss
  Chuckina Norris
  Jessica Tandy
  Cynthia Rothrock
 
Question 7 What was the tagline to Thelma and Louise?
 
  Two chicks, a Chevvy and a cliff
  You'll be gunning for them
  Somebody said get a life... so they did
  Two housewives jump out of the frying-pan and into the fire
 
Question 8 Which of these characters did Joan Crawford NOT play?
 
  Vienna in Johnny Guitar
  Margo Channing in All About Eve
  Blanche Hudson in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
  Mildred Pierce in Mildred Pierce
 
Question 9 What was the English title given to Josiane Balasko's 1996 film of a love triangle with a difference, Gazon Maudit?
 
  French Twist
  Three's a Crowd
  The Odd Couple
  Queer as folk
 
Question 10 How does Holly Hunter's character nearly perish in The Piano?
 
  On the way to New Zealand her ship runs aground in a storm
  She falls into the sea attached to a piano
  She is attacked by drunken Maoris
  She accidentally sticks her metal finger in a plug socket
 
 


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