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Going undercover

The week that two films that feature characters in very different kinds of disguise open (Big Momma's House and Relative Values), we thought what better opportunity to don the shades and the false nose, and test your knowledge of going undercover in the movies

Question 1 By day she is Barbara Kopetski, the stilettoed, leather-wearing tough owner of the nightclub Hammerhead. By night she's Barb Wire, a bounty hunter in a futuristic America ravaged by its second civil war. Who plays her?
 
  Cindy Crawford
  Gwyneth Paltrow
  Claudia Schiffer
  Pamela Anderson Lee
 
Question 2 Which Hitchcock film of mistaken identity features Eva Marie Saint as a double agent who is required to fall for Cary Grant, only to genuinely fall in love with him?
 
  North by Northwest
  Rope
  Marnie
  Vertigo
 
Question 3 Why do Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress up as women in Some Like It Hot?
 
  The husband of Tony Curtis's ex-mistress is out for revenge
  They only work they can find in Depression-era America is as drag artists
  It is the only way they can get close to Marilyn Monroe, who plays in an all-girl band
  The mob is after them
 
Question 4 Why does Eddie Murphy's fabulously rich African Prince go to live incognito in a slum in New York in Coming To America?
 
  To learn about living in a society where black men are treated as second-rate citizens
  To find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will
  To sow his wild oats away from his homeland
  To study the city's architecture
 
Question 5 Which of these identities has James Bond NOT assumed in the course of his adventures?
 
  A Swiss banker
  A heraldic expert
  A Japanese peasant
  A cardboard cutout
 
Question 6 Dressed as German civilians and almost out of occupied territory, Richard Attenborough and Gordon Jackson (The Great Escape) are tricked into speaking English, thereby revealing their true identities. What is said?
 
  The official says "Rule Britannia", Gordon Jackson replies "Britons never ever shall be slaves"
  The German official says "Good luck", Gordon Jackson replies "Thank you very much"
  The official says "Do you have a light?", Gordon Jackson replies "No I don't smoke"
  The official says "Nice weather we're having", Gordon Jackson replies "Yes, for the time of year"
 
Question 7 Whoopi Goldberg plays a woman forced to take sanctuary in a convent and pretend to be a nun in Sister Act. What was her original profession?
 
  Nightclub singer
  Computer programmer
  Waitress
  Prostitute
 
Question 8 "I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man." Lines from which film?
 
  Psycho
  Ed Wood
  Some like it Hot
  Tootsie
 
Question 9 Larry Fishburne plays an undercover cop in Deep Cover. What criminal group is he trying to infiltrate?
 
  A Manhattan child-pornography ring
  A west coast drugs smuggling ring
  A Hollywood bootleg video racket
  A right-wing extremist group intent on bringing down the government
 
Question 10 How does Princess Leia realise that Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca aren't in fact real stormtroopers?
 
  Luke's light sabre is peeking out of the top of his gun belt
  Han Solo has his helmet on back to front
  Luke looks too short to be a stormtrooper
  Chewbecca is too hairy to be a stormtrooper
 
 


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