Bumper TV + film quiz of 2024: 15 questions to test how closely you've been watching

Who won the best actor Oscar? Who played Galinda in Wicked? 

Bumper TV + film quiz of 2024: 15 questions to test how closely you've been watching

1. Who won the 2024 Academy Award for Best Actor?

2. Which novel by Jilly Cooper was adapted into a widely-praised series on Disney+?

3. Who presented RTÉ factual series Musical Atlas of Ireland?

 4. Which Irish actor played the lead character in Gladiator II?

5. Cork actress Eileen Walsh played Cillian Murphy’s wife in which film?

6. Which popular Netflix series featured glimpses at a couple’s relationship on July 15 through the years?

7. Andrew Scott shone in Ripley, adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel. Name the country it’s set in?

8. Who played Galinda in the film Wicked?

9. Name the reverend with Cork connections who was a member of pop group the Communards and recently finished third in I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here?

10. Richard Gadd starred in which autobiographical series about a man and his stalker?

11. Jonathon Glazer directed which Auschwitz-set drama that won the best international film award at the Oscars?

12. Visitors to Cork International Film Festival in November included director Bruce Robinson and actor Paul McGann. The duo collaborated on which celebrated British film in 1987?

13. In the hit Australian comedy series Colin From Accounts, what sort of creature is Colin? (Hint: not an accountant)

14. Shōgun was widely hailed as one of the year’s best TV series. In which country is it set?

15. Who is this?

 

ANSWERS

 1. Cillian Murphy 2. Rivals 3. John Creedon 4. Paul Mescal 5. Small Things Like These 6. One Day 7. Italy 8. Ariana Grande 9. Richard Coles 10. Baby Reindeer 11. The Zone of Interest 12. Withnail and I 13. A dog 14. Japan 15. Tony O’Donoghue