The films of Sean Connery: 10 questions

1. In which 1964 Alfred Hitchcock film does Sean Connery play wealthy publisher Mark Rutland, starring along side Tippi Hedren as the title character?
2. Which two actors succeeded Sean Connery as James Bond?
3. In which two films, released just 2 years apart in the 1970s, has Sean Connery appeared in a starring role alongside his close friend in real life, Michael Caine?
4. What is the name of Indiana Jones’ father, as portrayed by Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
5. In which film does Sir Sean utter the immortally dreadful line “Let yourself feel the stag”?
6. Sean Connery plays the lead role in which adaptation of a book by Umberto Eco?
7. Sean Connery’s film production company is named after the area of Edinburgh he was brought up in. What is it called?
8. In which 1957 action film does Sean Connery play a truck driver at Hawlett’s Haulage, starring opposite William Hartnell, Herbert Lom, Stanley Baker and Patrick McGoohan, many of them like Connery early in their careers before they achieved stardom?
9. Sean Connery reprised the role of James Bond in the unofficial 1983 film Never Say Never Again. Which earlier Bond film, also starring Connery, was it a remake of?
10. The 1965 film The Hill, starring Sean Connery, Michael Redgrave and Roy Kinnear is set in which kind of establishment?

Answers below (scroll down)

1. In which 1964 Alfred Hitchcock film does Sean Connery play wealthy publisher Mark Rutland, starring along side Tippi Hedren as the title character?
   A: Marnie
2. Which two actors succeeded Sean Connery as James Bond?
   A: George Lazenby (after Connery’s first retirement following You Only Live Twice), and Roger Moore (after Connery’s second retirement following Diamonds Are Forever)
3. In which two films, released just 2 years apart in the 1970s, has Sean Connery appeared in a starring role alongside his close friend in real life, Michael Caine?
   A: The Man Who Would Be King, and A Bridge Too Far
4. What is the name of Indiana Jones’ father, as portrayed by Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
   A: Henry
5. In which film does Sir Sean utter the immortally dreadful line “Let yourself feel the stag”?
   A: Highlander
6. Sean Connery plays the lead role in which adaptation of a book by Umberto Eco?
   A: The Name of the Rose
7. Sean Connery’s film production company is named after the area of Edinburgh he was brought up in. What is it called?
   A: Fountainbridge
8. In which 1957 action film does Sean Connery play a truck driver at Hawlett’s Haulage, starring opposite William Hartnell, Herbert Lom, Stanley Baker and Patrick McGoohan, many of them like Connery early in their careers before they achieved stardom?
   A: Hell Drivers
9. Sean Connery reprised the role of James Bond in the unofficial 1983 film Never Say Never Again. Which earlier Bond film, also starring Connery, was it a remake of?
   A: Thunderball
10. The 1965 film The Hill, starring Sean Connery, Michael Redgrave and Roy Kinnear is set in which kind of establishment?
    A: An army prison