BFI Membership Quiz #105

Test your film and TV knowledge to win.

4 August 2022

This week’s quiz celebrates the history of Reggae on Film, with a collection of questions on Jamaican and reggae-related cinema. All questions have been compiled especially for our Members by the BFI Reuben Library.

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Babylon (1980)

Franco Rosso’s drama Babylon (1980) is an incendiary portrait of racial tension and police brutality set where?
- Birmingham
- Brixton
- Bradford
- Brighton
Rockers (1978)

In Theodoros Bafaloukos’s film Rockers (1978), about a drummer in a Kingston ghetto trying to make extra money, what does Horsemouth buy to carry records to the sound systems around Jamaica?
- Pick-up truck
- Wagon
- Motorcycle
- Boat
The Upsetter (2008)

The Upsetter (2008), a documentary film about the Grammy Award-winning Jamaican music icon Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, is narrated by whom?
- Javier Bardem
- Morgan Freeman
- James Earl Jones
- Benicio Del Toro
No Place Like Home: Redux (2019)

Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell found, restored, recut and released his ‘lost’ film No Place Like Home: Redux in 2019, but when was the footage for the film originally shot?
- 1963
- 1973
- 1983
- 1993
Do the Right Thing (1989)

Dreadtown (2017) tells the story of British reggae group Steel Pulse, but what track did they contribute to Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) soundtrack?
- Can’t Stand It
- Handsworth Revolution
- State of Emergency
- Love This Reggae Music
Inna De Yard: The Soul of Jamaica (2019)

Inna De Yard: The Soul of Jamaica (2019) shows the band performing in concert at which Parisian venue?
- Studio de l’Ermitage
- Le Trianon
- La Maroquinerie
- Salle Pleyel
The Harder They Come (1972)

Ivan and his friend go to see which film at their local cinema in the 1972 film The Harder They Come?
- Sabata
- A Fistful of Dollars
- Django
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Third World Cop (1999)

In Third World Cop (1999), what is the nickname of one of the pairs of mercenaries who are also tasked with taking down the arms-trafficking ring, in direct competition to undercover policeman Capone (Paul Campbell)?
- Not Right
- Not Cheap
- No Honour
- Not Nice
Countryman (1982)

What is the story fabricated by authorities around the young American couple who crash-land their plane in Jamaica in Dickie Jobson’s Countryman (1982)?
- They are drugs/arms smugglers involved with the CIA
- They are white supremacists on a sabotage mission
- They are bank robbers on the FBI’s most-wanted list
- They are terrorists on the run
Rudeboy (2019)

Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records (2018) chronicles the history of the influential record label. When was it launched?
- 1958
- 1968
- 1972
- 1981