BFI Membership Quiz #164

Test your film and TV knowledge to win.

30 November 2023

To celebrate the beloved The Red Shoes showing at BFI Southbank, we wanted to test your knowledge about artists on film.

You can complete the quiz just for fun, but for the chance to win a joint pair of tickets to watch The Red Shoes in the Spotlight talk at 6pm followed by a screening of The Red Shoes at 8:25pm on Friday 8 December, please enter before midday Monday 4 December.

The accompanying free exhibition, The Red Shoes: Beyond the Mirror, closes on 7 January 2024 – be sure to book your free slot to view over 100 previously unseen costume and production designs, scripts, photographs and posters as well as personal items belonging to Moira Shearer.

Please check your email to see if you win on Monday afternoon, as we do not want you to miss out on using the tickets.

When you finish, scroll down to view your score and enter our prize draw by following the link. Then fill in the short form and click submit. Good luck!

Congratulations to last week’s winner, Yvonne S!

Save the Last Dance (2001)
Credit: © Paramount Pictures

In Save the Last Dance (2001), what was the dance school that Sara (Julia Stiles) auditioned for?
- Point Park University
- Juilliard School
- Tisch School of Arts
- Fordham University
Ballet Shoes (2007)

Who played Posy Fossil in the BBC film adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes (2007).
- Emma Watson
- Lucy Boynton
- Yasmin Paige
- Bonnie Wright
Billy Elliot (2000)

From the film Billy Elliot (2000), finish the sentence “And I’ve got this fire in my body, I’m just there. Flyin like a bird. Like —”
- an eagle
- a firework
- electricity
- a rocket
Creature (2022)

Choreographed by Akram Khan and directed by Academy Award-winning director Asif Kapadia, Creature (2022) is a genre-busting collaboration that fuses film and contemporary dance based on which acclaimed production?
- Sadler’s Wells Theatre
- National Dance Company Wales
- Scottish Ballet
- English National Ballet
Black Swan (2010)

Black Swan (2010) director Darren Aronofsky has mentioned a story by which of these writers as an influence on the film?
- Albert Camus
- Franz Kafka
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Nikolai Gogol
Anna Pavlova - A Woman for All Time (1983)

Who of the following did not star in Anna Pavlova – A Woman for All Time (1983), a film about the titular ballet dancer’s life?
- Bruce Forsyth
- Martin Scorsese
- Michael Powell
- Roy Kinnear
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001)

In a 2001 film directed by Paul Cox, The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, which actor provided voiceover readings from Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky’s diary?
- Derek Jacobi
- Paul Scofield
- Ian McKellen
- Malcolm McDowell
The Turning Point (1977)

The Turning Point (1977) starring Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft was nominated for 11 Academy awards. How many did it win?
- 5
- 2
- 0
- 1
The Company (2003)

Neve Campbell stars in the Robert Altman film The Company (2003), but which other roles did she undertake on the film?
- writer and co-director
- writer and co-producer
- co-producer and art director
- choreographer
Fame (1980)

What was the name of the actress who played the talented female ballet dancer Hilary in Fame (1980), directed by Alan Parker?
- Antonia Franceschi
- Lori Singer
- Meg Tilly
- Sarah Jessica Parker