BFI Membership Quiz #80

Test your film and TV knowledge.

20 January 2022

This week’s quiz celebrates our current season: To the Ends of the Earth. Test your knowledge of expedition-themed film and TV, with questions compiled especially for our Members by the BFI Reuben Library.

You can complete the quiz just for fun but, for a chance to win a year of BFI Membership, don’t forget to submit your details into the prize draw before Monday 24 January. If you win, your existing Membership will be extended for a year for free.

Congratulations to Zeynep Erpamir who won the prize draw in our last quiz.

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South: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic (1919)

In Frank Hurley’s film South (1919), a member of the crew is introduced as “Mr Chippy”. But what was it?
- A sledging Husky
- A dissected squid
- The ship’s cat
- Perce Blackborow’s frost-bitten toe
Shackleton (2002)

During the miniseries Shackleton (2002), why does Shackleton threaten to shoot McNish, the carpenter?
- He will not share his tobacco
- He burnt the seal steaks
- He tried to incite mutiny
- He stole food supplies
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

In the introduction to Encounters at the End of the World (2007), what is Werner Herzog adamant the film will not include?
- Fluffy penguins
- Climate change
- Cthulhu
- Captain Scott
To the Ends of the Earth: The Transglobe Expedition (1983)

When the expedition team reach the South Pole in To the Ends of the Earth: The Transglobe Expedition (1983), how do they celebrate?
- Strip off and make snow-angels
- Play the first (and only) game of cricket
- Make champagne slushy shots
- Steal the mirror ball marking the Pole
Whiteout (2009)

In Whiteout (2009), what does Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) leave behind when she escapes?
- An alien blood sample found in a crevasse
- Six cylinders of lethal nerve gas
- Two large diamonds in a reindeer-hide pouch
- The skin from her fingers on a frozen, metal door handle
The Revenant (2015)

In The Revenant (2015) what was frontiersman Hugh Glass’s occupation that led to his unfortunate bear encounter and subsequent fight for survival? Was he…
- A guide
- A lumberjack
- A prospector
- A trapper
Touching the Void (2003)

Touching The Void (2003) was based on the true story of two climbers’ perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. Where does Richard sleep on the way up to base camp?
- Tent
- Donkey shed
- Cabin
- Pigsty
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) undertakes his endeavour in Fitzcarraldo (1982) to raise the money for which venture?
- Railway
- Opera house
- Copper mine
- Library
The North Water (2021)

What is the name of the whaling ship in The North Water (2021)?
- The Britannia
- The William
- The Volunteer
- The Indispensable
Free Solo (2018)

What is the name of the rock formation scaled by Alex Honnold in the Oscar-winning documentary feature Free Solo (2018)?
- City of Rocks National Reserve – Idaho
- Smith Rock – Oregon
- Wild Iris – Wyoming
- El Capitan – California