This week's re-release of Fritz Lang's classic 1939 thriller You Only Live Once only goes to show the evergreen appeal of the classic film-noir. The genre has warped and changed in the decades since its Forties heday but its cool, dark essence stays the same. Take our quiz and find out how clued up you are about this most hard-boiled and exotic of movie breeds.

		What did Raymond Chandler do before he became a pulp fiction writer?
			He was a journalist at the Daily Express
			He was an insurance salesman
			He was a romantic fiction writer
			He dealt penicillin on the black market in post-war Vienna
		In which film noir did Lee Marvin throw a cup of boiling coffee in Gloria Grahame's face?
			The Big Sleep
			The Big Combo
			The Big Easy
			The Big Heat
		And what did Faye Dunaway throw in Roman Polanski's face on the set of Chinatown when the director refused to let her go to the bathroom?
			The box the diminutive Polanski stood on to direct
			A cup of warm urine
			Her dry Martini
			Freud's The Ego and the Id
		What do Janet Leigh's kidnappers do to her in A Touch of Evil?
			Inject her with heroin
			Force her into a marriage with Tony Curtis
			Stab her in the shower
			Get her drunk on tequila
		Why did Orson Welles consider having a body double in The Third Man?
			He had a groin strain and couldn't run
			He thought he was acting in a remake of The Thin Man
			He couldn't see very well because of the film's chiaroscuro "low-key" lighting and was afraid he would fall over and break his leg
			He was asthmatic and afraid of the damp air in the sewer scenes
		Which film noir actress was Kim Basinger paying homage to in LA Confidential?
			Lana Turner
			Veronica Lake
			Rita Hayworth
			Barbara Stanwyck
		In The Manchurian Candidate how does Senator's wife, Angela Lansbury, come up with the number of Communists in the Defense Department?
			She sees her husband pouring Heinz 57 ketchup on his steak
			She calculates how many people in the Department didn't send her a Christmas card
			She counts the number of letters in McCarthy
			She multiplies the number of Murder, She Wrote episodes she'd starred in by 3 and adds 10
		Why did Montgomery Clift turn down the role of Joe Gillies in Sunset Boulevard?
			He couldn't swim and refused to lie face down in a swimming pool
			He was furious with director Billy Wilder for not casting him in Double Indemnity
			He thought that playing the boyfriend of Gloria Swanson would damage his career
			The hard-boiled nature of the writing depressed him
		The tagline "He's as fast on the draw as he is in the drawing room?" was attached to which actor in which classic noir?
			Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon
			Ed MacMurray in Double Indemnity
			Alan Ladd in The Blue Dahlia
			Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past (Build My Gallows High)
		What is the name of the detective in Kiss Me Deadly?
			Mike Hammer
			Sam Spade
			Walter Neff
			Philip Marlowe