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Creature features

Eddie Murphy may grab top billing in Dr Dolittle 2, but he's basically playing second fiddle to a bunch of wisecracking animals. Take our quiz on creature features old and new and discover if you're man or mouse (and, on this occasion, mouse is better).

Question 1 What animals embarked on The Incredible Journey?
 
  Three blind mice
  A horse, a mule and a Shetland pony
  Two dogs and a cat
  A lizard, a rhinoceros and an ill-tempered caterpillar
 
Question 2 Which movie star found himself playing second-fiddle to a chimp in the comedy Bedtime for Bonzo?
 
  Robert De Niro
  Clint Eastwood
  Ronald Reagan
  Jerry Lewis
 
Question 3 What song do Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn sing to lure back the runaway leopard in Bringing Up Baby?
 
  Baby Face
  Baby Come Back
  I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
  Hit Me Baby One More Time
 
Question 4 How many ingredients were used to create the pig hero of Babe?
 
  48 pigs plus an animatronic double
  Seven pigs plus a mechanised pig head
  15 pigs plus a computer-generated "virtual pig"
  One pig plus a midget in a pig costume
 
Question 5 Who was Laughing Gravy in the film of the same name?
 
  A tell-tale parrot who breaks up a marriage between Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
  A surly warthog who has swallowed a government microchip
  A mischievous baboon who vandalises a swish hotel
  A stray dog who is sheltered by a kindly Laurel and Hardy
 
Question 6 Why did Steven Spielberg refer to the killer shark as "Bruce" throughout the making of Jaws?
 
  Bruce is an abbreviation of the Latin term for shark: Bruci Cartilegus
  The director was a big fan of Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce had been the name of his childhood goldfish
  Bruce was the name of Spielberg's lawyer
 
Question 7 Which famous female singer croons an ode to a stray mutt in Disney's Lady and the Tramp?
 
  Billie Holliday
  Nina Simone
  Peggy Lee
  Ethel Merman
 
Question 8 Which of these animals has Elizabeth Taylor NOT played opposite?
 
  A horse (in National Velvet)
  A dog (in Lassie Come Home)
  A duck-billed platypus (in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
  An asp (in Cleopatra)
 
Question 9 Which star of a beloved children's film later said of their animal co-star: "It was always biting me - it was a nasty, mean-minded creature"?
 
  Hayley Mills, on the cat in That Darn Cat!
  Roddy McDowell, on the horse in My Friend Flicka
  Jim Dale, on the dog in Digby - the Biggest Dog in the World
  Michael Madsen, on the whale in Free Willy
 
Question 10 What makes Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar a very different breed of creature feature?
 
  Its hero is a bat whose (blind) experiences are represented by a pitch-black screen and a quadrophonic speaker system
  Its hero is a donkey who symbolises Jesus Christ
  Its hero is a mayfly whose 12-hour life-span plays out in real time
  Its hero is a bluebottle who observes a family crisis from the living-room wall
 
 


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