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Comic-book stars

Unleashed this week, Constantine is Hollywood's latest big budget comic-book adaptation. Tackle the following strip-to-screen questions and discover if you're superhero or superzero

Question 1 Which of the following films is NOT based on a comic-book (or their more upmarket cousin, the 'graphic novel')?
 
  American Splendor
  Ghost World
  Hell Boy
  The Incredibles
 
Question 2 Which Marvel comic-book hero is Richard Gere's character in the 1983 remake of Breathless obsessed with?
 
  Daredevil
  The Silver Surfer
  The Incredible Hulk
  Captain America
 
Question 3 In Batman and Robin, Alicia Silverstone's Batgirl turns out to be the niece of the butler Alfred. The original comic books had her as what?
 
  The Penguin's put-upon housekeeper
  Batman's long-lost sister
  Commissioner Gordon's wild-child daughter
  Robin's on-off girlfriend
 
Question 4 In Bryan Singer's film, what are the X-Men?
 
  All-powerful devotees of the late Malcolm X
  A team of mutants given special powers by unnaturally rapid evolution
  A band of genetically-modified immigrants who hatch a scheme to take over America
  A band of college students whose exposure to a radiation leak gives them super-powers
 
Question 5 Which big-name actor turned down the role of the Wolverine in the X-Men movie?
 
  Nicolas Cage
  Russell Crowe
  Billy Bob Thornton
  Hugh Grant
 
Question 6 What was the title of 1999's comic-book spoof about a bunch of inept superheroes, starring Ben Stiller and William H. Macy?
 
  Mystery Men
  Z-Men
  The Unfantastic Four
  The Incredible Bulks
 
Question 7 How much money is Jack Nicholson rumoured to have made from lucrative franchise deals after playing the Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 film Batman?
 
  $50m
  $15m
  $5m
  $500m
 
Question 8 In Hollywood folklore, screen treatments of Superman are reckoned to jinx the actors associated with them. Which of these tragedies is NOT true?
 
  Dean Cain (star of The New Adventures of Superman) was arrested for the murder of his brother Abel in 1998
  Superman star Christopher Reeve was later paralysed in a horse-riding accident in 1995
  Lois Lane actress Margot Kidder, suffered a serious car crash in 1990, later became homeless, and was placed in psychiatric care in 1996
  TV Superman George Reeves shot himself in 1959 (though rumours abound that he was murdered)
 
Question 9 What scene from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man had to be removed after the events of September 11?
 
  A scene in which the Green Goblin tosses Spider-Man off the roof of the World Trade Centre
  A moment in which the Green Goblin refers to himself and Spider-Man as 'the twin towers of Manhattan'
  A scene in which Spider-Man fails to stop a plane from crashing into the Hudson River
  A scene in which a helicopter is snared in a web strung between the twin towers
 
Question 10 Which of these actors did NOT star as Batman in the 1990s?
 
  Ben Affleck
  Val Kilmer
  Michael Keaton
  George Clooney
 
 


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