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Clint Eastwood

As Clint Eastwood's latest, The Million Dollar Baby, toddles onto cinema screens, test how quick you are on the draw in our Eastwood shooting gallery. Ten questions are headed your way. Each has four targets to aim at. Only one of them will get you the bulls-eye

Question 1 Clint Eastwood was born in...?
 
  1935
  1945
  1930
  1940
 
Question 2 Eastwood first came to fame in which popular American TV show?
 
  Bonanza
  Leave it to Beaver
  Wagon Train
  Rawhide
 
Question 3 Clint's action man credentials were established before he even began acting. What event marked out his time as an American GI?
 
  He saved trapped six fellow soldiers by personally dismantling a bomb in Korea
  His plane crashed in the Pacific and he swam three miles to the shore
  He organised an airlift supplying food to the survivors of an earthquake in Mexico
  He personally supervised the execution of a band of Soviet spies caught on the Alaskan border
 
Question 4 Which acclaimed film won Clint his only Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director?
 
  The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
  In the Line of Fire
  Honkytonk Man
  Unforgiven
 
Question 5 Eastwood took the lead in 1971's Dirty Harry only after three other actors had turned it down. Name them.
 
  Charles Bronson, Jack Nicholson and James Coburn
  Jerry Lewis, Woody Allen and Gene Wilder
  Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and Paul Newman
  Robert Mitchum, Lee Marvin and Rod Steiger
 
Question 6 "I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him." A classic speech from a classic Clint western - but which one?
 
  Two Mules for Sister Sara
  High Plains Drifter
  A Fistful of Dollars
  Pale Rider
 
Question 7 What political office did Eastwood take on in 1986?
 
  Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea
  Congressman for the state of Maine
  Town councillor for Hangman's Gulch, New Mexico
  State senator for Arizona
 
Question 8 Which of the following films has Eastwood NOT directed?
 
  Unforgiven
  The Beguiled
  Play Misty For Me
  The Bridges of Madison County
 
Question 9 "Clint takes the first pickup truck to Stupidsville, with an orangutan as his best friend, in this bizarre change of pace for the action star." Critic Leonard Maltin describing which Eastwood movie?
 
  White Hunter, Black Heart
  Any Which Way But Loose
  Pink Cadillac
  The Rookie
 
Question 10 The 2000 romp Space Cowboys, is about a team of ageing astronauts sent on a mission to save the planet. What role does Clint play?
 
  The cowardly, half-senile old engineer who proves his mettle in the final reel
  The foolish but loveable NASA janitor who gets trapped in the Space Shuttle's lavatory
  The slimy bureaucrat who attempts to undermine the mission
  The tough old maverick astronaut recalled for duty by a chastened establishment
 
 


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