Match the sweltering summer scene to the Australian film – quiz

A scene from 1994 film The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert – and unfortunately not a clue for this quiz. Photograph: Film Fin/REX/Shutterstock

1. 

   1. They’re A Weird Mob

   2. Puberty Blues

   3. Age of Consent

   4. The Daughter

2. 

   1. These Final Hours

   2. On the Beach

   3. Blackrock

   4. All Men Are Liars

3. 

   1. The Overlanders

   2. The Sundowners

   3. The Back of Beyond

   4. Mutiny on the Bounty

4. 

   1. Welcome to Woop Woop

   2. Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

   3. Muriel’s Wedding

   4. Red Dog

5. 

   1. Road Games

   2. Fair Game

   3. Long Weekend

   4. Dead Calm

6. 

   1. The Killing of Angel Street

   2. Newsfront

   3. Heatwave

   4. The Year of Living Dangerously

7. 

   1. Wake in Fright

   2. Sunday Too Far Away

   3. The Water Diviner

   4. The Man From Snowy River

8. 

   1. The Man From Snowy River

   2. The Water Diviner

   3. Australia

   4. The Silver Brumby

9. 

   1. Goldstone

   2. Dead Heart

   3. Babe: Pig in the City

   4. Mystery Road

10. 

    1. Bungala Boys

    2. Bra Boys

    3. The Coolangatta Gold

    4. The Four Minute Mile

11. 

    1. Crocodile Dundee

    2. Walkabout

    3. Picnic at Hanging Rock

    4. Mad Dog Morgan

Solutions

1:C - In her first major film role, Helen Mirren turned heads as the muse of a famous painter in this 1969 classic from director Michael Powell., 2:A - This 2013 end-of-the-world drama was a commercial disappointment, but it spawned an upcoming US TV remake to be written, directed and produced by the film’s writer/director Zak Hilditch., 3:C - This 1954 documentary about one of the world’s longest and most remote mail runs achieved great acclaim overseas, including winning the coveted Grand Prix Assoluto at the Venice Film Festival., 4:A - Savaged by critics at the time of its release, this wacky 1997 comedy from Stephan Elliott - the director of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert - went on to become a cult classic., 5:A - For this 1981 horror-thriller, director Richard Franklin (a protégé of Alfred Hitchcock) imported two American stars: Jamie Lee Curtis and Stacy Keach., 6:C - Directed by Phillip Noyce, 1982’s Heatwave was one of two films released around the same time to draw on the real-life story of publisher and activist Juanita Nielsen, who was never found after disappearing in the mid-70s under suspicious circumstances (the other was The Killing of Angel Street)., 7:B - This fair dinkum story of hard-drinkin’ sheep shearers is regarded as one of the seminal films of Jack Thompson, and was selected to screen at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival., 8:C - Baz Luhrmann’s epic 2008 melodrama is one of the most expensive Australian films ever made, with a production budget of around US$130m., 9:D - Director Ivan Sen’s outback crime film, starring Aaron Pedersen as Detective Jay Swan, spawned a sequel: 2016’s Goldstone., 10:C - In a case of life imitating art, this 1984 sports film led to the creation of the real-life iron man race, The Coolangatta Gold., 11:B - This drama from 1971 was among the first films of the Australian New Wave. It was directed by British filmmaker Nicolas Roeg.

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