1. How did the young Cronenberg secure funding from the Canadian government for his early film Stereo?

   1. He pretended to be writing a novel

   2. He claimed it was a family-friendly musical

   3. He pretended it was a science project

   4. He explained that its gory, brain-surgery plot was a serious investigation of the nature of consciousness

2. Cronenberg's movies are usually pretty frightening, but which of them inspired the marketing slogan: "Be afraid. Be very afraid"?

   1. The Dead Zone

   2. Spider

   3. Scanners

   4. The Fly

3. In which of Cronenberg's movies does Oliver Reed play a sinister psychiatrist whose patients' inner conflicts are given form as vengeful midgets?

   1. The Brood

   2. Rabid

   3. Dead Ringers

   4. eXistenZ

4. Which actor, best known as a pop star, has a role in "snuff TV" drama Videodrome?

   1. Diana Ross

   2. Debbie Harry

   3. David Bowie

   4. Phil Collins

5. An adaptation of which British novel is set to be Cronenberg's next directing project?

   1. The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

   2. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

   3. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks

   4. London Fields by Martin Amis

6. 

   Cronenberg was announced, and then dropped, as the director of a sequel to which of these box-office smashes?

   1. Monsters Inc

   2. When Harry Met Sally

   3. Basic Instinct

   4. Antz

7. Which of Cronenberg's movies was effectively banned from the West End by Westminster city council?

   1. Videodrome

   2. M Butterfly

   3. Shivers

   4. Crash

8. In Naked Lunch, what happens to the typewriter used by author Bill Lee?

   1. It turns into a handsome young man

   2. It begins to write its own material

   3. It turns into a sandwich

   4. It turns into a cockroach

9. 

   Jeremy Irons won many plaudits for his roles as the twisted gynaecologist twins in Dead Ringers. What's the other Cronenberg movie he's starred in?

   1. M Butterfly

   2. eXistenZ

   3. Spider

   4. The Dead Zone

10. A History of Violence has already attracted a lot of attention for its unsettling sex scene. Where does it take place?

    1. At the supermarket

    2. On a staircase

    3. In a deep freeze

    4. Over the internet

Solutions

1:A, 2:D, 3:A, 4:B, 5:D, 6:C, 7:D, 8:D, 9:A, 10:B

Scores

1. 5 and above.

   Dear oh dear. Has someone been performing mind control experiments on you that have wiped your memories?

2. 9 and above.

   Not bad. Cronenberg himself said his movies "ask questions but don't have answers". You clearly know what he means

3. 10 and above.

   A perfect score - your mind has merged with these movies in a slightly sinister way