We’re back in lockdown and many of us spending more time at home, perhaps catching up with films. But, how closely have you been watching?

LRO Editor Neil Watterson has delved into his video cabinet and crafted 20 questions on films that featured Land Rovers – see how you get on. Even if you don’t know them, you’ll have some film ideas to watch next time you’re bored at home.

Enjoy!

The quiz includes twenty Land Rover related movie questions. How well do you know your movies and Land Rovers?

Good luck everyone!

Q1. Land Rovers have appeared in many James Bond films, and the new Defender is due to feature in No Time To Die, which is now scheduled to premiere on 8 October 2021. The opening scene of 1987’s The Living Daylights features a battle between Timothy Dalton and an assassin during a military exercise on Gibraltar. The pair hurtle down the rock in a military Series III. Which model?

Q2. The Four Horsemen illusionists returned to the big screen in Now You See Me 2, a film which has a surprisingly high Land Rover content, including Defenders with a V8 soundtrack, Range Rover L322s, a Discovery 4, but which other model has a bit-part?

Q3. In Cars 2, the action moves to London, with the Coldstream Guards being represented by Series II Land Rovers – but what model represents the Queens royal protection officers/bodyguards?

Q4. In the 2012 bloodfest The Expendables 2, Sylvester Stallone leads the team to rescue a hostage in three heavily armoured Land Rovers. Dolph Lundgren is driving a six-wheel Defender fitted with a steel girder battering ram. What does it say on the battering ram?

Q5. Roald Dahl’s BFG (Big Friendly Giant, not BFGoodrich!) has been made into an animated film twice. The newer version features a 109-inch Series II/IIA Station Wagon, but which Land Rover appeared in the original 1989 animation?

Q6. The end credits of 1986’s F/X: Murder by Illusion starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy roll to a backing track of Imagination’s Just an Illusion. What vehicle do the guys get into?

Q7. The best Land Rover film ever, The Gods Must Be Crazy starring Marius Weyers and N!xau, has an 88-inch Series I Land Rover that steals the show. What name does Mpudi, the mechanic, call the Land Rover?

Q8. The sequel to RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous), 2013’s RED 2, sees Bruce Willis, John Malkovich and Mary-Louise Parker ambushed by a machine gun-toting Helen Mirren. What vehicle are they in?

Q9. The Fast and Furious franchise only cottoned on to the appeal of Land Rovers in the later films. Which heavily modified models did the baddies have a penchant for in the offshoot Hobbs & Shaw?

Q10. One of the stars of Four Weddings and a Funeral was a four-headlighted Series IIA, but what body style was it?

Q11. In the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Angelina Jolie drives through the jungle in a suitably beefed up Defender Hi-Cap. What modification had to be made so she could drive it?

Q12. In the 1995 Sylvester Stallone film Judge Dredd, loads of Land Rovers were prepared by Dunsfold DLR to look like futuristic vehicles. What model did they modify to make them?

Q13. Land Rovers play parts in many of the Mission Impossible films, including the sequence in Ghost Protocol where the driver’s window of the Defender Tom Cruise is driving keeps switching between sliding and wind-up. But what Land Rover are they chased through Shanghai in, after stealing the Rabbit’s Foot in 2006’s M:I-3?

Q14. Everyone knows that Peter Rabbit features a green Series IIA truck cab, but what implausible thing happens in the film?

Q15. Dwayne Johnson plays Dr Xander ‘Smolder’ Bravestone in 2017s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. When they arrive in the game, the kids are met by Nigel Billingsley in a One Ten station wagon with distinct echoes of Camel Trophy Land Rovers about it. Apart from the offside rear door, what colour is it?

Q16. The animators of Shaun The Sheep designed the farmer’s Land Rover loosely based on Land Rovers they had studied nearby, and it resembled a stylised Land Rover Series II truck cab. How many wheel nuts did the wheels have?

Q17. Tom Hanks plays Robert Langdon in a trilogy of films based on Dan Brown’s books. Set in Italy, Carabinieri Land Rovers appear in each one. It’s a Defender – presumably a 2.0-litre Mpi – in The Da Vinci Code, a Discovery 2 in Angels & Demons, but which model is being used by the police in 2016’s Inferno?

Q18. Everyone remembers the original version of The Italian Job, and the 109-inch station wagon that played a crucial role in the heist, but Land Rovers also featured in the 2003 not-a-remake of the same name, starring Mark Wahlberg, in the form of green 110 station wagons. The Minis in the original were famously red, white and blue, but what colour were they in the 2003 film?

Q19. Back to James Bond, in 2006’s Casino Royale, Daniel Craig is given the keys to which model, which he then uses to set off loads of car alarms?

Q20. Epic WW2 film Ice Cold in Alex famously includes a shot of a Series I in the background at the end of the film. What is the name of the beer on the glasses that John Mills is served?

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