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David Lynch pictured on the set of Mulholland Drive in 2001. Alamy Stock Photo

Quiz: How much do you know about David Lynch?

The iconic directed worked on a number of critically acclaimed films including Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

WRITER-DIRECTOR DAVID Lynch, who radicalised American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in a number of critically-acclaimed films, died yesterday at the age of 78. 

“There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us,” Lynch’s family said in a statement last night.

“But as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’”

The four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker directed a number of feature films including behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart and The Elephant Man, and was the creative force behind television drama Twin Peaks.

So today we’re here to quiz you: How much do you know about David Lynch?

David Lynch was born on 20 January 1946 in the small town of Missoula in which US state?
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Montana
Missouri

South Dakota
Idaho
In 1966, Lynch made his first short film. What was the title of this minute-long animation?
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Four Dogs Getting Angry
Six Men Getting Sick

Four Women Getting Drunk
Five Children Getting Old
1977 saw the release of Lynch's first feature film, with Jack Nance playing the main character, Henry. What was the film's name?
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The Elephant Man
Eraserhead

Wild at Heart
Blue Velvet
2001 saw the release of one of Lynch's most critically-acclaimed films, Mullholland Drive. In which US city is the film set?
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New York
San Francisco

Boston
Los Angeles
In 2005, Lynch founded the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. This charity seeks to fund the teaching of what technique?
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Yoga
Clairvoyance

Transcendental Meditation
Astral Projection
Lynch was nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards three times. Which of these films did NOT earn Lynch an Oscar nomination?
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Dune (1984)
Mulholland Drive

The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet
David Lynch was nominated for an Academy Award four times, eventually receiving an honorary award in which year?
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2017
2010

2006
2019
Which of the following actors has NOT appeared in a David Lynch film?
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Laura Dern
Nicolas Cage

Johnny Depp
Naomi Watts
Many will know Lynch for his television work, including the cult classic Twin Peaks. Who is found dead at the beginning of of the show?
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Laura Palmer
Shelly Johnson

Audrey Horne
Leland Palmer
As well as tackling film and television projects, David Lynch directed a number of music videos. Which one of these music groups did Lynch direct a video for?
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Pink Floyd
Rammstein

Groove Armada
Faithless
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You know all there is to know about David Lynch - as Lynch would say, you kept your eye on the doughnut and not the hole
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David Lynch film buff
You know almost everything there is to know about the career of the late David Lynch.
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You know more than the average fan about the late, great David Lynch.
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You know more than most casual moviegoers about the late film director.
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You don't know much about the late director, but as Lynch himself once said, "there's something we all like about the human struggle".
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    Nov 20th 2024, 9:12 AM

    Ireland’s foreign policy is to import the entire world.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 9:41 AM

    @common sense: 2050 were easily a minority. Lefties will come at you for saying this, calling you all sort of names, but they will never say you’re wrong. Look at the trajectory of the decline of the share in population of ethnic Irish. Down and down and down year on year.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 10:17 AM

    @Cole Palmer: I say you’re wrong. So I call on you to back up your prediction of being outnumbered by 2050 – what exactly is your starting point? what are your assumptions about the future? Highlight the variables? Any risks to your forecast that you might want to highlight. I look forward to your response

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    Nov 20th 2024, 11:27 AM

    @Cole Palmer: You’re wrong!

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    Nov 20th 2024, 11:40 AM

    @Kevin Kerr:” Irish could be minority ethnic group here by 2050 – professor

    Ireland’s native population could be in a minority by the middle of this century”

    That was an Irish Times headline in 2006, when the % of immigrants in Ireland was a lot lower. Now, I fully expect you to spin that into some shixx that sounds good in your own head, seeing as you’re a fan of young male migrants.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 12:28 PM

    @Finian McG: ah yes, a prediction based on unpublished UK research which states that people of Chinese origin will be the largest group. Nearly 20 years later, let me know how this prediction is going

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    Nov 20th 2024, 12:34 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: did you miss the ’2050′ bit you thick eejit?

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    Nov 20th 2024, 12:49 PM

    @Finian McG: no, dopey, my point is that, 20 years into this 44 year prediction, how has the mix changed? Are ethnic Irish on track to become a minority by 2050? No they’re not. There are 60,000 Chinese nationals living in Ireland – 87% of our population is either Irish (77%) or other white (10%)

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    Nov 20th 2024, 1:00 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: we could have 400000 Ukrainians next year

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    Nov 20th 2024, 1:56 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: I never said white, I said ethnic Irish. Our share of the population is dropping year on year. Check the consensus over the past 2 decades. It is a FACT that immigrants of East Asia and Africa breathe at a far higher rate than we do. Are you going to deny this now? The majority of our immigrants are from East Asia and Africa. Therefore if immigration continues the way it is, we will be a minority by the absolute maximum 2050. As soon as you lefties give up on debating this non-debate, you will say ‘so what ?’. I’ve seen it over and over. If you don’t see that as a problem, then I don’t know what to tell you, I give up. You will then go and contradict yourself saying Palestinians should have a right to there own land, which they certainly should.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 2:10 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: ‘How has it changed?’ Are you being serious? According to CSO.ie, 150,000 immigrants came in 2024. That is 3% of the population. I said if immigration continues the way it does, so 150,000 a year until 2050 is 26 x 150,000, which equals 3,900,000. We are not reaching the 2.1 birthdate needed to PRESERVE our population size. So our share of the population will actually decline from 3.85 million. So 3,900,000 immigrants (not including children they have) is higher than our 77% share which will, according to our birthdate, decline from 3,850,000. Just like Japan, who’s Japanese population continues to drop every year from a lower than 2.1 birthrate per woman. Since 2008, Japans population has being decreasing every year. Can’t wait for your reply.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 2:18 PM

    @Cole Palmer: Plus, we had 50,000 immigrants year ending April 2004, we had 89,000 year ending April 2022, we had 141,000 year ending April 2023, 150,000 year ending April 2024. I wonder what the figures will be in April of 2025? I would bet my house that’s its higher than 150,000. In 5 years I would bet my house it will be higher than 200,000…….

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    Nov 20th 2024, 3:40 PM

    @Cole Palmer: so you have picked the year with the record number of immigrants to Ireland and assumed that this will continue until 2050. And of course, you haven’t factored in emigration to give an accurate net migration number. And of course, the emigration and immigration numbers are a mix of ethnic Irish people, and those who are not. So, in summary, your analysis is so full of holes that it makes no sense

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    Nov 20th 2024, 3:46 PM

    @Cole Palmer: and yes, of course I accept that the proportion of “indigenous Irish” has dropped. It is the rate of future drop that I dispute. Sure, even in the UK, where people have been emigrating to since the 1950’s, “white British” make up 76% of the England and Wales population. You’re deluded

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    Nov 20th 2024, 5:50 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: I chose 2024, because it is literally the year we’re in. I didn’t ‘choose the year with highest immigration level’. April, 2025 is on track to be even higher. 10s of thousands of Palestinians will be coming here very soon after they’re forced to evacuate from the atrocity Israel is committing. They know that Irish will mostly accept them because we go around waving their flag. They will want to coke here and nobody will stop them, as they have ‘the right to seek international protection’ anywhere. Palestinians though have a history of being very dangerous wherever they go. They launched a coup on Jordan’s monarchy, they attacked the Lebanon Christian front after Lebanon gave them refuge in 1948, effectively taking over Lebanon which was once majority Christian. Now 70% Muslim.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 5:51 PM

    @Cole Palmer: it was majority Christian in 1975

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:09 PM

    @Cole Palmer: generally speaking, net inward migration will reflect economic activity, not asylum seeker numbers. So if our economy is booming, workers will come – if it isn’t, they won’t. So to assume that this 150k number will not only be maintained, but will increase over the next 26 years makes no sense. You clearly have no idea how population demographics work

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:18 AM

    We are tiny open country dependent on foreign investment. By all means work away in the background but we should not be taking unilateral decisions that will damage our economy. Ask yourself, how much extra tax are you willing to pay so we can take a stand over some conflict that has been going on for decades and will continue regardless of Irelands position on the matter. We are full of our own self importance.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:41 AM

    @The next small thing: We even have pro Hamas politicians going up for election.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:50 AM

    @thomas molloy: lads we need brits again to help us with that’s iner issues…

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    Nov 20th 2024, 9:12 AM

    @A W: Say what?

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    Nov 20th 2024, 9:13 AM

    @thomas molloy: No no we don’t. Why spread lies?

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    Nov 20th 2024, 9:26 AM

    @Ger Whelan: Yes we do.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 10:09 AM

    @Alex: which politician running has been “pro hamas”. I’ve never seen hamas mentioned by any of them in their election manifestos.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 7:15 AM

    When it comes to global matters Ireland is as helpless as a plastic duck bobbing in an ocean .

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:01 AM

    @Jim Ryan: Ireland’s third-level education system is churning out graduates for US tech and pharma multinationals for years. At this stage we should be asking why Ireland doesn’t have it’s own thriving indigenous tech and pharma industries. It would make us a lot more independent and less prone to whoever happens in US politics. We need to invest in Innovation.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:03 AM

    @Finian McG: *whatever happens*

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:19 AM

    @Jim Ryan: We seem to want to endlessly meddle but without any means of self defence. It’s an interesting approach.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:51 AM

    @Finian McG: stay under stone buddies…

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:53 AM

    @Derick R M: lord help us with historical bs and no actions…

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    Nov 20th 2024, 9:25 AM

    @Finian McG: All your blabbering is just a big lie. You never worked for any of those companies and it shows in your uneducated comments. Keep yourself on welfare.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 7:33 AM

    When it comes to defending our own waters we seem to have to depend on the Bantry Fishermen.what is all this chest puffing Unifil troops in Leabanon.,its an utter joke.!!!!!

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    Nov 20th 2024, 8:18 AM

    @Elizabeth Doyle: unifil makes EU news , protecting Irish waters won’t. We sold the sea to save the farmers

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    Nov 20th 2024, 9:12 AM

    @Elizabeth Doyle: What did the Bantry fishermen do to defend our waters?

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    Nov 20th 2024, 1:54 PM

    Bad opinion, vast majority of people couldn’t care less about foreign policy when it comes down to it. Highly unadvisable for a party to centre it’s campaign on Foreign Policy rather than issues people actually care about.

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    Nov 20th 2024, 5:20 PM

    It’s pretty simple. We need a party which has an explicitly pro-West foreign policy. One which is strongly pro-Ukraine, pro-Israel, anti-China and anti-Iran. One which has the hunger to join NATO and one which supports abolishing neutrality and increasing military spending to 3% of our GDP. Unfortunately, every party in Ireland seems to be bone-headed on foreign policy. Either they are pro-Russia, pro-Hamas or both. Every party wants to suck up to China and every party seems to be obsessed with neutrality. What a joke! Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Fein and all the other small left-wing parties have terrible foreign policy positions.

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