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Test your cop movie knowledge
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Hot Fuzz (Universal Pictures)
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star in Hot Fuzz
British action film Hot Fuzz, released this week, pokes affectionate fun at the buddy cop movie genre.

Films such as Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys and Point Break provided the inspiration for the movie, which comes from the team behind Shaun of the Dead.

But do you know your Riggs and Murtaugh from your Cagney and Lacey? Take our quiz to find out.

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Question 1
How many Lethal Weapon films have there been?
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A: 2
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B: 3
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C: 4
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Question 2
Who filled Don Johnson's role as Detective James "Sonny" Crockett in last year's remake of Miami Vice?
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A: Sean Penn
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B: Colin Farrell
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C: Matt Damon
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Question 3
Which of these buddy cop TV series has been remade as a big-screen feature film?
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A: CHiPS
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B: Cagney & Lacey
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C: Starsky & Hutch
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Question 4
Legendary US critic Roger Ebert came up with another term for films that pair up two mis-matched cops. What was it?
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A: Copposites
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B: Wunza
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C: Chalk and Cheesy
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Question 5
Which Holby City star appears alongside Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon 2?
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A: Robert Powell
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B: Patsy Kensit
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C: Amanda Mealing
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Question 6
In the sitcom Friends, aspiring actor Joey Tribbiani won a role in a buddy cop show. What was it called?
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A: Riot Squad
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B: Lock & Load
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C: Mac & Cheese
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Question 7
Who wrote Axel F, the hit theme tune to Beverly Hills Cop?
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A: Harold Faltermeyer
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B: Hans Zimmer
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C: Mike Post
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Question 8
What was unusual about Tom Hank's crime-fighting partner in Turner & Hooch?
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A: He was invisible
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B: He was an angel
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C: He was a dog
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Question 9
Who was Kurt Russell's co-star in the 1990 buddy cop movie Tango and Cash?
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A: Nick Nolte
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B: Sylvester Stallone
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C: Alec Baldwin
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Question 10
Which of the following is not a line from Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's 1995 high octane cop movie Bad Boys?
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A: You drive almost slow enough to drive Miss Daisy
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B: His brains is under the table
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C: My bologna has a first name
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Question 11
Where in England was British police movie Hot Fuzz filmed?
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A: Wells
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B: Stow-on-the-Wold
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C: Evesham

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