Thursday, July 14, 2011

Trivia Quiz #183 - The Oscars

Trivia Quiz Questions About the Oscars


  1. The Jets and the Sharks can be found in which Oscar winning movie?
     
  2. Katherine Hepburn won how many Oscars?
     
  3. Julianne Moore, an four-time Oscar nominee, made her debut in
    what 1988 film?
     
  4. What won the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2007?
     
  5. In 1967 which film won best picture?
     
  6. In Cat Ballou, what movie star won an Oscar for playing twin
    gunmen, one a drunk and the other with a metal nose?
     
  7. For Best Actor, who is the youngest ever winner?
     
  8. What X rated film won an Oscar?
     
  9. What was it that was so unusual about the six major Oscars
    presented in March of 1953?
     
  10. Meryl Streep has been nominated for an Oscar how many times,
    (counting the ceremonies in 2009)?
     
  11. In the film Spartacus, in 1960, who won an Oscar for best
    supporting actor?
     
  12. In 1970, which famous actor declined to accept an Oscar?
     
  13. At the 2008 Oscars, there were no American winners in the four
    big acting awards. When was the last time that had happened?
     
  14. Who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en
    Rose?
     
  15. Who won an Oscar for Network, posthumously?
     
  16. Who directed Rain Man, a 1988 Oscar winning movie?
     
  17. What Oscar winning movie finished up with Colonel Nicholson
    asking "What have I done?"?
     
  18. What movie was the only one to win a Best Film Oscar that didn't
    feature a woman with a speaking part?
     
  19. Anthony Quinn won his two Oscars for portraying two
    nationalities, what were they?
     
  20. Who wrote the novel that L. A. Confidential, an Oscar-winning
    film, was based on?
     
  21. Calamity Jane, a musical, has an Oscar-winning song, what is it?
     
  22. In 1973, what movie became the first horror film ever to be
    nominated for Best Film Oscar?
     
  23. What movie has Leonardo di Caprio been nominated for besides
    What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and The Aviator?
     
  24. Meryl Streep co-starred with which Oscar winning actor in Kramer
    Vs Kramer in 1979?
     
  25. Charles Laughton was the first English actor to win an Oscar, who
    was the second?
     
  26. In 1985 William Hurt won best actor Oscar in what movie?
     
  27. For which two films has Clint Eastwood won a Best Director Oscar?
     
  28. For what movie did the Beatles win their one and only Oscar?
     
  29. What remake of a long-running TV show was the only remake to get
    a Best Picture nomination?
     
  30. In 1967, what movie won the Best Picture Oscar?
     
  31. Two movies won Best Film Oscars in the 1990s, and had a animal in
    the title, what were they?
     
  32. Paul Newman won an Oscar for reprising the same character he
    created 25 years before, what was the name of the movie?
     
  33. In an Oscar given to Spencer Tracy for Boys Town in 1938, what
    was wrong with the Oscar?
     
  34. The book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, inspired what Oscar winning
    movie?
     

Answers to Trivia Quiz #183 - The Oscars Answers


  1. West Side Story.
  2. Four.
  3. Slaughterhouse II
  4. Happy Feet.
  5. In the Heat of the Night.
  6. Lee Marvin.
  7. Adrien Brody for The Pianist in 2002.
  8. Midnight Cowboy.
  9. They were all for different movies.
  10. 15.
  11. Peter Ustinov.
  12. George C Scott.
  13. 1964
  14. Marion Cotillard.
  15. Peter Finch.
  16. Barry Levinson.
  17. Bridge on the River Kwai.
  18. Lawrence of Arabia, the only female character that made a sound
    was a camel called Gladys.
  19. French and Mexican.
  20. James Ellroy.
  21. Secret Love.
  22. The Exorcist.
  23. Blood Diamond.
  24. Dustin Hoffman.
  25. Victor McLagien for The Informer(1935)
  26. The Kiss of the Spiderwoman.
  27. Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven.
  28. Let it Be.
  29. The Fugitive.
  30. In The Heat Of The Night.
  31. Dances With Wolves, and Silence of the Lambs.
  32. The Color of Money.
  33. It was inscribed to Dick Tracy.
  34. Lawrence of Arabia.