# Clever trivia questions **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 22, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747 "2008-06-22T02:54:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![petew83](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@petew83](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petew83)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/1 "2008-06-22T02:54:08Z")
Who is the only actress to win an Oscar for portraying an actress who won an Oscar? Answer = Kate Blanchett ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/2 "2008-06-22T03:03:31Z")
Cate Blanchett won an Oscar playing Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/3 "2008-06-22T03:05:16Z")
What’s the only movie role for which two different actors have won an Oscar? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/4 "2008-06-22T03:12:40Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] What’s the only movie role for which two different actors have won an Oscar? [/QUOTE] Elizabeth I. (Dench and Cate Blancett again) ETA: woops, nevermind, Blanchett didn’t win for that role. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/5 "2008-06-22T03:22:58Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] What’s the only movie role for which two different actors have won an Oscar? [/QUOTE] Vito Corleone (Brando in The Godfather, DeNiro in The Godfather Part II) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/6 "2008-06-22T03:23:18Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] What’s the only movie role for which two different actors have won an Oscar? [/QUOTE] Vito Corleone (Brando in the first film, De Niro in GF2). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/7 "2008-06-22T03:31:18Z")
What’s the only movie for which 2 actresses have received Oscar nominations for playing the very same character? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/8 "2008-06-22T03:42:53Z")
Titanic? ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/9 "2008-06-22T03:52:47Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] What’s the only movie for which 2 actresses have received Oscar nominations for playing the very same character? [/QUOTE] Ah, there’s actually two: Titanic, as was said - Kate Winslet and Gloria Stewart [Iris](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_%28film%29) - Kate Winslet and Judy Dench Who is the only winner of both the Oscar and the Nobel Prize (and to head it off at the pass, Al Gore didn’t actually win an Oscar). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/10 "2008-06-22T05:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Who is the only winner of both the Oscar and the Nobel Prize (and to head it off at the pass, Al Gore didn’t actually win an Oscar). [/QUOTE] George Bernard Shaw, who won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, after adapting his own play “Pygmalion” for Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/11 "2008-06-22T05:06:21Z")
Is this all about movies and plays, or would a question like “How many outs in an inning of baseball” do? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/12 "2008-06-22T07:41:06Z")
[QUOTE=petew83] Who is the only actress to win an Oscar for portraying an actress who won an Oscar? [/QUOTE] What actress won an Oscar for portraying an actress who _didn’t_ win an Oscar? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/13 "2008-06-22T08:32:21Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] Is this all about movies and plays, or would a question like “How many outs in an inning of baseball” do? [/QUOTE] Six How many Oscars did Charlie Chaplin receive? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/14 "2008-06-22T17:44:47Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] What’s the only movie role for which two different actors have won an Oscar? [/QUOTE] What is the only\* movie role for which two different actors have been nominated, but neither won. \*I \*think \*it’s the only one. Probably. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/15 "2008-06-22T19:23:17Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] What is the only\* movie role for which two different actors have been nominated, but neither won. \*I \*think \*it’s the only one. Probably. [/QUOTE] 1964 - Laurence Olivier as Henry V 1989 - Kenneth Branagh as Henry V Who was the first actor/actress to win an Oscar in consecutive years? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/16 "2008-06-23T17:34:36Z")
I thought my question was pretty easy; surprised no one got it. [QUOTE=Robot Arm] What actress won an Oscar for portraying an actress who _didn’t_ win an Oscar? [/QUOTE] Maggie Smith, as Diana Barrie in _California Suite_. And while confirming this, I ran across another interesting bit of trivia. Maggie Smith won that Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for 1978. She had something in common with the next three winners of that award. Who were they, and what did they have in common? ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/17 "2008-06-23T17:58:00Z")
[QUOTE=Saint Cad] 1964 - Laurence Olivier as Henry V 1989 - Kenneth Branagh as Henry V Who was the first actor/actress to win an Oscar in consecutive years? [/QUOTE] Luise Rainer ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/18 "2008-06-23T18:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] I thought my question was pretty easy; surprised no one got it. Maggie Smith, as Diana Barrie in _California Suite_. And while confirming this, I ran across another interesting bit of trivia. Maggie Smith won that Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for 1978. She had something in common with the next three winners of that award. Who were they, and what did they have in common? [/QUOTE] What they had in common was initials: Meryl Streep (Kramer vs Kramer, 79), Mary Steenbergen\* (Melvin and Howard, 80) and Maureen Stapleton (Reds, 81) \*May have butchered the spelling on that one ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/19 "2008-06-23T18:53:09Z")
What actress who played another actress who won an Oscar also won an Oscar herself, but not for that role? (There might be more than one.) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/20 "2008-06-23T19:21:25Z")
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