# 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:** 2
**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 23, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/21 "2008-06-23T19:42:21Z")
Oscar Hammerstein II. > **[Oscar Hammerstein II - Awards - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358564/awards/)** > > Oscar Hammerstein II - Awards - IMDb - Awards, nominations, and wins ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/22 "2008-06-23T20:05:33Z")
If we might branch out a bit: Three common, currently-circulating US coins bear two depictions of the same president. What are they? (there used to be only one such coin, but they had to go and complicate a perfectly good trivia question) ---
**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, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/23 "2008-06-23T20:16:27Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] If we might branch out a bit: Three common, currently-circulating US coins bear two depictions of the same president. What are they? (there used to be only one such coin, but they had to go and complicate a perfectly good trivia question) [/QUOTE] The penny, the South Dakota quarter and the New Jersey quarter. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/24 "2008-06-23T21:32:49Z")
Who was the first American President? (This is a trick question.) ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/25 "2008-06-23T22:56:46Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] Who was the first American President? (This is a trick question.) [/QUOTE] John Hanson. (Like nobody knows that. Sheesh!) 😃 Yeah, so I googled it. Sue me. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/26 "2008-06-23T22:58:40Z")
[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] Robert Shaw and Richard Burton were both nominated for playing Henry VIII, but neither won (though Charles Laughton did). And Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth I also fit this bill (as previously mentioned). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/27 "2008-06-23T23:02:21Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] 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.) [/QUOTE] Janet Gaynor’s character won an Oscar in _A Star is Born_ several years after Gaynor herself won an Oscar. In the remake, Judy Garland’s character won an Oscar, and Judy won a Special (Juvenile) Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/28 "2008-06-23T23:03:42Z")
[QUOTE=Saint Cad] Six How many Oscars did Charlie Chaplin receive? [/QUOTE] 3 - one competitive Oscar and two Special Achievement awards. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/29 "2008-06-23T23:15:55Z")
> [@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). > [@astorian](#): > > George Bernard Shaw, who won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, after adapting his own play “Pygmalion” for Hollywood. Who were the other 3 nobel laureates to get Oscar nominations? Who was the only person to win an Oscar for playing a character named Oscar? What are the only four movies to feature 3 of the 4 acting Oscar-winners from the same year? Who was the only actress to be portrayed by another actress in a Best Picture winner before actually earning an Oscar nomination herself? What was the first animated film to get a Best Picture nomination? A Best Screenplay nomination? ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/30 "2008-06-24T00:03:03Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Who was the only actress to be portrayed by another actress in a Best Picture winner before actually earning an Oscar nomination herself? [/QUOTE] Billie Burke–played by Myrna Loy in _The Great Ziegfeld_ in 1933 (34?)–nominated herself in 1939 for _Merrily We Roll_ . ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/31 "2008-06-24T00:21:06Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] John Hanson. (Like nobody knows that. Sheesh!) 😃 [/QUOTE] Depends on who you ask - Hanson was the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled after the Articles of Confederation were ratified by all states, but really, Maryland was the slowpoke - you could argue that Samuel Huntington was the first President under the fully ratified Articles. I had to look it up too. It’s kind of sad that nobody remembers any of those guys. ETA - it seems by Wikipedia that Hanson proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving holiday, called for the first national census, granted General Washington powers to negotiate for prisoner exchanges, established the US Mint, and did a lot of other useful stuff, which is pretty impressive seeing that those Articles Presidents didn’t get a lot of power. ---
**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 24, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/32 "2008-06-24T02:39:22Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] What are the only four movies to feature 3 of the 4 acting Oscar-winners from the same year? [/QUOTE] _A Streetcar Named Desire_ and _Network_ are the two I’m sure of. _Titanic_ was probably another one. And there’s some schlocky action picture made in the twilights of their careers that had three Oscar winners from the same year, but was not the movie that any of them won for. I’ll post this, and then go look it up. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Pangloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Peter\_Pangloss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Pangloss)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/33 "2008-06-24T02:52:50Z")
It’s really too simple, and I know everyone here will get it right off, but you’d be surprised by how many people I’ve stumped with this: What is Scarlett O’Hara’s middle name? ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/34 "2008-06-24T02:56:18Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Pangloss] It’s really too simple, and I know everyone here will get it right off, but you’d be surprised by how many people I’ve stumped with this: What is Scarlett O’Hara’s middle name? [/QUOTE] Mudbone? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/35 "2008-06-24T03:06:18Z")
The four major actors of this classic Broadway play all eventually won Oscars, two for the film version, and two for other films. Interestingly, the one member of the cast who won a Tony Award for the role took the longest to win an Oscar. Who was the first director to win an Oscar for the very first film he directed? ---
**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 24, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/36 "2008-06-24T03:13:43Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Pangloss] It’s really too simple, and I know everyone here will get it right off, but you’d be surprised by how many people I’ve stumped with this: What is Scarlett O’Hara’s middle name? [/QUOTE] Scarlett, first name Katherine. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/37 "2008-06-24T03:14:07Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Mudbone? [/QUOTE] Scarlett, right? I haven’t seen the movie in ages, but her dad always called her “Katy Scarlett O’Hara.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Pangloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Peter\_Pangloss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Pangloss)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/38 "2008-06-24T03:24:18Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] Scarlett, first name Katherine. [/QUOTE] Scarlett is correct! (But is “Katie” short for “Katherine?” Might it not be the Irish “Kathleen?” Does the book say for sure? I don’t remember.) Two different long-running newspaper comics with the same title, one British and one American, debuted in their respective papers by absolute coincidence on the very same day. What is the title shared by these two comics? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/39 "2008-06-24T10:50:35Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Pangloss] Two different long-running newspaper comics with the same title, one British and one American, debuted in their respective papers by absolute coincidence on the very same day. What is the title shared by these two comics? [/QUOTE] Dennis the Menace. And they debuted one week apart, not the same day; the British verson first. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/40 "2008-06-24T14:44:07Z")
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