# Clever trivia questions

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**Created:** [June 22, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747 "2008-06-22T02:54:08Z")\
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**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:** [July 2, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/101 "2008-07-02T12:46:18Z")

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[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]  
Karl Malden and Kim Hunter won Oscars for _A Streetcar Named Desire_ in 1951 while Brando won 3 years later for _On the Waterfront_. Jessica Tandy wouldn’t win hers until 1989 for _Driving Miss Daisy_While _Marty_ was his first theatrical feature, Delbert Mann had directed plenty of television, including the original TV production of _Marty_, also.  
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No. He was the first to win a best director Oscar for the first film he directed. Who was the first to win an Oscar?

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**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/102 "2008-07-02T17:02:54Z")

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]

Who was the first director to win an Oscar for the very first film he directed?  
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Probably wrong, but I’ll guess Robert Redford for _Ordinary People_ .

ETA: No, waitaminnit–John Huston for _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ – he won an _acting_ Oscar, IIRC.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/103 "2008-07-02T17:54:26Z")

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]  
No. He was the first to win a best director Oscar for the first film he directed. Who was the first to win an Oscar?  
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Preston Sturges

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/104 "2008-07-03T03:38:05Z")

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> Another geography one. What country is bordered by the most countries that are larger than it is?

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> I’ll take a stab at Tajikstan, with 4.

Sorry, no.The answer is Zambia, which is bordered by five larger countries: Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, and Tanzania (as well as three smaller countries: Botswana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe).

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/105 "2008-07-03T12:37:30Z")

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So close!

Some football ones:

1. Name the only four teams in the (English) Football League whose full names (other than “F.C.”) start and end with the same letter.
2. Name the only team in the league where you cannot “colour in” any of the letters of their name (e.g. you can “colour in” a, b, d, but you can’t “colour in” i, j, k).
3. Name the only team in the league with no letters of the word “mackerel” in its name.

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