Clever trivia questions

[RealityChuck]

@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 DaisyWhile Marty was his first theatrical feature, Delbert Mann had directed plenty of television, including the original TV production of Marty, also.

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?

[want2know]

@RealityChuck

Who was the first director to win an Oscar for the very first film he directed?

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.

[MovieMogul]

@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?

Preston Sturges

[Little_Nemo]

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

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).

[Dead_Cat]

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.