I used to have a whole list of Academy Award trivia questions, but I can only recall two off the top of my head.
What was the only x-rated film to win a best picture award?
Midnight Cowboy
What is the only role that two different performers have won a best acting award for playing?
Vito Corleone
How about this:
What do these people have in common:
“Bat” Masterson;
J.L. Warner (of Warner Brothers);
Mack Sennett (Keystone Kops);
Art Linkletter;
Saul Bellow and John Kenneth Galbraith?
They were all born in Canada.
This one stumped me and I had to check it out. It’s right…but it threw me for a loop. I love the first two Godfadders.
Marlon Brando won Best Actor for Godfather in 1972.
Robert DeNiro won Best Supporting Actor in Godfather II in 1974.
More Movie Trivia:
What was the first picture to win Best Picture?
Wings ( 1927)
What was the first COLORED picture to win Best Picture?
Gone With the Wind ( 1939)
Can you name the five black actors who have won acting academy awards?
Butterfly McQueen (GWTW),
Cuba Gooding Jr (Jerry McGuire),
Lou Gosset Jr. (Officer & a Gentleman), Sidney Poitier(Lillies of the Field)
Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost)
In 1968 the Best Actress Award went to?
It was a tie between Katherine Hepburn for
Lion in the Winter and Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.
Only two pictures have won the big four: Picture, director, Actor and Actress. Can you name them?
It Happened One Night ( 1934) Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert
Silence of the Lambs ( 1991) Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins
And One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
I’m just posting without bothering to check any references, but didn’t the two actresses who played the woman in the 'Titantic" get Oscars? I know it’s easy to check this but right now I’m lazy. The Godfather trivia was one that always stumped my friends.
How about: who was the person that had personal contact with Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley each on the day of their assassinations?
Answer: Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, Cabinet member (IIRC) of Garfield (and had just finished a conversation with Garfield and was walking away when Guiteau struck), and had met McKinley the morning that McKinley was shot.
After McKinley’s death, Robert Lincoln refused to ever meet a President.
Sorry if I stole your thunder, 647…
JMCJ
Die, Prentiss, Die! You will never have a more glorious opportunity!
John C.–Hey, no, good call. I heard that one somewhere years ago and this summer I was a groomsmen at a buddy’s wedding and his future father-law-law claimed that question would stump everybody. I gave him his answer after about 5 seconds of recollection. Nothing impressive, but the look on his face was.
father-IN-law.
What about the ‘Titanic’ Oscars?
Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart both received nominations for playing the part of Rose but neither won.
What were the real names of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longbough.
Where was Sundance born?
Atlantic City, NJ.
What occupation did Bat Masterson finally wind up doing?
Sports writer.
What was Wild Bill Hickock’s real name?
James Butler Hickock.
Did Hickock ride for the Pony Express?
No. He was a stockman for the company Russell, Majors & Waddell but not a rider.
What killed John ‘Doc’ Holliday?
TB.
What was written on Doc’s tombstone?
“He died in bed”.
As long as we’re doing Oscar trivia, perhaps it’s notable that two actresses were nominated in the same year for playing the same character.
Queen Elizabeth I, 1998 - Cate Blanchett (who lost) and Judi Dench (who won as supporting actress).
Don’t know if that circumstance ever arose before.
Chaim Mattis Keller
cmkeller@compuserve.com
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
Who were the 2 featured performers on the most watched sports program ever shown on television outside of a Super Bowl?
What did the S in Harry S truman stand for?
Also, there are several presidents not buried in the United States…how many can you name?
What does Kramer’s friend Bob Sacameno do for a living?
Who said "Life is short…live it up
an easy one…What is the only one of the Seven Wonders of Antiquity still standing?
How many of the other 6 can you name?
What word changes in pronunciation when it is capitalized? (this is a trick one)
I just thought of another one…you may notice quite an eclectic selection.
What woman featured in her own pictoral in Playboy had the largest breast size?
One of my favorite sports questions…
Willie Mays was the youngest player to hit 50 home runs in a season.
Who was the oldest?
A: Willie Mays
Wishing all you at the SDMB Happy Xmas and a GREAT 2000 and beyond!
Q: what is the most common street name in the United States?
A: Second
According to statistics from across the country, what is the most common felony committed in the United States?
Drunken driving
What was the first video ever played on MTV?
The Bangles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”
What is the only creature other than humans that can get leprosy? The armadillo.
And this, from Roger Ebert–what was the first major film to contain “the F-word”? MASH*
Dr. J
Which city is farthest West; Los Angeles, CA or Reno NV? (Reno)
The answer only makes sense if you look at a map. A related question is: What direction do most Southern California surfers drive to get to the beach? (South)
The Buggles sang Video Killed the Radio Star.
Who had the first #1 hit to run over 2 minutes? The Beatles Hey Jude
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