Friday, February 22, 2008

The weekly movie quiz

Questions and answers to this week's movie quiz

Questions

1. What were first handed out on May 16th, 1929 at the Hotel Roosevelt
in Hollywood?

2. Who, in 1998, declared himself "King of the World"?

3. Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro are the only two actors to win
Oscars for playing the same character. Who were they playing?

4. Billy Crystal. Chris Rock. Jon Stewart. Ellen DeGeneres. Who's next?

5. How many Best Director Oscars did Alfred Hitchcock win?

6. Which Irish director will be playing bass guitar at the Oscars this
 Sunday?

7. Why does one Sacheen Littlefeather have a special place in Oscar
 history?

8. A Streetcar Named Desire and Network both managed three out of
four. No film has ever managed the complete set. What are we talking
about?

9. Who is the only Oscar to win an Oscar?

10. In what sense does Peter O'Toole have nothing on Kevin O'Connell?

Answers

1. The Oscars

2. James Cameron

3. Vito Corleone

4. Jon Stewart again. These are recent hosts of the Oscars

5. None

6. John Carney. The former Frames bassist will be playing behind Glenn
Hansard when he sings Falling Slowly from Once.

7. She accepted Marlon Brando's Oscar for The Godfather

8. Those films won three of the four main acting prizes.

9. Oscar Hammerstein

10. Peter O'Toole has received the most Best Actor nominations without
a win. But O'Toole's eight nominations pale beside the 20 that sound
man O'Connell has clocked up. Oscar's biggest loser is nominated this
year for Transformers.

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