Doug's Big Oscar Quiz - Part 3

Match the acceptance speech quote with the correct Oscar winner:

11. "I accept this very gratefully for keeping my mouth shut for once. I think I'll do it again."
     a. Marlee Matlin
     b. Patricia Neal
     c. Holly Hunter
     d. Jane Wyman

12. "Suddenly, going to work tomorrow doesn't seem like such a good idea."
     a. Steven Speilberg
     b. Steven Soderbergh
     c. Sydney Pollack
     d. Roman Polanski

13. "Can I have my champagne now?"
     a. Cate Blanchett
     b. Geena Davis
     c. Goldie Hawn
     d. Cloris Leachman

14. "Losing would suck and winning would be really scary. And it's really, really scary."
     a. Quentin Tarantino
     b. Kevin Spacey
     c. Ben Affleck
     d. Cuba Gooding Jr.

15. "As a little kid, I lived in the projects and you're the people I watched. You're the people who made me want to be an actor. I'm so proud to be here. "
     a. Hillary Swank
     b. Marissa Tomei
     c. Whoopi Goldberg
     d. Mercedes Ruehl

Doug's Big Oscar Quiz - Part 2 Answers

6. Who are Gary, Trevor, Muzza, Neville, Brent, and Lysander?
c. The six Oscars that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsn won for The Return of the King

7. Which of these tunes did not win Best Song?
b. As Time Goes By

8. Which team scored a record three nominations in the same year in the Best Song category?
a. Elton John and Tim Rice

9. Who were the first brother and sister to win Oscars on the same night?
d. Norma and Douglas Shearer

10. Who was the first married couple to win Oscars (not on the same night)?
c. Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh

Doug's Big Oscar Quiz - Part 2

Select the best answer:

6. Who are Gary, Trevor, Muzza, Neville, Brent, and Lysander?
     a. Early prototypes for the Oscar
     b. Winners in the now-defunct Best Animal Actor category
     c. The six Oscars that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh won for The Return of the King
     d. The accountants who tally the final Oscar votes

7. Which of these tunes did not win Best Song?
     a. High Hopes
     b. As Time Goes By
     c. Over the Rainbow
     d. My Heart Will Go On
     e. (I've Had) The Time of My Life

8. Which team scored a record three nominations in the same year in the Best Song category?
     a. Elton John and Tim Rice
     b. James Horner and Will Jennings
     c. Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn
     d. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman

9. Who were the first brother and sister to win Oscars on the same night?
     a. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine
     b. Lionel and Ethyl Barrymore
     c. Sophia and Roman Coppola
     d. Norma and Douglas Shearer

10. Who was the first married couple to win Oscars (not on the same night)?
     a. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
     b. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
     c. Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh
     d. Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable

Doug's Big Oscar Quiz - Part 1

Guess what, everyone!  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak made an appearance in Los Angeles early yesterday morning and saw his shadow.  You know what that means - five weeks of Oscar season!

It's going to be a great year for Oscar!  We have the second-ever Best Picture nomination for an animated film (Up), the fourth woman ever nominated for Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), plus, she's up against her ex-husband, James Cameron (a first at the awards).  Ten Best Picture nominees and a good showing for sci-fi and action movies should make things especially exciting.

I have some catching up to do, but I thought I'd start things off with an Oscar Quiz.  Answers will be posted later in the week.

Match the Best-Picture winning film with its poster tagline:

1. What does it take to find a lost love? A. Money B. Luck C. Smarts D. Destiny

2. Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies!

3. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals...Except their honor.

4. The eye of the enemy is moving.

5. Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love.


a. Chariots of Fire
b. Million Dollar Baby
c. Slumdog Millionaire
d. It Happened One Night
e. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Doug's Big Oscar Quiz - Part 5

Match the Best Picture-winning film with its advertising tagline:

21. "Everything in its proper place... except the past"
22. "There are no clean getaways"
23. "Love is the only inspiration"
24. "His whole life was a million-to-one shot"
25. "They got a murder on their hands. They don't know what to do with it."

a. Rocky
b. Shakespeare In Love
c. Ordinary People
d. In the Heat Of the Night
e. No Country For Old Men

Doug's Big Oscar Quiz - Part 4

Match the actor with the quote from his or her Oscar acceptance speech:

16. Ben Affleck
17. Cate Blanchett
18. Grace Kelly
19. Jack Nicholson
20. Hillary Swank

a. "I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. "
b. "Losing would suck and winning would be really scary. And it's really, really scary."
c. "I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else."
d. "This is one night I wish I smoked and drank."
e. "I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream."

Doug's Big Oscar Quiz - Part 3

Multiple choice:

11. Who has the most Best Supporting Actor Oscars?
a. Michael Caine
b. Jason Robards
c. Melvyn Douglas
d. Peter Ustinov

12. Who wrote the most Best Songs?
a. Alan Menken
b. Sammy Cahn
c. Johnny Mercer & Jimmy Van Heusen
d. All of the above (3-way tie)

13. Which country has produced the most Best Foreign Language Films?
a. Japan
b. Italy
c. The Netherlands
d. Germany

14. Which film earned the most nominations without any in the acting categories?
a. The Last Emperor
b. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
c. Reds
d. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

15. Who has the most nominations in the writing categories?
a. Billy Wilder
b. Woody Allen
c. Frederico Fellini
d. William Wyler

Doug's Big Oscar Quiz - Part 2

6. Javier Bardem
7. Angelina Jolie
8. Reese Witherspoon
9. Philip Seymour Hoffman
10. Tom Hanks

a. "Every now and again - not often, but occasionally - you get to be a part of justice being done"
b. "Rule number one: Don't propose to a girl on a bus"
c. "What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?"
d. "There is not a word or a sentence or a concept that you can illuminate for me."
e. "You think your free? I'm free! You don't know what freedom is!"

Doug's Big Oscar Quiz - Part 1

Match the actors with the roles that won them their Oscars:

1. Denzel Washington
2. Morgan Freeman
3. Jennifer Connelly
4. Frances McDormand
5. Audrey Hepburn

a. Alicia Nash
b. Alonzo
c. Ann
d. Marge Gunderson
e. Eddie Dupris