Popcorn Garage Has Hidden Clues to 66 Movies — How Many Can You Find?
Posted on March 19, 2016 at 8:00 am
Popcorn Garage has hidden clues to 66 movies in this puzzle. How many can you find? The idol and the helmet in the photo below should be easy ones. Be careful — three wrong answers and you’re out!
1. What Oscar-winning director is the son and father of Oscar-winning performers and what was his connection to their award-winning films?
Director John Huston won an Oscar for “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” and directed both his father, Walter Huston and his daughter, Anjelica Huston, in the films that won them Oscars as well.
2. What was the first film to win all five top awards: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay? (Extra credit if you can name the only other two films to sweep these categories.)
“It Happened One Night” followed by “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Silence of the Lambs”
3. Who tied for Best Actress in 1969?
Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn
4. Who was speaking when a streaker interrupted the Oscar broadcast in 1974?
David Niven
5. Who mangled the name of singer/actress Idina Menzel in 2014?
John Travolta
6. Which Best Actor winner swept presenter Halle Berry off her feet with a passionate kiss?
Adrian Brody
7. Who is the only person named Oscar to actually win an Oscar?
Lyricist/writer Oscar Hammerstein (but I’m betting Oscar Isaac will win one soon)
8. What was special about the special Oscar awarded to Walt Disney for “Snow White?”
Here it is!
9. Who was the first (and so far, only) woman to win the Best Director Oscar?
Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”
10. What is unusual about two-time Best Editing Oscar nominee Roderick Jaynes?
He doesn’t exist. It’s a pseudonym for the Coen brothers.
Get ready for Oscar night with an Oscar trivia quiz!
1. What Oscar-winning director is the son and father of Oscar-winning performers and what was his connection to their award-winning films?
2. What was the first film to win all five top awards: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay? (Extra credit if you can name the only other two films to sweep these categories.)
3. Who tied for Best Actress in 1969?
4. Who was speaking when a streaker interrupted the Oscar broadcast in 1974?
5. Who mangled the name of singer/actress Idina Menzel in 2014?
6. Which Best Actor winner swept presenter Halle Berry off her feet with a passionate kiss?
7. Who is the only person named Oscar to actually win an Oscar?
8. What was special about the special Oscar awarded to Walt Disney for “Snow White?”
9. Who was the first (and so far, only) woman to win the Best Director Oscar?
10. What is unusual about two-time Best Editing Oscar nominee Roderick Jaynes?
Can You Identify The Films From One Line in a Review?
Posted on June 3, 2014 at 3:39 pm
I had a lot of fun taking this quiz from Politix — and it got even more fun when I found out that one of the answers came from one of my reviews. (P.S. I got a perfect score.)