Oscar Quiz Answers

Posted on March 3, 2016 at 8:00 am

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.

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Answers: Muppet Quiz

Posted on April 1, 2014 at 3:59 pm

1. Can you guess the writer who provided the narration for this 1968 commercial featuring The Muppets?

William Burroughs

2. What Oscar-winning actor co-starred with the Muppets as Scrooge in “A Muppet Christmas Carol?”

Michael Caine

3. Which Muppet is the front man of a rock group?

Dr. Teeth of the Electric Mayhem

4. Which Muppet is the lab assistant for scientist Dr. Bunsen Honeydew?

Beaker

5. Which Muppet lives in a trash can?

Oscar the Grouch on “Sesame Street”

6. What is the name of Big Bird’s friend that everyone on Sesame Street thought was imaginary?

Mr. Snuffleupagus

7. Who are these guys?

Statler and Waldorf

8. Name something other than the birthmark and voice that distinguishes Kermit and Constantine?

Different collar

9. Where was Miss Piggy working at the beginning of “The Muppets?”

French Vogue

10. Who is the only Muppet who appears in both the Muppet movies and television shows and on Sesame Street?

Kermit!

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Father’s Day Quiz: Answers

Posted on June 22, 2013 at 8:00 am

Answers to the Father’s Day Movie Quiz — thanks to all who answered!

1. Cheaper by the Dozen (original version)

2. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father

3. The Parent Trap

4. Three Men and a Baby

5. John Houston directed Angelica Houston in “Prizzi’s Honor” and Walter Houston in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”

6. Jane and Henry Fonda in “On Golden Pond”

7. Spike Lee and Francis Ford Coppola

8. Ordinary People

9. Parenthood

10. Finding Nemo

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Jurassic Park Quiz: Answers

Posted on April 14, 2013 at 8:00 am

Thanks to all who responded!

1. Which actor in “Jurassic Park” appears in a 2013 #1 box office release? Joseph Mazzello, who played Tim, appears as Mouse in “GI Joe: Retaliation.”

2. Name two classic movies that have dinosaur skeletons in museums collapsed by the characters. “Bringing Up Baby” and “On the Town”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B16rhVK5Av0

3. The co-screenwriter and author of the book “Jurassic Park” had what unusual academic achievement for the movie industry? He was a doctor.

4. In real life, humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs, but movies cannot resist putting them together. What movie has a famous 60?s beauty in a fur bikini playing opposite an Allosaurus? Raquel Welch in “One Millon Years B.C.”

5. What movie features a frozen dinosaur awakened by a 20th century bomb test? “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbAHR0djrMQ

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School Movie Quiz: Answers

Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:00 am

Thanks to all who tried! Here are the answers:

1. A tough cop goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher. “Kindergarten Cop”

2. This classic based on a true story is about an English woman who travels to the other side of the world to teach the many children of a king. “The King and I”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjf2DxGniwo

3. It’s Saturday, but these five kids have to spend the day in the library for detention. “The Breakfast Club”

4. In this touching documentary, a community with very few minorities finds an especially compelling way to teach their children about the Holocaust. “Paper Clips”

5. A book by Roald Dahl is the basis for this movie about a girl from an awful family who is befriended by a kind-hearted teacher. “Matilda”

6. A musician pretends to be a substitute teacher to make money and ends up turning his class into a rock group. “School of Rock”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AjjRZhiWHI

7. In this body-switching classic, a mother finds out what her daughter’s life is like when she has to spend a day in her daughter’s classes. “Freaky Friday”

8. Undercover cops pretend to be high school students to catch drug dealers in this movie based on a television series. “21 Jump Street”

9. A high school drama teacher decides his class should put on musical sequel to “Hamlet.” “Hamlet 2”

10. Four high school girls form a witches’ coven and get revenge on the classmates who were mean to them. “The Craft”

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