| 2. What was Shaft's first name?
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| 3. Name the only three movies in Oscar’s history have won the Oscar Grand
Slam - the top four awards – Best Movie, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director.
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| 4. Who did the writers of "National Lampoon’s Vacation" title the
amusement park Wally World owner, Roy Wally, after?
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| 5. Who are the two women who used sign language for their
acceptance speech for the best actress Oscar?
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| 6. When Dorothy got back from Oz, what did she realize were the names of the
Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion in Kansas?
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| 7. Who credited his stomach ulcer for
a Best Actor Oscar win?
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| 8. What was the first
all-talking movie?
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| 9. Name the Oscar-winning actor
who advertised Volkwagons on TV before he became famous.
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| 10. Who’s the only regular cast
member from "Saturday Night Live" to be nominated for an Academy Award?
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| 11. Name the two movies in which Cary Grant played a WWII submarine captain.
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12. What do all of these
performers have in common?:
The Beatles, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Elton John, Bruce Springfield,
Carly Simon
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| 13. What is the movie that Kevin
Kostner became famous for being cut from?
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14. What do all these actors and
actresses have in common?
Richard Burton, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Gene Kelly, Greta
Garbo, John Barrymore, Deborrah Kerr, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Edward G. Robinson,
William Powell, Myna Loy
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| 15. James Caan is most famous for
portraying Sonny in "The Godfather", but he has actually appeared in two
musicals. What are the movies and who was his female co-star in each? For a bonus, in what
movie did he also appear as a desceased musical star who haunts his wife?
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| 16. "Titanic" tied
which movie for the most nominations and which for the most wins?
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| 17. What
was unique about the film, "The Women"?
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| 18. Katharine
Hepburn has won the record of four acting Oscars? Which other actress won three?
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| 19. "A Star is Born"
has been filmed four times. Three had that title, but what was the 1932 version called?
And, who played the star-crossed lovers in each version?
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| 20. When Jack Nicholson won this
third Oscar, which other man did he tie for Oscar acting wins?
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| 21. Her skirt was blown up in a
movie scene and her marriage ended. Who was she and who was her equally famous husband?
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| 22. Who was the only actor to win
acting Oscar posthumously and for what movie?
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| 23. He played the same lead
character in two versions of the same African adventure movie story, made twenty-one years
apart. Name the actor and the movie titles. (Give yourself bonus points if you can also
name the leading ladies.) *no, it's not Tarzan*
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| 24. Twice sisters have been
nominated for the Academy Awards in the same year in the lead actress category. Name
the sisters, the movies each was nominated for, and who was the winner in those two
years.
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| 25. What song was nearly cut from
"The Wizard of Oz" when the studio execs made the decision that it was slowing
up the movie?
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| 26. What
the first and last (as of 2001) musical to win the Academy Award for the best movie of the
year?
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| 27. Grace Kelly makes a big show
of polishing a large engagement ring in one scene of "High Society". Who
actually supplied the ring for her to wear?
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