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O'brien's Irish Pub Quiz – February 18Th, 2015 OSCAR QUIZ

O'brien's Irish Pub Quiz – February 18Th, 2015 OSCAR QUIZ

O’Brien’s Irish Pub Quiz – February 18th, 2015 OSCAR QUIZ Quizmasters - Jonathan Dinerstein and Ward ROUND ONE 1. Q: Name the only three Best Picture winners that are longer than 3½ hours. A: Gone With the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur. ½ point each

2. Q: What is the longest ever title of a nominated for Best Picture? What is the longest title of a film nominated for Best Picture this year? A: Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 1 point each

3. Q: This year the same four people have won the acting awards given by BAFTA, SAG, and the Golden Globes (in a drama). Who are they? A: , , J.K. Simmons, . ½ point each

4. Q: J.K. Simmons, the odds-on favorite to win Best Supporting , currently features in two long-running television ad campaigns, one live-action, and one a voice performance. Name the two products he pitches. A: Farmer’s Insurance, M&Ms (voice of the yellow M&M). 1 point each

5. Q: Only twice have non-professional won acting awards. In both cases, they were portraying fictionalized versions of real war victimhood they suffered. Name the for which they won. A: The Best Years of Our Lives (, hooks for hands), The Killing Fields (Haing Ngor, doctor oppressed by Khmer Rouge). 1 point each

6. Q: Who is the only person to twice achieve the feat of receiving nominations for acting, writing and directing for the same film? A: . (Heaven Can Wait, Reds) 1 point

7. Q: Match the films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film with their countries of origin. A: Ida - Poland, Leviathan - , Tangerines - Estonia, Timbuktu - Mauritania, Wild Tales - Argentina. ½ point each

8. Q: Which of this year’s acting nominees had no speaking lines in his or film debut in a named role? That debut performance came in a film nominated for Best Picture. A: , who played Boo Radley in . 1 point

9. Q: Write down the names of the following actors: , , James Cromwell, James Caan. For each one, name the film nominated for Best Animated Feature in which they provide a voice performance. A: Blanchett - 2, Kingsley - The Boxtrolls, Cromwell - Big Hero 6, Caan - The Tale of Princess Kaguya. ½ point each.

10. Q: Of this year’s nominees for Best Director, two have had their last three feature films have begun with the same letter. Name both. A: Alejandro Iñárritu (Birdman, , Babel), (Boyhood, , Bernie) 1 point each 11. Q: In both 2011 and 2014, the same two actors appeared in Oscar-nominated films playing characters employed by MI6. Name the two actors and the two films. A: , , Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, . ½ point each

12. Q: is annual inside- industry survey of the most buzzed-about unproduced screenplays. Name the three films nominated for Best Picture this year that had previously appeared on the Black List. A: , The Imitation Game, Whiplash. ½ point each

13. Q: Name the only two films for which two people shared the Best Director award. A: ( & ), (Joel & Ethan Coen).1 pt. each

14. Q: Adjusted for inflation, four of the ten lowest domestic grossing Best Picture winners of all time are films from the last ten years. Name those four. A: No Country for Old Men (2007 - $88M), (2013 - $56M), The Artist (2011 - $47M), (2009 - $18M) ½ point each

15. Q: What is the most Oscar-nominated family? A: The Newmans. (Alfred - 45, Randy (nephew) - 20, Thomas (son) - 12, etc.) 1 point

ROUND TWO 16. Q: Identify the following musical clips from the films nominated for Best Score (name the film). For a bonus, circle the two scores that were written by the same composer. A: 1 - The Imitation Game, 2 - Mr. Turner, 3 - Interstellar, 4 - The Theory of Everything, 5 - The Grand Hotel. 1 & 5 both composed by . ½ point each

17. Q: Who is the only person to direct films which garnered nominations in all four acting categories, in back to back years? A: David O. Russell. (, ) 1 point

18. Q: What living person has won the most Oscars? A: (eight - 4 for song, for score). 1 point

19. Q: Who is the only non-Caucasian person to win Best Director? A: . 1 point

20. Q: Since the expansion of the Best Picture field from five to up to ten, who is the only person to be nominated for Best Director without his or her film also being nominated for Best Picture? A: , for . 1 point

21. Q: During the ceremony, the Oscar orchestra will, as usual, accompany the proceedings live. They won’t be, however, anywhere inside the Dolby Theater. Where will they be? A: Playing live remotely from the Capital Records building. 1 point

22. Q: When giving your acceptance speech, how long do you have before the orchestra begins to play you off? A: 45 seconds. 1 point 23. Q: Who was the only adult person to receive an official Oscar statuette from the Academy (not an Academy Juvenile Award) which was other than the standard size? (Including non-competitive recipients) A: In 1939, the Academy awarded a special Oscar, consisting of one regular sized statuette and seven miniature ones, in recognition of the achievement of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, to . 1 pt.

24. Q: has now been nominated for an acting Oscar in three consecutive years. If he is nominated again next year, he will tie a record among male actors, held by which two actors? A: , . 1 point each

25. Q: What was the first Best Picture winner in color? A: Gone With the Wind. 1 point

26. Q: What is the only Bond song to win Best Song? A: “.” 1 point

27. Q: According to Academy rules, how long must a film be to be eligible as a feature film? A: Forty minutes. 1 point

28. Q: There are two films tied for most nominations this year, with each. What actor appears in both of them? A: Ed Norton (Birdman, ). 1 point

29. Q: What two characters have generated the most acting nominations for their portrayals? (Hint: real people.) A: Henry VIII (, , ), Elizabeth I (, Cate Blanchett x2) 1 point each

30. Q: I will play four audio clips of people accepting . For each, name the recipient. A: , , , . ½ point each

Tie Breaker Q: List as many as you can of the venues in which have hosted the Academy Awards. A: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Ambassador Hotel, Biltmore Hotel, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, , Academy Aware Theater, Pantages Theatre, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Kodak/.

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