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The Oscars quiz

1. Which actor won an Academy Award for his performance in The African Queen?

2. How many male Christian (or given) names are used in the NATO phonetic alphabet?

3. In the 1985 Oscars, who gained an honorary Oscar for 50 years of memorable performances?

4. The movie poster tag line for which 1962 film was "Together for the first time-James Stewart-John Wayne-in the masterpiece of four time Academy Award winner John Ford."?

5. In which city did Oscar Wilde die on 30th November 1900?

6. Which man won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a villain with just a little more than 16 minutes on screen, the shortest award winning lead performance in Oscar history?

7. What did oscar wilde refer to as "the unmentionable in full pursuit of the uneatable"

8. Which actor won an Oscar for his performance as the sheriff in the film ?High Noon??

9. For which title role did actor Ben Kingsley win an Oscar in 1982?

10. Which actor won his first best actor Oscar for the 1986 film "The Color Of Money"?

11. 1968 historical drama starring Peter O'Toole and with an Oscar winning performance from Katherine Hepburn. Which film?

12. Emile Jennings & Janet Gaynor were the first winners of what in 1928?

13. F. Murray Abraham won Best Actor Oscar for his part in which musical film biography?

14. Who was the oldest best actress recipient when she won for driving miss daisy?

15. Which 1972 Academy Award winner for best actress was Freddy Mercury's role model for stage shows?

16. The phenomenon in which the act of supressing information makes the information more wide spread is named after which record breaking singer and Oscar winniing actress?

17. Which 1969 Oscar winning film was X-rated in the USA?

18. Name the two families who have won Oscars over three generations ?

19. Which Two Films Has Jodie Foster Won Best Actress Oscars For?

20. Which director won an Oscar in 1982 for his lengthy film about the young Indian advocate who became a quiet revolutionary , hailed as a saint and martyr?

ANSWERS

1. Humphrey Bogart

2. Five - Charlie, Mike, Oscar, Romeo and Victor.

3. James Stewart

4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

5. Paris

6. Anthony Hopkins (in The Silence of the Lambs)

7. Fox Hunting

8. Gary Cooper

9. Ghandi

10. Paul Newman

11. The Lion in Winter.

12. Oscar

13. Amadeus

14. Jessica Tandy

15. Liza Minnelli

16. Barbra Streisand (the Streisand Effect)

17. Midnight Cowboy

18. Huston and Coppola

19. Silence of the Lambs and the Accused

20. Richard Attenborough (for Gandhi)

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