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1.	"I'm a trivia question now, is what you're saying," this person joked with Lara Spencer on the red carpet when she noted that only he and Walt Disney have been nominated in six different categories:
		Steven Spielberg
		Tom Hanks
		Ben Affleck
		George Clooney

2.	Seth MacFarlane noted in his opening, "The quest to make _________ laugh begins now."
		Joaquin Phoenix
		Tommy Lee Jones
		Emmanuelle Riva
		Robert DeNiro

3.	Please step forward if you are a movie which received an award in one of the acting categories during the evening. Hey, not so fast there...
		Les Miserables
		Argo
		Django Unchained
		Lincoln

4.	Accepting the Animated feature Oscar, Mark Andrews "I just happened to be wearing" this item, which most likely no one would have noticed if he hadn't mentioned it:
		Kilt
		Monocle
		Stovepipe hat
		Vest of many colors

5.	Promos for the Oscars had hyped a re-assembling of The Avengers, but the massively unfunny bit involving the cast for that film did not include the actors behind these two characters:
		Hulk and Thor
		Black Widow and Thor
		Black Widow and Hawkeye
		Hawkeye and Hulk

6.	The first film to win two Oscars during the evening was:
		Argo
		Life of Pi
		Lincoln
		Skyfall
		*By way of explanation.....* Cinematography and Visual Effects

7.	Oscar pools across the galaxy were thrown inter intergalactic chaos when a tie between Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty occurred in this category:
		Makeup
		Sound mixing
		Sound editing
		Film editing

8.	Oscar producers chose to inject a bit of ruthlessness into the universally-appreciated play-off music, and chose a well-known tune from this film to signal to speakers that their time was damn well up:
		The Godfather
		Jaws
		Star Wars
		The Exorcist

9.	If you are a resident of this country, then you live in the land of the reigning Foreign Language Film champion:
		Canada
		Norway
		Chile
		Austria

10.	Can you remember the first and last of the recently departed to be shown in the In Memoriam segment? Why yes, yes you can, if you answer:
		Jack Klugman & Tony Scott
		Michael Clarke Duncan & Charles Durning
		Ernest Borgnine & Marvin Hamlisch
		Hal David & Nora Ephron

11.	The winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay award adapted the screenplay from, in part:
		An earlier motion picture
		A magazine article
		A stage play
		A children's book

12.	"We have finally reached the point in the ceremony where either Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz or Salma Hayek comes on stage." At that point in the ceremony, who came on stage?
		Javier Bardem
		Penelope Cruz
		Salma Hayek
		Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek

13.	Songs from each of the following movie musicals was performed on stage during the evening, except for:
		Dreamgirls
		Chicago
		Grease
		Les Miserabes

14.	The original Captain Kirk William Shatner appeared via the 'future' to stop Seth McFarlane from being the worst host ever. In addition to making out with Sally Field and having a song dedicated to Best Actress nominees' boobs, he supposedly does a sock puppet rendition of which film?
		Django Unchained
		Flight
		Life of Pi
		Lincoln

15.	Which of these Bond girls was charged with introducing the 50 year tribute to the 007 franchise?
		Denise Richards
		Famke Jenssen
		Halle Berry
		Eva Green

16.	And arguably the musical performance of the evening occurred when this lady belted out a classic Bond theme song:
		Rita Coolidge
		Roberta Flack
		Shirley Bassey
		Dinah Washington

17.	With the evening devoted to music, the show made a mess of the Original Song category, with some of the nominees not even being performed on stage. Meanwhile, the song from this film was performed, but not by the person who sang it in the film:
		Chasing Ice
		Ted
		Life of Pi
		Les Miserables
		*By way of explanation.....* Norah Jones sang Everybody Needs a Friend from Ted

18.	The Academy should apologize to the makers of Animated Short Film winner Paper Man for the brutally unfunny Paul Rudd/Melissa McCarthy schtick directly preceding their win. What studio released this short?
		Disney
		Fox
		Dreamworks
		IFC

19.	The orchestra providing music for the evening played from the orchestra pit of the Dolby Theater, where the Oscars were held, right? Right??
		Right!
		Wrong! They played from the Capitol Records building
		Wrong! They played from Shangri-La Studios
		Wrong! They played from The Record Plant

20.	The winner of which category paid tribute to the film's director, noting that he crossed through fire, scaled the mountain and slayed the dragon?
		Lead actress
		Original screenplay
		Supporting actor
		Original score

21.	Congratulations to Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis on his win for Lincoln. This win marks the first time someone has won a lead acting Oscar ___ times.
		two
		three
		four
		five

22.	In a bit of tidiness uncharacteristic of the rest of the evening, the Best Picture nominees were presented in three groupings of three films each. Which of the following did not present a group of nominees?
		Nicole Kidman
		Matt Damon
		Reese Witherspoon
		Liam Neeson

23.	"You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell, and that's really embarrassing"These were the first words out of the mouth of the ______ winner after falling on the steps to accept her award.
		Original Song
		Lead Actress
		Supporting Actress
		Costume Design

24.	In a first, the Best Picture winner was announced via satellite by the First Lady from the White House. Who was the Oscar winner on stage that actually handed the award to Argo's producers?
		George Clooney
		Tom Hanks
		Jack Nicholson
		Denzel Washington

25.	With Seth McFarlane and Kristin Chenoweth singing a tribute to the 'losers' of the evening, they clearly weren't singing about _____, which won the most awards of the evening with four total.
		Argo
		Les Miserables
		Lincoln
		Life of Pi
		*By way of explanation.....* Life of Pi won 4. Argo and Les Miserables each won 3. And Lincoln won 2 (along with Django Unchained and Skyfall).

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