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1.	Which of the following has not hosted the Academy Awards ceremony?
		Jerry Lewis
		Frank Sinatra
		Johnny Carson
		Steve McQueen

2.	Which of these rock stars has not won an Oscar in the Original Song category?
		Bob Dylan
		Bruce Springsteen
		Tom Petty
		Phil Collins

3.	Consider this sequence of Best Actress winners: Which of the following correctly fills in the gap?





4.	Any discussion of Oscar snubs has to at least include Citizen Kane. In which category did the film win its lone Academy Award?
		Best Director
		Best Picture
		Best Actor
		Best Original Screenplay

5.	As of 2009, which of the former Saturday Night Live stars has not been nominated for an Oscar?
		Dan Aykroyd
		Eddie Murphy
		Bill Murray
		Chevy Chase

6.	Which of the following has won an Academy Honorary Award?
		Steve Jobs, co-founder
		Elia Kazan, black-listed director
		Ray Harryhausen, effects maven
		Clint Eastwood, actor/director

7.	Which of the following winners of the Golden Globe for the Best Picture - Comedy or Musical was also nominated for the Best Picture Oscar?
		Moulin Rouge!
		Almost Famous
		Walk the Line
		Evita

8.	How many merit awards will be handed out at the pirmary 2009 Academy Awards ceremony?
		20
		19
		24
		26

9.	Which correctly matches the Foreign Language winner with its country of origin?
		Pan's Labyrinth - Spain
		Joyeux Noël - Canada
		The Chorus - Austria
		Hero - China

10.	Which of the following Dreamworks Animation films has benn nominated for the Animated Feature award?
		Antz
		Shark Tale
		Madagascar
		Over the Hedge

11.	In 2007, Joel and Ethan Coen won the directing Oscar for No Country for Old Men. Prior to that, the most recent film to have two men share the directing honor was:
		Ben-Hur
		The Deer Hunter
		West Side Story
		From Here to Eternity

12.	Which of the following words was not part of the title of a Best Picture Oscar of the 1990s?
		List
		English
		Rain
		American

13.	Which actor was introducing Elizabeth Taylor when Robert Open streaked across the stage in 1974?
		David Niven
		Jack Nicholson
		Paul Newman
		James Caan

14.	As of 2009, who was the last back-to-back winner of the Leading Actress Oscar?
		Helen Hayes
		Grace Kelly
		Vivian Leigh
		As of 2009, there have been no back-to-back winners

15.	Which of the following did not win an Oscar for portraying a writer?
		Jack Nicholson
		Nicole Kidman
		Joseph Feinnes
		Paul Scofield

16.	As of February 2009, which Best Picture winner of the 2000s has the lowest fresh rating at RottenTomatoes.com?
		Chicago
		Crash
		The Departed
		Million Dollar Baby

17.	Which of the following has won multiple Best Director Oscars?
		Peter Jackson
		Barry Levinson
		Oliver Stone
		Peter Weir

18.	As of 2009, who is the youngest winner of the Supporting Actor Oscar?
		Karl Malden
		Timothy Hutton
		Jason Robards
		Haing S. Ngor

19.	Robert DeNiro and which other actor are the only winners for Best Supporting actor for a foreign language performance?
		Benicio del Toro
		Walter Brennan
		Ben Johnson
		Walter Matthau

20.	In the Pixar film The Incredibles, the character of Edna Mode was based on which eight-time Oscar winning costume designer?
		Helen Rose
		Edith Head
		Dorothy Jeakins
		Margaret Furse

21.	Bette Davis was officially nominated for an Oscar 10 times. She was also an unofficial write in nominee for "Of Human Bondage". She won Best Actress twice. For which films?
		All About Eve; Dark Victory
		The Little Foxes; Now, Voyager
		Dangerous; Jezebel
		The Letter; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

22.	Heath Ledger is an overwhelming favorite this year to win a posthumous Oscar. So far, this is the only other actor to have done this:
		Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
		James Dean - Giant or East of Eden
		Ralph Richardson - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
		Peter Finch - Network

23.	This person won an Oscar for playing someone who has won an Oscar:
		Jack Nicholson
		Marion Cotillard
		Cate Blanchett
		Barbara Streisand

24.	All of these women have been nominated for Best Director except for:
		Sofia Coppola - Lost In Translation
		Gillian Armstrong - My Brilliant Career
		Lina Wertmuller - Seven Beauties
		Jane Campion - The Piano

25.	One of Charlie Chaplin's films won an Oscar 20 years after it was made. Which one?
		Limelight
		Modern Times
		City Lights
		The Gold Rush

26.	These 2 films tie the record for most nominations each at 14:
		Ben Hur; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
		Doctor Zhivago; Lawrence of Arabia
		Titanic; All About Eve
		The Godfather; The English Patient

27.	"A Streetcar Named Desire" won 3 out of 4 acting awards. The only other film to do this was:
		The Silence of the Lambs
		The Godfather
		The English Patient
		Network

28.	Only brother and sister to win acting awards:
		Jane Fonda/Peter Fonda
		Warren Beatty/Shirley MacLaine
		Ethel Barrymore/Lionel Barrymore
		Julia Roberts/Eric Roberts

29.	All of these actors played the same character in 2 different films and were nominated for both performances. All of them except:
		Barbara Streisand - Fanny Brice
		Paul Newman - Fast Eddie Felson
		Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth Tudor
		Peter O'Toole - King Henry II

30.	The person who won most Oscars at a single ceremony (4):
		Peter Jackson
		James Cameron
		Walt Disney
		Clint Eastwood