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13 March 2006

Help Me Do My Homework I need three trivia questions relating to women and the movies for my "job." →[More:] Seriously. I know it sounds insane. It's for an ad that's going to run as part of one of those annoying preview screens at a local movie theatre. Trivia heads, help please? Thank you thank you thank you!!

post by: mygothlaundry at: 17:19 | 26 comments

Q: Who won an Oscar for Best Actress playing a textile union organizer named "Norma Rae"?

A: Sally Field

posted by kmellis 13 March | 17:31

Q. One of the most talanted actresses got her start on the Mary Tyler Moore Show playing Murray Slaughter's daughter on the show. Who was she?

A. Helen Hunt

posted by jessamyn 13 March | 17:31

Q. What is the shortest scene for which someone won an Oscar?

A. Beatrice Straight in 1976 for Network [10 min] and Judi Dench for Shakespeare in love [3 scenes, 10 min total]

posted by jessamyn 13 March | 17:33

Q: How many men appear onscreen in the 1939 film "The Women"?
A: zero

posted by goatdog 13 March | 17:33

Y'ALL ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you forever!!!!!!!

posted by mygothlaundry 13 March | 17:34

Q. Who was George Lucas's second choice for Princess leia in the original Star Wars?
A. Jodie Foster

Q. Which actress said she stopped believing in Santa Claus when "When my my mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
A. Shirley Temple

Also, Sandy Duncan has a glass eye, don't know if you can work that in someplace.

I used to run a trivia night in Seattle briefly.

posted by jessamyn 13 March | 17:35

Keep 'em coming - I have to make a stockpile, because we're going to be switching the questions out every couple of weeks.

posted by mygothlaundry 13 March | 17:36

Q: The ex-girlfriend of the character "Alvy Singer" was played by what award-winning actress?

A: Diane Keaton in "Annie Hall"

posted by kmellis 13 March | 17:40

Q: Shortest named actress to win an Oscar?

A: Cher, for Moonstruck

posted by Capn 13 March | 17:44

Who are the oldest and youngest women to win the Best Actress Oscar?

Jessica Tandy (80) for Driving Miss Daisy and Marlee Maitlin (21) for Children of a Lesser God.

posted by jrossi4r 13 March | 17:45

Q: What actress won an Academy Award for Best Actress playing the character "Agent Clarice Starling"?

A: Jodie Foster

posted by kmellis 13 March | 17:45

Q: What actress has the most career Oscar nominations?
A: Meryl Streep, with 13

Q: What actress has the most career Oscar wins?
A: Katharine Hepburn, with 4

posted by goatdog 13 March | 17:46

Q: Who has won the most Academy Awards for "Best Actress"?

A: Katharine Hepburn

(on preview, too slow!)

posted by kmellis 13 March | 17:47

Q: What 1950 film garnered the most female acting Oscar nominations?
A: "All About Eve," with two Best Actress nominations (Bette Davis and Anne Baxter) and two Best Supporting Actress nominations (Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter)

posted by goatdog 13 March | 17:52

Q: What actress played pugilist "Maggie Fitzgerald"?

A: Hillary Swank

posted by kmellis 13 March | 17:52

Q: The film studio United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and which actress?
A: Mary Pickford

Q: Which Oscar-winning actress is Warren Beatty's older sister?
A: Shirley MacLaine.

posted by goatdog 13 March | 18:03

Q: The comedienne born as Caryn Elaine Johnson is better known by what name?
A: Whoopi Goldberg

Q: This "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" singer was born Frances Ethel Gumm.
A: Judy Garland.

posted by goatdog 13 March | 18:13

Q: "Mrs. Robinson"?

A: Anne Bancroft

posted by kmellis 13 March | 18:15

Q: When accepting her Best Supporting Actress award in 1978, this British actress praised the Academy for refusing to be intimidated by "Zionist hoodlums."
A: Vanessa Redgrave.

Q: When accepting her second Best Actress award, this actress said "I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"
A: Sally Field

Q: When accepting her Best Actress award, this actress thanked her makeup artist and hairstylist, but not her director, screenwriter, or fellow performers.
A: Cher.

posted by goatdog 13 March | 18:20

Q: Does goatdog have anything better to do today?
A: No, he does not.

posted by goatdog 13 March | 18:21

Who was the youngest female to win a best supporting actress Oscar?

Tatum O'Neal, 9 years old, for Paper Moon

posted by iconomy 13 March | 18:47

Q. Which actress collected her Razzie in 2005.
A. Halle Berry.

posted by seanyboy 13 March | 19:33

You are all geniuses, and the best people ever. Thank you from the bottom of my (un movie trivia knowing) heart.

posted by mygothlaundry 13 March | 19:39

Q. If Whoopi Goldberg married Gerard Depardiu, what would her name be?
A. Whoopi Doopi Doo.

posted by seanyboy 13 March | 19:43

This is the best question:

Which actress invented and patented the technology that led to the invention of cellphones?

Hedy Lamarr

(isn't that cool?)

posted by amberglow 13 March | 20:53

That's *Hedley*.

posted by Triode 14 March | 00:13

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