Can you name the answers to these tough trivia questions based on the 2012 Oscar nominations? by rockgolf

Can you name the answers to these tough trivia questions based on the 2012 Oscar nominations?

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Q#	Answer	Question
Clooney		George Clooney is nominated this year in 2 categories (Actor, Original Screenplay) for work in different films (The Descendants, The Ides of March). He also received nominations in different categories for different films released in 2005. Name either of those 2005 films.
Davis		Incredibly, Viola Davis is only the 2nd African-American actress to receive more than a single Oscar nomination in their career. (Her first was for Doubt.) Who is the other?
Moneyball		If Moneyball wins Best Picture, it will be the 4th winner with a sports theme. Name one of the 3 previous Best Picture winners with a sports theme.
Allen		If Woody Allen (age 76) wins Best Director, he will be the oldest winner in that category. Who is the current oldest Best Director winner?
The Help		Close, McTeer, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis (both from The Help) all play domestic servants. Who was the first actress to win an Oscar for playing a maid?
Iron Lady		Meryl Streep is nominated as Best Actress for the role of Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady). If she wins, she will be the 2nd person to get an Oscar for playing a British Prime Minister. Who was the first? (Enter the name of the actor or the PM.)
Plummer		If Christopher Plummer wins the Oscar for Supporting Actor, he will be (at age 82) the oldest person to win an acting Oscar. Name either of the oldest man or oldest woman whose record he would break.
Loud & Close		Among the Best Picture nominees this year is 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'. How many films with the word 'and' or '&' in the title have won Best Picture?
The Artist		If Jean Dujardin (The Artist) wins Best Actor, he will be fourth man to win that award for playing a character who is an actor. Give the LAST NAME of any of the 3 previous Best Actor winners who won for playing an actor.
Branagh		Kenneth Branagh is nominated for Supporting Actor in the role of Laurence Olivier. If he wins, he'll be the second person to earn an Oscar for playing an actual Oscar winner. Who was the first?
von Sydow		Max von Sydow is nominated as Supporting Actor for playing a mute . Provide the LAST NAME any of the 3 previous Oscar winners for playing a mute. (Note: Patty Duke and Marlee Matlin each spoke - at least briefly - in their roles.)
War Horse		If War Horse wins Best Picture, it will be the 4th film set during World War I to win the award. Name any of the 3 previous films set in World War I to win the Oscar.
McCarthy		If Melissa McCarthy wins Supporting Actress, she will be the second woman to win an Oscar in the same year she also won an Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy. Who was the first? (MUST ENTER FIRST & LAST NAME.)
Nobbs		Both Glenn Close and Janet McTeer from Albert Nobbs play women who pretend to be men to get jobs. But which actress won a Supporting Oscar for playing an actual male character? (MUST ENTER FIRST & LAST NAME.)
Hugo		If Hugo or Midnight In Paris wins Best Picture, it will be the the 5th film set at least partially in Paris, France to win the award. Name any of the 4 films set in Paris that won Best Picture.
Pitt		If Brad Pitt wins Best Actor, he will be the fifth actor with 8 letters in his name to take the award. Name any of the other 4. (MUST ENTER FIRST AND LAST NAME.)
	If Brad Pitt wins Best Actor, he will be the fifth actor with 8 letters in his name to take the award. Name any of the other 4. (MUST ENTER FIRST AND LAST NAME.)

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2012 Oscars: EXTREMELY TOUGH TRIVIA Quiz

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Created Feb 17, 2012 in Movies
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	rockgolf:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 16:22 GMT		1 point
	Anyone have additional tough (but interesting) questions about this year's nominations, post the questions here and if they get some positive votes, I'll add them.

	leviper:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 16:36 GMT		2 points
	Gale Sondergaard won for playing a maid in 1936's Anthony Adverse three years before McDaniel did. It was the very first supporting actress award.

	rockgolf:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 16:50 GMT		1 point
	@Leviper: I hadn't realized that. Thanks, I've updated the quiz.

	marpocky:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 18:58 GMT		3 points
	Really feeling stupid for not getting An American In Paris (or any of the other choices, but especially that one)

	floydpink:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 20:10 GMT		2 points
	If Woody Allen wins the Best Director Academy Award this year he will be, at 76, the oldest person ever to receive that honor. Who currently holds that distinction? Clint Eastwood, who was 74 when we won for Million Dollar Baby. Or, alternately, Allen would be the fourth director who won the award after their 65th birthday. Who are the other three? Eastwood, Roman Polanski (69 when he won for The Pianist), and George Cukor (65 when he won for My Fair Lady).

	jeffthepardoner:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 20:17 GMT		1 point
	If Woody Allen wins, he'd also be the first to take home a 3rd Oscar for Original Screenplay. Who, besides, Woody has won twice? Billy Wilder, Paddy Chayefsky and Charles Brackett.

	floydpink:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 20:18 GMT		1 point
	If Moneyball wins, it will be only the third Best Picture winner centered on sports. Name one of the other two. Rocky, Million Dollar Baby (assuming gladiatorial games are not sports; if they are then Ben-Hur and Gladiator join the list). Alternatively, Moneyball is only the second baseball-themed film to be nominated for Best Picture. What was the first? Pride of the Yankees.

	jeffthepardoner:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 20:23 GMT		1 point
	If Aaron Sorkin wins for "Moneyball" he'd be the 3rd person to win for Best Adapted Screenplay in consecutive years. Who are the others? Joseph Mankiewicz and Robert Bolt.

	jeffthepardoner:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 20:25 GMT		2 points
	Moneyball would have to be at best the 3rd baseball-themed film to be nominated for Best Picture. Field of Dreams was also a Best Picture nominee.

	rockgolf:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 20:25 GMT		1 point
	@Floydpink: I like that Best Director one, and I'm adding it. I'm thinking about the baseball one. @jeffthepardoner: I thought Paul Haggis qualified too, but I was wrong. One of his wins was for adapted screenplay.

	jeffthepardoner:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 20:31 GMT		2 points
	You should also add "Chariots of Fire" to sports-themed films to win Best Picture.

	MackSalmon:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 21:01 GMT		1 point
	Jake Lamotta, who Robert De Niro won Best Actor for portraying, became an actor after his boxing career was over. He appeared in more than 15 films. So, he could be added to the question about The Artist. This comment may just be stemming from my frustration in not coming up with any of the correct answers, though.

	plasticene:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 22:02 GMT		2 points
	Chariots of Fire was also partially set in Paris. Having to type Linda Hunt's full name prompted me to think of Helen Hunt, but I failed to realize what a big hint that was, and didn't make the connection to the Emmy question.

	gwynn19:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 22:08 GMT		1 point
	If any of The Help, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, War Horse, or Moneyball wins Best Picture, it would become only the fourth film to win Best Picture without its director being nominated for Best Director. The other three are Wings, Grand Hotel, and Driving Miss Daisy.

	nushney:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 22:09 GMT		2 points
	There's 2 movies nominated for Best Picture set in Paris, "Hugo" and "Midnight in PARIS."

	rockgolf:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 22:29 GMT		1 point
	@Nushney: How did I miss that? Thanks. @Plasticene: Good point! I'll adjust that. Yes, the two Hunts are the reason for needing first and last names.

	gwynn19:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 22:36 GMT		-1 points
	If The Artist wins it will be the first all black and white Best Picture winner since The Apartment (1960) - unless you count Schindler's List.

	survivorfan:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 23:22 GMT		1 point
	If Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, or Janet McTeer (I don't know about Glenn Close...I'm so unsure of her character) win they will be the 7th/8th/9th winner playing an LGBT character(after William Hurt, Tom Hanks, Hilary Swank, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Sean Penn. Unless you want to count Natalie Portman ;) ). I think Rooney would technically be the first bisexual too :/

	tommytaylor87:	Feb 17th, 2012 at 23:47 GMT		1 point
	Why dont you except the last name for Sondergaard?

	rockgolf:	Feb 18th, 2012 at 03:21 GMT		1 point
	@TommyTaylor: It does. I just tried copy/paste of Sondergaard from your comment and it was accepted.

	rockgolf:	Feb 18th, 2012 at 03:22 GMT		1 point
	@Survivorfan: Too much doubt about the sexuality of some early roles to be definitive on that.

	Annie1:	Feb 21st, 2012 at 14:49 GMT		2 points
	Viola Davis is only the second African-American actress to be a repeat Oscar nominee. The first was Whoopi Goldberg.

	rockgolf:	Feb 22nd, 2012 at 18:04 GMT		1 point
	@Annie1: That is both shocking and a great piece of trivia. Thanks.