Oscar Awards Quiz

1. Which was the first colour movie to win the Best Picture Oscar ?
2. Who holds the record of winning the Best Director award most no.of times ?
3. Which art director designed the Oscar statuette ?
4. Who was the first to win an Oscar for Best Actress for a role in a foreign language film ?
5. Which Oscar winning movie was a film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion ?
6. Who directed the Oscar winning film The Last Emperor, based on the life of Chinese emperor Pu-Yi ?
7. Who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her 8 minutes long role in 1998 film Shakespeare in Love ?
8. Which two actors share the distinction of being nominated for Oscar 7 times without a single win ?
9. For the performance in which film, did Marlon Brando win his first Oscar ?
10. Who became the youngest to win a Best Actor Oscar in 2002 ?
11. The Oscar winning film Braveheart is based on the life of which English king ?
12. Which actor won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta ?
13. Which film by William Wyler based on Bible won a record 11 Oscars in 1959 ?
14. In which name the Oscar winning actor Krishna Bhanji became popular ?
15. Which 1985 Spielberg film was nominated for 11 Oscars, without winning a single award ?
16. Who was the director of 1976 film Dersu Uzala that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film ?
17. Who is the only woman to have won a Best Director Oscar ?
18. Which musical won 8 Oscars in 1958 ?
19. Who was the first to win the Best Actress Oscar in 1928 ?
20. The Oscar nominated film The Miracle Worker tells the story of which famous teacher and student ?

Answers

1. Gone With the Wind, 1939
2. John Ford, 4 times
3. Cedric Gibbons
4. Sophia Loren, Two Women
5. My Fair Lady, 1964
6. Bernardo Bertolucci
7. Judi Dench
8. Peter O' Toole and Richard Burton
9. On the Waterfront, 1954
10. Adrien Brody
11. William Wallace
12. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull in 1980
13. Ben-Hur
14. Ben Kingsley
15. The Colour Purple
16. Akira Kurasowa
17. Katheryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
18. Gigi
19. Janet Gaynor
20. Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

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Film Quiz 1

1. Which was the first colour movie to win a Best Picture Oscar ?
2. Which Hollywood actress became the queen of Monaco later after her marriage to King Rainier ?
3. Which production company was founded in 1919 by David Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford ?
4. Which great Tamil actor was known as Nadigar Tilakam ?
5. Who adapted the classic novel Dr. Zhivago into film ?
6. Whose autobiography is titled Magic Lantern ?
7. Who has won the maximum number of Oscar awards ?
8. Which film directed by Akira Kurasowa was an adaptation of Shakespearean play King Lear ?
9. Bloodstone is the only Hollywood film of which Indian superstar ?
10. The Orsen Welles masterpiece Citizen Kane was allegedly based on the life of which media tycoon ?
11. For the performance in which film, did Marlon Brando recieve his first Academy Award ?
12. Who was the first person to be awarded the Phalke Award, the highest film honour in India ?
13. The Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire was based on the book by which Indian diplomat ?
14. Who directed the film Cinema Paradiso ?
15. Who is considered as the father of Documentary films ?
16. The recent Hollywood film Dam 999 has been inspired by which disaster ?
17. Which Football legend appeared in the film Hot Shot ?
18. Which was the first Indian cinemascope film ?
19. Which renowned Italian director made the movie Blow Up ?
20. Which was the first X-rated movie to win Oscar ?

Answers

1. Gone With the Wind
2. Grace Kelly
3. United Artists
4. Sivaji Ganesan
5. David Leen
6. Ingmer Bergman
7. Walt Disney, 26 times
8. Ran
9. Rajnikanth
10. William Randolph Hearst
11. On the Waterfront
12. Devika Rani
13. Vikas Swarup
14. Giuseppe Tornatore
15. Robert Flaharty
16. Banqiao dam disaster
17. Pele
18. Kaagaz Ke Phool
19. Michaelangelo Antonioni
20. Midnight Cowboy, 1969

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General Knowledge Quiz 1

Here are some General Knowledge questions and answers useful for competitions and examinations and of course, for a little fun ! Here we go !

1. Where can you find the Sea of Tranquility ?
2. Who directed the famous film The Godfather ?
3. By what name is the boundary line that separates India and China known as ?
4. Who invented the pendulum clock ?
5. What is Vexilology a study of ?
6. Which animal has the shortest gestation period ?
7. Which river is known as Sorrow of China ?
8. What are the ingredients of Pancha Loha ?
9. How is the International Bank for Re-construction and Development better known as ?
10. Which was the first Asian city to host the Olympics ?
11. Who is known as Nature Poet ?
12. Which element in periodic table is named after the Greek word for Sun ?
13. What does the abbreviation ATM stand for ?
14. Where are the headquarters of World Water Council situated ?
15. Who is the architect of Taajmahal ?

Answers

1. Moon
2. Francis Ford Coppola
3. Mc Mahon Line
4. Christiaan Huygens
5. Flags
6. Opposum (12 days)
7. Huang Ho
8. Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead and Iron
9. World Bank
10. Tokyo, in 1964
11. William Wordsworth
12. Helium, from Helious
13. Automated Teller Machine
14. Marseille, France
15. Ustad Isa

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