The Oscars: Hollywood’s Biggest Night!

#45 Week 10

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Sigrun Sørumgård
March 04, 2025

In connection with the Oscars, which were on Sunday, let's look back at previous winners, films and facts from the film world's biggest celebration.

  1. In what year were the first Academy Awards held?

  2. Which three films has won a record-breaking 11 Academy Awards (Oscars)?

  3. What was the first horror movie to be nominated for Best Picture (1973)?

  4. Who holds the record for the most Oscar wins in history?

  5. Which actress holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor, having been nominated 21 times and won 3 (one for best supporting actress and two for best actress)?

  6. Which actor famously refused his Oscar in protest in 1973?

  7. Hattie McDaniel was the first black actor/actress to win an Academy Award, for which film did she win?

  8. Which film was the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture?

  9. Tom Hanks won the Oscar for Best Actor back-to-back for which two films in 1993 and 1994?

  10. Two people has won both the Oscar and Nobel Prize, whom?

The Wonder Wall

  • The Oscar statuette may look elegant, but it’s anything but light. Standing at 13.5 inches tall and weighing a solid 8.5 pounds, these iconic awards are crafted from solid bronze and plated in 24-karat gold.

  • While we all know the iconic gold statue as the “Oscar,” that’s not its official name. Formally, it’s called the ‘Academy Award of Merit,’ and the nickname ‘Oscar’ has a charm that stuck. Legend has it that a librarian, who later became the Academy’s Executive Director, quipped that the statue resembled her Uncle Oscar. The nickname became so popular that by 1939, the Academy officially adopted it.

  • Tatum O’Neal was 10 years old was when she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1974, for her role in ‘Paper Moon’. The youngest person ever to win an Oscar.

Yesterday´s Questions & Answers

  1. What is the name of the day in March, which is it one of two days of the year where day and night are of equal length?

    The spring equinox is one of two annual equinoxes where day and night are of equal length, and usually occurs on March 20 or 21.

  2. In India, there is an annual festival in honour of the Hindu gods Shiva and Krishna, but also colours, love and spring. What is the name of this colourful festival?

    Holi is a Hindu festival that is celebrated in large parts of northern India and by northern Indians living in the rest of the world. The Holi festival is a celebration of the victory of colour and love over black and darkness.

  3. Ireland's national day is March 17, but what is this day better known as, and is also celebrated in many places around the world?

    St. Patrick's Day, March 17, is the national day in Ireland. It is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and a Bank Holiday in Northern Ireland.

  4. An English proverb about March mentions two animals. Fill in the two words (animals) that are missing in the saying: “March comes in like a _____ and goes out like a _____”.

    "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb".  Lion and Lamb.

  5. Which two zodiac signs fall in March?

    Pisces: 19 February – 20 March and Aries 21 March – 20 April.

  6. Which South American country celebrates "Día del Mar" (Day of the Sea) in March to remember its lost coastline?

    Día del Mar (Day of the Sea) is an annual celebration in Bolivia that observes the loss of the Litoral Department during the 1879–1883 ​​War of the Pacific with Chile. The day is celebrated on March 23 and Bolivia sees Día del Mar as an opportunity to reiterate its claims to access to the Pacific Ocean that was lost when the country was landlocked after the war.

  7. Which mathematical constant has its own day in mid-March?

    Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant pi (π) held on 14 March. March 14 is chosen because it can be written 3.14 if you follow the American way of writing months before days, and 3.14 are the first three digits of the constant pi. As pi is pronounced the same as pie in English, pie is often served to celebrate this day.

  8. What is the official flower of the month for March?

    In March, daffodils are the flower of the month.

  9. In which classic children's book from 1865 do we meet the March Hare, also called the Easter Bunny?

    The March Hare (called Haigha in Through the Looking Glass) is a character best known for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice in Wonderland.

  10. What famous battle of the Texas Revolution was fought in March 1836?

    At dawn on March 6, 1836, the 13th day of the siege, the Battle of the Alamo began.