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Colorado | The man who would be known as Jack Dempsey was born William Harrison Dempsey on June 24, 1895, in Manassa, Colorado. His father, Hyrum Dempsey, was a poor farmer, prospector and laborer who hailed from West Virginia. William and his brothers grew up idolizing famous prizefighters, especially heavyweight John L. Sullivan and middleweight Jack Dempsey , a fighter known as "The Nonpareil" (without equal). Two older brothers, Bernie and Johnny, preceded him into professional boxing, both adopting the name of their idol, Jack Dempsey. Neither was particularly successful. | Boxer Jack Dempsey hailed from which state? |
Lusitania | The 32000-ton liner the Lusitania sunk by a German submarine on May 6, 1915, was British. Of the 1200 passengers who lost their lives, 128 were Americans, | Which British liner was sunk by a German submarine in 1915? |
Fatal Attraction | Glenn was often seen on Broadway until 1982 when she was cast in her award winning role as Jenny Fields in The World According to Garp (1982) alongside Robin Williams . For this role, a breakthrough in film for Close, she later went on to receive an Academy Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The following year she was cast in the hit comedy The Big Chill (1983) for which she received a second Oscar Nomination, once again for Supporting Actress in the role of Sarah Cooper. In her third film, Close portrayed Iris Gaines a former lover of baseball player Roy Hobbs portrayed by Robert Redford , in one of the greatest sports films of all time, The Natural (1984). For a third and final time, Close was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Close went on to star in films like The Stone Boy (1984), Maxie (1985) and Jagged Edge (1985). In 1987 Close was cast in the box office hit Fatal Attraction (1987) for which she portrayed deranged stalker Alex Forrest alongside costars Michael Douglas and Anne Archer . For this role she was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress. The following year Close starred in the Oscar Winning Drama Dangerous Liaisons (1988) for which she portrayed one of the most classic roles of all time as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil, starring alongside John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer . For this role she was nominated once again for the Academy Award and BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress. Close was favorite to win the coveted statue but lost to Jodie Foster for The Accused (1988). Close had her claim to fame in the 1980s. Close starred on the hit Drama series Damages (2007) for which she has won a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. In her career Close has been Oscar nominated six times, won three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award. | Which role as 'the other woman' won Glenn Close her first Oscar nomination? |
Mario Puzo | The Godfather is a famous crime novel written by Italian American author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It details the story of a fictional Mafia family based in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia. The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood. | Who wrote the novel The Godfather? |
Boxing | Jack Sharkey was a Heavyweight boxing champion nicknamed the “Boston Gob.” He earned the distinction of having fought two of the world’s boxing greats, Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis in prizefights. He was a legend in his own right, although boxing critics and sports historians deem this Lithuanian fighter as an overshadowed champion in an era where boxing had produced a slew of great boxers. | Jack Sharkey was a world champion in which sport? |
The Misfits | The Misfits, the last film of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, is a truly haunting film that never leaves you long after you've finished watching it. Despite having a poor box office and mixed reviews, it is now highly regarded among modern critics. It is about a restless fragile divorcée finding a new life in Reno with a couple of cowboys, one of which has a gambling problem and survives on slaughtering mustangs to make dog food. | What was Marilyn Monroe's last film? |
Cornet | Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was a notable jazz cornet player. | What was Bix Beiderbecke's principal musical instrument? |
Thailand | Thailand is a monarchy, and has been ruled by the Chakri Dynasty for a very long time. Its current leader, King Bhumibol Adulyadej was born in the USA in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was born in 1927 and became king on the 9th of June 1946. This makes him the longest ruling king in the world. His actual coronation was on the 5th of May 1950, when he was still studying in Switzerland, which is where he met the present queen HM Queen Sirikit. | US-born Adulyadej Bhumibol became king of which Asian country? |
JFK | In 1971, Leonard Bernstein, a Jew, wrote a Catholic mass of sorts. An audacious theatrical interpretation of the liturgy that was commissioned in memory of JFK to open the Kennedy Center in Washington, "Mass" is an impudent stylistic brew that combines rock, 12-tone music and Broadway. At its center is a hippie celebrant who confronts God and society; on its edges are provocative excursions into Buddhism and Judaism. The Kennedys were aghast; Nixon, who was president at the time, stayed home. | In 1971 Leonard Bernstein wrote a Mass in whose memory? |
Chuck Berry | "Maybellene" is a song recorded by Chuck Berry, adapted from the traditional fiddle tune "Ida Red". Berry's song tells the story of a hot rod race and a broken romance. It was released in July 1955 as a single by Chess Records, of Chicago, Illinois. It was Berry's first single and his first hit. "Maybellene" is considered one of the pioneering rock-and-roll songs: Rolling Stone magazine wrote, "Rock & roll guitar starts here." The record is an early instance of the complete rock-and-roll package: youthful subject matter; a small, guitar-driven combo; clear diction; and an atmosphere of unrelenting excitement. The lyrics describe a man driving a V8 Ford chasing his unfaithful girlfriend in her Cadillac Coupe DeVille. | Whose first hit was Maybellene in 1955? |
Without You | "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson, recorded for her fourth studio album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989). It was written and produced by James Harris III, and Terry Lewis. The song was released as the seventh single from the album on October 2, 1990, by A&M Records. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week. | What goes after Love Will Never Do on Janet Jackson's 1990 hit? |
Steinem | In 1972, Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine, remained one of its editors for fifteen years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms., and was instrumental in the magazine’s move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1973, Ms. Steinem joined with Patricia Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Marlo Thomas to create the Ms. Foundation for Women. | Which Gloria co-founded Ms magazine? |
Italy | A Fistful of Dollars was released in Italy in September 1964. Over the film's theatrical release, it grossed more than any other Italian film up to that point. In January 1967 the film premièred in the United States grossing $4.5 million for the year. It eventually grossed $14.5 million in its American release. In 1969 it was re-released, earning $1.2 million in rentals. | A Fistfull of Dollars was filmed on location in which country? |
Latvia | Estonia (; ), officially the Republic of Estonia (), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia (338.6 km). Across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden in the west and Finland in the north. The territory of Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands and islets in the Baltic Sea, covering 45339 km2 of land, and is influenced by a humid continental climate. | Which country lies immediately to the south of Estonia? |
The Lone Ranger | Gerald Mohr's "Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear ... ," The Lone Ranger made television history as the first Western written specifically for television. hat medium. The Lone Ranger soon became the highest-rated program on the new ABC network. Starting in the Fall of 1957, the television episodes were re-runs until it went off the air in 1963. | "Which TV series intro said, ""Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear""?" |
1954 | The University of Alaska Anchorage traces its origins back to 1954, five years before Alaska became the 49th U.S. state. That year, Anchorage Community College (ACC) was founded and began offering evening classes to 414 students at Elmendorf Air Force Base. This was the first time that college-level courses were offered in the Anchorage area. In 1962, ACC, along with other community colleges around the state, was incorporated into the University of Alaska statewide system. Five years later, ACC began offering both day and evening classes at the current campus location. ACC provided academic study for associate degrees, the first two years of work toward baccalaureate degrees, and a wide variety of adult learning, career and continuing education programs. | In which year was the University of Alaska Anchorage founded? |
The Dead | Based on the same name story from James Joyce’s short story collection Dubliners, The Dead turned out to be John Huston’s final film and a fitting end to the director’s lengthy and distinguished career. The film is also noteworthy for dealing with warmer and more intimate subject matter than most of Huston’s previous work, which probably has a lot to do with the fact the director knew his days were numbered even going as far as predicting himself that The Dead would be his last movie. | What was John Huston's last movie? |
New York Jets | Super Bowl III was the third AFL–NFL Championship Game in professional American football, and the first to officially bear the name "Super Bowl". The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in American sports history. The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New York Jets defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Baltimore Colts by a score of 16–7. This was the first Super Bowl victory for the AFL. | Who won Super Bowl III? |
Olive | Marie Osmond (born Olive Marie Osmond; October 13, 1959) is an American singer, film screenwriter, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family the Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s. Her best known song is a cover of the country pop ballad "Paper Roses". From 1976 to 1979, she and her singer brother Donny Osmond hosted the television variety show Donny & Marie. | What is Marie Osmond's real first name? |
Kiri Te Kanawa | Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings "Let the Bright Seraphim" from the oratorio "Samson" by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). It's a "LIVE RECORDING" from the "Royal Wedding" for Prince Charles and Princess Diana at St. Paul Cathedral London UK in 1981, converted from an old LP. With John Wallance(trumpetist), Bach Choir and the Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks / conductor. | Who sang a solo at Prince Charles and Lady Di's wedding? |
Nigeria | General information about Nigeria where Calabar Airport is located in the city of Calabar. General information include capital of Nigeria, currency and conversion rate of Nigeria currency, Telephone Country code, exchange rate against US Dollar and Euro in case of major world currencies etc... | Calabar international airport is in which country? |
Groucho Marx | A man's only as old as the woman he feels. - Groucho Marx - BrainyQuote | "Who said, ""A man is only as old as the woman he feels?""" |
Peru | In 1947, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers sailed from Peru to the Tuamotus, French Polynesia, in a pae-pae raft that they had constructed from balsa wood and other native materials, and christened the Kon-Tiki. The Kon-Tiki expedition was inspired by old reports and drawings made by the Spanish Conquistadors of Inca rafts, and by native legends and archaeological evidence suggesting contact between South America and Polynesia. On August 7, 1947, after a 101-day, 4,300 nautical mile (4,948 miles or 7,964 km) journey across the Pacific Ocean, the Kon-Tiki smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands. Heyerdahl, who had nearly drowned at least twice in childhood and did not take easily to water, said later that there were times in each of his raft voyages when he feared for his life. | Which country did Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki set sail from on its journey to Eastern Polynesia? |
Donna Summer | LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), better known by her stage name, Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. | Donna Gaines is better known by which name? |
Curium | The element curium is named after both Pierre and Marie Curie. The Curies discovered the elements polonium and radium; Marie was awarded the Nobel Prize for these discoveries in 1903. Curium was named in honor of their contributions to the field of radioactivity. | Which element is named after Pierre and Marie Curie? |
Quincy | Quincy Magoo (or simply Mr. Magoo) is a cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Quincy Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his nearsightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. However, through uncanny streaks of luck, the situation always seems to work itself out for him, leaving him no worse than before. | What was Mr. Magoo's first name? |
Gilles Villeneuve | Scheckter very nearly won the 1977 championship in the Wolf, winning three Grands Prix but ending up as runner-up behind Niki Lauda. The 1978 season saw the Wolf squad lose momentum and when the offer of a Ferrari drive came up for 1979, Jody did not hesitate. Many observers felt that Jody was biting off more than he could chew throwing in his lot with Maranello, but he successfully saw off his tempestuous young team-mate Gilles Villeneuve to win the world championship in the bullet-proof Ferrari 312T4. In 1980, the Ferrari 312T5 was a hopeless successor to the title winning machine and Scheckter retired from racing at the end of that season. | Who was runner-up when Jody Scheckter won motor racing's Formula One Championship? |
1994 | The 1994 World Series was canceled on September 14 of that year due to an ongoing strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association, which had begun on August 12. It was only the second time in the event's history (the first was in 1904) that the Fall Classic was not played. | In what year of the 1990s was baseball's World Series canceled? |
Sculptor | By now acclaimed as one of the giants of modern art , Giacometti worked prolifically until this death in 1966. Commissions for public sculpture however tended to come to nothing, but in 1961 he made a tree for the stage of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In 1961 he was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale, which bought him worldwide fame. Despite the fame, Giacometti was rarely satisfied with his work - he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later. Sartre was to remark of his friend 'He will never be finished with it; this is simply because a man is always beyond what he has done'. Despite declining health, the sculptor travelled to New York in 1965 to attend an opening of his work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) . He died a few months later in Switzerland. | Albert Giacometti found fame as what? |
John Glenn | This image shows the launch of Friendship 7, the first American manned orbital space flight. With astronaut John Glenn aboard, the Mercury-Atlas rocket is launched from Pad 14, February 20, 1962. | Who first flew in Friendship 7? |
Anita Loos | Edith Wharton called Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes "the great American novel" and declared its author a genius. Winston Churchill, William Faulkner, George Santayana and Benito Mussolini read it – so did James Joyce, whose failing eyesight led him to select his reading carefully. The 1925 bestseller sold out the day it hit the stores and earned Loos more than a million dollars in royalties. | Who wrote the novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? |
Bahrain | Bahrain's flag carrier, Gulf Air (GF) was founded in 1950 as Gulf Aviation. It is headquartered in Muharraq and operates from a hub at Bahrain International Airport (BAH). Gulf Air flies to more than 40 destinations in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe. These include Egypt, Germany, India, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. The airline also has codeshare agreements with nine other carriers. Gulf Air's fleet consists of 16 Airbus A320-200, six Airbus A321-200 and six Airbus A320-200 planes configured with two cabins, Falcon Gold (Business Class) and Economy Class. | Which country does the airline Gulf Air come from? |
Alfred | It was at the prompting of friends, revealed Nick Clarke in our obituary columns yesterday, that the then Alfred Cooke changed his name to the "more artistic" Alistair in 1930. But could there have been something other than artistic impression involved in this rebranding? It seems possible. For our late and revered Guardian colleague was not the first or last of that ilk to feel the need for a new first name. The soul singer Sam Cooke, for instance, once favoured the name Dale rather than Sam, and was born without the "e" that he later added to his surname. The future foreign secretary was born Robert Cook, but has long preferred to be known as Robin. And Gloucestershire's legendary slow left-arm bowler, so celebrated in the writings of Frank Keating, may have been known to all as Sam Cook from Tetbury; his real name, however, was Cecil. | What is Alistair Cooke's real first name? |
Master P | Percy Robert Miller Sr. better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American former rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch Records. followed by Guttar Music Entertainment, Take A Stand Records and No Limit Forever Records. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate and Better Black Television. | How is seriously rich Percy Miller better known? |
100 | Jay Leno chats to 100 year old Laurel & Hardy Producer Hal Roach - 1992 | How old was Laurel and Hardy producer Hal Roach when he died in 1992? |
Phantom | George Lucas’s 1999 film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has long been a lightning rod for hatred, and for plenty of good reasons. However, revisiting the film, it’s kind of amazing to see just how badly it doesn’t understand what Star Wars actually is. | What sort of Menace was the 1999 Star Wars movie? |
Gertie | Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, author, director, model and producer. She is a descendant of the Barrymore family of well-known American stage and cinema actors, and is a granddaughter of actor John Barrymore. Barrymore first appeared in an advertisement when she was eleven months old. In 1980, she made her film debut in Altered States. In 1982, she starred in her breakout role as Gertie in Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles. | What was the name of Drew Barrymore's character in E.T.? |
Anthony Edwards | ER star Anthony Edwards has launched his first lead role in a movie, in the new British film Don't Go Breaking My Heart. | Which ER star played opposite Jenny Seagrove in Don' Go Breaking My Heart? |
Harrison Ford | Rick Deckard is the protagonist in Ridley Scott 's 1982 science-fiction film, Blade Runner . The character originally appeared in Philip K Dick 's novel, " Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? " on which the movie is based. Rick Deckard was played by Harrison Ford. | Who played Rick Deckard in Blade Runner? |
II | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the second film based on Star Trek, and is a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). The plot features Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise facing off against the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán), a character who first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek television series episode "Space Seed". When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. The film concludes with the death of Spock (Leonard Nimoy), beginning a story arc that continues with the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and concludes with 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. | What number Star Trek movie was called The Wrath of Khan? |
Julia Roberts | In the 1998 movie Stepmom, Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris played Jackie and Luke, a divorced couple with two children, Anna and Ben. Luke is dating Isabel, a young and successful photographer (Julia Roberts), and the kids don’t like it. Isabel doesn’t much like playing the surrogate-mother role when the kids are staying with them in Luke’s loft, either. But they all have to learn to get along and become a family when Jackie is diagnosed with terminal cancer. | In Stepmom who played Susan Sarandon's daughter? |
Louis XIV | Leonardo DiCaprio played the dual roles of King Louis XIV and Philippe, the king's identical twin brother, in the 1998 film adaptation - one of over a dozen - of the Alexander Dumas adventure, "The Man in the Iron Mask." | Which King did Leonardo Di Caprio play in The Man in the Iron Mask? |
The Prince of Wales | Based on Alan Bennett 's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King George III of England. The film's story begins nearly three decades into George's reign, in 1788, as the unstable king ( Nigel Hawthorne , reprising his stage role) begins to show signs of increasing dementia, from violent fits of foul language to bouts of forgetfulness. This weakness seems like the perfect chance to overthrow the unpopular George, whom many blamed for the loss of the American colonies, in favor of the Prince of Wales ( Rupert Everett ), but the king's prime minister William Pitt ( Julian Wadham ) and his wife Queen Charlotte ( Helen Mirren ) are determined to protect the throne. Doctors are brought in, but the archaic treatments of the time prove of little value. In desperation, they turn to Dr. Willis ( Ian Holm ), a harsh, unconventional specialist whose unusual methods recall modern psychiatry. Willis struggles to break through to the mad king, treating him with an anger and haughtiness George has never before experienced. Stressing the absurdity of the entire situation, Bennett's witty screenplay emphasizes dry humor over tragedy, even utilizing references to King Lear for comic effect. Hawthorne's fiery yet vulnerable performance received much critical praise, including Best Actor at the British Academy Awards and a nomination for the same at the Oscars. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi | Which role did Rupert Everett play in The Madness of King George? |
Eyes Wide Shut | Fifteen years ago, on July 16, 1999, Stanley Kubrick's final film, "Eyes Wide Shut," opened nationwide. Setting records for the longest shoot in movie history, it was an excruciating labor of love for lead stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman -- one that would often be traced back to the alleged start of their marriage's decline. Throughout the process, cryptic reports implied that Kubrick's obsessive perfectionism had reached peak levels, which was especially eyebrow-raising given the film's sexual explicitness. The director, who won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects for "2001: A Space Odyssey," died of a heart attack in March 1999, days after screening the final cut. Had he lived, perhaps we'd have more perspective on the movie's production -- or perhaps not, as Kubrick was notoriously reclusive. | What was Stanley Kubrick's final movie? |
Scent of a Woman | In 1992, Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the blind U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman. That year, he was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Glengarry Glen Ross, making Pacino the first male actor ever to receive two acting nominations for two movies in the same year, and to win for the lead role. | In which 90s movie did Al Pacino play retired Colonel Frank Slade? |
Rose | Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study | What is the name of Kate Winslet's character in Titanic? |
My Favourite Martian | A belated spin-off from a Sixties TV series, My Favourite Martian is a clunky family comedy starring Christopher Lloyd as a cheerful alien with a talking shirt who makes himself at home with TV producer Jeff Daniels when his spacecraft crashes in California. Liz Hurley (seen more often in cinemas than on the screen) is around as the arrogant daughter of Daniels's boss and if I claimed that the picture isn't funny, witnesses could be called to testify that I laughed quite often, even at the lavatorial jokes. The 1963 sitcom (whose star, Ray Walston, has a walk-on part in the film) is seen as a seminal work that led to Mork and Mindy and E.T., though My Favourite Martian was clearly inspired by Gore Vidal's TV and stage play of the mid-Fifties, Visit to a Small Planet. | Which spin-off from a 60s sitcom was a 1999 movie with Jeff Daniels and Christopher Lloyd? |
Ewan McGregor | Speaking at the Edinburgh Film Festival , Ewan McGregor, who played young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, said that he’s definitely be up for another trip to the galaxy far, far away. And he has a very specific idea about how it could come about. | Who played the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel? |
Anjelica Huston | Directed by Andy Tennant (Hitch), with a screenplay co-written by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich), Ever After transports the Cinderella story to Renaissance-era France. Barrymore plays Danielle, whose blissful childhood came to an end when her widowed father re-married and promptly died of a heart attack. At age 18, she is now a servant on her family’s farm where she’s treated badly by her domineering stepmother Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent (the incomparable Anjelica Huston) and her stepsisters Marguerite and Jacqueline (Megan Dodd and Melanie Lynskey, both hilarious). Instead of pouring her heart out to pet mice, Danielle finds companionship in nature, books, and her fellow servants. And then there’s Prince Henry ( would-be Wolverine Dougray Scott ), who hates his life in the castle and has taken to roaming the countryside on horses stolen from peasants. He makes the mistake of attempting to steal one from Danielle, who lobs an apple at him. And so their love story begins. | Who played Drew Barrymore's stepmother in Ever After? |
A Space Odyssey | Sci-fi superstar Arthur C. Clarke wrote the 1953 novel Childhood's End, which went on to become one of most popular and acclaimed science fiction novels of all time. Yet he is still better known for his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (based on his own 1951 short story The Sentinel). Clarke worked with director Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay for the 1968 film, which is now regarded as a classic. Clarke has published hundreds of essays and short stories and over 75 novels, including the sequels 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), 2061: Odyssey Three (1988), 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997). Along with his literary work, he is credited with coming up with the idea for a real-life space success: geostationary communications satellites. Since 1956 he has lived in Sri Lanka. Clarke was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998. Arthur C. Clarke - The Authorized Biography was published by Neil McAleer in 1992. He died in the Indian Ocean country of Sri Lanka, his home since 1956. | Which 1968 sci fi classic was based on The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke? |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | Mr. Freeze was played by several actors (George Sanders, Otto Preminger and Eli Wallach) in the original Batman television series, by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, and by Nathan Darrow on the 2010s series Gotham; he was voiced by Michael Ansara in Batman: The Animated Series, by Clancy Brown in The Batman, and by Maurice LaMarche in the Batman: Arkham video game franchise. | Which tough guy played Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin? |
Judgment Day | Subtitles For Terminator 2: Judgment Day | What was the subtitle of Terminator 2? |
Independence Day | How many movies about July 4th have actually come out over the July 4th weekend? Actually, just one, but it's a biggie: the Will Smith sci-fi/action movie 'Independence Day' was released on July 3, 1996, and wound up grossing more than $50 million in its opening weekend. Several other Will Smith movies are on this list, including 'Men in Black' and 'Men in Black II,' 'Hancock' and 'Wild Wild West.' For a time, the man seriously ruled the Fourth of July when it came to movie releases. | Which 1996 film has its climax on 4th of July? |
13 | Apollo 13 is a 1995 American historical docudrama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. | Which Apollo mission was filmed in 1995 with Tom Hanks? |
Dead Man Walking | A series of high-profile roles followed with The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Bull Durham (1988) and Thelma & Louise (1991). In 1995, Sarandon won the Best Actress Oscar playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking. She earned an Emmy nomination in 2010 for her supporting work in the HBO biopic You Don't Know Jack. | In which film did Susan Sarandon play Sister Helen Prejean? |
New York | GODZILLA: Online is a fast-paced action game that takes place soon after the events of the 1998 film GODZILLA . New York City has come under attack by newly hatched Baby Godzillas . Players can assume the role of a soldier with his sights set on eradicating the baby Godzillas. Scientists attempt to take blood samples of the baby Godzillas while defending themselves from the soldiers and the new baby Godzilla threat. Baby Godzilla strive to evolve into a larger adult Godzilla while defending themselves against soldiers and scientists. The reporters' main goal is to film all the chaos between the three opposing groups and avoiding getting killed at all costs. GODZILLA: Online is further noteworthy, as it is one of the few games (and fewer multiplayer games) to use voxels to render its characters and environments. | In which city does the action of the 1998 movie Godzilla take place? |
Ted Danson | Made in America is a 1993 comedy film released on May 28, 1993 by Warner Bros. starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, and featuring Nia Long, Jennifer Tilly and Will Smith. The film was directed by Richard Benjamin. It was shot in various locations in Oakland, California and at Oakland Technical High School. | Which star of Cheers co-starred with ?Whoopi Goldberg in Made in America? |
GoldenEye | On the 8th of June 1994, on the set of the fated 17th James Bond film, Pierce Brosnan was introduced to the world as the new 007. His first film as Bond would be "GoldenEye", which ultimately cleared $350 million at the box office, and marked a big-time comeback for Bond producers. While he might have had a shot at clinching the role in '87, 1994 proved to be a far more appropriate year for Brosnan - he was older and far more worldly and jumped into 007's shoes with vigor and determination. | What was Pierce Brosnan's first outing as 007? |
Nicholas Cage | Original starring Nicholas Cage as a private eye on the case of a most mysterious snuff film, Schumacher’s low-key picture also featured Joaquin Phoenix in one of his earlier forays into cinema. In hindsight, 8MM is a startlingly dark thriller, dipping its toe into the underbelly of illegal pornography without batting an eyelid – particularly for a studio movie. | Who was the star of the dark thriller 8mm? |
Ny | The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty; prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations (popular both with readers and literary critics) has been translated into many languages and adapted numerous times into various media. | Where was the 1990s version of Dickens' Great Expectations set? |
Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, also known as Anakin Skywalker, is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. Vader appears in the original trilogy as a pivotal figure whose actions drive the plot of the first three films while his past as Anakin Skywalker, and the story of his corruption, is central to the prequel trilogy. | What is the name of the Darth Vader-to-be in the Star Wars Prequel, Episode 1? |
The Empire Strikes Back | The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25, 1977. This was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21, 1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25, 1983. The opening crawl of the sequels disclosed that they were numbered as "Episode V" and "Episode VI" respectively, though the films were generally advertised solely under their subtitles. Though the first film in the series was simply titled Star Wars, with its 1981 re-release it had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to remain consistent with its sequel, and to establish it as the middle chapter of a continuing saga. | What was the first sequel to Star Wars? |
Hepburn | During her 66-year acting career, Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars, but she never came to a ceremony to receive them. “As for me, prizes are nothing,” she once said. “My prize is my work.” Still, four best actress — or actor — awards is an unbeaten feat, akin to Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in an NBA game. Hepburn’s first came for 1933’s Morning Glory, whose title derived from whether her actress character would have a long career or fade “like a morning glory.” And Hepburn’s award winning did fade: She went from a 26-year-old phenom getting a statuette for her third film to being labeled “box-office poison” in a 1938 exhibitors poll. | Which veteran actress Katharine was the first actress to win four Oscars? |
Tom Hanks | Tom Hanks won his second Oscar in a row for his expertly sympathetic performance as the kind-hearted man-child who introduces himself with the line, "My name is Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump." Waiting for a bus, Forrest relates his amazingly eventful life story through a series of flashbacks that span thirty years of post-war American history. He lives through the Vietnam war and - thanks to director Robert Zemeckis' dazzling use of digital effects - crosses paths with everyone from former US President Richard Nixon to Beatle John Lennon. | Who won his second Oscar in successive years for Forrest Gump? |
Dustin Hoffman | Dustin Hoffman (with his sixth nomination) won his second Oscar for his role as the institutionalized, ultimately loveable, autistic idiot savant Raymond ('Ray(n)' 'Man(d)') Babbitt who is kidnapped by his ambitious brother Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) and taken on a cross-country trip in Rain Man. In one memorable scene, Raymond nervously told his brother that he might miss his favorite TV program (The People's Court): "Uh, oh, 12 minutes to Wapner." | Who won his second Oscar for the role of Raymond in Rain Man? |
Titanic | The score for director James Cameron’ s epic, 3D sci-fi adventure Avatar was composed by longtime collaborator James Horner , who won an Oscar for his work on the director’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic. Never one to shy away from familiar motifs, the vaguely wistful, mostly magical main theme that weaves its’ way throughout the film relies unapologetically on the composer’s Titanic love theme (try humming the first three notes of the chorus to the Horner -penned, Celine Dion smash My Heart Will Go On), but the overall feel of the score owes more to Ennio Morricone' s iconic work on the Mission, utilizing an atmospheric blend of native drums and choirs with lush, traditional adventure orchestration. In an attempt to double up on his success with Dion in 1997, Cameron and Horner recruited English pop and R&B, post-reality show singer Leona Lewis for the torch ballad I See You, a forgettable piece of grocery store balladry that (unlike the schmaltzy, but appropriate My Heart Will Go On) feels ridiculously out of place, especially in a film about 10 foot tall blue aliens. | In 1997 James Cameron won an Oscar for which blockbuster? |
Park | Gentle genius Nick Park won the hearts of the nation with his Wallace & Gromit characters. Their first outing was in the short film, A Grand Day Out, after which they returned in The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, both of which won Oscars. Park swapped his northern heroes for fowl in his first feature-length movie, Chicken Run , but has now been reunited with the pair for their first full-length adventure, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit. | Which Nick won an Oscar for The Wrong Trousers? |
Friar | The Name of the Rose is a 1986 Italian-French-German drama mystery film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Christian Slater is his apprentice Adso of Melk, who are called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey. Although the film refers to the Franciscans as monks, it would be more appropriate to use the term friar. | What is Sean Connery's profession in The Name of the Rose? |
The Silence of the Lambs | Foster's first film release after the success of The Accused was the thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She played FBI trainee Clarice Starling, who is sent to interview incarcerated serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in order to solve another serial murder case; Foster later named the role one of her favorites. She had read the novel it was based on after its publication in 1988 and had attempted to purchase its film rights, as it featured "a real female heroine" and its plot was not "about steroids and brawn, [but] about using your mind and using your insufficiencies to combat the villain." Despite her enthusiasm, director Jonathan Demme did not initially want to cast her, but the producers overruled him. Demme's view of Foster changed during the production, and he later credited her for helping him define the character. | In which film did Jodie Foster play FBI agent Clarice Starling? |
Christie | 66 year-old British actress Julie Christie (with her fourth Best Actress nomination and fourth career nomination) for her role as afflicted Alzheimer's patient Fiona Andersson in actress-turned-director Sarah Polley's debut feature film, Away From Her, Polley's Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Alice Munro short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain [Note: Julie Christie won the Best Actress Oscar for Darling (1965), and was also nominated as Best Actress for McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Afterglow (1997).] | Which Julie won an Oscar for Darling in 1965 and was Oscar nominated in 19987 for Afterglow? |
Steve McQueen | In 1973, she was cast as Carol McCoy in the hit The Getaway in which she co-starred with Steve McQueen. They fell madly and passionately in love while filming and Ali would eventually leave Robert Evans to be with McQueen. The Getaway would be her last role while she was married to him. She gave up her career to become a full-time wife to placate McQueen, he preferred his wife to be in the role of a homemaker rather than a career woman. While Ali was happy to give up her interests to make Steve happy, he was unwilling to do the same. While he was a talented and well-loved actor, he was not a supportive or faithful husband. Soon after they were married, he returned to his old ways of drinking, taking drugs and having numerous affairs. Ali was devastated and soon realized she needed more than to be just Mrs. Steve McQueen to fulfill her life. | Who did Ali McGraw marry after they had made The Getaway together? |
Clark Gable | The above line by actor Michael Caine was voted the favorite film one-liner in a 2003 poll of 1,000 British film fans, reported in The Telegraph. It demoted the previous most favorite line down to the # 2 spot - Rhett Butler's (Clark Gable) retort to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh): "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" | "Who uttered the famous line ""Frankly my dear I don't give a damn?" |
Audrey Hepburn | Marni Nixon, seen in 2008 as part of a touring production of "My Fair Lady," in which she played the mother of Professor Higgins - a non-singing role, ironic for a woman who made her career dub-singing for stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Natalie Wood. | Whose voice did Marni Nixon dub in the classic My Fair Lady? |
Titanic | Three films have won 11 Oscars. The first to achieve the record was Ben-Hur (USA 1959) which won from 12 nominations on 4 April 1960, followed by Titanic (USA 1997) from 14 nominations on 23 March 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (NZ/USA 2003) which won all 11 of its nominations on 29 February 2004. | Which 1997 movie equaled Ben Hur's record 11 Oscars? |
John Wayne | Barbra Streisand presents John Wayne with the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role during the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970. This was the first and only Oscar win for the three-time nominee, who won for his role as eye patch-wearing Rooster Cogburn in 'True Grit.' During his acceptance speech, John Wayne joked that had he known he'd win, he would've put on an eye patch 35 years prior. Watch LIVE OSCAR SUNDAY on ABC. | Who won an Oscar wearing an eye patch in True Grit? |
Casino Royale | David Niven (1910-1983) was a British actor. He plays James Bond in the 1967 spoof of Casino Royale . He was the second actor to play the role in a film outside the official franchise. | In which film did David Niven play James Bond? |
Thompson | Emma Thompson won an Oscar in 1995 for her screenplay adaptation of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. This paperback includes the screenplay, her Golden Globe acceptance speech, her diaries written during the film's production, a full list of cast and crew credits, and more than 50 photos including stills, cast photos, and behind-the-scenes shots. In the introduction, producer Lindsay Doran comments: | Which Emma won an Oscar for her screenplay of Sense and Sensibility? |
The English Patient | Minghella won the Academy Award for best director in 1996 for the wartime romance "The English Patient" starring Ralph Fiennes. | Which film with Ralph Fiennes won Anthony Minghella an Oscar? |
Judy Garland | I Could Go On Singing is a 1963 musical drama film directed by Ronald Neame, starring Judy Garland (in her final film role) and Dirk Bogarde. | I Could Go on Singing was the last film of which screen legend? |
Elizabeth i | Dame Judi Dench is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love. | Judi Dench won an Oscar as which Queen in Shakespeare in Love? |
Kevin Costner | The Best Picture winner, co-producer/director/actor Kevin Costner's three-hour epic and revisionistic western film Dances With Wolves was an anomaly win in Oscar history - it was only the second time that a western genre film won the Best Picture Oscar. [The first Best Picture western film was Cimarron (1930-31), sixty years earlier.] However, some argued that Costner's (another actor-turned-director) romantic-epic film shouldn't have been categorized as a Western. | Who won the Best Actor and Best Director Oscar for Dances With Wolves? |
Tandy | Octogenarian Jessica Tandy won the Best Actress award for her performance as wealthy, 72 year-old Atlanta resident and eccentric, cantankerous Jewish matron/matriarch Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Tandy's win set a record at the time - she became the oldest performer (and nominee, at 80 years and 252 days old) to ever win a Best Actress Oscar. She was just three months away from her 81st birthday when she accepted the Oscar (at 80 years and 292 days old). | Which Jessica was the then oldest Oscar winner for Driving Miss Daisy? |
Katharine Hepburn | Katharine Hepburn, two consecutive Best Actress Oscars in four wins, for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968) | Who was the first actress to receive four Oscars? |
The Godfather | The crime movie:Gangster movies, Film Noir and Police Procedural never won top honours until The Godfather and The French Connection did in The '70s (followed by The Sting and the Godfather sequel). But this was very much an exception. Only one another crime movie, The Departed , (a contemporary gangster filmnote The Godfather doubled as a period filmwith the highest degree of profanity and violence than any other winner) won Best Picture. Another exception of a genre movie to have won Oscar glory is Silence of the Lambs (a horror-thriller film about a Serial Killer and also featuring a FBI agent as the protagonist). | In the 70s which gangster film won an Oscar as did its sequel? |
Pianist | Cant believe its been 20 years since Shine. Geoffrey Rush came out nowhere from down under to take the Oscar....by force! The force of his incredible performance as David Helfgott, child prodigy, mental patient and a damaged young man saved by his talent and love for music. Also memorable is Noah Taylor as young David, Armin Muehller Stall as the sonofabitch dad and the late Lynn Redgrave as David's wife. The moments of brilliance are many. The attempt to tackle Rachmaninoff, David walking out of the street into a piano-bar, wet cigarrette hanging from his lip then starts playing like the brilliant pianist that he is and that final concert. The standing ovation and getting his due late in life is a tearjerker. Love this movie. | Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for Shine, as what type of musician? |
Braveheart | 'Braveheart' (1995) – Mel Gibson directed and starred in the story of Scottish warrior William Wallace, who led the Scottish army against English invaders led by King Edward I. The film won five Oscars, including best picture and best director, and has led to countless sports teams yelling "Freedom!" as they go up against opponents. | For which film about a Scottish hero did Mel Gibson win his first Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director? |
Robert Downey, Jr | Chaplin is a 1992 biographical comedy-drama film about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey, Jr., Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller, and Kevin Kline. It also features Geraldine Chaplin in the role of her own paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. | Who played Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough's 1992 film? |
Tim Rice | Tim was signed to Disney in 1991 to begin work on a film that would become The Lion King but when Alan Menken's collaborator, friend and lyricist, Howard Ashman, passed away Tim was asked to step in complete the songs for Aladdin. In 1992 Tim Rice and Alan Menken won best Oscar for Best Original Song for A Whole New World. The Lion King was released in 1994 and this time Tim had collaborated with Pop Superstar and Songwriter Elton John. Can You Feel The Love Tonight from the film won he and John another Oscar, again for Best Original Song in 1995. With the Oscar in 1996 for the song You Must Love Me from Evita Tim had collected three Oscars in only 5 years for Best Original Song. | Which lyricist who has worked with Elton John and Andrew Lloyd Webber won an award for A Whole New World from Aladdin? |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | TCM has the Robert Redford, Paul Newman 1969 classic, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 5:00 PT/8:00 ET. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, a/k/a Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the “Sundance Kid” (Robert Redford) as they migrate to Bolivia while on the run from the law in search of a more successful criminal career. William Goldman won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and the film won three other Oscars including for Best Song, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head. | Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head was an Oscar winner from which movie with Robert Redford & Paul Newman? |
Vietnam | Cimino won two Academy awards for his 1978 masterpiece “The Deer Hunter” – the story of three Pennsylvania steelworkers who go off to fight in the Vietnam War, starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage. | The multi-Oscar winning The Deer Hunter was about steelworkers who went to fight where? |
Rita Hayworth | Gutierrez, a bartender in Tijuana, Mexico, boasted that he created the Margarita as an homage to actress Rita Hayworth, whose real name was Margarita Cansino. Other versions of the story claim the Margarita cocktail was indeed named after the actress, but in the 1930s, before she acquired her screen name. As a teenager, Margarita Cansino worked as a dancer at the Foreign Club, in Tijuana, where she supposedly inspired a bartender, while turning a lot of other mens heads. She also danced at the Aqua Caliente Racetrack in the early 1930s. | Which red-haired actress had the Margarita cocktail named after her as her real name was Margarita Cansino? |
Herbert Kretzmer | In 1999, Costello contributed a version of "She", released in 1974 by Charles Aznavour and Herbert Kretzmer, for the soundtrack of the film Notting Hill, with Trevor Jones producing. For the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, Costello was invited to the programme, where he re-enacted his abrupt song-switch: This time, however, he interrupted the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage", and they acted as his backing group for "Radio Radio". | Who wrote the lyrics for the song form Notting Hill sung by Elvis Costello? |
2032 | Demolition Man takes place mostly in the year 2032. After an alluded period of anarchy in the early 21st century, Edgar Cocteau – a social utopian with unspecified authority – led the rebuilding of the ruined Los Angeles metroplex into San Angeles. Everything remotely harmful has been made illegal, including booze, caffeine, nicotine and sex. Few recognized corporations survive today, having destroyed each other in the Franchise Wars. The few police in San Angeles have little training in handling truly violent offenders. | In what year does Demolition Man take place? |
Roy Scheider | After directing and choreographing the revue Dancin’ (1978, winning his seventh Tony® for Choreography) on Broadway, Fosse turned again to film, this time with his nakedly autobiographical All That Jazz (1979). The action centers on his 1975 heart attack, and nearly every character in the movie represents a real person in his life: the role of wife Verdon, from whom Fosse was now separated, was taken by Leland Palmer; Roy Scheider played Fosse himself, John Lithgow represented his rival Michael Bennett, and several in the cast essentially played themselves, including Fosse’s daughter Nicole and dancer Ann Reinking, with whom he was living at the time. (He remained legally married to Verdon until the end of his life; in fact died in her presence.) All That Jazz took four Academy Awards®, earned Fosse his third Oscar® nomination for Best Director, and won the Palme d’Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. | Who played a character based on Bob Fosse in a 1979 Oscar winning film? |
Riff Raff | Rocky Horror Picture Show Riff Raff Butler Costume | What was the name of the butler in The Rocky Horror Picture Show? |
Adolph | Maxine Marx reported in The Unknown Marx Brothers that the brothers listed their real names (Julius, Leonard, Adolph, Milton, and Herbert) on playbills and in programs, and only used the nicknames behind the scenes, until Alexander Woollcott overheard them calling one another by the nicknames. He asked them why they used their real names publicly when they had such wonderful nicknames, and they replied, "That wouldn't be dignified." Woollcott answered with a belly laugh. Woollcott did not meet the Marx Brothers until the premiere of I'll Say She Is, which was their first Broadway show, so this would mean that they used their real names throughout their vaudeville days, and that the name "Gummo" never appeared in print during his time in the act. Other sources report that the Marx Brothers did go by their nicknames during their vaudeville era, but briefly listed themselves by their given names when I'll Say She Is opened because they were worried that a Broadway audience would reject a vaudeville act if they were perceived as low class. | What was the real first name of the silent Marx Brother? |
The Jerk | Steve Martin's film career began in 1972 with a small role as a hippy in a political comedy called Another Nice Mess. But the stand-up comedian's first real triumph was the 1979 Carl Reiner-directed movie The Jerk. Martin starred as Navin R Johnson, the simpleton adopted white son of African-American sharecroppers. The Jerk is a warm and engagingly silly film, featuring jokes about cat jugglers, but at the time of its release it had a mixed reception. "It took a long time to get over the bad reviews," Martin later said. He added that British comedian Peter Sellers had offered him great encouragement at what was a difficult time in his career. | What was Steve Martin's first film? |
Best Makeup | Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Chris Columbus and based on Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. It stars Robin Williams (who also served as co-producer), Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, and Robert Prosky. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. For his performance in the film, Robin Williams was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actor. | In which category was Mrs. Doubtfire Oscar-nominated? |
The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming (seated second from right) with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable on the set of “Gone with the Wind,” in 1939, the year he also made “The Wizard of Oz.” Credit Photograph from MGM / Photofest | Which musical was Victor Fleming making the same time as he was making Gone With the Wind? |
Oklahoma | “Knee high by the Fourth of July” was an expression used for many years by Midwest farmers, indicating their corn crop was expected to yield well if those “knee-high conditions” existed. These days the lyrics, “The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye,” from the song Oh, What a Beautiful Morning from the 1943 musical Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein , is more accurate. | """The corn is as high as an elephant's eye is in which musical?" |