Weekly Trivia Show - March 21, 2022
This week's "best of," featuring a variety of questions from our newly published games.
16 questions · Published March 21, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 16)
- Multiple Choice
1. Which of these actors turned director did NOT beat Martin Scorsese for a Best Director Academy Award?
Three of Martin Scorsese's films -- "Raging Bull," "Goodfellas," and "The Aviator" -- lost both Best Picture and Best Director to films directed by actors: "Ordinary People" (Robert Redford), "Dances with Wolves" (Kevin Costner) and "Million Dollar Baby" (Clint Eastwood).
Mel Gibson won for directing "Braveheart" in a year in which Scorsese was not nominated.
- Multiple Choice
2. Which of these Best Picture winners is the only one to have also earned a Best Director nomination?
All four films won the Oscar for Best Picture, but only "Chicago" earned a nomination for its director, Rob Marshall, who lost that night to Roman Polanski for "The Pianist."
- Multiple Choice
3. What Nobel Prize-winning poet wrote “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming?"
Chilean-born poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
- Multiple Choice
4. Which of these spring flowers is considered the national flower of Wales?
FUN FACT
Historians are unsure just how and when the daffodil became the national flower of Wales.
- Multiple Choice
5. Which of these crime-solving characters was NOT created by the mistress of mystery, Agatha Christie?
In addition to her most famous character, Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie wrote about a number of other sleuths. However, Lord Peter Wimsey was the creation of another female author, Dorothy L. Sayers.
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