Test Your Oscar IQ

Oscar IQ Quiz Answers 1-5

1) How did Willie Fulgear lose $40,000 just weeks after his $50,000 reward for recovering 52 missing Oscar statuettes in 2000?
Answer: B. Personal safe stolen from house

2) Two of the most important people involved in the Oscars are Brad Oltmanns and Rick Rosas. What do they do?
Answer: D. Hand presenters the envelopes
Note: Oltmanns and Rosas work for PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has tabulated the results for the Oscars since 1934.

3) What was wrong with Spencer Tracy's best actor Oscar for 1938's "Boys Town"?
Answer: C. Inscribed to "Dick Tracy"

4) As a presenter in 1993, what did Richard Gere request of viewers?
Answer: C. Send thoughts to Chinese leader
Note: Gere wanted the messages to be sent to Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping so he would remove troops from Tibet.

5) What did Tom Hanks accidentally do during his best actor acceptance speech in 1994 for "Philadelphia"?
Answer: A. "Outed" someone
Note: Hanks revealed that one of his old drama teachers was homosexual.

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