The Oscars Quiz – Random Academy Awards Questions

Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards, the record number for a performer, and 12 Oscar nominations for Best Actress. This number of nominations is surpassed only by Meryl Streep. Hepburn also holds the record for the most extended period between the first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years.

Working Girl is a 1988 American film directed by Mike Nichols. It tells the story of Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith), a Wall Street investment bank secretary. When her boss, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), breaks her leg skiing, Tess uses Parker's absence and connection to put forward her idea for a merger deal. Both Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver were nominated for Academy Awards. The film was nominated in six categories but only won the Academy Award for Best Original Song (Let the River Run by Carly Simon).

Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) won the Best Picture Award in 2015.

Spotlight is a 2015 American film directed by Tom McCarthy. It stars Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, and Stanley Tucci. It follows the Boston Globe's investigative journalist unit and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous Roman Catholic priest.

Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock won the Best Original Song with Take My Breath Away Academy Award at the 59th Academy Awards in 1987. The song was performed by Berlin and featured in Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott. Up Where We Belong (from An Officer and a Gentleman) won the award in 1983, (I've Had) The Time of My Life (from Dirty Dancing) won the award in 1988, Blaze of Glory (from Young Guns II) was nominated but did not win an award.

Three of Bergman's films won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film:

• The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), 1960.

Max von Sydow played the Renter in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), which earned him his second Academy Award nomination. The film was released in the U.S. on December 25, 2011.

In 2013, Adele received the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her song Skyfall, written for the 23rd James Bond film.

Moonlight won three awards, including Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards. La La Land was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture before Moonlight was clarified to be the winner.

Michelle Obama and Jack Nicholson presented the Best Picture Award in 2012. The Oscar went to Argo.