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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Jonpaul Guinn
Edited by Eli Robinson

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  • Submit your answers by 1:34pm ET 3/17/26
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In Hollywood, it’s said that everything old is new again. Aptly, that saying dates back to at least the 1700s and its origin is sometimes credited to satirist Jonathan Swift.

There’s no reboot of Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” this year, but plenty of the Best Picture Oscar nominees cover similar ground as previous Best Picture nominees and winners.



And the nominees are…

Q1. “Marty Supreme” - Though both are set in New York, it’s definitely not a sequel to 1955’s Best Picture winner “Marty.” That Ernest Borgnine film is one of only four movies to win both Best Picture in LA and the Palme d’Or at what French film fest?



Q2. “The Secret Agent” - Set in Brazil in 1977, an investigation into a human leg found inside a tiger shark intentionally links it to what 1975 movie that is pretty synonymous with “shark movie”?



Q3. “Sinners” - Spoiler alert from 1977 to 1982! It’s tied to “Star Wars” not only as a blockbuster nominated for the top award, but by protagonists Smoke and Stack having what same relationship as Luke and Leia?



Q4. “Hamnet” - It wouldn’t seem like a Shakespearean grief fest has common ground with a grim George Clooney geothriller like “Syriana.” But Agnes Shakespeare and the oil-rich emirs practice what hunting sport that uses a tiny animal hood, a thin leg strap called a Jesse, and a massive protective perching glove?



Q5. “Frankenstein” - No former Frankie flick has been up for the big award. Its mad science probably relates most to the mad tailoring of serial killer Jamie “Buffalo Bill” Gumb in what 1991 quid pro quo horror?



Q6. “F1” - Despite having “cars” in the name of the awards, few racing movies have been up for Best Picture. Which one of these is a racing film?
  Drive My Car
  Ford v. Ferrari
  Midnight Express
  Sound of Metal



Q7. “Train Dreams” - Spoiler alert from the ‘50s! In “Bridge on the River Kwai,” Alec Guinness’s Colonel Nicholson tanks his own train dreams by blowing up a bridge he designed to connect Thailand and Burma, as a WWII POW interned by what country?



Q8. “One Battle After Another” - Leonardo DiCaprio says he prepped for his intense phone scenes by watching what “Heat” and “Godfather” star in “Dog Day Afternoon”?



Q9. “Sentimental Value” - If it wins the main award, it’ll be the second foreign language film to do so, following what 2019 Bong Joon-Ho class warfare thriller?



Q10. “Bugonia” - Spoiler alert for both movies! Bonkers and cynical about humanity’s future as a species, it ends on a similar note as “Dr. Strangelove,” where Slim Pickens rides what thing right out of a plane?



TIEBREAKER At a mere 37-years-old, Emma Stone has already starred in how many Best Picture Oscar nominees, including “Bugonia”?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 3/17/26