Today's Trivia Questions

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Which people won the Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor for the 1996 film year?

9

During World War I she was a spy who worked for both the French and the Germans. In 1917 she was executed by the French. Today her name refers to a seductive double-dealing woman. Who is she?

39

This 1984 comedy film stars Murray Langston as Melvin White, an inept police officer who moonlights as 'The Unknown Comic' and gets caught up in a series of chaotic events. What is the name of this movie?

8

What does the French phrase 'c'est la vie' mean in English?

10

A life-size statue of Pocahontas can be found in which city in Virginia?

2

Since this city hosts the headquarters of the European Union, you might call it the capital city of Europe. Which city is this?

17

Which 20th century American painter became famous by dripping or pouring swirls and spatterings of paint on a canvas?

17

Which 1982 film, based on a novel written by John Irving, starred Glenn Close and Robin Williams?

19

Which fast-food chain lost more than $29 million after their hamburgers were linked to deadly bacterial outbreaks in 1993?

10

Can you name the novelist, humorist, and satirist who said, "A classic is something everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read."

2

What is the very common name for the male sex cells in plants?

32

Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this 2013 biographical black comedy chronicles the rise and fall of stockbroker Jordan Belfort. What is the title of this film?

11

In which country were each of these music makers born? a. Wolfgang Mozart? b. Frederic Chopin? c. Laurence Welk?

13

The Treaty of Versailles was signed at the end of what war?

6

In a scale model drawing of a car, the linear scale is 1:20. If it would take 1/4 liter of paint to cover the outside of the model of the car, how much paint would it take to cover the real car?