Reel Facts: The Answers to Film Quiz #1

Skip this post if you don't want to know, but here are the questions and the solutions to our first quiz:

1. Who was the first actress to win three Oscars in three different decades?
     You might have answered Katherine Hepburn or Meryl Streep, but Ingrid Bergman did it first: Gaslight (1944); her comeback in Anastasia (1956); and a crowning Oscar for Supporting Actress in Murder on the Orient Express (1974).

2. In the classic comedy Bringing Up Baby, both Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn are looking for Baby. Who is Baby?
     Baby is Hepburn's pet leopard.

3. “A scavenger hunt is just like a treasure hunt, except in a treasure hunt you find something of value, and in a scavenger hunt, you find things you don't want and the one who wins gets a prize, only there really isn't any prize. It's just the honor of winning because all the money goes to charity, if there's any money left over, but there never is.” Who said it, and from what 1930s film does it come from?
     A classic line, spoken by a classic dame: Carole Lombard said it in My Man Godfrey.

4. Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, and Paul Newman all rejected the same famous detective role. Which one?
     Believe it or not, they were all in the running to play Dirty Harry.

5. “A love caught in the fire of revolution”was the tagline for what epic 1960s movie?
     Doctor Zhivago

6. What two actors have won Oscars for playing the same character?
     Marlon Brando won the Oscar for playing Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. Two years later, Robert DeNiro won a Supporting Oscar for playing a young Vito Corleone, in flashbacks, in The Godfather Part II.

7. In what film does Elizabeth Taylor admit the following: “Oh Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.”
    Butterfield 8

8. What 1960s film has Barbara Stanwyck playing a lesbian madam in love with one of the new girls?
    The very racy (at the time) A Walk on the Wild Side.