From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 4/18/2024 11:08 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 2 - Entertainment - Oscar and his Women   
   >   
   > This 2-for-1 round celebrates International Women's Day last Friday   
   > and the Academy Awards presentations last night.  (Don't worry,   
   > though: no questions on last night's winners!)   
   >   
   > 1. Which two-time best actress winner claims to have given the   
   >     Academy's gold statuette his nickname?  She said it reminded   
   >     her of her first husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson.   
      
   Bette Davis   
      
   > 2. Who was the first woman to win a Best Actress Oscar for a   
   >     performance in a language other than English?  The movie was   
   >     "Two Women" (1960).   
      
   Sophia Loren   
      
   > 3. Who was the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar?  The movie   
   >     was "The Hurt Locker" (2008).   
      
   Kathryn Bigelow   
      
   > 4. Which woman has won the most Oscars, twice as many as Katharine   
   >     Hepburn's 4?   
      
   Edith Head   
      
   > 5. Who holds the record for the most Academy Award acting   
   >     nominations (starring and supporting combined)?   
      
   Meryl Streep   
      
   > 6. A Best Actress winner both times she was nominated, this woman   
   >     starred in "Boys Don't Cry" (1999) and "Million Dollar Baby"   
   >     (2004).  Who?   
      
   Hilary Swank   
      
   > 7. Who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing a man in   
   >     "The Year of Living Dangerously" (1982)?   
      
   Linda Hunt   
      
   > 8. This woman was the first person to win Best Actor or Actress in   
   >     two successive years -- 1936 and 1937 (for "The Great Ziegfield"   
   >     and "The Good Earth").  In fact, she was the first person to   
   >     win more than one Oscar, period.  Who?   
      
   Luise Rainer   
   (comment: should that say "the first person to win more then one Oscar   
   for acting"?)   
      
   > 9. The youngest Oscar winner ever was just 10 when she was named   
   >     Best Supporting Actress for 1973.  Her name?   
      
   Tatum O'Neal   
      
   > 10. In "The Aviator" (2004), who won a Best Supporting Actress   
   >     Oscar for playing another Oscar winner?   
      
   Cate Blanchett   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 3 - Canadiana - The Nuclear North   
   >   
   > 1. The earliest uranium mines in Canada, at Great Bear Lake, were   
   >     initially developed not to mine uranium, but rather another   
   >     element, atomic number 88, which was used in the 1930s in   
   >     early radiation therapy, and to make luminescent clocks, dials,   
   >     and gauges.  Name the element.   
      
   radium   
      
   > 2. The townsite in the last question was named after ,   
   >     but the principal mining company there took its name from a   
   >     fictional land of fabulous riches, since its founders had   
   >     originally focused on mining gold.  Name the company, which   
   >     was nationalized in 1943 for national security reasons.   
      
   Shangri-La; Utopia   
      
   > 5. Unfortunately, the world's first serious nuclear-reactor   
   >     accident took place at , in December 1952.  During   
   >     the cleanup, crews from the US Navy were dispatched to assist.   
   >     One of those crews was led by a future US president, at the   
   >     time a navy lieutenant and submariner.  Name him.   
      
   Jimmy Carter   
      
   > 6. There are currently 19 functioning nuclear reactors in Canada   
   >     that produce electricity for commercial use.  18 of these are   
   >     in Ontario, variously at the Bruce, Pickering, and Darlington   
   >     sites.  In which province will you find the other reactor?   
      
   Saskatchewan; Manitoba   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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