Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 1998-03-16,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
> see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> I wrote one of these rounds and one question in the other.
The entertainment round was mine, and question #7 in the sports round.
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Entertainment - Total Losers
> These are movies that were nominated for all four major Academy
> Awards -- by which we mean Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress in
> a Leading Role, and Best Director -- and lost all four. (They may
> or may not have won Oscars in other categories.)
> In each case we give you the year (of the film's release in Los
> Angeles, not the ceremony) and the actor, actress, and director
> nominees in that order; and you give us the title.
This was the easiest round of the season.
> 1. 1937, Fredric March, Janet Gaynor, William Wellman.
"A Star is Born". 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
(The winners: "The Life of Emile Zola"; Spencer Tracy for "Captains
Courageous"; Luise Rainer for "The Good Earth"; director Leo McCarey
for "The Awful Truth".)
> 2. 1945, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Leo McCarey.
"The Bells of St. Mary's" -- the sequel to the previous year's
Best Picture winner "Going My Way". 4 for Stephen. 3 for Joshua.
2 for Pete.
(The winners: "The Lost Weekend", Ray Milland, and director Billy
Wilder; Joan Crawford for "Mildred Pierce".)
> 3. 1950, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Billy Wilder.
"Sunset Blvd." 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Stephen.
(The winners: "All About Eve" and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Jose
Ferrer for "Cyrano de Bergerac"; Judy Holliday for "Born Yesterday".)
> 4. 1958, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Brooks.
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
(The winners: "Gigi" and director Vincenti Minelli; David Niven for
"Separate Tables"; Susan Hayward for "I Want to Live".)
> 5. 1961, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Robert Rossen.
"The Hustler". 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
(The winners: "West Side Story" and directors Robert Wise and Jerome
Robbins; Maximilian Schell for "Judgement at Nuremberg"; Sophia Loren
for "Two Women".)
> 6. 1967, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Arthur Penn.
"Bonnie and Clyde". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Pete.
(The winners: "In the Heat of the Night" and Rod Steiger; Katharine
Hepburn for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"; director Mike Nichols for
"The Graduate".)
> 7. 1970, Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw, Arthur Hiller.
"Love Story". 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Pete.
(The winners: "Patton", George C. Scott, and director Franklin
J. Schaffner; Glenda Jackson for "Women in Love".)
> 8. 1974, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Roman Polanski.
"Chinatown". 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Pete.
(The winners: "The Godfather Part II" and director Francis Ford
Coppola; Art Carney for "Harry and Tonto"; Ellen Burstyn for "Alice
Doesn't Live Here Anymore".)
> 9. 1981, Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Louis Malle.
"Atlantic City". 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
(The winners: "Chariots of Fire"; Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn
for "On Golden Pond"; director Warren Beatty for "Reds".)
> 10. 1993, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Ivory.
"The Remains of the Day". 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Stephen.
(The winners: "Schindler's List" and director Steven Spielberg;
Tom Hanks for "Philadelphia"; Holly Hunter for "The Piano".)
> There have only been """two""" other movies that were nominated
> for all four major Oscars and lost all four. So here are the
> other """two""" in case you'd like to try them -- for fun, but
> for no points.
> 11. 1946, Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Clarence Brown.
"The Yearling". Joshua and Stephen got this.
(The winners: "The Best Years of Our Lives", Fredric March, and
director William Wyler; Olivia de Havilland for "To Each His Own".)
> 12. 1974, Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Bob Fosse.
"Lenny". Joshua and Marc got this. Joshua and Stephen got this.
(The winners for 1974: see above.)
> As of 2021 there have now been three. This last one is now the only
> time it's happened in more than 25 years! Again, no points for this.
> 13. 2013, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, David O. Russell.
"American Hustle". Joshua and Stephen got this.
(The winners: "12 Years a Slave"; Matthew McConaughey for "Dallas
Buyers Club"; Cate Blanchett for "Blue Jasmine"; Alfonso Cuarón for
"Gravity".)
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports Literature - Baseball Books
> Some of these books are nonfiction about baseball; some are fiction.
> In each case name the author, or *any one* author if there are more
> than one.
> 1. "The Science of Hitting".
Ted Williams. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Pete.
> 2. "The Art of Pitching".
Tom Seaver. 4 for Stephen.
> 3. "Tomorrow I'll be Perfect".
Dave Steib, Greg Boland. 4 for Stephen.
> 4. "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball".
George F. Will. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Pete.
> 5. "The Boys of Summer".
Roger Kahn. 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
> 6. "The Iowa Baseball Confederacy".
W.P. (William Patrick) Kinsella. 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
> 7. "The Natural".
Bernard Malamud. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Stephen.
> 8. "Catch: A Major League Life".
Ernie Witt, Greg Cable. 4 for Stephen (the hard way).
> 9. "Season Ticket".
Roger Angell. 4 for Stephen.
> 10. "The Perfect Yankee: The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle
> in Baseball History".
Don Larsen, Mark Shaw. 4 for Stephen and Pete.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> His Geo Sci Lit Ent S+L FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 8 35 28 24 39 20 126
Erland Sommarskog 28 28 28 8 0 0 92
Dan Blum 4 28 32 8 20 4 88
Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- 40 40 80
Pete Gayde 16 20 14 0 14 12 64
Dan Tilque 0 16 24 0 8 0 48
Bruce Bowler 0 28 -- -- -- -- 28
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