Last month, Victoria Groce won the World Quizzing Championship, for the second time!
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Last month, Victoria Groce won the World Quizzing Championship, for the second time!

FYI, it's the world's largest trivia tournament, all the world's best trivia players from every part of the world compete in it, many former and recent Jeopardy TOC contestants compete in it and never really come close to winning it, Victoria has won it TWICE now, the first and only woman to ever win it, and the only American player to ever win it. The GOAT. By the way, if you're wondering why James Holzhauer is also in the picture I posted, well, it's just cus I really like that photo of he and Victoria.

u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 1 day ago
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Oscar nominated/winning actors that had something in common with the character they portrayed?

Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry (1999)

She and the real-life character she portrayed in the film, Brandon Teena, were both born in the town of Lincoln, Nebraska.

u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 3 days ago
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As a Star Trek fan, this music video left me bewildered and confused

Why Spock is singing about a hobbit, I'm not sure.

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u/CK_CoffeeCat — 4 days ago
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The Oscars, except if only films set primarily in the state of Illinois were nominated

Chicago [2002]

The Fugitive [1993]

Judas & the Black Messiah [2019]

Ordinary People [1980]

The Sting [1973]

Which one of them would you vote for?

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u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 4 days ago
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The Oscar winning film that took 12 years to film and make

Boyhood

Released in 2014, it was one of the 10 Best Picture nominees of its year, but unlike its competitors, it had started filming WAY back in 2002.

A project of writer and director Richard Linklater and its cast, the film started out with an intentionally unfinished script, and for a few weeks every year the cast would get together and film new scenes of developing storylines. The premise of the film was 12 years in the life of a boy growing up, and also his life with his friends and family.

Interestingly, it was originally going to be called 12 years, but a couple of years prior to its completion, 12 Years a Slave came out, so the decision was made to change the title to just Boyhood.

Not only was it nominated for Best Picture, but it was also nominated for 5 other Oscars, including director, screenplay, editing, supporting actor (for Ethan Hawke) and, for Supporting Actress, of which Patricia Arquette won the Oscar.

u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 6 days ago
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Films that were surprisingly not nominated in minor or technical categories?

Here's a couple examples off the top of my head:

Apocalypto (2006) - Foreign Language film

Weapons (2025) - Makeup

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u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 6 days ago
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Kenneth Branagh holds an unusual, and impressive, Oscar record

Being a nominee in the most different categories, at 7.

By the way, they have been for:

(1) Best Director (Henry V, Belfast)

(2) Best Actor (Henry V)

(3) Best Live Action Short Film (Swan Song)

(4) Best Adapted Screenplay (Hamlet)

(5) Best Supporting Actor (My Week with Marilyn)

(6) Best Picture (Belfast)

(7) Best Original Screenplay (Belfast)

u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 8 days ago
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Cast members of Fast Times & Ridgemont High have won 5 Oscars

And that's just counting on the onscreen cast:

Sean Penn: 3 wins

- Mystic River

- Milk

- One Battle After Another

Nic Cage: 1 win

- Leaving Las Vegas

Forrest Whitaker: 1 win

- The Last King of Scotland

And an honorable mention to Jennifer Jason Leigh for getting a nomination for The Hateful Eight

By the way, who woulda thought that Jeff Spicoli would be a 3-time Oscar winner...

Well done, cast

u/ComfortableCare8897 — 9 days ago

The best quality video of the first plane hitting the north tower

Atleast it's the best quality video that I personally know of, by the way, of all the footage anyone shot that day, this has been, and still is, my favorite, the miraculous odds of anyone actually filming the first incident that day is staggering, it is one of only two known videos of the North Tower being struck, and it has, by far, the better angle and video quality of the two.

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u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 10 days ago

The tallest serial killers ever?

Gary Stretch, 7 ft 3 (2.20 m)

While he didn't personally murder anyone with his own actual hands, he premeditatively helped and facilitated his accomplice in murdering three people, making him just as guilty of the murders as she was.

u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 10 days ago
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The three most deserving directors to not receive a Best Director nomination for their work on a film?

Three off the top of my head:

  1. Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future

  2. Ben Affleck, Argo

  3. Todd Field, In the Bedroom

u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 11 days ago
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A tribute to the SECOND BEST Scottish film of 1995

Rob Roy.

A fairly underrated masterpiece of a film.

It garnered Oscar esteem with a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Tim Roth.

u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 12 days ago

Who'd make a great host that has never hosted before?

I'll go with Jennifer Coolidge.

One of the best comedic character actors in the business.

u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 12 days ago

Meals that you actually prefer store brand ingredients to home made ingredients?

For me, blueberry muffins. I've had homemade blueberry muffins baked by many different ppl over the years, but truly, none of them have tasted quite as good as blueberry muffins made with the typical store bought mix. IMO.

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u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 15 days ago

The greatest unreleased songs by The Beatles!

As in songs recorded by the Beatles yet weren't released by the band, for any number of reasons, including, because they wrote and demo'd the song for another band to record, or because of creative decisions, or sometimes just due to random luck.

Here are probably their top 5 greatest unreleased songs, ranked by how good they are and/or how successful they probably would have been had they been released by the band:

  1. Bad to Me - this song would have been a hit for them, nothing else to add.

  2. One and One is Two - This also had hit written over it

  3. Goodbye - The best unreleased song by them of their later era.

  4. Love of the Loved - Probably the unreleased song they chose to perform the most in their early days performing on the road

  5. Norwegian Wood - A unique sounding song, but is a bit of a favorite amongst a number of fans.

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u/Senior-Raisin-2342 — 16 days ago