How well do you know Oscar?

When it comes to the 80s, everyone here is a pro. But how well do you know movie history beyond our favorite decade?

I've created a 15-question, interactive Oscar Quiz for everyone to take. Basically, you'll hear a short sound clip and have to pick the movie.

Click here to take the quiz. Drop a comment afterward and let me know how you did. (I'm guessing that if I hadn't written it, I'd get about 12 or 13 questions correct.)

Comments

[Mike in Austin]

13 of 15. I missed the clip of Diane Keeton and Judi Dench.

[jane]

14 out of 15. Blew the Godfather question. Drat.

[Douglas Arthur]

13 for me too.

I missed the Godfather question...1 and 2 always run together into one big melange for me.

and the Judi Dench one, since I never saw Shakespeare in Love. I still have a hard time believing that beat Saving Private Ryan.

[specialk]

I could be a contender!! I missed the Marlon Brando one (DARN it and I just read his bio too) and now I can't remember the other one but it was a movie older than me what do you expect? Pretty good if I do say so myself!!

[Spears]

This is an easier quiz than the Grammy quiz for one main reason: I needed to actually have the DVDs of the movies I used in the quiz. And they all had to be Oscar winners. So that means the questions had to be a little more mainstream.

Special thanks to Times film critic Steve Persall and pop culture editor Sharon Fink for supplying me with the lion's share of the movies.

[Marissa]

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! And hooray for the Rissmeister! I got a perfect score. That's 15 out of 15. Who's gonna high five my bada** self? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Spears? Somebody? Anybody!?

[Tonianne]

14 out of 15 - did I seriously blow it on Oliver? The shame.

I still have it in for the Academy for honoring Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan or Life is Beautiful. What was that about?

[jane]

No more gruel for you, Tonianne. At least I blew my perfect score on Pacino.

I admitedly adored Shakespeare in Love (well, the concept and Joseph Fiennes. Not so much Gwyneth.) but it winning over Saving Private Ryan or Life Is Beautiful... criminal. Roberto's acceptance speech would have been one for the ages.

[Marissa]

I had a short lived mad crush on Joseph Fiennes after watching SIL. However, it was easily eclipsed by the emotional impact of Saving Private Ryan. That movie is far superior in every way. Sometimes I just don't understand The Academy.

[Bassnote]

I got a 13. I missed Terms of Endearment... I hate that movie.

[Bassnote]

Tonianne, I missed Oliver too. I can honestly admit that i have never seen more than 10 minutes of that movie.

[Spears]

The worst part AND best part of creating this quiz was having to pour thru the movies to find the quotes I wanted to use.

In most cases, I knew what line I was looking for, but trying to remember where it comes in the movie -- frickin' ridiculously time consuming.

Thankfully, with Oliver, Waterfront and Philadelphia Story, Sharon gave me the time stamp.

The hardest movie to pull a quote from: Shakespeare in Love. I nearly had to watch the whole thing before settling on Judi Dench's line.

[Marissa]

Steve, it's an effort greatly appreciated by moi. Had it not been an audio quiz, I would have failed miserably. By the way, did I mention I got a perfect score? LOL

[jane]

I can see where the time stamp would have been sweet relief for Oliver (cannot stand musicals with children in them -- dislike Annie for the same reason, but I digress), but for The Philadelphia Story and On the Waterfront -- helpful indeed, but I would have watched them both happily.

[Tonianne]

I saw a clip a few years back of Benigni's appearance on the Rosie O'Donnell show. She explained how moved she was by his performance in Life is Beautiful, and to honor him she presented him with Charlie Chaplin's hat.

Benigni was visibly shocked and so touched by her gesture that he responded he wished he could give her Buster Keaton's pants in return. It was one of the sweetest, most genuine exchanges I'd ever seen on TV.

[Bassnote]

I love Philadelphia Story. Carey Grant was a great actor, and he had such fantastic comic timing. Jimmy stewart was pretty great too. I was never a big Katherine Hepburn fan, but I will give her kudos for her acting prowess. I always preferred Audrey Hepburn.

[Spears]

I take back my previous comment: Casablanca was actually the toughest movie to pull a quote from. I knew all along WHICH quote I wanted, but I always thought the scene happened early in the movie -- not late in the movie. So I spent a ton of time going back and forth trying to find that great "Shocked!" line. Time well spent.

[jane]

Agreed about Cary Grant, Bassnote. Between "The Philadelphia Story" and "Bringing Up Baby", he and Miss Hepburn made a great screwball comedy team. Also loved him in "His Girl Friday" with Rosalind Russell. And... if you haven't seen it, check out one of his last films "Walk, Don't Run" where he plays the elder statesman foil to Jim Hutton and Samantha Eggar and is utterly charming. As usual.

'80s tie-in: I love that John Cleese's character in "A Fish Called Wanda" ('88) is called Archie Leach, an affectionate shout-out to Mr. Grant's given name, Archibald Leach.

[Tom]

15 for me. I remember going on a class field trip to see "Oliver!" when I was in elementary school. How weird is that. Great job with the quiz, Steve.

[Walter Cox]

14. Dern that Judi Dench.

[Walter Cox]

14. Dern that Judi Dench.

[Omar]

12 of 15. I missed the ones about Sound of Music, Philadelphia Story and Godfather Part II.

[Dan Vhay]

15 out O' 15. Either the quiz was too easy o rI watch too many g-dmned movies . . .

[Big Tex]

14 - The Godfather got me! How emasculating!

[Al]

12 out of 15 for me, good quiz Steve.......

Hey ladies, wasn't Cary Grant in "An Affair to Remember"? Other than the cheesy "The Cutting Edge",
"Affair" is my favourite romantic movie.

[Lisette]

14 - Got the Casablanca question wrong.

[jane]

You are correct, Al -- Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr were in "An Affair to Remember."

"Oh, it's nobody's fault but my own! I was looking up... it was the nearest thing to heaven! You were there... " *sniff* I'm all ferklempt just thinking about that last scene.

And "The Cutting Edge" is good and cheesy and great on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It's one of those that I have to stop and watch a little bit of whenever I surf by it.

[Al]

Jane, I'm in love. Any girl who realizes just how cheesy/awesome "The Cutting Edge" is, is truly one special chick.

[Steve Persall]

OK, I got all 15 right (Princess Di is my witness), but the Godfather thing almost stumped me. They run together for me, too, unless I hear Sofia Coppola's monotone or "Joey Zaza's got a message for me?"

[jane]

I feel a little better about dropping the ball on the Godfather one if it almost stumped Mr. Persall. (PS: Sofia's much better behind the camera, in my opinion.)

And Al... "I swear, you let me down and it'll take them a month to count the blade marks on your back."

[Al]

Jane, "Parlez-vous Olympics?!" Haha. I can quote that movie all day long.

[Al]

"I'm just about four hours late, Rita..."

[Rick]

Dang! 14 out of 15. Missed the Diane Keaton question.

But in fairness to me, I guessed MANHATTAN. The characters were practically interchangeable. The only thing worse would be to hear a sound bite of Woody Allen since he plays the same cartoon version of himself in all his films.

[jane]

"Toe pick!"

[Steve Spears]

I love all good, cheesy hockey/skating movies. Even Ice Castles is sacred to me.

So is Youngblood, Cutting Edge, The Mighty Ducks, Slap Shot (but not the sequel -- a guy's gotta have standards.)

Still waiting for Ice Castles 2, where Robby Benson is selling Slushees at the old rink. Or "One on One 2", where Benson is coaching Western University now.

[Tonianne]

After the miniseries "Lace," "Ice Castles" was my favorite guilty pleasure as a kid. Somewhere I still have a copy of the Ice Capades program Lynn Holly Johnson signed for me.

Anyone remember "Champions: A Love Story" with Jimmy McNichol?

[jane]

LACE! Loved it, loved it, loved it -- the book and the miniseries. I can remember my mother and her galpals giggling over the goldfish bit. "Which one of you b&^*#s is my mother?" Classic. (Although truth be told, I was more of a Judith Krantz/Scruples girl back in the day.)

And I'll have you know that I played the "Theme from Ice Castles" at one of my piano recitals. I still get a little pit in my stomach when I hear that music -- nervous residue.

PS: Slap Shot rules. Just sayin'.

[Marissa]

Please, don't let this feeling end
It's everything I am
Everything I want to be
I can see what's mine now
Finding out what's true
Since I found you
Looking through the eyes of love

C'mon everybody! Sing along with me.
I actually sang that at a wedding. Oh yeah, I captured the spirit of Melissa Manchester that day.

[jane]

Hey Miss Riss -- you can sing and I can accompany you and sing harmony. We'll be like the Captain and Tennille -- only more like Tennille and Tennille.

[Marissa]

Jane! Is this you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w37ECGDiyvY

[Tonianne]

Re: Slapshot

M. Emmet Walsh was in it. Of course it ruled.

Also in "Slapshot" was Strother Martin, who starred in another of my most favorite childhood flicks, "Sssssss."

Mad doctor Martin turns Dirk Benedict into a snake. So incredibly bad it was good.

[Marissa]

I'm a sucker for a sappy & happy ending.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTyD_8hcmzA

[jane]

Oh, Marissa. I'm going to have nightmares about my recital now. And no, not me. We didn't have such fancy tech things like video cameras back in the dark ages when I was a piano student.

I know Strother Martin because he played George Barkely, a game show contestant that ended up briefly on Gilligan's Island.

I'm so ashamed I just admitted that's why I know him, but TV is my weakness.

[jane]

Slap Shot trailer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW67agGgWAM

The Hansen Brothers kill me. Every time.

[Jeff in Cuba]

15 out of 15, due in no small part to the fact that it took 4 minutes to load each question, giving me ample time to ponder my choices before I listened.

Hooray for lousy bandwidth!

[Jeff in Cuba]

Do I have the only Y-chromosome on the blog tonight?

It's like the Lifetime channel in here!

[Tonianne]

With that ending Marissa, it is definitely deserving of an Academy Award nod.

So long as it is not up against those Oscar-worthy performances given by John Travolta and Glynnis O'Connor -as they rides off into the sunset at the end of "The Boy in a Plastic Bubble."

Filmmaking at its finest.

[Marissa]

Ya know, Tonianne, I thought of "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" as I watched that clip.

I never had a crush on Robbie Benson. I know a lot of girls who did, but I resisted his baby blues. I think it was his wussy voice that did him in.

[Tonianne]

Yeah - he and that "Sooner or Later"/"Take My Breath Away" actor/singer Rex Smith never did it for me, either.

[jane]

Robbie Benson is only cool to me because he's married to Karla DeVito, the woman in the video for my favorite guilty pleasure song of all time, Meat Loaf's "Paradise By the Dashboard Light." However, even though she was in the video with sweaty Mr. Loaf, it was Ellen Green (of Little Shop of Horrors fame) who actually sang on the recorded version of the song.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=j0ns8t9iQck

[jane]

Now, I have a small amount of affection for Rex Smith because he was in "Pirates of Penzance" with La Ronstadt and Kevin Kline. Who is married to Phoebe Cates, star of the aforementioned "Lace." So we've come full circle. Sort of.

[Marissa]

Ah, Rex Smith! He's actually sort of cute in a Broadway kind of way.
I remember his short lived TV series "Street Hawk." According to IMDb, Mr. Smith was born in Jacksonville, FL.

[Marissa]

Jinkies! I forgot he was a host on SOLID GOLD! Man, how I loved that show. We'd watch that show and make fun of and often imitate the final pose of the Solid Gold Dancers during the countdown.

[Marissa]

Karla DeVito and Robbie Benson are also responsible for the song "We Are Not Alone" on The Breakfast Club soundtrack (which I had on vinyl). I remember being quite astonished when I read the liner notes and credits.
If I'm not mistaken, that song is what's being blared over the library sound system after they get stoned and proceed to dance about the place.

[Clark]

13 out of 15. Missed The Philadelphia Story and Shakespeare In Love. I'm still a bum.

More importantly, who's up for a Slapshot watch party?

[Al]

I had a chance to be in "Slapshot 2" as an extra.......sure glad I turned that down. What a piece of crap that movie was.

Just like the horrible Cutting Edge 2 they did a few years ago with Kim Possible.....ugh.

[Al]

Ice Castles? Just watched the ending thanks to Youtube......starring the nympho from "The Spy Who Loved Me"......mmmm.

[Al]

Sorry, "For Your Eyes Only" was the Bond movie.

[jane]

Al, you're killing me. In a good way. Especially that Kim Possible reference. But tsk tsk tsk on getting your Bond Nymphos confused. I expected more from you.

And Clark -- great idea about a Slap Shot Watch Party. I think that's going to be the film featured today on my version of Sick Girl Cinema, since this awful cold I've acquired got much more intense overnight and all I feel like doing (after taking the kiddo to school) is watching movies. If I have time, I'll follow it up with The Last American Virgin (thanks, Netflix!)

[Marissa]

I seriously need to get Netflix again ... or summin'

[Marissa]

Awe, man! I wanna come to the party. Why can't I live in FL? Jeez!

[jane]

Lookee what I found on Amazon today: a fairly nice selection of classic movies at 50% off...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000197331&plpage=1

Al, I immediately thought about you, as An Affair To Remember is listed (you romantic you)... along with that great camp classic "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" and Joan Crawford & Her Eyebrows in "The Best of Everything." Plus "Some Like It Hot" which should be in EVERYONE'S film library. Period.