10 Question Quiz: This Year's Oscars

Title: 10 Question Quiz: This Year's Oscars.

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Brian Lehrer: It's The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. Once again on this membership drive, we're having a 10-question quiz every day. Get two in a row right and win a Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap or a Brian Lehrer Show mug. Your choice. It'll be a different theme or topic every day. We're going to have some fun with different ones on the different days of the drive.

Today, on the morning after last night's Academy Awards, it's a 10-question 2025 Oscars quiz. Who wants to play? 212-433-WNYC. Get two in a row right and win a Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap or a Brian Lehrer Show mug. Your choice. All the questions will be about people and films related to last night's Oscars. Just keep trying if you don't get through as we go through different callers. 212-433-WNYC, 433-9692. There's Heather in Brooklyn who showed up really fast and is on line 1. Hey, Heather. Ready to play?

Heather: [chuckles] I am ready to play. I just wanted to let you know that I just increased my monthly sustainer membership because of you, Brian.

Brian Lehrer: Oh, we really appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right. The question here is, who hosted last night's Oscars ceremony as heard in this clip?

Conan O'Brien: Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars, remember my name is Jimmy Kimmel.

Brian Lehrer: That was?

Heather: That's Conan O'Brien.

Brian Lehrer: [laughs] That's right. His first time hosting the event. Jimmy Kimmel has done it four times, including the last two years. That joke was in the context of if you don't like my hosting. All right, that's one. One more and you'll win a prize. There were a number of firsts at the Oscars last night. Here's one. Who is speaking here?

Zoe Saldana: I am a proud child of immigrant parents with dreams and dignity and hard-working hands. I am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an Academy Award, and I know I will not be the last.

Brian Lehrer: All right. Who was that, Heather? Do you know?

Heather: Yes, the amazing Zoe Saldana.

Brian Lehrer: Absolutely right. You are amazing enough that you get to choose between a Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap and a Brian Lehrer Show mug. Which one do you want?

Heather: I want the baseball cap, Brian.

Brian Lehrer: Baseball cap coming to Heather. Hang on. We'll take your address off the air. We're going to go next to Dora in Harlem. Hi, Dora. Ready to play?

Dona: Hi. Yes. I'm so excited.

Brian Lehrer: Okay. That's two questions down.

Dora: Can you hear me?

Brian Lehrer: Yes. Can you hear me okay?

Dora: Oh, awesome. Yes, sorry.

Brian Lehrer: Two questions down from our 10-question quiz. Question 3. The Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film was another first going to the movie Flow. What country took home its first Oscar with that win?

Dora: It was Latvia.

Brian Lehrer: It sure was Latvia, which I read that host Conan O'Brien showed the studio audience on a map during the break, and they had that funny line. He said, "Okay, Lithuania, you're challenged." That's one. Question 4. There are two categories for actors, leading role and supporting role. In which category did Kieran Culkin win?

Dora: He won for actor in a supporting role for A Real Pain.

Brian Lehrer: That is exactly right. Good job.

Dora: Yay. I'm so excited.

Brian Lehrer: Do you want a Brian Lehrer Show mug or a Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap?

Dora: Well, I have the baseball cap. I'll be delighted to have the mug.

Brian Lehrer: That is wonderful. The skyline mug coming your way. Hang on. We'll take your address off the air. Here is Kata in Millburn on WNYC. Kata, did I say your name right? Hi.

Kata: Hi. It's Kata. [crosstalk]

Brian Lehrer: Kata. I'm sorry.

Kata: Hi, Brian.

Brian Lehrer: All right. Question 5. Name the actor who starred in two of the Best Picture nominees.

Kata: Two of the Best Picture nominees. Uh-oh.

Brian Lehrer: Yes, the same actor.

Kata: I'm not going to get it.

Brian Lehrer: Ooh. You want to take a guess? You saw on a lot-

Kata: Adrien Brody?

Brian Lehrer: -last night. Oh, no, sorry. Sorry, Kate. Thanks for trying. The answer is Timothée Chalamet, who was in Dune: Part Two and A Complete Unknown. Although he was nominated as Best Actor for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, it was Adrien Brody who won his second Oscar for The Brutalist. No, sorry, Brody was only in one film. Stuart in Brooklyn, you're on WNYC. Ready to play?

Stuart: I am ready, Brian.

Brian Lehrer: All right. Question 6. There were two films not in English nominated for Best Picture. Can you name one?

Stuart: Two films. Iran?

Brian Lehrer: We're looking for a film title. That wasn't one of the countries anyway, but we're looking for the film title, if you know. Either one. Nominees for Best Picture.

Stuart: Oh, for Best Picture?

Brian Lehrer: Yes.

Stuart: Oh, oh, oh. Emilia Pérez.

Brian Lehrer: Yes, there you go. I'll tell you what. You get the other one and you'll win the baseball cap or the mug.

Stuart: Okay.

Brian Lehrer: Do you want a different question?

Stuart: Yes.

Brian Lehrer: You can tell me the other international, not in English film nominated for Best Picture.

Stuart: I'm Still Here.

Brian Lehrer: I'm Still Here from Brazil. Do you want the baseball cap or the mug, Stuart?

Stuart: I want them both, but I'll do the baseball cap so I can wear it around.

Brian Lehrer: Stuart, thank you very much. We're going to go next to Carol in Brooklyn. Hi, Carol. Ready to play? Do we have Carol?

Carol: Yes, ready to play.

Brian Lehrer: Okay. Question 7 in this 10-question Oscars quiz. Name one or both of the musicals nominated for Best Picture. Either musical.

Carol: Emilia Pérez.

Brian Lehrer: Is right. The other one was Wicked. On Friday, we featured the Oscars in an installment of our 100 Years of 100 Things series, but we rounded the number a little bit for that. The question is, how many Oscar ceremonies have there actually been, let's say, within five?

Carol: Ooh, let's go with '98.

Brian Lehrer: 98 is within five of '97. Do you want the baseball hat or the mug?

Carol: Going with the baseball hat.

Brian Lehrer: All right, Carol, that's great. We're going to take your address off the air. Amy in Inwood, you're on WNYC. Hi, Amy.

Amy: Hello.

Brian Lehrer: We just have two questions left in this 10-question quiz. Question 9. We had the directors of four of the five nominated films in the Best Feature Documentary category on the show. We invite the Best Documentary nominees every year, four of the five, because one of the teams of directors couldn't make it. We're going to try to have them on after the fact. They all took place in distinct countries or regions. The winning film was No Other Land, the one we weren't able to schedule, but we're reaching out again. Where in the world is its story based?

Amy: The story for that is based in Palestine, I think.

Brian Lehrer: That is correct, the West Bank.

Amy: Okay. [laughs]

Brian Lehrer: The Palestinian director of No Other Land wasn't able to travel in time to come on the show. His Israeli counterpart, co-director, wanted to stick to the standard they had set, which I totally understand, that they were only doing interviews together, one Israeli, one Palestinian together. Now that we know that he was able to travel because he was at the Oscars, we're going to try to have them on the show after the fact with their Oscar in hand maybe. Question 10, the end of the quiz, and for you to win a baseball hat or a mug. Which Best Picture nominated film mostly takes place in South Brooklyn. Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Mill Basin?

Amy: Which Best Picture? I didn't see it, but I-- Oh, Anora.

Brian Lehrer: Anora is right. The big winner.

Amy: Yay. [laughs]

Brian Lehrer: Shot largely in South Brooklyn. Amy, you want the hat or the mug?

Amy: I need the hat, for sure.

Brian Lehrer: Needs the hat. Amy, hang on. We're going to take your address. Thanks to you. Thanks to all of you who played. That was a fun little Oscars quiz. We'll have a quiz at the same time tomorrow right after the news on a whole other topic. Brian Lehrer on WNYC, Much more to come.

 

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