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  1. What was the source of the sand for the concrete that John Wayne left his hand prints in at Grauman's Chinese Theatre? {Iwo Jima}
  2. Who did French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre once call "the hottest actress alive"? {Marilyn Monroe}
  3. What's been described as "Sodom-by-the-Sea" and "72 suburbs in search of a city"? {Los Angeles}
  4. Who was the first woman nominated for the best director Oscar? {Lina Wertmuller}
  5. Who came into this world as Bela Blasko? {Bela Lugosi}
  6. What film was reviewed by one critic with the observation: "Loved Ben. Hated Hur"? {Ben-Hur}
  7. Who's the only actress listed in a standard dictionary? {Mae West}
  8. What child star once quipped: "I remember when I was three and unknown"? {Shirley Temple}
  9. What character did Humphrey Bogart appear as on the June 7, 1954, cover of Time? {Captain Queeg}
  10. Who made the cover of Life in 1971 after announcing his retirement "from the entertainment world and public life"? {Frank Sinatra}
  11. What film were Marlon Brando and Tarita making when they hooked up? {Mutiny on the Bounty}
  12. What's the largest movie theater in the U.S., with 5,882 seats? {Radio City Music Hall}
  13. What actress known as The Love Goddess eloped to Europe in 1949 with Prince Aly Khan? {Rita Hayworth}
  14. What song did Roy Rogers record in 1974 about Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry and himself? {Hoppy, Gene and Me}
  15. Who did ddirector John Huston mean when he said: "She'll be dead or in an institution within three years"? {Marilyn Monroe}
  16. Who did Oscar Levant mean when he said he knew a certain actress "before she was a virgin"? {Debbie Reynolds}
  17. Who sat in seat 11 at the world premiere of Gone with the Wind? {Margaret Mitchell}
  18. Who did Life call "Sweden's most promising export since Greta Garbo"? {Ingrid Bergman}
  19. What actress's biography was titled Mother Goddam? {Bette Davis's}
  20. What were movie dancing partners Virginia Katherine McMath and Frederick Austerlitz better known as? {Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire}
  21. What two Julies competed for the best actress Oscar in 1965? {Andrews and Christie}
  22. Who went from a box display for Ivory Snow to quite a display in Behind the Green Door? {Marilyn Chambers}
  23. What was the only Arab state to allow the screening of Lawrence of Arabia when it was first released? {Egypt}
  24. What did artist George Stanley sculpt for a fee of $500? {Oscar}
  25. Who was Pat Buttrum referring to when he observed: "For three decades, Gene used to ride off into the sunset. Now he owns it"? {Gene Autry}
  26. Who married Helen Mencken, Mary Phillips and Mayo Methot? {Humphrey Bogart}
  27. What, according to many of his co-stars, was Clark Gable's great shortcoming in cozy closeups? {Halitosis}
  28. What dashing leading man was the first film star to reside in Beverly Hills? {Douglas Fairbanks}
  29. What singer-actress superstar graduated from New York City's Erasmus High School with an average of 93? {Barbra Streisand}
  30. What Robert Redford film sparked a trend to mustaches? {Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid}
  31. What actor's face appeared on the covers of Life and Newsweek less than a week before The Godfather's premiere? {Marlon Brando's}
  32. What sex symbol observed: "I wish I had invented sex. Sex is No. 1"? {Brigitte Bardot}
  33. What country did director John Huston become a citizen of in 1964? {Ireland}
  34. Who came into the world in 1940 as Raquel Tejada? {Raquel Welch}
  35. Who was Doctor George Nichopoulos's most famous patient? {Elvis Presley}
  36. What was contracted by more than 90 of the 220 cast and crew members of The Conqueror, shot in 1954 near a Utah nuclear test site? {Cancer}
  37. What year did filmmakers first move to sunny California? {1907}
  38. What director, asked what frightened him, replied: "I'm terrified of policemen"? {Alfred Hitchcock}
  39. What leading man was Jean Harlow engaged to when she died? {William Powell}
  40. What was Jane Russell's bust measurement in the fullness of her career? {Thirty-eight inches}
  41. What former Miss San Diego and Maid of California did makeup artist George Masters describe as "silicone from the knees up"? {Raquel Welch}
  42. Who once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest in Monte Carlo and placed third? {Charlie Chaplin}
  43. Who said: "I saw a Road picture so cut to make room for 45 commercials that Bing and I weren't even in it"? {Bob Hope}
  44. What was the average price of a U.S. movie ticket in 1962? {Seventy cents}
  45. Who received his nickname because of his fondness as an eight-year-old for a comic strip called The Bingville Bugle? {Bing Crosby}
  46. What actress who co-starred with William Holden in The Seventh Dawn received $25,000 when his will was read? {Capucine}
  47. Who said: "This 'King' stuff is pure bull. I eat and drink and go to the bathroom just like anybody else"? {Clark Gable}
  48. Who was dubbed The Face of a Century? {Greta Garbo}
  49. What awards are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? {The Golden Globes}
  50. How old was Judy Garland when she made The Wizard of Oz? {Seventeen}
  51. Which of his co-stars did Howard Duff marry? {Ida Lupino}
  52. What British screen comedian did Liza Minnelli carry on an open affair with? {Peter Sellers}
  53. What television premiere prompted Variety to headline: "1st Major Pix-TV Wedding Big Click"? {The Academy Awards ceremonies}
  54. What star of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly owned a restaurant in Carmel, California, called The Hog's Breath Inn? {Clint Eastwood}
  55. What kind of movie does Variety call a "They-went-that-awayer"? {A western}
  56. Who was called The First of the Mexican Mamas? {Dolores Del Rio}
  57. What two Bogie films appeared in the 1977 American Film Institute listing of the 10 greatest American films? {The African Queen and Casablanca}
  58. What drilling magnate did Elizabeth Taylor date at 17? {Howard Hughes}
  59. Who was a newspaper referring to in 1942 when it headlined: "Robin Hood Charged With Rape"? {Errol Flynn}
  60. Has Katharine Hepburn ever shown up at an Academy Awards ceremony to pick up an Oscar? {No}
  61. Who was rapped in an editorial: "When will we be rid of all these effeminate youths...in the image of Rudy--that painted pansy?"? {Rudolph Valentino}
  62. What distinction did the otherwise-forgotten 1925 film Police Patrol earn on April 6, 1931? {It was the first feature-length film shown on television}
  63. Which Presidential candidate did Humphrey Bogart endorse, Dwight Eisenhower or Adlai Stevenson? {Adlai Stevenson}
  64. What did Barbra Streisand exclaim upon picking up her Oscar for Funny Girl? {Hello, gorgeous}
  65. What actor suffered a massive heart attack during the last two weeks of filming 1966's The Fortune Cookie? {Walter Matthau}
  66. Where was Bob Hope born? {Eltham, England}
  67. What Hollywood gossip columnist observed: "Our town worships success, the bitch goddess whose smile hides a taste for blood"? {Hedda Hopper}
  68. What composer was married to Angie Dickinson? {Burt Bacharach}
  69. What wild and crazy couple first hooked up at a Las Vegas softball game? {Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters}
  70. What's Jack Nicholson's shoe size? {Nine}
  71. What color is Arlene Dahl's hair? {Red}
  72. What actor was elected U.S. Senator from California in 1964? {George Murphy}
  73. Who is Anne Bancroft's husband? {Mel Brooks}
  74. Who revealed that he was suffering from alcoholism at the time of filming Days of Wine and Roses? {Jack Lemmon}
  75. Who said: "When I was nine, I played the demon king in Cinderella, and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster"? {Boris Karloff}
  76. What actress was nicknamed The Clothes Horse? {Joan Crawford}
  77. What was the only western to cop best picture? {Cimarron}
  78. What did George Raft never see? {One of his own films}
  79. Who came into this world as Walter Matuschanskavasky? {Walter Matthau}
  80. What 1921 film caused a surge in Arab motifs in fashion and interior design? {The Sheik}
  81. What's Cary Grant's zodiacal sign? {Capricorn}
  82. Who once admitted: "The only thing that kept me a big star has been revivals of Gone with the Wind"? {Clark Gable}
  83. What film director was the son of renowned impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir? {Jean Renoir}
  84. Who personally censored the 1,363 feature films produced in Germany during the Third Reich? {Joseph Goebbels}
  85. What actor married Egyptian movie queen Faten Hamama? {Omar Sharif}
  86. What gossip columnist came into the world as Elda Furry? {Hedda Hopper}
  87. Who's counted Roger Vadim, Jacques Charrier and playboy Gunther Sachs among her husbands? {Brigitte Bardot}
  88. What star of La Dolce Vita and Screaming Mimi took part in the 1951 Miss Universe contest as Miss Sweden? {Anita Ekberg}
  89. What's Jimmy Stewart's zodiacal sign? {Taurus}
  90. What movie's European ticket sales doubled after Roman Polanski blasted British censors for cutting the devil's rape scene? {Rosemary's Baby's}
  91. Who was known in his heyday as The Clown Prince of Comedy? {Red Skelton}
  92. What innkeeper did a 17-year-old Elizabeth Taylor make her first husband? {Nick Hilton}
  93. What 1973 winner was the youngest person to be nominated for and receive an Academy Award? {Tatum O'Neal}
  94. Who reunited Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin in 1976 after a 20-year estrangement? {Frank Sinatra}
  95. What 1972 film proved a boon to banjo sales? {Deliverance}
  96. What Ronald Reagan classic became the most desired by collectors after he became President? {Bedtime for Bonzo}
  97. What actor, told he was dying of cancer, phoned Ernest Hemingway to say: "Well, Papa, I'm going to beat you to the corral"? {Gary Cooper}
  98. Who did Jack Warner describe as: "To the Walter Mittys of the world he was all the heroes in one magnificent, sexy, animal package"? {Errol Flynn}
  99. What former actor did John Huston describe to Rolling Stone as "boring and of low intelligence"? {Ronald Reagan}
  100. Who ordered his newspapers not to advertise or run reviews of Citizen Kane? {William Randolph Hearst}
  101. What was Mae West's bust size at the peak of her career? {Thirty-eight inches}
  102. Who did Richard Burton marry after divorcing Elizabeth Taylor for the second time? {Susan Hunt}
  103. What pretty baby did a People magazine poll find 90 percent of readers wouldn't swap places with? {Brooke Shields}
  104. What kind of grog does Orson Welles flog on television? {Paul Masson wine}
  105. Who did Eddie Fisher dump to marry Elizabeth Taylor? {Debbie Reynolds}
  106. Who grew up as Elmore Rual Torn? {Rip Torn}
  107. Who was Lucille Ball's first husband? {Desi Arnaz}
  108. Who did justice of the peace Arthur Garfield marry to Steve McQueen on Friday, July 13, 1973? {Ali MacGraw}
  109. Whose film career was nearly destroyed when she fell in love with Italian director Roberto Rossellini? {Ingrid Bergman's}
  110. Who was dubbed The Queen of Hollywood in an Ed Sullivan poll? {Myrna Loy}
  111. What child star's orange juice was spiked with gin by an uncharacteristically generous W.C. Fields? {Baby LeRoy's}
  112. Which of Tony Curtis's real-life spouses played hsi wife in Houdini? {Janet Leigh}
  113. What kind of flower was named for Richard Burton by the New York City Botanical Garden? {A rose}
  114. Who placed her skate marks in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre? {Sonja Henie}
  115. What singer told Francis Ford Coppola that he's like to play The Godfather as a favor to the young director? {Frank Sinatra}
  116. What actress and former wife of Artie Shaw was dubbed The World's Most Beautiful Animal? {Ava Gardner}
  117. What controversial drug was Steve McQueen taking for his cancer when he died in Mexico? {Laetrile}
  118. What National Football League team did actor Jim Brown once star for? {The Cleveland Browns}
  119. What community did playwright Moss Hart call "the most beautiful slave quarters in the world"? {Beverly Hills}
  120. What color was Betty Grable's bathing suit in her classic World War II pinup? {Yellow}
  121. Who was the last of the Marx Brothers to exit the world stage? {Zeppo}
  122. Who were A. Bessie, H. Biberman, L. cole, E. Dmytryk, R. Lardner, J.H. Lawson, A. Maltz, S. Ornitz, A. Scott and D. Trumbo? {The Hollywood Ten}
  123. Who was known as the girl who "couldn't help it"? {Jayne Mansfield}
  124. Who was the first performer honored on a U.S. postage stamp? {Will Rogers}
  125. Who made his first appearance as emcee of the Oscar ceremonies on February 29, 1940, at the Ambassador Hotel? {Bob Hope}
  126. Which of the Marx Brothers wrote as his epitaph: "I hope they buried me near a straight man"? {Groucho}
  127. Who married Ava Gardner, Berry Rase, Martha Vickers, Elaine Mahnken, Barb Thamason, Marg Lane, Caroline Huckett and Jan Chamberlain? {Mickey Rooney}
  128. Who nursed Spencer Tracy through his final years of ill health? {Katharine Hepburn}
  129. What did Robert Opel do at the 1974 Academy Awards ceremonies? {He streaked across stage}
  130. Who dismissed Santa Claus at six when "Mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph"? {Shirley Temple}
  131. Who labeled Oscar's 1973 snub of his Exorcist "a disgrace"? {William Peter Blatty}
  132. What star of 1925's Ben-Hur was known as The Handsomest Man in the World? {Francis X. Bushman}
  133. Which of his films did Darryl F. Zanuck say of: "I believe I have a tougher job than Ike had on D-Day. At least he had the equipment"? {The Longest Day}
  134. Who accepted Peter Finch's posthumous Oscar for Network? {His wife}
  135. What producer put Judy Garland on a diet of chicken soup and Dexedrine to control her weight? {Louis B. Mayer}
  136. What actress suffered three strokes on February 17, 1965, while filming John Ford's Seven Women? {Patricia Neal}
  137. What have always been manufactured by the Dodge Trophy Company of Crystal Lake, Illinois? {The Oscars}
  138. What screen actress did F. Scott Fitzgerald consider to be the quintessential flapper of the '20s? {Joan Crawford}
  139. How many inches high is an Oscar statuette? {Thirteen}
  140. What did George Grover call "the only asylum run by the inmates"? {Hollywood}
  141. What Gone with the Wind star's epitaph reads: "Back to Silents"? {Clark Gable's}
  142. Who's the mother of Jennifer Grant, Cary's only child? {Dyan Cannon}
  143. Who owned a 55-foot yawl named Santana, the same name as the boat in Key Largo? {Humphrey Bogart}
  144. What film titan was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1975? {Charlie Chaplin}
  145. What three stars of Rebel Without a Cause all died violent deaths? {James Dean, Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood}
  146. What disease plagued Vivien Leigh through most of her life? {Tuberculosis}
  147. What television series put Ryan O'Neal in the spotlight? {Peyton Place}
  148. Who was listed as the No. 1 western star in the Motion Picture Herald poll from 1942 until 1954? {Roy Rogers}
  149. What star of Psycho observed: "Hitch was not always a pleasant man"? {Vera Miles}
  150. What screen queen was the first woman to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award? {Bette Davis}