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Quiz about Handicapping Oscar
Quiz about Handicapping Oscar

Handicapping Oscar Trivia Quiz


Portraying characters that have physical or mental disabilities has resulted in many Oscar nominations and wins. This quiz will test your knowledge of these performances.

A multiple-choice quiz by ckdexterhaven. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
55,263
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
1433
Last 3 plays: Guest 35 (6/10), Guest 73 (8/10), Guest 207 (7/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. The performer who started Oscar's trend toward honoring handicapped roles was a WWII vet who lost his hands in an explosion. He won a Best Supporting Actor Award. Who was he?

Answer: (Two Words)
Question 2 of 10
2. She won a Best Actress Award for playing a deaf-mute who was raped, and later was nominated for playing a woman who loses her eyesight in an accident. Name the actress. Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. He played a character suffering from birth with Proteus Syndrome, a disease that leaves him severly deformed. The movie's most famous line, which his character utters, is: 'I am not an animal. I am a human being!' Name this Best Actor nominee. Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. She was nominated for Best Actress for portraying the 'world's champion blind lady' who must deal with a psychopath and two of his henchman who think she is hiding a heroin-filled doll. Name the actress. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. He won a Best Actor Oscar for playing a man with obsessive-compulsive behavior disorder. He wouldn't step on any lines on the floor, and he had very bad manners. Name the actor. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. She was nominated for playing a mute girlfriend of a man who called himself the world's second greatest guitar player in this 1999 film. Name the actress. Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. He played a one-armed man who uncovers skeletons in a Western town's closet, and received a Best Actor nomination. Name the actor and movie. Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Three of the four listed actors won Oscars for portraying characters with mental disabilities in the accompanying movies. The fourth was nominated but did not win. Which of the following actors did NOT win an Oscar for the performance listed? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. He received a Best Actor award for portraying a real life writer and artist who overcomes the debilitating effects of cerebral palsy. Name the actor. Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. There have been Oscars won for portraying characters who were blind, who were deaf and who were mute. There has only been one Academy Award, through the year 2000, for playing someone afflicted with all three disabilities. Name the performer.

Answer: (Best Supporting)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The performer who started Oscar's trend toward honoring handicapped roles was a WWII vet who lost his hands in an explosion. He won a Best Supporting Actor Award. Who was he?

Answer: Harold Russell

Essentially a non-actor, Mr. Russell won both a Supporting Actor Award and Special Achievement Award for 'The Best Years of Our Lives.' It would be over 40 years later that he would work again as an actor.
2. She won a Best Actress Award for playing a deaf-mute who was raped, and later was nominated for playing a woman who loses her eyesight in an accident. Name the actress.

Answer: Jane Wyman

Ms. Wyman won for 1948's 'Johnny Belinda' and was nominated for 1954's 'Magnificent Obsession'.
3. He played a character suffering from birth with Proteus Syndrome, a disease that leaves him severly deformed. The movie's most famous line, which his character utters, is: 'I am not an animal. I am a human being!' Name this Best Actor nominee.

Answer: John Hurt

John Hurt was virtually unrecognizable due to the make-up he was required to wear in 1980's 'The Elephant Man'.
4. She was nominated for Best Actress for portraying the 'world's champion blind lady' who must deal with a psychopath and two of his henchman who think she is hiding a heroin-filled doll. Name the actress.

Answer: Audrey Hepburn

The movie was 1967's 'Wait Until Dark,' and it was adapted from the Broadway play of the same name that starred Lee Remick.
5. He won a Best Actor Oscar for playing a man with obsessive-compulsive behavior disorder. He wouldn't step on any lines on the floor, and he had very bad manners. Name the actor.

Answer: Jack Nicholson

Jack grabbed his third Oscar for 1997's 'As Good as it Gets.'
6. She was nominated for playing a mute girlfriend of a man who called himself the world's second greatest guitar player in this 1999 film. Name the actress.

Answer: Samantha Morton

The movie was Woody Allen's 'Sweet and Lowdown,' and starred Sean Penn as the ne'er-do-well guitarist.
7. He played a one-armed man who uncovers skeletons in a Western town's closet, and received a Best Actor nomination. Name the actor and movie.

Answer: Spencer Tracy, 'Bad Day At Black Rock'

One of the most 'awarded' casts in film history. Of the nine performers with speaking parts in 'Bad Day at Black Rock,' six of them won a total of eight Oscars and 16 Oscar nominations during their careers.
8. Three of the four listed actors won Oscars for portraying characters with mental disabilities in the accompanying movies. The fourth was nominated but did not win. Which of the following actors did NOT win an Oscar for the performance listed?

Answer: Peter Sellers, 'Being There'

Peter Sellers played Chance, a childlike man who somehow becomes an advisor to both a powerful industrialist and the President of the United States in 'Being There.'
9. He received a Best Actor award for portraying a real life writer and artist who overcomes the debilitating effects of cerebral palsy. Name the actor.

Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis

The movie was 'My Left Foot,' and it told the remarkable story of Irishman Christy Brown.
10. There have been Oscars won for portraying characters who were blind, who were deaf and who were mute. There has only been one Academy Award, through the year 2000, for playing someone afflicted with all three disabilities. Name the performer.

Answer: Patty Duke

Patty Duke won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her moving portrayal of Helen Keller in 1962's 'The Miracle Worker'.
Source: Author ckdexterhaven

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