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1. Which crooner won a Best Actor Oscar for 1944's "Going My Way" and introduced his signature song "White Christmas" in the movie "Holiday Inn", in which he starred with Fred Astaire?
2. Which star of Broadway musicals won an Oscar for Best Actress for "Funny Girl" and also won an Oscar for Best Original Song for co-writing "Evergreen" from the 1976 version of "A Star Is Born", in which she also starred?
3. Which folk singer won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for 1958's "The Big Country", but today is better known for singing the 1965 Christmas standard "A Holly Jolly Christmas"?
4. Which pop singer first became a TV star in the 1970s, known as much for her stunning Bob Mackie outfits as for her singing, but then won an Oscar for Best Actress for 1987's "Moonstruck"?
5. Which singer went from the idol of the bobby-soxers in the 1940s to the "Chairman of the Board" in the 1970s, while also earning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the role of a doomed private in 1953's "From Here to Eternity"?
6. Which multitalented rock and soul singer starred in 1984's "Purple Rain", in a role loosely based on his own life, and also won an Oscar for Best Original Song Score from that movie?
7. Which former Beatle won an Oscar for Best Original Song Score in 1970 for the documentary "Let It Be" and then wrote and starred in 1984's "Give My Regards to Broad Street" (along with his wife Linda)?
8. Which pop singer won an Oscar for Best Original Song for writing (and singing) the song "Shallow" in 2018's "A Star Is Born" and was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress for the movie?
9. Which singer-actor, from a famous acting family, won a Best Original Song Oscar for his composition "I'm Easy" from 1975's "Nashville", which he also sang in the movie?
10. Which Nobel Prize-winning author and singer won an Oscar for Best Original Song for "Things Have Changed" from 2000's "Wonder Boys", but surprisingly wasn't even nominated for his classic "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", which he wrote and sang for a movie he also co-starred in, 1973's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"?
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