A Job in the Movies? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Flower seller

"My Fair Lady" won eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director (George Cukor) and Best Actor (Rex Harrison). Stanley Holloway and Gladys Cooper were also both nominated for their supporting performances.
Audrey Hepburn played Eliza Doolittle, a young flower seller from the London slums with a strong Cockney accent. Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) takes a bet from his friend (played by Wilfrid Hyde-White) that he could teach any woman to speak in a manner such that he could pass her off as a duchess.

Answer: History Professor

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" earned five Oscars including for Elizabeth Taylor (Best Actress) and Sandy Dennis (Best Supporting Actress). Amongst its 13 nominations were Best Picture, Best Director (Mike Nichols), Best Actor (Richard Burton) and George Segal (Best Supporting Actor).
Based on an Edward Albee play, the film is set on a small New England college campus. The plot revolves around the relationship between a history professor, played by Burton, and his alcoholic wife (Taylor), who also happens to the college president's daughter.

Answer: Actor

All three major stars of "The Goodbye Girl" earned Oscar nominations, and it was also nominated for Best Picture (losing to Woody Allen's "Annie Hall"). Dreyfuss won the Oscar for his performance as the neurotic struggling actor Elliot Garfield, establishing a record as the youngest Best Actor winner (he was 30 at the time) that would stand for 25 years.
Marsha Mason is the somewhat over-the-hill dancer, Paula McFadden, and Quinn Cummings plays her precocious 10-year old daughter. The three end up sharing an apartment thanks to Paul's ex-husband, who has rented it to Elliot without telling her.
This is my all-time favorite movie, so if you haven't seen it, look out for it online, on cable, or at the video store. Just remember to have a box of tissues handy!

Answer: Steel Workers

The film begins in the small town of Clairton PA, with three steel workers preparing for military service in Vietnam. The three friends and co-workers will soon become Staff Sergeant Michael "Mike" Vronsky (Robert De Niro), Corporal Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich (Christopher Walken) and Corporal Steven Pushkov (John Savage). The film begins with the three in a bar preparing to become soldiers. The middle of the film sees them in action in Vietnam. The final third of the film sees the aftermath of war, as survivors return home.
A beautifully made film but not for the faint-hearted.

Answer: Advertising Executive

Nominated for nine Oscars, "Kramer vs Kramer" won Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Benton), Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman) and Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep). There were also nominations for 8-year old Justin Henry (Best Supporting Actor), the youngest ever nominee in any category, and for Jane Alexander (Best Supporting Actress).
The film opens with Ted (Hoffman), a workaholic advertising executive, being assigned an important new account. When he shares the good news with his wife, she tells him that she is leaving him.
Gripping emotional courtroom drama!

Answer: Cotton Mill

"Norma Rae" was nominated for Best Picture and won two Oscars including the Best Actress award for Sally Field. Her character, Norma Rae Webster, works in Dickensian conditions at a cotton mill and she gets involved in effort to unionize.

Answer: Car Salesman

Nominated for nine Oscars, "Rain Man" won Best Picture, Best Director (Barry Levinson) and Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman)
When his father dies, Los Angeles car dealer Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) discovers that most of the estate is being put in trust for an unknown person. Babbitt soon finds out that the money goes to a mental institution which is the home of a brother, Raymond (played by Hoffman) that he never knew he had. Charlie takes the autistic Raymond on a journey across America.
Surely everyone has seen this one. If you haven't, rush out and rent it today. Magnificent!

Answer: Teacher

"Dead Poets Society" earned four Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Peter Weir) and Best Actor (Williams) and won for Best Original Screenplay (Tom Schulman).
Williams plays John Keating, an English teacher whose unorthodox teaching methods aim to inspire his students rather than simply giving them rules to follow.
A classic and well worth seeing you missed it.

Answer: Farmer

"If You Build it He Will Come". Farmer Ray Kinsella risks financial ruin to build a baseball field so that his father's boyhood baseball hero, the long-dead Shoeless Joe Jackson, and his teammates from the 1919 Black Sox scandal can play ball again.

Answer: Banker

"Ghost" was nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture and won two including Best Supporting Actress (Whoopi Goldberg).
Banker Sam Wheat discovers that money is missing and decides to investigate, only to be shot and killed. He returns as a ghost and has to learn how to walk through walls and, most important, how to communicate with his girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore).
Fantastic chick flick, but bring LOTS of tissues!