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1. Seth MacFarlane, host of the evening's festivities, started out with a joke directed at seeing if one of tonight's nominees would laugh. Who was the subject of the first barb of the night?
2. After Captain Kirk (played in full uniform by William Shatner) comes back in time to rescue Seth from hosting the worst Oscar broadcast ever, Seth's musical numbers push him over the edge to headlines of all periodicals giving him the praise of "Best Oscars Ever". Everyone of them except whom?
3. Five excellent Oscar-nominated animated full length movies led to "Brave" winning the award. The director of the film, one of two to accept the award, came to the stage wearing what unusual article of clothing?
4. The winners of Best Visual Effects came from the movie "Life of Pi". Rambling on a little long, the ubiquitous "wrap it up" music began. But unlike previous years, this year's music was quite familiar to music lovers. What music did the orchestra play?
5. Halle Berry came out to announce the fact that James Bond 007 was celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in cinema this year. After a montage featuring many action sequences and top theme songs from the many Bond movies over the last fifty years, who actually came out to perform their theme song live?
6. Seth MacFarlane took time to acknowledge the house orchestra for their fine playing. Which of these anomalies was true about the orchestra?
7. John Travolta introduced a montage of musical movie performances featuring songs that won Oscars for their respective performers. Which of these was not one of the three movies in this particular collection?
8. Mark Wahlberg and "Ted" came out to name the winner for Best Sound Mixing. But Ted was insistent on finding out where the best post-Oscar party was to be. Mark unveiled the secret location. Whose house "hosted" the later shindig?
9. Introducing the President of the Academy, Seth MacFarlane said his name sounded like what?
10. Nicole Kidman introduced the final three nominees for Best Picture. But she "stepped on" the applause for the first of her three movie nominees by going on to the second introduction. After awkwardly backtracking to allow the applause, she continued on. What was the movie that Nicole almost didn't allow its due respect?
11. The annual "In Memoriam" portion ended with Barbra Streisand singing a song written by the the final honoree. Who was this composer honored?
12. Turns out that Seth MacFarlane was not only the host but a nominee, writing the lyrics to Best Song nominee "Everybody Needs a Best Friend". Who came out to sing this song?
13. Jennifer Lawrence was the victor in the Best Actress category for her performance in "Silver Linings Playbook". She "commemorated" her first Oscar win by doing what?
14. Daniel Day-Lewis accepted his third Best Actor Award for his uncanny performance as Abraham Lincoln. He also informed the audience he was not the first choice to play Lincoln; who did he say Spielberg wanted first for the role?
15. Jack Nicholson came out to announce the winner for Best Picture, but was joined via satellite for the announcement by whom?
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