Tis the season for strutting red carpets and snubbing great performances, so Hallie has written six trivia questions all about awards of various types and stripes. We also award ourselves discussions of an American author, African history, and the Olympics!
1:52: Q1 (Arts & Literature): Which writer has won the most major writing awards of anyone in history, including the Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, which featured his frequently used character, Nathan Zuckerman?
6:39: Q2 (Everything Else): What organization, founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, gives out awards for skills like financial literacy, robotics, and first aid, which become more difficult to achieve for each subsequent age level?
12:45: Q3 (Music): Winning more Grammy awards than anyone in history, what composer, arranger, and film and TV producer is better known for producing records for Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, and Aretha Franklin?
23:24: Q4 (Sports & Games): At the inaugural Olympics in 1896, winners received a silver medal and an olive branch while runners-up received a bronze medal and a branch from this tree, which also served as an award for poets in ancient Greece and provides the etymology for a poet officially appointed by a government?
28:51: Q5 (Times & Places): What anti-apartheid and human rights activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 after previously being nominated in 1981, 1982, and 1983?
36:19: Q6 (Movies & TV): What 2003 fantasy film is not only one of three films to have won a record 11 Academy Awards, but also holds the record for highest clean sweep at the awards, having won all of the awards for which it was nominated?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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