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Quiz: How well do remember these famous Oscar moments?

Tonight’s ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles will be restricted to 170 people as the pandemic rolls on.

IT’S THE BIGGEST night in Hollywood as stars descend on their laptops to Zoom in for tonight’s Academy Awards. 

This year’s ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles will be restricted to 170 people as the pandemic rolls on. 

It may be an unprecedented Oscars this year but over the years there have been plenty of unorthodox or just down right weird moments so we thought we’d test your knowledge. 

Let's start with a more recent Oscars mishap - Which veteran Hollywood star (pictured above) incorrectly announced that La La Land had won Best Picture before being corrected on stage by the film's producer?
Gene Hackman
Warren Beatty

Alan Alda
Charles Grodin
And can you name the film that actually won that night?
La La La Land
Whiplash

Where's my house? The Warren Beatty story
Moonlight
Why did Marlon Brando in 1973 send Sacheen Littlefeather in his place to the ceremony to his accept his Best Actor award for the Godfather?
He got lost on his way to the ceremony
He was barred from the Oscars that night after whipping a watermelon at Goldie Hawn

He refused to attend over the recent Watergate scandal
He refused to attend over Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans
Which Italian actor went wild with joy and climbed over the stalls after winning an Oscar for 1999s Life is Beautiful?
Marcello Mastroianni
Giancarlo Giannini

Roberto Benigni
Franco Nero
True or false, Jennifer Lawrence tripped on her way up the steps in 2013 to accept a Best Actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook
True, she fell right over
False, JL is far too graceful for that
The unflappable David Niven had to deal with an on-stage interruption at the 46th Academy Awards in 1974, what happened?
Warren Beatty wandered on stage out of nowhere
A man ran completely naked on to the stage

He accidently dropped Bette Davis' Oscar trophy on his foot
Marlon Brando whipped a watermelon at him
Which director gave the shortest acceptance speech in the Academy's history when he won an honorary Oscar in 1968?
Charles "I quit" Chaplin
Alfred "thank you" Hitchcock

Orson "my god" Welles
Stephen "holy moly" Spielberg
Who made history in 2010 when she became the first woman to win Best Director at the Oscars?
Greta Gerwig
Chloe Zhao

Sofia Coppola
Kathryn Bigelow
It was during the 2014 Oscars ceremony that John Travolta famously flubbed the name of the "wickedly talented" singer-actress Idina Menzel - What did he call her instead?
Adele Dazeem
Diana Mazeem

Ileena Matilda
Baleen Ozil
And finally, which South Korean film made history last year when it won the Best Picture Oscar?
Parasite
Snowpiercer

Paradise
Palisades
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Top Dog!
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Clever Cat!
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Fintastic!
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What were ewe doing?
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    Mute Briscoe Sundara
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    Mar 15th 2021, 10:36 PM

    Didn’t get far into the article before I got the general gist. Doxxing is perfectly acceptable to one side and not the other…guess which side.

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    Mar 16th 2021, 9:38 AM

    @Briscoe Sundara: It is inconceivable that whoever wrote that dross cannot see how bad it is. There’s a paragraph there near the start that try’s to justify Far Left Vs Far Right Doxxing….. Ultimately it says……..

    Far Left Doxxing….. Gooooood, because they’re harassing people on the far right….!!!

    Far Right Doxxing….. Baaad… because they’re harassing people on the far left….!!!

    Can we not all agree…. that you’ll all nuts…. The Nazi’s\racists on the far right and the loons on the far left like the author.

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    Mar 15th 2021, 9:30 PM

    You would need a Pint after reading that carry on.

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    Mar 15th 2021, 10:46 PM

    @Gerard: well this is awkward, didn’t really take long to find one Irish account. https://mobile.twitter.com/antifa_drone

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    Mar 15th 2021, 10:21 PM

    @An Breasláin Nua: where, specifically, are the people on the left approving of doxxing in any significant number?

    On the other hand, the far right approval is right here…

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    Mute Ned Gerblansky
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    Mar 16th 2021, 9:30 AM

    My comment linking an example of an Irish far left account openly doxxing people on Twitter was removed… The bias here is very concerning.

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    Mar 15th 2021, 11:02 PM

    I think the cut and paste nature of right wing politics from the UK is the main reason it remains on the fringes here. It is extremely sympathetic to imperialism and loyalism, a deal breaker as this is at odds with the views of the vast majority of Irish people who would otherwise agree with others elements e.g. anti abortion.

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    Mar 16th 2021, 8:14 AM
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    Mar 15th 2021, 10:43 PM

    “the far-right in Ireland is effectively a “copy and paste” groups in the US and Europe. ”

    Very well described! It’s so pathetic how many of them don’t even understand the very basics of Irish politics.
    One of their favourite mantras when they found themselves with a brown taoiseach was to claim he was “unelected” because they could only equate leadership with american style presidential contests.

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    Mar 19th 2021, 12:51 PM

    The liberal consensus is creating opposition which it has labelled ‘Far – Right’.
    The leaders might be opportunists looking for a cause and they are finding support from men who are reacting to being vilified, shouted down and discriminated against.

    However the ‘liberal consensus is also well populated by opportunists and as they say “it takes one to know one”.

    There is an economic concept, called the law of diminishing returns in play here. When you have got more than you ever asked for don’t start coming up with new “asks” and historical grievances as supporting facts.

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    Mar 15th 2021, 11:24 PM

    The Catholic Church might have been a focal point for earlier generations but it doesn’t have the moral authority that it used to.

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    Mar 15th 2021, 11:40 PM

    This was meant to be a response to Ned Gerblansky’s post above.

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