Sahityaki - Trivia Quiz Finals

1. In a blatant case of sympathy voting, the Academy overlooked performances by Deborah Kerr, Shirley MacLaine, and Melina Mercouri and gave this actress, who was recovering from a near-fatal illness, an Oscar for a performance that was mediocre at best. The actress who received the award for playing a disillusioned call girl, admitted that she made the film only to fulfill a contractual obligation to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and claimed never to have seen the movie. The incident prompted Shirley MacLaine to quip, "I lost to a tracheotomy." Name the actress who got the Oscar.

2. What is the significance of the dialogue: 'You ain't heard nothin' yet?'

3. Something happened in Kansas the day Judy Garland died that made people remember one of her movies. What?

4. Which film was based on the work 'The Story of the Trapp Family Singers' by Austrian born writer Maria Augusta Kutschera?

5. In 2001, Kate Hudson was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Almost Famous. If she had won, it would have been the very first time that a mother-daughter combination had won Oscars. Who is Kate's mother, who in 1969 won a Best Supporting Oscar for her role in Cactus Flower?

6. Books used as props in this 1998 movie were donated to a literacy group called The Pencil. Which movie?

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