| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BEGINNING WORDS $1000: Latin gave us this beginning word, the title of a Best Picture nominee from 2010 with Leonardo DiCaprio inception |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FILMMAKERS $2000: "12 Years a Slave" was the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar that was directed & produced by a Black filmmaker, this Brit McQueen |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | COLUMBIA 100th ANNIVERSARY $2000: (Tom Rothman presents the clue.) With 12, Columbia is the studio that has won the most Academy Awards for Best Picture; one went to this 1957 classic that was nominated for 8 Oscars in all & won 7 The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | PICTURE THE HIT SONG $1000: The movie "Now, Voyager" partly inspired this No. 1 '80s hit "Bette Davis Eyes" |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | FILMANTHROPY $1200: After the success of this Best Picture winner, Danny Boyle & Christian Colson donated $745k to a Mumbai children's fund Slumdog Millionaire |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | PICTURE THE 21st CENTURY FILM $600: A Best Picture Oscar winner Moonlight |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $800: Best picture, 2019, starring Song Kang Ho & Cho Yeo Jeong Parasite |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | KINDA RHYMES WITH KATIE $800: With his on-screen partner in crime Faye Dunaway, he presented the Best Picture Oscar in 2017... to the wrong film Warren Beatty |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $1500: While working the night shift at a hospital, Ken Kesey got the idea for this novel, which later became a Best Picture winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | A GENRE CATEGORY $1600: This 2000 film is the most recent Best Picture Oscar winner in the sword-&-sandal genre Gladiator |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $800: In 1929 "Wings" took the first Best Picture Oscar & this swashbuckler, Sr., was the first host of the ceremony Douglas Fairbanks |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $200: 2008:
During the Iraq War, a bomb disposal expert puts his team on edge by taking needless risks The Hurt Locker |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $400: 1971:
A pair of NYPD detectives attempt to intercept a large drug shipment coming from Marseille The French Connection |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $500 (Daily Double): 1978:
Lifelong friends from a Pennsylvania steel town deal with the devastating effects of the Vietnam War The Deer Hunter |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $600: 2020:
After losing everything, a van-dwelling woman travels the American West looking for work Nomadland |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $800: 1988:
A self-centered salesman embarks on a cross-country journey with the autistic brother he never knew existed Rain Man |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $400: James Earl Jones' father plays a mentor to Robert Redford's con artist character in this film The Sting |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $800: This actress gave the nickname "Vanguard" to her character Fern's means of conveyance in "Nomadland" Frances McDormand |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $1200: Raymond A. Mendez is credited as "moth wrangler & stylist" for this 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $1600: A 1935 article highlights Gable's negging of Colbert in this film: "Peter... tells her she's... spoiled & selfish" It Happened One Night |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $7,200 (Daily Double): Doug Jones said the latex rubber suit he wore in this film acted "as a sponge" The Shape of Water |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $1200: A 1962 review for this Best Picture winner called it a "camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly... into its third hour" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $2000: A story of World War I pilots, it won the first Best Picture Oscar Wings |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $800: This 1934 film was the first comedy to win the Best Picture Oscar It Happened One Night |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $1600: David Webb Peoples wrote the script for this Western with Clint Eastwood as a killer-turned-farmer-turned-killer Unforgiven |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE $400: Tom Hanks &
Robin Wright ran away with the win Forrest Gump |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE $800: Think about
Russell Crowe &
Jennifer Connelly A Beautiful Mind |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE $1200: Ralph Fiennes flew to victory with Juliette Binoche The English Patient |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE $1600: Crime did pay for Leonardo DiCaprio & Jack Nicholson The Departed |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE $2000: Gene Hackman & Roy Scheider copped out The French Connection |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $2000: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Her slate of films for 1927 included "Wings", the first film to win Best Picture & "It", giving her the nickname "The It Girl" Clara Bow |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TL;DW $800: We saw the original 181 minutes of this Best Picture winner with Kevin Costner, but missed a 1991 London showing adding about 50 more Dances with Wolves |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | 4-LETTER ACRONYMS $1200: Deaf actor Troy Kotsur won an Oscar in 2022 for his role in this acronym-titled movie that also took home best picture CODA |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | THE OSCA"R"s $400: Starring Dustin Hoffman, it definitely, definitely was named 1988's Best Picture Rain Man |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $2000: This 1946 novel based on the life of Huey Long won the Pulitzer Prize & the movie won the Best Picture Oscar All the King's Men |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $2000: Cinnamon is a spice; this was the first Western to win an Oscar for best picture, back in 1931 Cimarron |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $2000: Elisa & Giles live above the Orpheum Cinema in this 2017 del Toro Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $400: The hills were alive with her singing the title song in "The Sound of Music" Julie Andrews |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $800: Renee Zellweger razzles & dazzles 'em in this murderous musical smash Chicago |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $1200: In "Birdman" he starred as a washed-up screen superhero trying to make a comeback on stage Michael Keaton |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $1600: Who wants to get rich on a game show in India? Dev Patel, in this Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $2000: She was nominated for Best Actress for "The Shape of Water", in which she didn't have much dialogue but did get a singing scene Sally Hawkins |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $400: "How Green Was My Valley" beat out this Orson Welles movie to win the 1941 Best Picture Oscar Citizen Kane |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $600: "The Host", starring Saoirse Ronan, did not have this Korean import & Best Picture Oscar winner as its sequel Parasite |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $400: This 1950 Best Picture Oscar winner starring Bette Davis was based on "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $800: This 2011 Best Picture winner isn't completely silent, but it is a black & white movie The Artist |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $400: Directed by Spielberg: "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire" Schindler's List |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $800: "Lt. John Dunbar is about to discover the frontier... within himself" Dances with Wolves |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $1200: Set in the 16th century: "A comedy about the greatest love story almost never told" Shakespeare in Love |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $1,500 (Daily Double): "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man" Unforgiven |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $1600: "To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $800: This Swank-y 2004 film fought its way to Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actress & Supporting Actor Million Dollar Baby |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $200: Nearly 44 million people were watching the Oscars on ABC in 2014 when this film about Solomon Northup won Best Picture 12 Years a Slave |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OSCAR ONE OF A KINDS $800: Starring Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight, it's the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture Midnight Cowboy |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OSCAR ONE OF A KINDS $1600: The only silent-era Best Picture was this 1927 film about World War I flyboys Wings |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | MOVIE CHALLENGE $1200: In 2019 Christina Hendricks revealed that's her hand holding the rose on the poster for this 1999 Best Picture Oscar winner American Beauty |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian helped propel this 1935 film to best picture, the first remake to win the Oscar Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: It was Oscar's kind of town for 2002 Chicago |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: This recent winner began as an attempt to remake "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" The Shape of Water |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Johnny Hooker got the help of "the greatest con artist of them all" as this 1973 pic stole away with the Oscar The Sting |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $4,000 (Daily Double): Professor, author, critic & PBS host Henry Louis Gates Jr. served as a consultant on this 2013 film 12 Years a Slave |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THE POWERS THAT BE $400: Austin Stowell played U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in this movie, a 2015 Best Picture Oscar nominee Bridge of Spies |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | I NEED A SUPERHERO $400: This Marvel-ous 2018 title guy got his claws into a Best Picture Oscar nomination Black Panther |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | MOVIE PICTURES $600: Best picture Oscar winner for 1969 Midnight Cowboy |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | MOVIE QUOTES $600: Oscar's Best Picture of 2000:
"At my signal, unleash hell" Gladiator |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $600: Mahershala Ali won an Oscar for this 2016 film that won Best Picture...eventually Moonlight |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $1000: For 1993 Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" won 3 technical Oscars & this other film of his won Best Picture Schindler's List |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $200: 1995:
Men in kilts battle for freedom Braveheart |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $400: 2015:
The Boston Globe illuminates church wrongdoing Spotlight |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $600: 1988:
2 very different brothers take a road trip Rain Man |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: 2008:
They didn't have to put it in the form of a question to win Slumdog Millionaire |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1,200 (Daily Double): 1996:
What they don't realize is that Ralph Fiennes' character is really Hungarian The English Patient |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | R-RATED MOVIES $2000: The first R-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar was this 1971 film about drug smugglers The French Connection |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $800: A mute Sally Hawkins falls in love with an amphibious creature in this 2017 movie, Oscar's Best Picture The Shape of Water |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $600: I'm still mad as hell that this 1976 movie about the TV news business didn't win a Best Picture Oscar Network |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | NOM DE MUPPET $1000: Rizzo the Rat's name came from Dustin Hoffman's character in this Best Picture Oscar winner Midnight Cowboy |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $400: Gold wedding bands with the name of the very first winner Wings rings |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $800: A governmental prohibition of Affleck's 2012 effort an Argo embargo |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $1200: A burly title underdog prizefighter stocky Rocky |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $1600: A shindig for Ernest Borgnine & the rest of the cast a Marty party |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $2000: Brian Bradley tinkered & kept the ship going for James Cameron, so he's the... Titanic mechanic |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | PICTURE THE WRITER $1200: It was not the best of hair days for this great British author Dickens |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $400: Frank Stallone as a timekeeper, Frank Stallone Jr. as a streetcorner singer, Butkus Stallone as a dog Rocky |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $800: J.K. Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt & John Legend...no, I'm sorry! I mean Naomie Harris, Patrick Decile & Andre Holland! Moonlight |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1200: Dooley Wilson, Claude Rains & Peter Lorre Casablanca |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IN THE NEWS: 2017 $600: In an Oscar night, goof, "La La Land" was Best Picture for about 2 minutes until the award rightfully went to this film Moonlight |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THE SILENT MOVIE ERA $2000: A thrilling story of WWI pilots, it won the first Academy Award for Best Picture Wings |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $400: Ben Affleck takes a business trip to Iran but never does make the title movie Argo |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $800: The title character hangs out with Kicking Bird & Stands with a Fist Dances with Wolves |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1200: From 1950:
Bette does Broadway All About Eve |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1600: From 1960:
About Jack Lemmon's not-necessarily-crash pad The Apartment |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $2,600 (Daily Double): It was the '70s:
Ted against Joanna regarding little Billy Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | A GENRE CATEGORY $1600: This 2000 film is the most recent Best Picture Oscar winner in the sword-&-sandal genre Gladiator |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES $5,000 (Daily Double): This 2004 Best Picture nominee featured such tunes as "What'd I Say" & "I Got A Woman" Ray |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | GUNS N' ROSES $600: A Best Picture Oscar winner shares its name with this rose American Beauty |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | U.S. FIRSTS $800: In 1929, "Wings" took the first Best Picture Oscar, & this swashbuckler senior was the first host of the ceremony Douglas Fairbanks |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $400: A Moroccan bar Casablanca |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $800: A mental hospital in Oregon One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $1200: The court of Emperor Josef II Amadeus |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $1600: A beach in Hawaii From Here to Eternity |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $2,000 (Daily Double): A Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm A Beautiful Mind |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $200: We'll never enjoy fava beans & a nice Chianti the same way ever again Silence of the Lambs |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $400: Mumbai's the word; (& much more importantly) going on a game show can make all your dreams come true! Slumdog Millionaire |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $600: Johnny's not so friendly; what's up, dockworkers? more than a contender for Best Picture On the Waterfront |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: Let's playhouse; the Bard fiddles with Viola Shakespeare in Love |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1000: Winter, spring, summer & fall, it was Paul Scofield as Thomas More A Man for All Seasons |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | & THE OSCAR DOESN'T GO TO $800: Boy meets operating system in this 2013 Best Picture nominee Her |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | BLACK & WHITE $600: Set in silent-era Hollywood, in 2012 it became the first mainly B&W best picture Oscar winner since "Schindler's List" The Artist |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | IT SHOULDA BEEN A CONTENDER $800: 2006:
This girl-group musical featuring Beyonce got the most nominations but Best Picture wasn't one Dreamgirls |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | OSCAR $400: The title of this 2014 Best Picture refers to a superhero that Michael Keaton once played Birdman |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | OSCAR $800: 1980's Best Picture nominees included 2 black & white films: "The Elephant Man" & this boxing film Raging Bull |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $400: 1976:
Sylvester Stallone Rocky |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $800: 1990:
Kevin Costner Dances with Wolves |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1200: 2010:
Colin Firth The King's Speech |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1600: 1986:
Charlie Sheen Platoon |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $2000: 1970:
George C. Scott Patton |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $2000: 12 years in the making, this tale of growing up won Best Motion Picture, Drama at the 2015 Golden Globes Boyhood |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: In Hoffman vs. Streep, this film came out on top Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: Starting with "The Godfather", this actor was nominated for an acting Oscar 4 straight years Al Pacino |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1200: Heard in this 1977 winner:
"They did not take me in the army... I was a 4-P... in the event of war, I'm a hostage" Annie Hall |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: This actor turned down an Oscar for "Patton"; the producer accepted one George C. Scott |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: The hero deals with heroin in this 1971 winner The French Connection |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $200: (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) My favorite movie is this 1985 Meryl Streep film set in Nairobi that won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture Out of Africa |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | THE WINNERS $1,200 (Daily Double): It was the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture The Godfather Part II |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | CITY-TITLED MOVIES $1200: Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron danced to Gershwin in this 1951 Best Picture Oscar winner An American in Paris |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $400: 1971:
Popeye is no chicken in "T.F.C." The French Connection |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $800: 1961:
"W.S.S.", see the Jets soar West Side Story |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $1200: 1996:
"T.E.P.", a Fiennes film The English Patient |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $1600: 1999:
"A.B." rose up American Beauty |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $2000: 1953:
"F.H.T.E.", with a big sandy love scene From Here to Eternity |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $200: 1954's "Three Coins" here in the fountain |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $400: This "tradition"-al 1971 film about Tevye & his daughters Fiddler on the Roof |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $600: This 2009 movie with the highest box-office take of all time Avatar |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $800: This 1961 nominee about war crimes trials Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $1000: 1932's "I Am a Fugitive from" one of these collectives a chain gang |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE ROARING '20s $600: In 1929 this film about 2 WWI fighter pilots in love with the same girl won the first Best Picture Oscar Wings |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $400: From 1993 Schindler's List |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $800: Set in Atlanta Driving Miss Daisy |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $1200: Directed by Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $1600: A 1971 thriller The French Connection |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $5,000 (Daily Double): The third
Best-Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | YOU'RE NOT ON THE LISZT $1200: Heard here, "Adagio for Strings" was prominently featured in this 1986 Best Picture Oscar winner Platoon |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | I SAW IT ON IMDb $200: In 1988 he starred in both the Best Picture Oscar winner, "Rain Man", & the Razzie winner for worst picture, "Cocktail" Tom Cruise |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $400: Your winner? This period piece, which used a large wall left over from "King Kong" to help film the burning of Atlanta Gone with the Wind |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $800: Dorothy knows this title role was written for W.C. Fields, who is said to have turned it down over money The Wizard of Oz |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $1200: A-yup! This actor rode to stardom on "Stagecoach" as the Ringo Kid John Wayne |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $1600: Her "Eyes" have been noted in song, but it was the brain of this actress that gave her big problems Bette Davis |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: Burgess Meredith was George & Lon Chaney Jr. was Lennie in this drama, produced by comedy legend Hal Roach Of Mice and Men |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | THEY GAVE ME A MEDAL $800: The 1964 Caldecott medal for the best picture book for kids went to this Maurice Sendak classic Where the Wild Things Are |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | MOVIE SONGS $1200: Seth MacFarlane wrote the lyrics to "Everybody Needs A Best Friend", from this buddy picture Ted |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $1200: This director of "The Ten Commandments" was a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Cecil DeMille |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $400: Loverly 1964 winner: "M.F.L." My Fair Lady |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $800: 1951, Gene Kelly on the Seine: "A.A.I.P." An American in Paris |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $1200: 2008, things are much different behind the scenes at "Jeopardy!": "S.M." Slumdog Millionaire |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $1600: Check out (or really, check in) this winner for 1931-32: "G.H." Grand Hotel |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $2000: 1945's makes you wish it was Monday: "T.L.W." The Lost Weekend |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | THE MARQUEE DE SAD $400: Shirley MacLaine & Debra Winger in this Best Picture Oscar winner about a mother & very sick daughter Terms of Endearment |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: "His whole life was a million-to-one shot" was the tagline for this 1976 Best Picture winner Rocky |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $200: "Irish" Micky Ward, known to turn southpaw on occasion The Fighter |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $400: Winston Churchill,
Neville Chamberlain The King's Speech |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $600: Understudy for Siegfried,
"Corps de ballet" (18 of them!) Black Swan |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $800: Prince Albert,
Bill Gates The Social Network |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $1000: Cobb,
Saito,
Ariadne Inception |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $600: This India-set film, 2008's Best Motion Picture Drama Slumdog Millionaire |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | KISS $1200: In 1973 Kiss was signed to this fledgling record label that shares its name with a 1940s best picture Oscar winner Casablanca |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | X-RATED $800: This 1969 buddy pic was the first X-rated film to win Best Picture Midnight Cowboy |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: Riff & Bernardo lead 2 warring gangs in New York City in this 1961 musical West Side Story |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: In this 1977 Woody Allen-Diane Keaton film, author Truman Capote had an uncredited bit as a Truman Capote look-alike Annie Hall |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $600: This Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert was based on a cosmopolitan short story titled "Night Bus" It Happened One Night |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date The Departed |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Temperance groups & the liquor industry both pleaded with Paramount not to release this 1945 Oscar winner The Lost Weekend |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | '90s BEST PICTURE PLOT POINTS $400: Poor Jack Dawson leaves Southampton in 1912 to go to America for a new start; has trouble along the way Titanic |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | '90s BEST PICTURE PLOT POINTS $800: Multi-talented man scores for the Crimson Tide & bests Chinese at ping pong, among other feats Forrest Gump |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | '90s BEST PICTURE PLOT POINTS $1200: In WWII Italy burned Hungarian count tells of his North African tragic love The English Patient |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | '90s BEST PICTURE PLOT POINTS $1600: Union officer goes native, seeks/kills buffalo Dances with Wolves |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | '90s BEST PICTURE PLOT POINTS $2000: Gal seeks/kills Buffalo Bill The Silence of the Lambs |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP $400: A chauffeured lady from 1989 joins Greg Louganis in competition Diving Miss Daisy |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP $800: People from Copenhagen get to know wild canines when the letter C falls from the 1990 winner Danes with Wolves |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP $1200: A NYC-set musical from 1961 becomes a member of Britain's Conservative Party West Side Tory |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP $1600: A quiet 1991 film, minus a letter, becomes this, as seen here The Silence of the Labs |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP $2000: When a 1952 Cecil B. DeMille circus film loses a letter, there aren't enough awards to give the pig Greatest Sow on Earth |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | POP CULTURE $400: Hindi actor Dev Patel cashed in as the title character in this 2008 Best Picture Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | OF WAR $1200: Johnny Depp & Forest Whitaker have supporting roles in this Best Picture Oscar winner from 1986 Platoon |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | I'M SORRY DAVE $600: A 2008 Best Picture nominee hinges on whether a former president will apologize during an interview with this man David Frost |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE NIFTY 1930s $400: 1934 was the first year for this Oscar category, & the winner was "The Continental" Best Song |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | WHAT THE '90s MOVIE TITLE MEANS $1200: Americans say "the whole enchilada"; Brits say this, a Best Picture Oscar nominee from 1997 The Full Monty |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | REMEMBER THESE OSCAR NOMINEES? $400: Best Picture-nominated period piece with Anthony Hopkins & Emma Thompson as house servants The Remains of the Day |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS (SORT OF) $400: Oscar's Best Picture of 1991:
"Baaaaaaaa...
Baaaaaaaa...
Baa--"
(abrupt stop) The Silence of the Lambs |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS (SORT OF) $1200: Oscar's Best Picture of 1983:
"Sweetie Pie, Honey Lamb, Angel Feet, Snookie Muffin" Terms of Endearment |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | 6-WORD BEST PICTURE PLOTS $400: Philly fighter fed by fierce fisticuffs Rocky |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | 6-WORD BEST PICTURE PLOTS $800: Acrimony accompanies aberrant Austrian amateur's ascent Amadeus |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | 6-WORD BEST PICTURE PLOTS $1200: Suicidal soldier sees Sioux, sights stampede Dances with Wolves |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | 6-WORD BEST PICTURE PLOTS $1600: Taking trip, Tom transports toothpick tallier Rain Man |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | 6-WORD BEST PICTURE PLOTS $2000: Card-cheating con men create Chicago chaos The Sting |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | THE GREAT CANADIAN NOVEL $1200: This 1992 Michael Ondaatje novel became a Ralph Fiennes movie that won the Best Picture Oscar The English Patient |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | 2001 $800: This film starring Russell Crowe won the Best Picture Oscar on March 25 Gladiator |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | BEST PICTURE PICTORIAL $200: 1975:
You'd be crazy to miss this one One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | BEST PICTURE PICTORIAL $400: 1966:
A perennial favorite A Man for All Seasons |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | BEST PICTURE PICTORIAL $600: 2005:
Things must be really bad in L.A. Crash |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | BEST PICTURE PICTORIAL $800: 1951:
A musical culture clash An American in Paris |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | BEST PICTURE PICTORIAL $1000: 1985:
"I had a farm..." Out of Africa |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: A controversial U.S. general Patton |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: A Hindu leader Gandhi |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $600: Collision Crash |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: An historic Scotsman's nickname Braveheart |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1,200 (Daily Double): A middle name in Latin Amadeus |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $1600: The 3 hour & 46 minute awards telecast in 1998 was 30 minutes longer than this, its Best Picture winner Titanic |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $2,000 (Daily Double): These brothers won Oscars for writing, directing & producing the "Best Picture" of 2007 the Coen Brothers |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | THE SILENT SCREEN $1200: Gary Cooper had a small role as a cadet in this first Best Picture winner about 2 flyers in love with the same girl Wings |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $400: Clarice Starling,
"Buffalo Bill" Silence of the Lambs |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $800: Major Strasser,
Victor Lazslo Casablanca |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Alain Charnier,
"Popeye" Doyle The French Connection |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Emperor Joseph II,
Antonio Salieri Amadeus |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Molly Brown,
Jack Dawson Titanic |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | GIRLY MOVIES $400: It's the only Hitchcock movie ever to win an Oscar for Best Picture Rebecca |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $200: Bogie & Hepburn floated across the screen in this 1951 film that pleased audiences & critics, but not the Academy The African Queen |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $400: You couldn't drag a Best Picture nomination out of the Academy for this 1959 Billy Wilder film; well, nobody's perfect Some Like It Hot |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $600: The Academy must have been out to lunch not nominating this 1961 Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $800: In 1954 this Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly starrer from Alfred Hitchcock didn't get a second glance Rear Window |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $1000: "Driving Miss Daisy" won for 1989, the year this Spike Lee film about urban racism was passed over Do the Right Thing |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: One of 4 musicals that won for Best Picture in the 1960s, it was based on a Charles Dickens novel Oliver! |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar The Departed |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $600: In this film, Clint Eastwood says, "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Ya take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have" Unforgiven |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing & directing this 1995 Best Picture Braveheart |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Inmates at the Oregon State Mental Hospital played extras in this 1975 Oscar winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1980: "Regular Folks" Ordinary People |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1932: "Magnificent Inn" Grand Hotel |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1976: "A Single Colorado Mountain" Rocky |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $1600: 1954: "Dockside" On the Waterfront |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1966: "One Bloke Year-Round" A Man For All Seasons |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ARMY UNIT $2,000 (Daily Double): Best Picture Oscar winner for 1986 Platoon |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | JUST ONE OF THE 2... $1000: movies in which Clark Gable starred that won consecutive Best Picture Oscars in the mid-1930s It Happened One Night |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | NOW NAME THE OTHER... $2000: movie in which Clark Gable starred that won consecutive Best Picture Oscars in the mid-1930s Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2006 $200: This film broke the back of expectations by taking the award for Best Picture Crash |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE NAMES $1600: This 1977 romantic comedy set in NYC beat out "Julia" for Best Picture Annie Hall |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $200: "Citizen Kane",
"Going My Way",
"How Green Was My Valley" Citizen Kane |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $400: "The Best Years of Our Lives",
"Miracle on 34th Street",
"The Lost Weekend" Miracle on 34th Street |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $600: "Lilies of the Field",
"Oliver!",
"A Man for All Seasons" Lilies of the Field |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: "The Sting",
"Network",
"Rocky" Network |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1000: "Saving Private Ryan",
"Braveheart",
"The English Patient" Saving Private Ryan |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $200: "Shane",
"Shine",
"Shakespeare in Love" Shakespeare in Love |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $400: "Chinatown",
"Chicago",
"Fargo" Chicago |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $600: "Roman Holiday",
"American Graffiti",
"The French Connection" The French Connection |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof",
"The Silence of the Lambs",
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1000: "Mrs. Miniver",
"Mister Roberts",
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" Mrs. Miniver |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $1200: This Best Picture Oscar winner of 1945 was filmed in part in the alcoholic ward of NYC's Bellevue Hospital The Lost Weekend |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | IN THE MOVIES $1000: This 1981 Best Picture Oscar winner takes place in part at the 1924 Olympics Chariots of Fire |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2005 $200: Pulling no punches, it won awards for Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor & Director Million Dollar Baby |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 2004 OSCAR NOMINATIONS $200: This acclaimed film about a trip through wine country got 5 nominations, including Best Picture Sideways |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | IN-FLIGHT MOVIES $600: William Wellman, who'd served in the Lafayette Escadrille Flying Corps, directed this first Best Picture winner Wings |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | SCREEN PLAYS $2000: 1933's "Cavalcade", based on a drama--not a comedy--by this urbane British wit, won a Best Picture Oscar Noel Coward |
| #4467, aired 2004-01-27 | "OUT"s $600: In 1986 it became the only film with a continent in its title to win a Best Picture Oscar Out of Africa |
| #4382, aired 2003-09-30 | MISSING VOWELS $1000: 1984's Best Picture: "MDS" Amadeus |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | 21st CENTURY MOVIES $1600: This Robert Altman film set in a manor was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar Gosford Park |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | 75 YEARS OF THE OSCARS $400: This classic, the Best Picture of 1953, made getting sandy seem sexy From Here to Eternity |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | 75 YEARS OF THE OSCARS $2000: This 1939 classic earned 11 Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture
"The whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better" Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | 1950s MOVIE HOUSE $2,200 (Daily Double): 1954 Best Picture Oscar winner set in part on the docks of New York On the Waterfront |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $1600: In the best picture of '95, this actor exclaimed, "They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" Mel Gibson (from Braveheart) |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $1200: It's the 1957 Best Picture winner for which Guinness won his best actor Oscar as Col. Nicholson Bridge on the River Kwai |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | '20s TRANSPORTATION $1000: In 1929 the first Academy Award for Best Picture went to this transportation-themed film Wings |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $800: This 1969 Jon Voight film is the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture, although today it would be rated R Midnight Cowboy |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SPORTS FILMS $1200: This 1981 film about 2 participants in the 1924 Olympics ran off with 4 Oscars including Best Picture Chariots of Fire |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | WHAT ARE "YOU" DOING? $800: This 1938 James Stewart film won Best Picture & earned an Oscar for its director, Frank Capra You Can't Take It with You |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THE OSCARS $600 (Daily Double): Followed by several sequels, this 1970 film was the first modern disaster movie nominated for Best Picture Airport |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THE OSCARS $600: In 1973, "The Godfather" won Best Picture, while this musical won 8 Oscars Cabaret |
| #3845, aired 2001-04-27 | BIG-SCREEN STUMPERS $2,500 (Daily Double): This Hitchcock classic was the first Best Picture Oscar winner with a first name as its one-word title Rebecca |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | DROP "OUT" $500: Sydney Pollack directed this 1985 Best Picture Oscar winner Out of Africa |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $200: 1 of only 4 animals mentioned in the titles of Best Picture winners (1 of) cuckoos, deer, wolves or lambs |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $400: This 1948 film was the first Best Picture winner based on a play by Shakespeare Hamlet |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $600: It's the last Best Picture winner with a nationality in its title American Beauty |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $800: One of the few Best Picture winners whose titles begin with a preposition is this 1967 Rod Steiger film In the Heat of the Night |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $1000: This moving 1941 drama is the only Best Picture with a color in its title How Green Was My Valley |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: 3-letter word that begins the titles of all 3 Best Picture winners of 1930, 1949 & 1950 All |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | MOVIE DEBUTS $600: Lynn Redgrave debuted in this bawdy Albert Finney romp that won the 1963 Best Picture Oscar Tom Jones |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | MOVIE ACTORS $400: (Hi, I'm Francesco Quinn of The Young And The Restless.) I played Rhah the drug king in this Oliver Stone film that won the 1986 Best Picture Oscar Platoon |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | THE OSCARS $200: Producer David O. Selznick won 2 straight Best Picture Oscars: "Rebecca" for 1940 & this film the previous year Gone With The Wind |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | THE OSCARS $800: 1941's "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" & this 1978 remake starring Warren Beatty were both nominated for Best Picture Heaven Can Wait |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | SIXTEENTH $200: The sixteenth film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, it teamed Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman & Humphrey Bogart Casablanca |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | THE CINEMA $600: "How Green Was My Valley" won a Best Picture Oscar for this year, the same year "Citizen Kane" was released 1941 |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | N.E.W.S. $200: Of northern, eastern, western or southern, the classification of the 1992 Best Picture Oscar winner western |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | BOBs & JEFFs $600: His engaging performance in "The Last Picture Show" earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination Jeff Bridges |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | NO. 32 $500: The 32nd Academy Award for Best Picture went to this 1959 epic Ben-Hur |
| #3334, aired 1999-02-18 | ILLUSTRATORS $800: The ALA's medal for the artist of the best children's picture book of the year bears his name Randolph Caldecott |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THE OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1969 film was the first X-rated movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture Midnight Cowboy |
| #3152, aired 1998-04-21 | SPURS $800: A Western Writers' of America Spur Award went to the screenplay of this Best Picture of 1992 Unforgiven |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | THE OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): Film seen here, its director was nominated, but it didn't make it into the Best Picture category: Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | THE OSCARS $1000: The first movie nominated for Best Foreign Language Film & Best Picture, its title is just 1 letter "Z" |
| #2947, aired 1997-05-27 | MOVIE CLASSICS $800: Emmett Kelly & John Ringling North played themselves in this DeMille epic, the Best Picture of 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | THE THIRD $400: Based on an Erich Maria Remarque novel, it was the third film to win a Best Picture Oscar All Quiet On The Western Front |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | MOVIE PRODUCERS $500: Julia Phillips was the first woman producer to win a Best Picture Oscar, for this 1973 con game film The Sting |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE OSCARS $800: One of the few women directors to have their films nominated for Best Picture, she did it with "Awakenings" Penny Marshall |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE OSCARS $1000: It was the first color film to win a Best Picture Oscar Gone With The Wind |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | BEST PICTURES $200: Mel Gibson used members of the Irish army for the battle scenes in this Best Picture of 1995 Braveheart |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | BEST PICTURES $500 (Daily Double): "Consider yourself" smart if you know it won Best Picture of 1968 Oliver |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | BEST PICTURES $600: This 1941 Best Picture centered on a Welsh mining family How Green Was My Valley |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | "OUT OF " $500: 1985's "Best Picture" Out of Africa |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | THE OSCARS $200: The first Best Picture winner, "Wings", was set in this war World War I |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | "SOUND" & "SILENCE" $1,800 (Daily Double): 1965 & 1991 Best Picture Oscar winners The Sound of Music & The Silence of the Lambs |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | COSTUMES $300: 1991 Best Picture nominee in which Annette warmed Warren's heart in the dress seen here Bugsy |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | THE OSCARS $300: In 1995 this Tom Hanks film received 13 Oscar nominations including Best Actor & Best Picture Forrest Gump |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | OSCAR TRIVIA $200: This 1992 Clint Eastwood film was only the third Western ever to win "Best Picture" Unforgiven |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | OSCAR TRIVIA $1000: This French existentialist's "The Proud and the Beautiful" earned him a nom. for Best Motion Picture Story (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | NOVEL FILMS $800: "Cimarron", the 1st western to win the "Best Picture" Oscar, was based on a novel by this author of "Giant" Edna Ferber |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | THE MOVIES $400: In this "Best Picture" of 1952, Betty Hutton is an aerialist in love with Charlton Heston The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | THE OSCARS $200: This 1991 "Best Picture" winner starring Jodie Foster was the first to appear on home video prior to its win The Silence of the Lambs |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | CHARLTON HESTON FILMS $500: Heston was a circus manager & Jimmy Stewart a clown in this "Best Picture" of 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | THE OSCARS $200: In 1992 this Disney film became the first animated feature ever nominated for "Best Picture" Beauty and the Beast |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | THE OSCARS $200: It was the first color film to win a "Best Picture" Oscar &, fittingly, it had a "Scarlett" heroine Gone with the Wind |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | "B" MOVIES $600: The National Society of Film Critics named this David Lynch film the Best Picture of 1986 Blue Velvet |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $200: Meryl Streep starred in this 1985 film, the only one with a continent in its title to win "Best Picture" Out of Africa |
| #1929, aired 1993-01-14 | NAME THE DECADE $400: "All About Eve" wins 6 Oscars, including "Best Picture" the 1950s |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: Although best known for his sound films, William Wellman directed this first "Best Picture" winner Wings |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | MOVIE MISSES $100: She's the miss in the title of the film that won "Best Picture" March 26, 1990 Daisy |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS $300: Peter Lawford had a bit role as a pilot in this Greer Garson film, the "Best Picture" of 1942 Mrs. Miniver |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | OSCAR LOSERS $200: In 1975 he lost the Best Picture Oscar as producer of "The Conversation" but won for "The Godfather, Part II" (Francis Ford) Coppola |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | OSCAR LOSERS $500: At the 1949 awards, the time wasn't right for this Gregory Peck war film to win Best Picture 12 O'Clock High |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | THE 1990 OSCARS $100: 1990's Best Picture, it became only the 2nd western to win that award Dances with Wolves |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | THE OSCARS $100: "Annie Hall" is the only film directed by him to have won an Oscar for Best Picture Woody Allen |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | HISTORICAL FILMS $300: Sir Richard Attenborough won 1982's Best Director Oscar for this epic which also won Best Picture Gandhi |
| #1383, aired 1990-09-12 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $200: Date in the title of the film that won the award for Best Motion Picture Drama in 1990 the Fourth of July |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | FILMS OF THE '70s $500: "Coming Home" lost the 1978 "Best Picture" Oscar to this film, also based on the Vietnam War The Deer Hunter |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | STARTS WITH "T" $400: This 1983 tearjerker won "Best Picture", "Best Actress", "Best Director" & "Best Supporting Actor" Oscars Terms of Endearment |
| #1251, aired 1990-01-29 | TELEVISION $400: Carroll O'Connor stars as chief Bill Gillespie in this NBC series based on 1967's "Best Picture" In the Heat of the Night |
| #1207, aired 1989-11-28 | ACADEMY AWARDS $800: "All about Eve" won "Best Picture" for 1950, but she took "Best Actress" for "Born Yesterday" Judy Holliday |
| #1204, aired 1989-11-23 | SILENT MOVIES $500: This film about WWI flyers was the only silent film to win the Oscar for "Best Picture" Wings |
| #1101, aired 1989-05-22 | 1982 $300: Richard Attenborough won the "Best Director" Oscar for this "Best Picture" of 1982 Gandhi |
| #998, aired 1988-12-28 | MOVIES $400: Only X-rated movie to win "Best Picture" Oscar, its rating was later changed to "R" Midnight Cowboy |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: Not only did this 1944 film win "Best Picture", it provided the year's best song, "Swinging on a Star" Going My Way |
| #955, aired 1988-10-28 | SILENT MOVIES $500: The 1st film to win an Oscar as "Best Picture", it starred Clara Bow & featured Hedda Hopper Wings |
| #935, aired 1988-09-30 | BEST SELLERS $1000: "Texasville" is a sequel to this Larry McMurtry novel The Last Picture Show |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | MOVIE AUTHORS $800: This 1937 film won Oscars for Best Picture, Screenplay & Supporting Actor but not for Paul Muni The Life of Emile Zola |
| #859, aired 1988-05-05 | MOVIE CLASSICS $400: The only Alfred Hitchcock film to win an Oscar as Best Picture, it was partially set in Monte Carlo Rebecca |
| #792, aired 1988-02-02 | DOUBLE LETTERS $2,400 (Daily Double): 2 of the 5 double letter words found in the titles of 1987's "Best Picture" Oscar nominees platoon, Hannah, lesser, room and/or mission |
| #756, aired 1987-12-14 | ACADEMY AWARDS $300: Everybody wondered if it was "to be or not to be" Best Picture of 1948--& it was Hamlet |
| #751, aired 1987-12-07 | HOME GAMES $600: The L.A. Herald Examiner cried, "Heaven help our children, this "Best Picture" of '86 now has a home game Platoon |
| #750, aired 1987-12-04 | THE MOVIES $200: The only film of this genre to win a "Best Picture" Oscar was "Cimarron" in 1931 western |
| #745, aired 1987-11-27 | BEST SELLERS $400: In 1934, her "Seven Gothic Tales" was best seller, 52 yrs. before her "Out of Africa" became Best Picture Isak Dinesen |
| #726, aired 1987-11-02 | SELF-DIRECTED $200: Woody Allen 1st wanted to call this Best Picture of '77 "Anhedonia", the inability to feel joy Annie Hall |
| #699, aired 1987-09-24 | THEATER $1000: It won a Tony as "Best Play" of 1980 & film version was nominated as "Best Picture" of 1986 Children of a Lesser God |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | ACADEMY AWARDS $300: The last of the 11 awards it won, the night of April 4, 1960, was for "Best Picture" Ben-Hur |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | ACADEMY AWARDS $400: She presented the 1980 Best Costume Oscar for the picture she had starred in, "Tess" Nastassja Kinski |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | "GOOD", "BETTER" & "BEST" MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1946 "Best Picture" also won Best Director, Best Actor & Best Supporting Actor Oscars The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #661, aired 1987-06-22 | EUROPE ON FILM $3,100 (Daily Double): Two Vincente Minnelli musicals set in Paris which won Oscars for Best Picture of '51 & '58 An American in Paris & Gigi |
| #620, aired 1987-04-24 | MOVIE AUTHORS $1000: Though he never won a Nobel Prize, "The Life of" this Frenchman won a '37 Best Picture Oscar Émile Zola |
| #570, aired 1987-02-13 | ANIMAL TRIVIA $800: 1978 film that was the last "Best Picture" Oscar winner with an animal mentioned in the title The Deer Hunter |
| #563, aired 1987-02-04 | 1968 $600: This 1968 film became last musical to win the Best Picture Oscar Oliver! |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | THE OSCARS $400: Tho Scarlett's father in 1939's best picture, "GWTW", he won best supporting actor that year for "Stagecoach" Thomas Mitchell |
| #516, aired 1986-12-01 | GARY COOPER $400: One of his earliest films was this, winner of 1st Oscar for Best Picture Wings |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | NOVELS $600: Pulitzer-winning Robert Penn Warren novel, its movie adaptation won Best Picture Oscar All The King's Men |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $400: "Wings" the first motion picture to win an Academy Award for Best Picture |
| #420, aired 1986-04-18 | THE BEST $300: This 1946 drama about returning WWII veterans got the Oscar as "The Best" Picture The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #413, aired 1986-04-09 | MOVIES $400: 1954 Best Picture in which Brando not only "could have been a contender" for Best Actor, but won On the Waterfront |
| #367, aired 1986-02-04 | '70s MOVIES $300: One of the few sequels to critically surpass the original, this film won Best Picture for 1974 Godfather II |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | HAMLET $300: He won Best Actor Oscar for 1948 film version of "Hamlet", which also won Best Picture Laurence Olivier |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | THE OSCARS $400: In 1948, it became the only Shakespearean play to win Best Picture Hamlet |
| #159, aired 1985-04-18 | 1940 $600: This du Maurier story was Hitchcock's U.S. directing debut & 1940's Best Picture Rebecca |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BEST PICTURES $200: Jack Nicholson was crazy about this Best Picture of 1975 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BEST PICTURES $600: Woody Allen first wanted to call this '77 Best Picture "Anhedonia", the inability to feel joy Annie Hall |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: First called "Night Bus", this '34 film drove away with Best Picture, acting, Director & Writing Oscars It Happened One Night |
| #144, aired 1985-03-28 | MOVIE TRIVIA $800: The only silent movie that received a Best Picture Oscar Wings |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | "B" MOVIES $600: This '83 college reunion was up for Best Picture The Big Chill |
| #67, aired 1984-12-11 | MOVIE TRIVIA $300: 1949's Best Picture, its title came from "Humpty Dumpty" All the King's Men |
| #48, aired 1984-11-14 | THE OSCARS $500: Only X-rated film to win a Best Picture Oscar Midnight Cowboy |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | BEST PICTURES $600: In his first film, Ben Kingsley won Best Actor for title role of '82's Best Picture Gandhi |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | BEST PICTURES $800: Everybody wondered if it was to be or not to be Best Picture of 1948 Hamlet |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | MOVIES $750 (Daily Double): Best Picture of '42, it featured the following: Casablanca |
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