If there weren't blacks, Jews, and gays, there would be no Oscars

Oscars Trivia Fun Quiz!
1) Who said "If there weren't blacks, Jews, and gays, there would be no Oscars"?

A - Chris Rock

B - Woody Allen

C - Ellen DeGeneres

D - Neil Patrick Harris

2) This performer’s mother was a teacher and social worker

A - Brad Pitt

B - Melissa Leo

C - Mickey Rourke

D - Viola Davis

3) Which Oscar-nominated director was forced by Fox Studios to change a line in their film because it was about abortion?

A - David Fincher

B - Ron Howard

C - Gus Van Sant

D - Danny Boyle

4) Which nominee gave $25,000 to the DCCC for 2008?

A - Ron Howard

B - Marisa Tomei

C - Philip Seymour Hoffman

D - Angelina Jolie

5) Which nominee received the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon's Freedom of Expression Award, recognizing courage or creative vision in upholding free expression, particularly in the arts, for their films that have "let us see inside the lives of individuals we don't often get a glimpse at."

A - Angelina Jolie

B - Sean Penn

C - David Fincher

D - Gus Van Sant

6) Who said: “I wonder, when the war trials begin -- and no doubt, the Iraq war trials will begin, at certain points -- I don't know what will happen to the guards at Guantanamo Bay”?

A - Frank Langella

B - Kate Winslet

C - Stephen Daldry

D - Penelope Cruz

7) Which nominee at one point seriously contemplated the priesthood?

A - Danny Boyle

B - Philip Seymour Hoffman

C - Ron Howard

D - Josh Brolin

8) In May 2006, this nominee joined other Brooklyn celebrities to protest plans to build a Nets stadium in Prospect Heights. The group joined an advisory board for “Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn”

A - Anne Hathaway

B - Gus Van Sant

C - Kate Winslet

D - Heath Ledger

9) Which actress used to work at the Pentagon?

A - Viola Davis

B - Taraji P. Henson

C - Angelina Jolie

D - Marisa Tomei

10) Who said: “Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.”

A - Stephen Daldry

B - Marisa Tomei

C - Michael Shannon

D - Meryl Streep

11) Who said, referring to President Bush: "Well, in 1932 Huey Long said something very interesting. It was, 'Fascism will come to America, but likely under another name, perhaps anti-fascism’"?

A - Ron Howard

B - Kate Winslet

C - Sean Penn

D - Robert Downey Jr.

12) "Slumdog" is perhaps the first mainstream movie to present an unflinching portrait of India's abject poverty, its crime, corruption and communal tensions since what year?

A - 1997

B - 1989

C - 1982

D - 1969

13) Who said: "I never heard the word 'fag' until I was in high school. I might have heard about homosexuals from Life magazine, but I never heard anything derogatory.”

A - Sean Penn

B - Stephen Daldry

C - Gus Van Sant

D - Josh Brolin

14) Who said: “America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances”?

A - Kate Winslet

B - Sean Penn

C - Heath Ledger

D - Meryl Streep