15 Fun Facts About Entertainment Trivia

Which film won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture, at the 1929 ceremony?

The 1927 war film took the inaugural award for Outstanding Picture, and remains the only fully silent film to win the category.

Which 1937 release was the first cel-animated feature film produced in the United States?

Its success set the pattern of re-releasing Disney animated features to theatres every few years.

Who hosted NBC's The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992?

He took over the desk from Jack Paar in 1962 after starting out in radio.

The 1969 Woodstock festival was actually held on a dairy farm near which town?

The site was Max Yasgur's farm, about 60 miles southwest of the town the festival was named after.

Which song opened MTV's broadcast on its first day in 1981?

The Buggles single was the channel's opening statement, and a fairly pointed one.

Which album is the best-selling album of all time?

Sales surged after Michael Jackson debuted the moonwalk on Motown 25 and the title track's video premiered on MTV; by early 1984 it had passed 30 million copies.

The most-watched series finale in US television history aired in 1983. Which show was it?

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen was the most-watched US television broadcast of any kind from 1983 until 2010, and is still the most-watched finale of any series.

Smells Like Teen Spirit was the lead single from which 1991 album?

It was also the opening track of Nirvana's second album, their major-label debut on DGC Records.

Which 1995 release was the first feature-length computer-animated film?

John Lasseter received a Special Achievement Academy Award in 1996 for the techniques that made it possible.

Which series holds the record as the longest-running American scripted primetime television show?

It leads on both seasons and individual episodes, and is also the longest-running American animated series and sitcom. Gunsmoke ran a respectable 20 seasons from 1955.

Stranger Things takes place in the fictional town of Hawkins, in which state?

The town is described in the series as the place where nothing ever happens, which turns out to be inaccurate.

Which film was the first non-English-language winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture?

It won at the 92nd Academy Awards and is one of only four films to take both the Palme d'Or and Best Picture.

EGOT stands for four awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and which fourth?

Together they are the four major performing arts awards in the United States.

Bohemian Rhapsody was the lead single from which Queen album?

Written by Freddie Mercury, the six-minute suite led the band's fourth studio album in 1975.

Which director collected five Best Director nominations across his career but never won that award?

His films drew 46 Academy Award nominations and six wins overall, and Rebecca won Best Picture, but the directing award never came.