Questions...
The 69th annual Prime Time Emmys will be awarded this Sunday. As a warm-up, here’s a quiz about previous Emmy winners and
losers.
The answers will be posted tomorrow. (You could Google the answers before then, but what fun would that be?)
1. Which of these women holds the record for winning the most Emmys as a perfomer?
Candice Bergen
Candice Bergen
Tyne Daly
Edie Falco
Cloris Leachman
Jane Lynch
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Mary Tyler Moore
2. Three shows have won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series for four consecutive years. Which of the following did NOT do this:
Hill Street Blues
L.A. LawMad Men
The West Wing
3. What comedian was nominated for 9 Emmys in one year? (Hint: It happened in 2013)
4. Movie stars are often up for Emmys. This year alone there
are nominations for former Oscar-winners Robert De Niro, Reese Witherspoon, Jane
Fonda, Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush. Of the following names
from the silver screen, which did NOT win an Emmy?
Fred Astaire
Henry FondaJack Lemmon
Paul Newman
Al Pacino
Brad Pitt
Barbra Streisand
5. The broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox) used to win
most of the Emmys, but not any more. When was the last time one of these
networks won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series and what was the
show?
6. What performer has been nominated for 18 Emmys without
ever winning? (Hint: It’s a woman who is now in her nineties)
7. Which of these is the only person to win an Emmy for
hosting the Oscars?
Bob Hope
Johnny CarsonBilly Crystal
Whoopi Goldberg
Neil Patrick Harris
Ellen DeGeneres
Jon Stewart
8. Who is the only person to be nominated for an Outstanding
Supporting Actor Emmy for three different shows? (Hint: he’s nominated this
year.)
9. Which of these Saturday Night Live names never won
an Emmy for performing on that show?
Chevy Chase
Gilda RadnerEddie Murphy
Dana Carvey
Tina Fey
Jimmy Fallon
Kate McKinnon
10. In 1969, Leonard Nimoy as Star Trek’s Mr. Spock
had his third and last chance to win an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor.
He lost. Who won? (Hint: the winner was playing a military man)
posted by LAGuy @ 10:30 AM
5 Comments:
Since I know almost nothing about TV and movies, I'll go first because my answers won't sway anyone else's opinion!
1. Julia LD.
2. L.A. Law, because it was awful.
3. Is this possible? I'll have to guess Amy Poehler or Tina Fey.
4. Brad Pitt, because he's the only one my generation and I don't recall him being on TV ever. Probably wrong, but the alternative is a random guess.
5. No idea. I'll guess The West Wing, and I have no idea what network it was on.
6. I don't know, but whoever it was, shouldn't they have given her the darn Emmy after ten nominations? I'll guess Candice Bergen, but I have no idea. Or is Jean Stapledon still alive?
7. Neil Patrick Harris.
8. No idea.
9. Gilda Radner. The women of the first cast got no respect. (I was tempted to say Chevy, since he was only on for one season -- I think -- so maybe he missed it.)
10. Someone from Hogan's Heroes? Okay, I didn't think so.
Sorry for wasting your time!
Julia, LALaw, Louis ck, Brad Pitt, no clue, Betty White, Billy, no clue, Chevy, no clue.
All will be revealed tomorrow.
You'll see the answers soon enough, but a few notes on the guesses.
Larry is right on question two, though for the wrong reason, as far as the Emmys are concerned.
Brad Pitt is not the correct answer, but it's a bit of a cheat he's one of the choices, since he won his Emmy for producing The Normal Heart. He was nominated for an acting Emmy for his work on Friends, though. Pitt also won his only Oscar for producing 12 Years A Slave.
West Wing (on NBC) was a good guess, since it won a bunch of Emmys for best drama. But it wasn't the last network show to do it. Since then, Lost won in 2005 and the correct answer came the year after.
Candice Bergen and Jean Stapleton are both multiple Emmy winners. Jean Stapleton died at the age of 90 in 2013. Candice Bergen is still very much with us but only 71.
Whether that was a guess or a joke on question 10, congratulations.
Oh, steal my sunshine. I was going to guess Pitt for Friends.
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