These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2026-01-26,
and should be interpreted accordingly.

On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.

All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation of
current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting
of other rounds. For further information please see my 2026-03-10
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".


* Game 3, Round 7 - Entertainment - First Oscar Nominations

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominations were
released last week. And there's nothing like your first time --
at the Oscars. The following stars have made repeated trips up
the red carpet as nominees. We'll give the actor and the year it
was released, and you name the first movie they were nominated for
acting in.

1. Tom Hanks, 1988.
2. Jennifer Lawrence, 2010.
3. Margot Robbie, 2017.
4. Saoirse Ronan, 2007.
5. Goldie Hawn, 1969.
6. Paul Newman, 1958.
7. Jack Nicholson, 1969.
8. Julia Roberts, 1989.
9. Will Smith, 2001.
10. Meryl Streep, 1978.


* Gane 3, Round 8 - Arts - Art at the Met

Please see the handout at:

http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/qftci/3-8/art.pdf

What good is visiting New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art if you
can't get a trivia round out of it? We'll give you a time period,
a painting name, and a number, and you name the artist.

(I've sorted the round in order of the handout, so the question
numbers are the picture numbers. Answer for the two decoys,
with no hints, if you like, for fun, but for no points.)

1. "St. Jerome as Scholar", 16th or early 17th century.
2. Self-portrait, 17th century.
3. "Portrait of a Man", 17th century.

4 (decoy). Another "Portrait of a Man": <answer 3> should have sued.

5. "Maria Teresa, Infanta of Spain", 17th century.
6. "Portrait of a Young Woman". He did a lot of those.
17th century.

7 (decoy). "Louis XV at the Age of Five in the Costume of the Sacr?".

8. "Queen Charlotte", 18th century.
9. "Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zu?iga", 18th or early 19th century.
10. "Boy with a Sword", 19th century.
11. "Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert, the Artist's Uncle",
19th century.
12. "A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant", 19th or early 20th century.

--
Mark Brader | "...there are lots of things that I don't remember,
Toronto | but if you ask for an example, I can't remember any." msb@vex.net | --Michael Wares

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