Classic Movie History: 10 Questions About Oscars, Oz and Early Sound

Take a fact-checked movie-history quiz on the first Academy Awards, early sound cinema, Snow White, and The Wizard of Oz.

Choose one answer per question. There’s no timer. You can skip a question; unanswered questions count as incorrect.

QUESTION 01In which year was the first Academy Awards ceremony held?

1929192719351941

QUESTION 02Where did the first Academy Awards ceremony take place?

Radio City Music HallThe Dolby TheatreThe White HouseHollywood Roosevelt Hotel

QUESTION 03Which film received the first Outstanding Picture award, now associated with Best Picture?

SunriseThe Jazz SingerWingsThe Circus

QUESTION 04Which film won the first Unique and Artistic Picture Oscar?

WingsSunriseThe Jazz Singer7th Heaven

QUESTION 05Who won the inaugural Academy Award for Actress?

Janet GaynorBette DavisJudy GarlandKatharine Hepburn

QUESTION 06Which early talking picture received a special award at the first Oscars?

MetropolisKing KongThe Wizard of OzThe Jazz Singer

QUESTION 07Who received the special award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

Charlie ChaplinLouis B. MayerWalt DisneyOrson Welles

QUESTION 08How many miniature statuettes accompanied the regular Oscar for Snow White?

ThreeSevenFiveNine

QUESTION 09In which year was the famous MGM film The Wizard of Oz released?

1939190019141925

QUESTION 10Which actor played Dorothy in the famous 1939 Wizard of Oz film?

Janet GaynorShirley TempleBette DavisJudy Garland

Keep your curiosity going.