Awards and Prizes

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1. Which British actor came 3rd in the 1953 Mr. Universe competition?
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2. In which play did Kevin Spacey win the 1998 London Theatre Critics Circle Best Actor Award?
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3. How many different FA Cup trophies have there been since the competition began in 1871?
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4. What Nobel Prize winners last words were never recorded because his American nurse could not understand German?
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5. Which former Egyptian president co-won the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize?
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6. What are winning artists presented with at the Tamworth Country Music Festival?
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7. In what town are the annual Australian Country Music Awards held?
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8. What family group hosted the 2005 Australian MTV Music Awards?
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9. What country won the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest?
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10. What Australian won the 2004 Male Vocalist of the Year at Americas Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
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11. What performer recorded gold-selling albums in every decade from 1950 to 1990?
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12. Which horse won her third successive Melbourne Cup in 2005?
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13. Which cricketer won the 2005 Allan Border Medal?
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14. What annual fiction writers award is only available to citizens of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland?
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15. The Golden Bear Award is presented at which film festival?
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16. Who was the 2003 inductee into the Aria Hall of Fame?
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17. Whose memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1930s won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction in 1997?
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18. Who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Ghost?
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19. Which equestrian rider won Olympic team gold for Australia in 92, 96, and 2000?
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20. Which Irish poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923?
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21. Which is the most famous award at Irelands Tralee festival?
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22. What must you do to be in the running to win the Archibald Prize?
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23. The winning 2004 Archibald Prize painting depicted which Aboriginal actor?
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24. Any award received is said to be a feather ... Where?
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25. For what team sport, which is no longer part of the Olympics, did Australia win their only gold at the 1908 Olympics in London?
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26. Who was Young Australian of the Year in 2003?
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27. What country won the first ever womens Olympic swimming gold medal, which was for the 100m freestyle in 1912?
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28. Her lead role in which movie won Judy Davis two British Academy awards in 1980?
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29. What sporting triumph movie won the Oscar for Best Film in 1976?
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30. What TV show won Best Drama Series at the 2003 Emmy Awards?
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31. What two men shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize?
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32. Who won the 1972 Nobel Peace Prize?
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33. Who was the 2004 Australian of the Year?
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34. In 1986 which Irishman received an honorary knighthood after founding Band Aid?
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35. In what year was the first ever ARIA awards ceremony held?
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36. Name the Australian who received a Tony Award at the 2004 ceremony.
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37. Name the first female vocalist to achieve seven consecutive triple-platinum albums.
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38. What country were Abba representing when they won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974?
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39. What group received the Album of the Year award in 1999 for Supernatural?
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40. Who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics with her husband?
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41. Which Australian racehorse was the first to exceed one million dollars in prize money?
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42. Who was the only US president to be awarded a patent?
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43. Who was the first person to be both Young Australian and Australian of the Year?
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44. What television series has won more Emmys than any other show in the history of prime time TV?
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45. What annual AFL award is decided by field umpires who award points after each match for the three best players?
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46. Which group were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2004?
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47. What 42-year-old baseballer won an unprecedented seventh Cy Young Award in 2004?
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48. Who was the first player in NBA history to win both Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year in the same season?
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49. What Oakland Raider quarterback was voted Player of the Year in the American Conference in 1970 although, at age 43, he was the oldest man in professional football?
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1. Which Hollywood star flys his own Boeing 707, a former Qantas plane?
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