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Yo! What's up? This is a secret message The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou
1+1= ?
1928 (1st)
Wings, Sunrise
1929 (2nd)
Broadway Melody, The
1930 (3rd)
All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 (4th)Grand Hotel Cimarron
1932 (5th)
Grand Hotel
1933 (6th)
Cavalcade
1934 (7th)
It Happened One Night
1935 (8th)
Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 (9th)
Great Ziegfeld, The
1937 (10th)
Life of Émile Zola, The
1938 (11th)
You Can't Take It With You
1939 (12th)Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
1940 (13th)1939 (12th)Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
1941 (14th)
How Green Was My Valley
1942 (15th)
Mrs. Miniver
1943 (16th)
Casablanca 1944 (17th)
Going My Way
1945 (18th)
The Lost Weekend
1946 (19th)
The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 (20th)
Gentleman's Agreement
1948 (21st)
Hamlet (1948)
1949 (22nd)
All the King's Men
1950 (23rd)
All about Eve
1951 (24th)
An American in Paris
1952 (25th)
The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 (26th)
From Here to Eternity
1954 (27th)
On the Waterfront
1955 (28th)
Marty
1956 (29th)
Around the World in 80 Days 1957 (30th)
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1958 (31st)
Gigi
1959 (32nd)
Ben-Hur
1960 (33rd)
The Apartment
1961 (34th)
West Side Story
1962 (35th)
Lawrence of Arabia
1963 (36th)
Tom Jones
1964 (37th)
My Fair Lady
1965 (38th)
The Sound of Music
1966 (39th)
A Man for All Seasons
1967 (40th)
In the Heat of the Night
1968 (41st)
Oliver!
1969 (42nd)
Midnight Cowboy
1970 (43rd)
Patton 1971 (44th)
The French Connection
1972 (45th)
The Godfather
1973 (46th)
The Sting
1974 (47th)
The Godfather Part II 1975 (48th)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 (49th)
Rocky
1977 (50th)
Annie Hall
1978 (51st)
The Deer Hunter 1979 (52nd)
Kramer vs. Kramer 1980 (53rd)
Ordinary People
1981 (54th)
Chariots of Fire 1982 (55th)
Gandhi
1983 (56th)
Terms of Endearment
1984 (57th)
Amadeus
1985 (58th)
Out of Africa
1986 (59th)
Platoon 1987 (60th)
The Last Emperor
1988 (61st)
Rain Man 1989 (62nd)
Driving Miss Daisy
1990 (63rd)
Dances With Wolves 1991 (64th)
The Silence of the Lambs 1992 (65th)
Unforgiven 1993 (66th)
Schindler's List
1994 (67th)
Forrest Gump
1995 (68th)
Braveheart 1996 (69th)
The English Patient
1997 (70th)
Titanic (1997)
1998 (71st)
Shakespeare in Love 1999 (72nd)
American Beauty
2000 (73rd)
Gladiator
2001 (74th)
A Beautiful Mind
2002 (75th)
Chicago 2003 (76th)
The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King 2004 (77th)
Million Dollar Baby 2005 (78th)
Crash
2006 (79th)
The Departed 2007 (80th)
No Country for Old Men
Welcome to Bob's Quiz Page
Daily Quiz
1. What is the capital of Nevada?....Carson City....2. Who wrote the "Twilight Zone" theme?....Marius Constant....3. Which planet is closest to the sun?....Mercury....4. What won best picture Oscar for 1957?....The Bridge on the River Kwai....5. What is pyrosis?....Heartburn....6. Who played Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"?....Jonathan Frid....7. Where is Timbuktu?....Mali, in Africa....8. Who would perform a paradiddle?....A drummer....9. Who was the 25th U.S. President?....William McKinley....10. What is chionophobia?....The fear of snow....
Pulitzer Prizes in Music
2007: Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar
2006: Yehudi Wyner, Chiavi in Mano, (piano concerto)
2005: Steven Stucky, Second Concerto for Orchestra
2004: Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy
2003: John Adams, On the Transmigration of Souls
2002: Henry Brant, Ice Field
2001: John Corigliano, Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra
2000: Lewis Spratlan, Life is a Dream, opera (awarded for concert version of Act II)
1999: Melinda Wagner, Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
1998: Aaron Jay Kernis, String Quartet No. 2, Musica Instrumentalis
1997: Wynton Marsalis, Blood on the Fields, oratorio
1996: George Walker, Lilacs, for soprano and orchestra
1995: Morton Gould, Stringmusic
1994: Gunther Schuller, Of Reminiscences and Reflections
1993: Christopher Rouse, Trombone Concerto
1992: Wayne Peterson, The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark
1991: Shulamit Ran, Symphony
1990: Mel D. Powell, Duplicates: A Concerto
1989: Roger Reynolds, Whispers Out of Time
1988: William Bolcom, 12 New Etudes for Piano
1987: John Harbison, The Flight into Egypt
1986: George Perle, Wind Quintet No. 4, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon
1985: Stephen Albert, Symphony RiverRun
1984: Bernard Rands, Canti del Sole
1983: Ellen Zwilich, Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1)
1982: Roger Sessions, Concerto for Orchestra
1981: no prize awarded
1980: David Del Tredici, In Memory of a Summer Day
1979: Joseph Schwantner, Aftertones of Infinity
1978: Michael Colgrass, Deja Vu for percussion and orchestra
1977: Richard Wernick, Visions of Terror and Wonder
1976: Ned Rorem, Air Music
1975: Dominick Argento, From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
1974: Donald Martino, Notturno
1973: Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 3
1972: Jacob Druckman, Windows
1971: Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms No. 6
1970: Charles Wuorinen, Time's Encomium
1969: Karel Husa, String Quartet No. 3
1968: George Crumb, Echoes of Time and the River
1967: Leon Kirchner, Quartet No. 3 for strings and electronic tape
1966: Leslie Bassett, Variations for Orchestra
1965: no prize awarded
1963: Samuel Barber, Piano Concerto
1962: Robert Ward, The Crucible, opera
1961: Walter Piston, Symphony No. 7
1960: Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 2
1959: John La Montaine, Piano Concerto
1958: Samuel Barber, Vanessa, opera
1957: Norman Dello Joio, Meditations on Ecclesiastes
1956: Ernst Toch, Symphony No. 3
1955: Gian Carlo Menotti, The Saint of Bleecker Street, opera
1954: Quincy Porter, Concerto Concertante for two pianos and orchestra
1953: no prize awarded
1952: Gail Kubik, Symphony Concertante
1951: Douglas Stuart Moore, Giants in the Earth, opera
1950: Gian-Carlo Menotti, The Consul, opera
1949: Virgil Thomson, Louisiana Story, film score
1948: Walter Piston, Symphony No. 3
1947: Charles Ives, Symphony No. 3
1946: Leo Sowerby, The Canticle of the Sun
1945: Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, ballet
1944: Howard Hanson, Symphony No. 4
1943: William Schuman, Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song