Oscars
(Best Picture)
(Best Picture)
Emmys
Tonys
(Best Musicals & Plays)
(Best Musicals & Plays)
Pulitzers
Nobels
100
"Here's looking at you kid."
Bonus: What is the other name for the Oscars?
What is "Casablanca?"
What are the "Academy Awards?"
A frequently mentioned originator is Margaret Herrick, the Academy executive secretary, who, when she first saw the award in 1931, said the statuette reminded her of "Uncle Oscar", a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce.
100
Winning Best Variety in 1978, this show featured Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.
Bonus: What is the Emmy named after?
What is "The Muppet Show?"
Bonus: The Emmy is named after "immy", an informal term for the image orthicon tube that was common in early television cameras.
The statuette "has since become the symbol of the TV Academy's goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television: The wings represent the muse of art; the atom the electron of science." 
100
Composers for these winners: South Pacific, Guys & Dolls, the King & I
Bonus: Who is the Tony award named after?
Who are Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II?
Bonus: The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946.
100
This novel won the 1983 PP for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. Oprah Winfrey was nominated as Best Supporting actress in the film version of this novel of the same name.
Bonus: The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a ________________.
What is "The Color Purple?"
Bonus: What is newspaper publisher?
100
The only woman to have won a Nobel prize in two different categories, one shared with her husband.
Bonus: Alfred Nobel, known for the invention of _____________ ironically created a highly volatile situation in his family when he set aside most of his estate to the creation of the Nobel prizes.
Who is Marie Curie?
Nobel Prizes in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911)
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/facts/
Bonus: What is dynamite?
200
"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."
What is "The Godfather?"
200
A meek high school chemistry teacher transforms into a ruthless player in the local methamphetamine drug trade in this winner for Outstanding Drama Series (2013-14).
What is "Breaking Bad?"
200
Writers Robert Lopez, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone created this musical.
What is "The Book of Mormon?"
200
This novel won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1996, becoming the first novel ever to win both awards in a single year. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum starred in a sci-fi movie with the same title, but totally different plots.
What is "Independence Day?"
200
This 1906 Nobel Peace Prize winner negotiated peace between Russian and Japan, putting an end to the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5.
300
A prince who becomes a slave then a prince again.
What is "Ben Hur?"
300
Winner in 1976 for Best Variety, this American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show was first hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975 and is still running today. Many famous comedians got there start on this show.
What is "Saturday Night Live?"
300
Conflicted equine.
What is "War Horse?" (2011 Best Play)
300
The 2016 PP in Drama is an American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible.
What is "Hamilton" by Lin-Manuel Miranda?
300
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 was awarded to Ernst Ruska for the design of this optic instrument in 1933 which captures images of extremely small objects by means of electron beams that are directed towards an object and captured on a screen. 
What is the electron microscope?
Ernst Ruska
400
Obstinate lieutenant, hero, buried in Westminster Abbey.
What is "Lawrence of Arabia?"
400
1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series featuring police, prosecutors, and lawyers at work.
What is "Law & Order?"
400
A musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics.
What is "Avenue Q?" (2004 Best Musical)
400
Winners of the Special Citations & Awards category: singer know for the tune "Respect," "Green Eggs & Ham" author, "Farenheit 451" author
Who are Aretha Franklin, Dr. Seuss, and Ray Bradbury?
400
Work done by these 2003 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine contributed to the development of this machine used to create detailed images of the organs and tissues in your body.
Paul C. Lauterbur
Sir Peter Mansfield
What is the MRI (Magnetic Resonant Imaging) machine.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2003/lauterbur/facts/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2003/mansfield/facts/
500
The first woman to win this category. Her film won 6 awards.
Bonus: What winning film did she direct?
Who is Kathryn Bigelow?
500
This sitcom, set in Queens, NY, featured "Meathead" clashing with a "Lovable Bigot." This show won the award for Outstanding Comedy Series for 3 consecutive years (1971-73).
What is "All In the Family?"
500
The only Disney show that won Best Musical
What is "The Lion King?" (1998)
500
Theo, the protagonist, survives and "takes flight" with a priceless painting, after the bombing of the MOMA. The painting, also the title of this 2014 PP for Fiction winner, was done by a protege of Rembrandt, Carel Fabritius
What is the Goldfinch?
500
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
Composer of "Make You Feel My Love," "All Along the Watchtower," and "Like a Rolling Stone"
