BATTLE DESCRIPTIONS
OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
ARE YOU TOYING WITH ME?
INITIALLY YOURS
200
'The Viet Cong spar with the U.S. & South Vietnam on Jan. 30, 1968, the first day of the lunar new year'
Tet
200
'Oldest Supporting Actress winner:
Peggy Ashcroft for this film based on an E.M. Forster work'
A Passage to India
200
'One of his most famous paintings shows 11 magnified stars & an orange crescent moon in whorls of blue sky'
van Gogh
200
'Now you can make full meals with this toy that's been helping kids make cakes since 1963'
an Easy-Bake Oven
200
'When this director's "The Birth of a Nation" was released in 1915, tickets were an unheard of $2'
D.W. Griffith
400
'This 1890 massacre in South Dakota ends armed conflict between the Sioux & the Army'
Wounded Knee
400
'Youngest Supporting Actor winner:
Him for "Ordinary People"'
Timothy Hutton
400
'Faces are garishly lit by gas lamp in "At the Moulin Rouge", one of his many depictions of Parisian night life'
Toulouse-Lautrec
400
'Secret Strike, part of this Hasbro line, comes with a blaster gun & 2 foam darts'
Nerf
400
'One of the founders of the NAACP was this sociologist & writer of "The Souls of Black Folk"'
W.E.B. DuBois
600
'On Oct. 21, 1805 off the coast of Spain, Nelson fights French & Spanish fleets'
the Battle of Trafalgar
600
'Oldest Supporting Actor nominee:
This alliteratively named actor for the 2007 movie "Into the Wild"'
Hal Holbrook
600
'He painted "Night Fishing at Antibes", seen here, just before the outbreak of World War II'
Picasso
600
'The Ripstick is a hot toy from this company whose name is synonymous with kick scooters'
Razor
600
'During WWI, this author of "The Screwtape Letters" fought in France with the Somerset Light Infantry'
C.S. Lewis
800
'The Kikuyu revolt in 1952 Kenya against white settlers in these uprisings'
the Mau Mau Uprisings
800
'Youngest Best Actor winner:
This 29-year-old in 2003 for a WWII-set film'
Adrien Brody
800
'In Rousseau's "Sleeping Gypsy", a full moon hangs in the night sky while this animal catches the scent of the title figure'
a lion
800
'You can get Troy & Gabriella dolls dressed for the prom from this TV/film series'
High School Musical
800
'Around 1800 this English romantic landscape painter took a studio at 64 Harley Street in London'
J.M.W. Turner
1000
'In 31 B.C. Octavian & Agrippa best Cleo & Antony on the open water'
the Battle of Actium
1000
'Youngest Supporting Actor nominee:
Justin Henry for this 1979 tale of a custody battle'
Kramer vs. Kramer
1000
'Born into a poor Jewish family, this Russian-French artist painted the dreamy "Lovers in the Moonlight"'
Marc Chagall
1000
'The Fly, the first pentop computer, is made by this company that "jumped" on the educational toys market'
Leapfrog
1000
'This poet didn't like big letters, but his first book was called "The Enormous Room"'
E.E. Cummings
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