THE OSCARS
Nearly 44 million people were watching the Oscars on ABC in 2014 when this film about Solomon Northup won Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
The Orca, from this 1974 book
Jaws
To record or count something systematically
tabulate
An artillery piece called the "Swamp Angel", which shelled Charleston
the Civil War
McDonald's: 4-piece Chicken ___
Mc Nuggets
On Oscar night 2016 Best Animated Short went to "Bear Story"; this other bear story won Best Actor & Best Director
The Revenant
The Flying Dutchman manned by a crew in debt to a captain with tentacles in the place of a beard (two possible answers)
Pirates of the Caribbean or Spongebob Squarepants
Captain Cook brought this forbidding word into English from the south seas
taboo
Mitsubishi Zeros & Panzer VI Tigers
World War II
Red Lobster: Hand-Battered ___ & ___
Fish & Chips
This half of a sibling duo runs the gamut from "There's Something About Mary" to "Green Book", for which he won 2 Oscars
Peter Farelly
The Revenge, captained by the Dread Pirate Roberts
The Princess Bride
Here's a hot saucy tip: it's a state of southeast Mexico
Tabasco
Big Bertha howitzers & Sopwith Pups
World War I
Dunkin': Munchkins Donut ___
Holes
The second, third & fourth Oscars for Best Actress went to Canadian-born women, starting with her, "America's Sweetheart"
Pickford
The Hispaniola, searching for booty
Treasure Island
From Arabic, it's a salad with crushed wheat
tabbouleh
F-86 Sabres & MiG-15s, which dueled over "MiG Alley"
The Korean War
Starbucks: Java Chip ___ Blended Beverage
a Frappuccino
The Oscar-winning song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" was by this hip-hop group
Three 6 Mafia
The Benatar, manned by this group of intergalactic criminals
Guardians of the Galaxy
A type of musical notation using a line and grid system to denote an instrument's strings
tablature
The USS Massachusetts & the Cristóbal Colón, which exchanged fire outside Santiago de Cuba
Spanish-American War
Denny's: ___ ___ Slugger
Grand Slam