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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Since the award was introduced in 2001, 23 films have been nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. Can you remember all of them? We’ve given you some hints in the quiz instructions, just in case your tastes tend more towards live action.
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Man, I feel like I missed all of the really obvious ones:
Persepolis, Happy Feet, Shark Tale, Shrek 2, Brother Bear, Lilo & Stitch, Treasure Planet, Shrek, Monsters, Inc., Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
posted by stacy on 4-24-2008 at 11:18 am
I don’t believe I’ll post my score for this one, but I will share a couple of things as somewhat of an explanation for my performance.
1. I got about six minutes into the quiz before I realized it wasn’t about Best Picture (which explained why nothing I was trying pre-2001 was working…). Probably should have read the instructions on that one.
2. I can’t spell rat-ta-tooey for the life of me.
posted by Roger on 4-24-2008 at 11:19 am
The score is not important, what is important is that I spelled “Ratatouille” correctly on only my second try. It probably isn’t even correct this time. :)
posted by kate on 4-24-2008 at 11:22 am
Aaaargh! Me and my lack of spelling prowess!
I misspelled “Lilo” as “Leelo”. And instead of “Monsters, Inc.”, I put “Monsters Inc” and it didn’t accept it.
And I could not remember the “Tale” on “Shark Tale”. I knew it was about sharks with celebrity voices, but I couldn’t close the deal in time.
However, only missing 9 (7 had I been able to spell) is not too shabby, all things considered.
posted by SpaceMonkeyX on 4-24-2008 at 12:43 pm
I’m suprised I got 13 of them. After finally remembering the name of “that underwater movie with Will Smith as one of the voices.”
And I got Spirit for free typing in Spirited Away!
Forgot: Persepolis, Happy Feet, Monster House, Howl’s Moving Castle, Corpse Bride, Brother Bear, The Triplets of Belleville, Ice Age, Lilo & Stitch, Treasure Planet. Some of these I’ve never even heard of.
posted by Ryan on 4-24-2008 at 2:00 pm
I put in curse of the ware rabbit like 6 times and it never accepted it because I forgot the hyphen. arrrgh. Also what was the one with the claymation chickens and Mel Gibson as one of the chickens. I went crazy trying to think of that one and its not even on here!
posted by Shannon on 4-24-2008 at 6:12 pm
You’re thinking of Chicken Run. I tried it, sure it was the other claymation one. Totally forgot about the Corpse Bride.
I swear I spelled Ratatouille correctly (I even typed it in twice), so I’m counting it. Also, I remembered Howl’s Moving Castle and The Triplets of Belleville, but couldn’t get the names right - so aggrevating. So I’m pretty proud that there were only 5 that totally stumped me.
posted by Jill on 4-24-2008 at 10:33 pm