This week’s trivia question (in honor of the Academy Awards on Sunday):
How many Best Picture winners have been costume dramas*?
* Here, we’ll define a costume drama as a film that primarily takes place at least 50 years before the year it won the award or, in the case of the earliest films, is set pre-World War I.
Last Week’s Question:
What English queen consort (also the daughter of an English king) died on her 37thbirthday?
Answer: Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, niece of Richard III, wife of Henry VII, and mother of Henry VIII. She was born on February 11, 1466 at Westminster to Edward and his wife, the former Elizabeth Woodville. She married Henry VII on January 18, 1486 and gave birth to their first son, Arthur, in September of that year. The marriage was a successful one, and Elizabeth was a popular queen. She died of an infection on February 11, 1503, nine days after the birth of her last child, Katherine (who, sadly, died the day she was born).
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