The Best
1) Name an actor/actress with at least 2 Academy Award wins in acting categories*.
2) Name an artist in the top 50 of the All-Time Billboard Hot 100 top artists.**
3) Name an athlete that has won at least 6 Olympic Gold Medals.
One and Done
4) Name an actor/actress that has won an Academy Award with his/her only acting category* nomination.
5) Name an artist that had a song reach No. 1 of the Billboard Hot 100 but had no other song reach the top 10.
6) Name an athlete that has won at least 1 Gold Medal in his/her only participation in the Olympic Games.
Close but no Cigar
7) Name an actor/actress with at least 3 Academy Award nominations in acting categories* but no win.
8) Name an artist that had at least 3 top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 but never had a No. 1.
9) Name a country*** that has won at least one Silver or Bronze Medal at Olympic Games but never a Gold Medal.
*Acting categories = Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress
** My source assigns a point system to songs on the chart and we're looking for the artists that accumulated the most points over their career - tracking period is August 4, 1958 to January 22, 2022
*** It's a list of NOCs (National Olympic Commitee), which are usually but I guess not strictly always countries.
Question 5: 5) Name an artist that had a song reach No. 1 of the Billboard Hot 100 but had no other song reach the top 10.
ACES - 1:
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy - Booker Wolfbox Snow - Informer - eyebooger The Knack - My Sharona, close call because they also had a #11 with Good Girls Don't - nails Los del rio - Macarena - Paasei Luis Fonzi - Despacito - TehVader
INCORRECTS - 3,5:
Chumbawumba - Tubthumping #6 - housenuts Don McLean - American Pie #1, Crying #5 - ArcticKnight The Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out only reached #40 in the US - xander biscuits tiffany - I think this refers to Tiffany Darwish who has 2 #1, a #6 and a #7 - sixfour Tubbawamba - I would have been generous with the name but Tubthumping by Chumbawumba only reached #6 - aaronk56 vanilla ice - Ice Ice Baby #1, Play That Funky Music #4 - filthyvermin
Question 6: 6) Name an athlete that has won at least 1 Gold Medal in his/her only participation in the Olympic Games.
ACES - 1:
Dan Boyle (Can Hockey) - Ice Hockey in 2010 - ArcticKnight Emma Maltais - Ice Hockey in 2022 - Booker Wolfbox Kurt Angle - Freestyle Wrestling in 1996 (with a broken neck!) - eyebooger tatianna gutsu - 2 Gold, a Silver and a Bronze in Gymnastics in 1992 - filthyvermin Hamhuis - Ice Hockey in 2014 - housenuts Sugar Ray Leonard - Boxing in 1976 - nails Esmee Visser - Speed Skating in 2018, only 26yo but apparently did not participate this year - Paasei Marius Lindvik - Ski Jumping in 2022 - TehVader Jakob Ingebrigtsen - Running (1500m) in 2020 - xander biscuits
INCORRECTS - 5,5:
Charles Barkley - Basketball Gold in both 1992 and 1996 - aaronk56 neymar - Football Gold in 2016, Silver in 2012 - sixfour
I expected more answers to be athletes that had their first participation in the last games so I'm positively surprised by the variety of answers here.
filthyvermin - no nominations (yet) - Booker Wolfbox gene hackman - 2 wins, 5 nominations - filthyvermin Mel Gibson - no nominations, he does have a win for Best Picture and a win + nomination for Best Director though - Paasei Nic cage - 1 win, 2 nominations - housenuts Peter Lorre - no nominations - aaronk56 samuel l jackson - 1 nomination - sixfour
And here are some more unused correct answers that I came across when I googled best artists without a number one hit:
Bob Dylan 4 top 10s
Shania Twain 3
One Direction 5
James Brown 6
Missy Elliot 10
Demi Lovato 4
Pat Benatar 3
MC Hammer 5
Creedence Clearwater Revival 9, including 5 #2s
En Vogue 6
Don Henley 4
Martha & the Vandellas 6
Babyface 4
Question 8: 8) Name an artist that had at least 3 top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 but never had a No. 1.
ACES - 1:
The Kinks - 5 top 10s - aaronk56 ELO - 7 top 10s - Booker Wolfbox Imagine Dragons - 5 top 10s - eyebooger Bruce Springsteen - 12 top 10s - xander biscuits
INCORRECTS - 3:
ac/dc - no top 10s - sixfour Billie Eilish - 1 #1 (Bad Guy), 4 more top 10s - ArcticKnight Dire Straits - 1 #1 (Money for Nothing), 2 more top 10s - TehVader Golden earring - 1 top 10 (Twilight Zone, Radar Love only reached #13 in the US) - Paasei Matchbox 20 - 1 #1 (Bent), 2 more top 10s - housenuts oasis - 1 top 10 (Wonderwall) - filthyvermin The Who - 1 top 10 (I Can See for Miles) - nails
