Gearing Up For The Academy Awards? Join Others as They 'Connect the Oscar Dots'

New Wikia magazine challenges fans to test their Oscar knowledge before the 79th Annual Academy Awards airs tonight on ABC

New York, NY (PRWeb) February 25, 2007 -- Wikia (http://www.wikia.com), Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content on every topic, today announced its new entertainment focused magazine, Entertainment.Wikia (http://entertainment.wikia.com), has created a fun and challenging way for Hollywood watchers to test their historical knowledge of the biggest event in show business.

The game, which is dubbed "Connect the Oscar Dots," challenges people to find a connection between each Best Actor winner and the previous year's winner (a la six degrees of Kevin Bacon). The list begins with Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won in 2005 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in the film Capote, and ends with Emil Jannings who won the first Oscar for Best Actor in 1928. With a simple click of a button contributors can add their own content to the game, using as many connections (other actors and/or films) as necessary to get from one actor to the next. "Connect the Oscar Dots" is already underway, so if you think you have what it takes, then join challenge at: http://entertainment.wikia.com/index.php?title=Connect_the_Oscar_Dots

About Wikia, Inc.

Since Wikia's launch in November 2004, over 400,000 articles on 2,000 topics have been created and edited by over 100,000 registered users in 55 languages. Wikia already hosts a variety of film-related sites including, the Film Guide Wikia (http://filmguide.wikia.com), the Indiana Jones Wikia (http://indianajones.wikia.com), and the James Bond Wikia (http://jamesbond.wikia.com).

Wikia enables groups to share information, news, stories, media and opinions that fall outside the scope of an encyclopedia. Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley launched Wikia in 2004 to provide community-based wikis inspired by the model of Wikipedia -- the free, open source encyclopedia founded by Jimmy Wales.

Wikia is committed to openness, inviting anyone to contribute web content. Authors retain their own copyrights and allow others to freely reuse their content under a variety of GNU and Creative Commons Licenses, allowing widespread distribution of knowledge and ideas.

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