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  Tough Michael Douglas Quiz - 10 Questions   popular trivia quiz  
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Here are some questions about the life and films of Michael Douglas, one of my favourite movie stars.
Tough, 10 Qns, pollygw, Feb 03 07
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  Michael Douglas - His Work - 1966-1990    
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A quiz about some of the films in which Michael has appeared.
Average, 10 Qns, pollygw, Feb 28 12
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  Michael Douglas' Films 1991-2005    
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Here is another quiz about some of the films in which Michael has appeared.
Tough, 10 Qns, pollygw, Feb 03 07
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  Life and Times of Michael Douglas    
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This quiz is about the actor Michael Douglas.
Tough, 10 Qns, NalaMarie, Feb 03 07
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  Michael Douglas Quiz Challenge    
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Good movies over a long period of time.
Average, 10 Qns, robert362, Feb 03 07
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trivia question Quick Question
In which film, starring his father Kirk Douglas, did Michael make his first screen appearance?

From Quiz "Michael Douglas - His Work - 1966-1990"





Michael Douglas Trivia Questions
1. In what film, set in World War II, did Michael appear in 1991?

From Quiz Michael Douglas' Films 1991-2005

Answer: Shining Through

Michael played the role of spymaster Ed Leland, who wanted to find out what a top ranking Nazi (played by Liam Neeson) was involved in. He sent his untrained secretary (played by Melanie Griffith) on the mission, but when things went badly wrong, Leland had to go to Germany to rescue her.

2. In which film, starring his father Kirk Douglas, did Michael make his first screen appearance?

From Quiz Michael Douglas - His Work - 1966-1990

Answer: Cast a Giant Shadow

Michael played a jeep driver (uncredited) in this film in 1966. He was an assistant film editor or gopher for the other films.

3. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones share the same birthday (though 25 years apart). What date and month is it?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: 25th September

Michael was born in 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey and Catherine was born in 1969 in Swansea, Wales. They met in 1998 at a film festival in Deauville, France, got engaged on New Years' Eve 1999 and married at the Plaza Hotel, New York on 18 November 2000.

4. Douglas starred in 'Disclosure'. Who wrote the novel?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: Michael Crichton

Good movie that didn't do that well. With Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland (and Dennis Miller). Ezsterhas did the script for 'Basic Instinct'.

5. In what year was Michael born?

From Quiz Life and Times of Michael Douglas

Answer: 1944

Michael was born on September 25th, 1944. He also shares his birthday with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and their very good friend, Barbara Walters.

6. By what name was Michael's character known to the police in 'Falling Down' (1992)?

From Quiz Michael Douglas' Films 1991-2005

Answer: D-Fens

The film was set in a single day, starting at the point where William Foster, played by Michael, became totally frustrated. His frustration was caused by being stuck in a traffic jam on a hot day, after losing his job. He abandoned his car and set off to walk across Los Angeles to his ex-wife's house, where his daughter was having a birthday party. On the way, his frustrations boiled over into a shooting spree across the city. The police only knew him as D-Fens because of the number plate of his abandoned car.

7. In which full-length film did Michael play his first starring role?

From Quiz Michael Douglas - His Work - 1966-1990

Answer: Hail, Hero

In this 1969 film, Michael played Carl Dixon, a young pacifist, who tried to win his father's respect by going to fight in Vietnam. 'Summertree' was another anti-war film, produced by Kirk Douglas in 1971. 'Napoleon and Samantha' was a Disney production in 1972. 'The Streets of San Francisco' was a TV series in the 1970s.

8. In what film did Michael appear with his father, his mother and his son?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: It Runs in the Family

This 2003 film followed the problems of Alex Gromberg (Michael) and his relationships with his family - his parents Mitchell and Evelyn (played by his father Kirk Douglas and his mother Diana Douglas) and his son Asher (played by his son Cameron Douglas).

9. Although not a 'Michael Douglas movie', Douglas had a role in 'The China Syndrome'. What was it?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: Member of the news team

Very good movie. With Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon.

10. Who is the actress that he married in 2000?

From Quiz Life and Times of Michael Douglas

Answer: Catherine Zeta-Jones & Zeta-Jones & Catherine Zeta Jones & Zeta Jones & Jones & Catherine

He met Catherine Zeta-Jones at the Deauville Film Festival in France in August 1998, began dating in March 1999 and got engaged on New Year's Eve 1999. They were married on 18th November 2000.

11. Tom Saunders, played by Michael, was hoping for promotion at the start of the 1994 film 'Disclosure'. What organisation did he work for?

From Quiz Michael Douglas' Films 1991-2005

Answer: Digicom Corporation

The film was set in the hi-tech world of computers. Michael's character, Tom, found that the promotion went to an ex-girlfriend (played by Demi Moore) who wanted him to re-start their relationship. When he refused, things got pretty nasty, and Tom had to fight to save both his job and his marriage.

12. In which state did Michael, as Adam Gaines, spend the summer in the 1970 film 'Adam at 6AM'?

From Quiz Michael Douglas - His Work - 1966-1990

Answer: Missouri

Adam Gaines, a young dissatisfied college professor, went to a great-aunt's funeral in Missouri and stayed on there for the summer, loving the simple life-style. He got a job as a labourer and fell in love with a local girl, but then had to face a decision about which way he wanted his life to go.

13. What was the name of the President played by Michael in 'The American President'?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: Andrew Shepherd

The film is a comedy-drama about the widowed President Andrew Shepherd who falls in love with political lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening), giving his rivals and the media the opportunity to attack his presidency. A J MacInerny was played by Martin Sheen who then went on to play President Josiah Bartlet in 'The West Wing'; Lewis Rothschild was played by Michael J Fox and Leon Kodak was played by David Paymer.

14. Douglas starred in 'The American President'. Who played his political opponent?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: Richard Dreyfuss

Extremely pleasant. All of the choices were in the cast (along with Annette Bening). Aaron Sorkin script.

15. What is Michael's middle name?

From Quiz Life and Times of Michael Douglas

Answer: Kirk

His middle name comes from his famous father, Kirk Douglas.

16. At the beginning of 'The American President' (1995), Michael, as President Andrew Shepherd, wanted to send a bill to Congress that dealt with what?

From Quiz Michael Douglas' Films 1991-2005

Answer: Crime control

In the first meeting with his staff, Andrew Shepherd informed them that the crime bill was to be top priority in his domestic agenda. His staff, notably Lewis Rothschild (played by Michael J Fox), wanted handgun restrictions included in the bill, but Shepherd refused. By the end of the film, he had changed his mind, and in his speech at the press conference, said that he was throwing out the crime bill and writing a new one that would address the problem of assault weapons and handguns.

17. What was the name of Michael's character in 'The Streets of San Francisco'?

From Quiz Michael Douglas - His Work - 1966-1990

Answer: Steve Keller

Michael played Inspector Steve Keller, the younger and more inexperienced partner of veteran cop Lt Mike Stone (played by Karl Marlden) for 4 seasons from 1972 to 1976. Detective Sgt Nick Conklin was Michael's role in 'Black Rain' (1989) and Detective Nick Curran was his role in 'Basic Instinct' (1982).

18. Which film gave Michael his first Oscar in 1976?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Michael's Oscar in 1976 was for co-producer (with Saul Zaentz) of the film which won the Best Picture Award. His other Oscar was for Best Actor as Gordon Gekko in 'Wall Street'.

19. 'Black Rain' was set in what country?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: Japan

Not his best movie.

20. What did Michael and his wife name their son, born in August 2000?

From Quiz Life and Times of Michael Douglas

Answer: Dylan Michael

Dylan Michael was born on 8th August about 6 p.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre near Beverly Hills. The baby weighed in at 7 pounds and seven ounces and measured 21 and a half inches.

21. In what country was most of 'The Ghost and the Darkness' (1996) filmed?

From Quiz Michael Douglas' Films 1991-2005

Answer: South Africa

The film was based on a true story of two man-eating lions which terrorised the workmen who were building a bridge over the Tsavo River in East Africa. Michael (as executive producer) wanted to make the film in the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, but it was not suitable for the film. Instead, much of the film was shot in the Songimelvo Game Reserve in South Africa. In addition to producing, Michael played the experienced hunter, who, with the bridge engineer (Val Kilmer), was recruited to hunt and kill the lions.

22. Michael had the same female co-star in 3 films between 1984 and 1989. Who was she?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner was his co-star in 'Romancing the Stone', 'The Jewel of the Nile' and 'The War of the Roses'. Annette Bening was his co-star in 'The American President', Sharon Stone in 'Basic Instinct' and Gwyneth Paltrow in 'A Perfect Murder'.

23. Douglas had an unusual role in 'Falling Down'. Who was also in the movie?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: Tuesday Weld

It was Weld - but as an older woman, rather than as the young beauty of earlier days. Landers was in 'Chorus Line'. Moore was in 'Disclosure'. Griffith was in 'Shining Through'.

24. In what year did Michael win an Oscar for his part, (not necessarily an acting role), in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'?

From Quiz Life and Times of Michael Douglas

Answer: 1976

Although he didn't play a role in the movie, he was one of the producers of it. Michael also won a Golden Globe award for this movie as well.

25. In which of Michael's films did an ice pick have a gruesome significance?

From Quiz Michael Douglas' Films 1991-2005

Answer: Basic Instinct

The ice pick was used at the beginning of this 1991 film in the vicious killing of a retired rock star and night club manager. Detective Nick Curran (Michael), one of the detectives investigating the murder, became more and more involved with the main suspect, the rock star's girlfriend (played by Sharon Stone). The film ended with the suggestion that Nick himself might be the next victim of the ice pick ...

26. In which film did Michael play Steve Tobias?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: The In-laws

Steve Tobias was the CIA operative who dragged conventional podiatrist Jerome Payser (Albert Brooks), the father of his prospective daughter-in-law, into a series of chaotic activities, not least jumping off the tallest building in Chicago when they were strapped together with (fortunately) a parachute!

27. Who played the wife in 'Fatal Attraction'?

From Quiz Michael Douglas

Answer: Anne Archer

Close was the 'other woman' in the movie. Paltrow was in 'A Perfect Murder'. Turner was in 'Romancing the Stone'.

28. What charitable organization does Michael belong to?

From Quiz Life and Times of Michael Douglas

Answer: UN Messenger of Peace

The UN (United Nations) Messenger of Peace group focuses worldwide attention on nuclear disarmament and human rights.

29. In which 1997 film was Michael's character given a very unusual birthday gift?

From Quiz Michael Douglas' Films 1991-2005

Answer: The Game

Michael played Nicholas van Orton, a wealthy investment banker who, as a birthday gift from his younger brother, was enrolled in a 'game'. This 'game' turned his life upside down, leaving him not knowing what was real life and what was part of 'The Game'.

30. In which film did Michael appear with both Charlie and Martin Sheen?

From Quiz Michael Douglas - His Work - 1966-1990

Answer: Wall Street

(1987) Michael played Gordon Gekko, a ruthless Wall St broker who took young and ambitious Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen) under his wing. Bud's father, Carl Fox, was played by his real-life dad, Martin Sheen who later appeared with Michael in 'The American President' (1995).

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