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Quiz about Amazing Movie Stars 3
Quiz about Amazing Movie Stars 3

Amazing Movie Stars 3 Trivia Quiz


Quizzical47: Here are 25 multi-choice questions on movie stars which increase in difficulty. Have fun.

A multiple-choice quiz by Quizzical. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
Quizzical
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
43,747
Updated
Dec 30 21
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
18 / 25
Plays
7898
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 66 (21/25), Guest 209 (23/25), Guest 78 (12/25).
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Question 1 of 25
1. This American actor became a minor league baseball star in the 1970s. In a television movie he made a striking impersonation of Elvis Presley and for years has lived with Goldie Hawn, with whom he has a son. Hint


Question 2 of 25
2. This American actor once performed as a club comic. 'Night Shift' was his debut film and his real name is Michael Douglas. He has played 'Batman' in two big-budget films. Hint


Question 3 of 25
3. This British actor was jetted to international stardom with the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. He had lived with actress Elizabeth Hurley for thirteen years before parting in 2000. Hint


Question 4 of 25
4. This American actress graduated to pin-up roles and was married to Roger Vadim. She was known for her anti-Vietnam War views and is the daughter of a famous acting father. Hint


Question 5 of 25
5. This grey-haired American actor was a former nightclub comedian who is best at playing silly, vulgar or endearing roles. He married and divorced actress Victoria Tennant. Hint


Question 6 of 25
6. Who is the American actor who became Hollywood's hottest box-office hit following back-to-back best actor Academy Awards (the first since Spencer Tracy in 1937-38 with 'Captains Courageous' and 'Boys' Town')? Hint


Question 7 of 25
7. This dancing and singing American actor was Hollywood's highest paid actor by 1995. He married actress Kelly Preston. Hint


Question 8 of 25
8. This Italian glamour girl and international leading lady was never accused of overacting as it was debatable whether she ever acted at all playing mindless, plastic beauties. She was nationally known as 'La lollo'. Hint


Question 9 of 25
9. This India-born British actress played 'Bathsheba' in 'Far from the Madding Crowd' and won an Oscar for her performance in 'Darling'. Hint


Question 10 of 25
10. She was America's top star from 1935-38. She couldn't really sing but did so delightfully and she danced with the confidence of Gene Kelly. She became American ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia. Hint


Question 11 of 25
11. American actor who has written screenplays and occasionally directs. He's played loners imbued with self-dislike and he won his third Oscar for 'As Good as it Gets'. Hint


Question 12 of 25
12. This star's legs were supposedly insured for millions of dollars with Lloyds of London and made her queen of World War Two pin-ups. She married Jackie Coogan (1937-1940). Hint


Question 13 of 25
13. This American actress founded her own production company in 1991, Egg Pictures, and began directing her first film at 29. Before she was fourteen she had played a gangster's moll, a murderess, and a prostitute. Hint


Question 14 of 25
14. This American actor-director married and divorced Rita Hayworth, his second of three wives. In 1938 he panicked the whole of America with a vivid radio version of 'The War of the Worlds'. Hint


Question 15 of 25
15. This American actress was on the verge of stardom for 25 years without becoming a major attraction. She won an Academy Award nomination as the wronged wife in 'Fatal Attraction'. Hint


Question 16 of 25
16. This American actor's son was killed in an air crash in 1987. He became one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions in films between 1958-65 having quit as a straight man in a comedy partnership lasting from 1946-57. Hint


Question 17 of 25
17. This American entertainer grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii. She was permitted to use her Mae West-style personality to steal scenes in films not specifically tailored to her. Hint


Question 18 of 25
18. This British actress was a talented singer who was in stage musicals as a teenager. She has never been afraid of nudity and 'Heavenly Creatures' (1994) was her debut film. Hint


Question 19 of 25
19. This Swaziland-born actor had the surname Esterhuysen. He was seen in the film Pret-a-Porter whose American version was called 'Ready to Wear'. Hint


Question 20 of 25
20. Amazingly this British-born Hollywood star never won an Oscar although he was given an honorary one in 1969. He originally went to America as an acrobat and died following a stroke in 1986. Hint


Question 21 of 25
21. American actress who was a top model for years before switching to acting at the age of 35. During the 1990s she co-starred with Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Dustin Hoffman, Mel Gibson and John Travolta. Hint


Question 22 of 25
22. Which Irish-born actor was nominated eight times, but did not win an Academy Award? Hint


Question 23 of 25
23. This Tasmanian-born star was a renowned womaniser on and off the screen. Even after dying from a heart attack in 1959, he was accused of being a Nazi spy and IRA supporter. Hint


Question 24 of 25
24. This six-times married red-haired British comedian was fired more than once by his long-time boss, Hal Roach. He had director credits on some of his films. Hint


Question 25 of 25
25. This seven-time married American actress had a fourteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl. Cheryl stabbed her mother's lover, Johnny Stompanato, to death in the mother's bedroom in a Beverly Hills mansion when he threatened to cut her mother up. Who was Cheryl's mother? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. This American actor became a minor league baseball star in the 1970s. In a television movie he made a striking impersonation of Elvis Presley and for years has lived with Goldie Hawn, with whom he has a son.

Answer: Kurt Russell

2. This American actor once performed as a club comic. 'Night Shift' was his debut film and his real name is Michael Douglas. He has played 'Batman' in two big-budget films.

Answer: Michael Keaton

3. This British actor was jetted to international stardom with the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. He had lived with actress Elizabeth Hurley for thirteen years before parting in 2000.

Answer: Hugh Grant

He was educated at Oxford University and he started his career on stage as a comedian.
4. This American actress graduated to pin-up roles and was married to Roger Vadim. She was known for her anti-Vietnam War views and is the daughter of a famous acting father.

Answer: Jane Fonda

Her father was Henry Fonda.
5. This grey-haired American actor was a former nightclub comedian who is best at playing silly, vulgar or endearing roles. He married and divorced actress Victoria Tennant.

Answer: Steve Martin

6. Who is the American actor who became Hollywood's hottest box-office hit following back-to-back best actor Academy Awards (the first since Spencer Tracy in 1937-38 with 'Captains Courageous' and 'Boys' Town')?

Answer: Tom Hanks

'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' were his back-to-back Academy Awards.
7. This dancing and singing American actor was Hollywood's highest paid actor by 1995. He married actress Kelly Preston.

Answer: John Travolta

8. This Italian glamour girl and international leading lady was never accused of overacting as it was debatable whether she ever acted at all playing mindless, plastic beauties. She was nationally known as 'La lollo'.

Answer: Gina Lollobrigida

9. This India-born British actress played 'Bathsheba' in 'Far from the Madding Crowd' and won an Oscar for her performance in 'Darling'.

Answer: Julie Christie

10. She was America's top star from 1935-38. She couldn't really sing but did so delightfully and she danced with the confidence of Gene Kelly. She became American ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia.

Answer: Shirley Temple

11. American actor who has written screenplays and occasionally directs. He's played loners imbued with self-dislike and he won his third Oscar for 'As Good as it Gets'.

Answer: Jack Nicholson

He won Academy Awards for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Terms of Endearment'
12. This star's legs were supposedly insured for millions of dollars with Lloyds of London and made her queen of World War Two pin-ups. She married Jackie Coogan (1937-1940).

Answer: Betty Grable

13. This American actress founded her own production company in 1991, Egg Pictures, and began directing her first film at 29. Before she was fourteen she had played a gangster's moll, a murderess, and a prostitute.

Answer: Jodie Foster

14. This American actor-director married and divorced Rita Hayworth, his second of three wives. In 1938 he panicked the whole of America with a vivid radio version of 'The War of the Worlds'.

Answer: Orson Welles

Films he directed included Citizen Kane (1941).
15. This American actress was on the verge of stardom for 25 years without becoming a major attraction. She won an Academy Award nomination as the wronged wife in 'Fatal Attraction'.

Answer: Anne Archer

16. This American actor's son was killed in an air crash in 1987. He became one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions in films between 1958-65 having quit as a straight man in a comedy partnership lasting from 1946-57.

Answer: Dean Martin

His comedy partner was Jerry Lewis.
17. This American entertainer grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii. She was permitted to use her Mae West-style personality to steal scenes in films not specifically tailored to her.

Answer: Bette Midler

18. This British actress was a talented singer who was in stage musicals as a teenager. She has never been afraid of nudity and 'Heavenly Creatures' (1994) was her debut film.

Answer: Kate Winslet

19. This Swaziland-born actor had the surname Esterhuysen. He was seen in the film Pret-a-Porter whose American version was called 'Ready to Wear'.

Answer: Richard E. Grant

20. Amazingly this British-born Hollywood star never won an Oscar although he was given an honorary one in 1969. He originally went to America as an acrobat and died following a stroke in 1986.

Answer: Cary Grant

21. American actress who was a top model for years before switching to acting at the age of 35. During the 1990s she co-starred with Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Dustin Hoffman, Mel Gibson and John Travolta.

Answer: Rene Russo

22. Which Irish-born actor was nominated eight times, but did not win an Academy Award?

Answer: Peter O'Toole

Nominations were for 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Becket', 'The Lion in Winter', 'Goodbye Mr. Chips', 'The Ruling Class', 'The Stuntman', 'My Favorite Year', and 'Venus'.
23. This Tasmanian-born star was a renowned womaniser on and off the screen. Even after dying from a heart attack in 1959, he was accused of being a Nazi spy and IRA supporter.

Answer: Errol Flynn

24. This six-times married red-haired British comedian was fired more than once by his long-time boss, Hal Roach. He had director credits on some of his films.

Answer: Stan Laurel

We mainly see him in black and white movies, so the red hair is surprising.
25. This seven-time married American actress had a fourteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl. Cheryl stabbed her mother's lover, Johnny Stompanato, to death in the mother's bedroom in a Beverly Hills mansion when he threatened to cut her mother up. Who was Cheryl's mother?

Answer: Lana Turner

She was known as the 'Sweater Girl'. Hope you enjoyed the quiz and learnt something new.
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