Crazy About Patrick Swayze Trivia Quiz

Answer: Wayne

He was born Patrick Wayne Swayze, to Jesse and Patsy Swayze on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas. He had two brothers and two sisters. His youngest sister, Bambi, was adopted.

Answer: Red Dawn

"Red Dawn" (1984) was about a group of high school students in Colorado who became guerrilas when the U.S. was invaded by the Soviet Union and Cuba. They called themselves, the Wolverines, after their school mascot. Patrick played the older brother of Matt (Charlie Sheen), and Jennifer Grey played Toni.

She later co-starred with Swayze in the 1987 hit film, "Dirty Dancing". The film name was used by the U.S. Army's, Operation Red Dawn, in which Saddam Hussein was captured on December 13, 2003.

Answer: Dance studio

Lisa Anne Haapaniemi (later shortened for the pronunciation), was 15 years old when she and Patrick met at his mother's dance studio in Houston, Texas. Together, she and Patrick took dance lessons. When Lisa was 19 years old, they were married on June 12, 1975.

Answer: MASH

Patrick portrayed a soldier who was dying of leukemia in the series, in "MASH: "Blood Brothers" (1981).

Answer: Suicide

Patrick's sister, Vicky, used pain killers to commit suicide. Patrick had been very close to his sister. It was then, he turned to alcohol to try to deal with his grief. His father, Jesse Wayne Swayze, died of alcoholism in 1982. His wife, Lisa, gave him an ultimatum, that it was the alcohol or her. He chose to check himself into a clinic and get help to overcome his disease.

Answer: She's Like The Wind

Patrick revealed an unknown talent to the public when he wrote, composed, and performed his hit song, "She's Like The Wind". It reached number three on the American pop charts.

Answer: Arabian

Patrick's father, Jesse Wayne Swayze, was friends with Tom and Rita McNair, who were well-known for their breeding and training of Arabian horses. They trained a chestnut Arabian horse named Tammen, which was given to Patrick by his wife, Lisa. Used as a sire in their own breeding program, Patrick always said that Tammen was his favorite horse.

Answer: North and South

Patrick played the part of a confederate soldier who befriended, George, a member of the Union army. ABC ran the six part mini-series in November of 1985.

Answer: Yes

Patrick and his wife, Lisa Neimi, are both qualified pilots. On Thursday, June 15, 2000, he was flying his twin-engine plane solo, when he made an emergency landing in Prescott Valley, Arizona. When the authorities arrived at the landing site, Patrick was nowhere to be found.

It was reported that he had hitched a ride with a passing motorist to a nearby house and telephoned the officials. Rumor had it that three construction workers helped him unload a 30-pack of Miller Lite beer from the damaged plane.

Answer: Black Dog

The film "Black Dog" (1998), was based on a character named Jack Crews (played by Swayze) who had been incarcerated for an accidental vehicular homicide. The ex-con took a cross-country job hauling, what he thought, was a load of bathroom fixtures, but it was actually an illegal load that he was carrying.

He met up with other (musical) actors such as Meat Loaf, who played his enemy Red, and Randy Travis, who played Earl, his riding companion. The term, Black Dog, can mean several different things, but in the United States, it is deemed as a hallucination due to sleep deprivation, where truckers see a shadow of a black dog coming across the road.

It can cause the 18-wheeler to wreck.