S.I. - Spielberg Intelligence Trivia Quiz

Answer: Phoenix

The bland, tract-home suburbia depicted in such films as E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Poltergeist (which Spielberg produced and co-wrote) has its origins in Spielberg's Arizona childhood.

Answer: Bruce

Fittingly, Spielberg named the razor-toothed beast Bruce ... after his lawyer. Ouch!

Answer: Amblin

Amblin Entertainment was named after Spielberg's acclaimed 26-minute 1968 movie about a young man and woman who meet in the desert and decide to hitchhike to the beach. He expanded upon this early road-movie experience with the white-knuckler TV movie "Duel" and his first feature, "The Sugarland Express". "Sugarland" stars Goldie Hawn as a young mother who springs her husband from prison, then hits the highway--with authorities in hot pursuit--to retrieve their young son from a foster home. (And as for the beach part, perhaps you've heard of a little thing called Jaws ...)

Answer: Tom Selleck

Unfortunately for Tom Selleck, contractual obligations to the TV series "Magnum, P.I." prevented him from donning a hat and brandishing a bullwhip as Indy. While Harrison Ford went on to make "Witness", "The Fugitive" and "Air Force One", Selleck's movie career never really took off (with the exception of "Three Men and a Baby").

Instead, he turned up in "Mr. Baseball", "Quigley Down Under" and as a guest star on "Friends".

Answer: Amazing Stories

Given his clout in Hollywood, Spielberg was able to lure top-name talent for his "Amazing Stories", which was modeled as a less paranoid "Twilight Zone" and less scary "Night Gallery" (for which he directed episodes early in his career). Despite the involvement of such actors as Kevin Costner, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Tim Robbins, John Lithgow and Danny DeVito--not to mention directors such as Tim Burton, Joe Dante, Clint Eastwood, Tobe Hooper, Robert Zemeckis, Martin Scorsese and Spielberg himself--"Amazing Stories" never seemed to click with audiences, who often clicked elsewhere on the dial instead.

Answer: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The couple first met when Spielberg cast Capshaw as Wilhelmina 'Willie' Scott -- the cabaret performer who's swept into an adventure with Indy and his young Asian sidekick, Short Round -- in 1984's "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". After divorcing actress Amy Irving, to whom he was married from 1985 to 1989, Spielberg wed Capshaw, on October 12th, 1991.

Answer: The Blues Brothers

Director John Landis, who loves to give fellow directors small roles in his movies, cast Spielberg as the Cook County clerk in his Chicago-set musical romp "The Blues Brothers".

Answer: Mashed potatoes

After witnessing a spacecraft, Dreyfuss' obsession with the image of "Devil's Tower" drives him to create impromptu sculptures from shaving cream, a mound of clay from his child's train set -- and even a pile of mashed potatoes during dinner.

Answer: Debra Winger

If you thought Debra Winger was all about weepy romance and drama flicks, think again--the actress lent her voice to the world's favorite alien. So, does that mean E.T.'s female?

Answer: Drew Barrymore

Spielberg met Drew Barrymore when he cast her as Gertie in "E.T." Little did he know she would grow up to pose for "Playboy". When the director found out, he sent Barrymore a blanket so she could cover up.