Cameo People Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sarah Silverman

Sarah, better known for 'The Sarah Silverman Show' played one of Cameron Diaz's best friends in 'There's Something About Mary'. She played Jane in the 'Frasier' episode entitled 'Maris Returns' (2003). She portrayed the part of Rain Robinson in the 'Voyager' two-part episode entitled 'Future's End (parts 1 and 2)' (1996).

Answer: Patrick Stewart

Avery Brooks has been a recurring character on American animation, 'American Dad'. The character acts as the boss of the central character, Stan, on the show. Number One was the leader of the stonecutters on an episode of 'The Simpsons' entitled 'Homer the Great'. Patrick made fun of himself when appearing on Ricky Gervais' 'Extras'. Here is an example of a Patrick Stewart line on the episode.

"Yeah. For instance, I'm walking along, and I see this beautiful girl, and I think I'd like to see her naked, so all her clothes fall off."

Answer: Brendan Fraser

In 'My Occurrence' (2002), 'My Hero' (2002) and 'My Screwup' (2004), Brendan plays a character that suffers from, and ultimately dies from leukemia. He is Brad in 'King of the Hill' (1998), and episode in which 'Homer' decides to climb the highest mountain peak in the Springfield area.

Answer: Richard Branson

With the company Virgin, Richard Branson has been quite the entrepreneur. He appears in the 'Friends' episode entitled 'The One with Ross' Wedding: part 1' which aired in 1998. He played himself in 'Only Fools and Horses' in a movie length version of the show called 'Miami Twice' (1991). Richard also scored a cameo for himself in 'James Bond' flick 'Casino Royale' (2006) due to a business deal involving his airline.

Answer: Robert Downey, Jr.

Patrick Pewterschmit was a character on 'Family Guy' that appeared in the episode entitled, 'The Fat Guy Strangler', a brother of Lois Griffin, one of the central characters. Tony Stark is also known as Iron Man. Robert Downey, Jr., can also be recalled as having played Larry Paul on 'Ally McBeal'.

Answer: The Rock

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson featured on 'It Doesn't Matter' (1997) with former Fugees member Wyclef Jean. All I know is that he got a makeover on the 'Hannah Montana' show. Films that have starred 'The Rock' include 'Doom' (2005) and 'The Game Plan' (2007).

Answer: Stan Lee

Stan Lee, of course, created the Marvel universe and is respected by comic book and movie hands all over the world. He has listed dodging falling Debris in 'Spider-Man 2' (2004) and selling hotdogs in X-Men (2000) amongst his cameo appearances in the 'Marvel' movies.

In the 'Mallrats' movie, his cameo is quite pivotal in helping the love life of one of the central characters (Brodie). Bob Kane is associated with 'DC' comics and Peter Parker and Remy LeBeau and both fictional characters that Stan Lee created (Spiderman and Gambit).

Answer: George Wendt

George was Privat La Roche in the episode, 'Trick or Treatment' (1982). He played the father of Macaulay Culkin in Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' video in 1991. George is most famous for playing the character Norm Peterson from 'Cheers'. Norm has even made cameo appearances on other shows, including 'Family Guy', 'The Simpsons' and 'Frasier'.

George has also advertised Smithwicks ale on Irish national television.

Answer: Ben Stiller

'The One with the Screamer' (1997) is named for the character Ben played on 'Friends'. He played Rachel's boyfriend, Tommy. Arturo Mendes was a rival newscaster to Will Ferrell's 'Ron Burgundy' and Steve Carrell played Brick Tamland in the same movie. Jack Black and Kyle Gass played the lead characters in the 'Tenacious D' flick.

Answer: George Clooney

Aaron Eckhart played a love rival of Frasier's named Frank in two episodes ('And Frasier Makes Three' and 'Miss Right Now' both 2004). Wolfgang Puck played himself in 'The Proposal' (2002). Linda Hamilton voiced a character named Claire that rang into Frasier's show in the first episode of the show, 'The Good Son' (1993), and she played a character named Laura in 'Odd Man Out'.