Leo D. Based On a True Story Trivia Quiz

Answer: This Boy's Life

"This Boy's Life" was based on the memoir written by American author Tobias Wolff. When Tobias's parents divorced, his brother and father moved to the east coast, and Tobias and his mother moved to the west. She married a man who turned out to be abusive. Despite this difficult upbringing, Tobias went on to success as a writer, eventually joining Stanford as an English professor.

In the movie version of the story, the stepfather was played by Robert De Niro and the mother by Ellen Barkin. The movie was filmed largely in the same Washington town where Tobias and his mother had lived.

"Boy's Life" is the name of the official magazine of the Boy Scouts; it began production in 1911.

Answer: heroin

Leo's character, Jim Carroll, was a prodigy on the court, but pressures off the court led him toward illicit drug use and addiction. He spiraled down until he went to jail, then reversed directions and became a successful poet.

The real Jim Carroll published his memoir of the same name in 1978; it was formed around actual diary entries from his youth. A native New Yorker, he moved to California in an attempt to leave drugs behind. He also became a musician, collaborating with such artists as Lou Reed, Pearl Jam, and ELO before his death in 2009.

Answer: David Thewlis

David Thewlis was born in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1963 and built a solid acting career before joining the cast of the "Harry Potter" movies. In "Total Eclipse", he played the part of the real poet Paul Verlaine. The movie was about his stormy affair with Arthur Rimbaud, played by Leo.

The movie did not receive very good reviews from critics.

Answer: Jack Dawson

Although the movie "Titanic" did portray some real-life passengers from the ill-fated luxury ship, Leo's Jack Dawson was a figment of the screenwriter's imagination, as was his love interest, Rose DeWitt Bukater, played by Kate Winslet. Real people portrayed in the movie included Molly Brown, played by Kathy Bates, and Captain Edward John Smith, played by Bernard Hill.

The film broke all sorts of records, won many awards, and earned Leo a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Drama.

Answer: Frank Abagnale, Jr.

Frank Abagnale, Jr., the real life person and the movie character, managed to impersonate a doctor, a lawyer, and a pilot successfully, while a determined FBI agent was closing in on him.

Leo was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama.

Answer: Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese is one of this era's most important and accomplished directors. The screenplay of "Gangs of New York" was based on a nonfiction book of the same name published in 1927. The story followed Irish organized crime bosses in Manhattan and dealt with themes of loyalty, jealousy, and revenge. Leo played Amsterdam Vallon who is focused on avenging the death of a loved one. Scorsese won a Golden Globe for Best Director and earned other accolades and nominations.

Answer: Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes was born in 1905 to a prominent Texas family; intelligent and determined, Howard was involved in engineering, filmmaking, Las Vegas real estate, and aviation. The movie, and the biography is was based on, covered the era of his career when he was simultaneously succeeding in business and destabilizing in private. Leo was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award.

Answer: J. Edgar Hoover

"J. Edgar" covered the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the 1st director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations. Hoover was powerful, so powerful than even the whiff of scandal didn't dislodge him from the office, which he held under one title or another from 1924 to 1972, under nine different presidents.

Leo was nominated for several awards for his portrayal of Hoover.

Answer: Wolf

"The Wolf of Wall Street" was the fifth collaborative project between Leo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese. It centered on the biography of Jordan Belfort and his rise and fall in stock trading. Jonah Hill starred as Jordan's right-hand man, and Matthew McConaughey as his intense mentor.

Answer: The Revenant

In 2002, Michael Punke published a book based on a frontiersman named Hugh Glass, and in 2015 Leo starred in a movie based on that book of the same name, "The Revenant". In this story, Glass was attacked by a bear and left for dead, and it only went downhill from there.

In interviews, Leo indicated it was the hardest shoot he'd ever been on, forcing him to act in freezing and outdoor conditions. His hard work paid off, though; he won Best Actor awards from several different film organizations.