British Stars Who Sell Trivia Quiz

Answer: George Best

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, George Best (May 22nd 1946 - November 26th 2005) was regarded as one of the most gifted players of his era. He signed for the English side Manchester United as a teenager and became a prolific goalscorer. However, Best became known for his pop star lifestyle and his dalliances with a number of beauty queens.

Many observers believed that this, and his fondness for alcohol, meant he never reached his full footballing potential. Best's death was due to kidney failure directly related to his alcoholism. Cookstown was the brand name of a firm that manufactured pork products.

It was based (naturally) in the town of Cookstown, Co Tyrone.

Answer: Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon (birth name Franklin Birkinshaw) was born in Worcestershire on September 22 1931. She was noted for the feminist theme of many novels. She also worked as a radio and TV screenwriter and as an advertising copywriter. She was credited with writing the "go to work on an egg" slogan for the British Egg Council.

Answer: Dustin Hoffman

In 1966, Hoffman appeared in a US TV advert for the VW Fastback. At that time most people's experience of VW was of the Beetle, which had an engine behind the driver. Hoffman advertised that the "roomy" fastback had two.
"It's got a trunk up front where most cars have their motors" said Hoffman, showing the viewers the trunk. "And in the back, where most cars have their trunks, we have (looks inside to find nothing there, apparently) a trunk, a large trunk". In fact the engine was under a shelf in the rear trunk.
A year later, Hoffman made 'The Graduate' and went on to a glittering career that included Oscars for 'Kramer vs Kramer' (1979) and 'Rainman' (1988).

Answer: Clement Freud

Sir Clement Raphael Freud April 24th 1924 to April 15th 2009 had a varied career as a writer, broadcaster and Member of Parliament. Noted for his lugubrious appearance, it seemed to fit perfectly as the face of a dog food advertising campaign in the 1960s. He was accompanied in the adverts by a bloodhound called Henry.

Answer: Martini

The black and white commercial showed Clooney walking into a party through a scrum of paparazzi photographers and making a beeline for the Martini bottles on a bar. His face fell we he found the ice bucket empty. The woman took the glass from his hand and used a sword to cut of certain parts of an ice-sculpture bull's anatomy (!) to provide chunks of ice. You can see the commercial on youtube. Clooney also advertised Toyota cars in Japan. Meanwhile, Jackie Chan advertised children's clothes; Eva Longoria advertised ice cream; Arnold Schwarzenegger advertised a Japanese soft drink; Angelina Jolie advertised eye make-up; Uma Thurman advertised fast broadband; Samuel L. Jackson advertised cable TV; Halle Berry advertised chocolate; Ewan McGregor advertised a men's fragrance. Brad Pitt advertised Rolex watches. Pitt also advertised coffee in Japan, as did Tommy Lee Jones. [View some of them on http://filmonic.com/hollywood-actors-in-commercials]

Answer: Gary Lineker

Gary Lineker was born in Leicester, England, on November 30th 1960 and started his football career with the home team club, Leicester City in 1977. Over the next 23 years he was a prolific goalscorer for Leicester, Everton, Barcelona,(Spain) Tottenham Hotspur, Nagoya Grampus Eight (Japan) and for the England national team.

He scored 283 club goals and 48 for England. After he retired, he began a media career as a broadcaster, chiefly of football. During his career, Lineker was known as a 'good guy' who was rarely in trouble with the officials.

After his soccer career, he played contrary to this goody-goody image by appearing as potato crisp stealing villain in a long running series of advertisements for the company Walkers.

Answer: L'Oréal

Based in Paris, L'Oreal became the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company.
The slogan changed over the years since it first appeared as "Because I'm worth it" in 1967.
AdSlogans.com placed it among the Hall of Fame Top 10 in 2002.

Answer: Cinzano (vermouth)

The actress Joan Collins was born in England on May 23 1933. She had many starring roles in movies and TV from 1951. While many of her movie and TV roles were quite forgettable, she was to find stardom in the US soap 'Dynasty' (1981 to 1989).
Collins starred with the late British comedian Leonard Rossiter in four TV advertisements for the Cinzano brand between 1978 and 1983.
The Cinzano company was set up in Italy in 1757. Among its products, and the one advertised by Collins and Rossiter, was a type of vermouth. Their 1979 'Airliner' advert was named 11th best television commercial ever in a poll conducted in 2000 by 'The Sunday Times' and Channel 4 television.

Answer: Christina Aguilera

For Pepsi, Britney Spears appeared in three series of ads from 2001; Cindy Crawford in the 'New Can' advert in 1991 and 'Think Young, Drink Young', 2003; Beyoncé Knowles in 'Joy of Pepsi', 2003.
For Coke, Christina Aguilera starred in her first advert in 2001. Meanwhile, Roy Orbison featured in 1960s advertising, as did Jan and Dean, The Supremes, Jay and the Americans, The Moody Blues, and Petula Clark. The Welsh singer Duffy joined that illustrious list in 2009.

Answer: Victoria's Secret

"I'm sick of love but I'm in the thick of it
This kind of love I'm so sick of it"
'Love Sick' appeared on the 1997 album 'Time Out Of Mind' It was used by the lingerie company, with Dylan in the video, in 2004.
Dylan also appeared in a Cadillac TV commercial and singing "Forever Young" in a Pepsi commercial (with Will I. Am).