Famous People Trivia Quiz Questions
Who described his acting range as "left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow
raise?
A: Roger Moore.
Which actress is ex-beauty queen Miss Orange County 1976?
A: Michelle Pfeiffer.
Which actor became playwright Arthur Miller's son-in-law in
1997?
A: Daniel Day-Lewis.
Which actress perished in the shower in the remake of Psycho?
A: Anne Heche.
Which American scientist discovered that sickle cell anemia is caused
by a molecular fault in the blood?
A: Linus Pauling.
Who was the last Emperor of Vietnam?
A: Bao Dai.
Which major event was covered by war correspondent Martha Gellhorn?
A: D Day landings.
Who first coined the term cybernetics?
A: Norbert Wiener.
Who has the best famous people trivia quiz questions?
A: Trivia Country!
Who played Tarzan in the first two Tarzan films?
A: Elmo Lincoln.
Which film director was Anthony Quinn's father-in-law?
A: Cecil B de Mille.
Who said, "I squint because I can't take too much light?"
A: Clint Eastwood.
Who wrote the screenplay for The Crying Game?
A: Neil Jordan.
Who was the senior US diplomat held in the US Embassy in
Tehran?
A: Bruce Laingen.
Who was the first freely elected Marxist president in Latin America?
A: Allende.
Which doctor from the Rockefeller Institute in New York discovered
that cancer was caused by a virus?
A: Dr. Francis Peyton Rous.
Who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A: Sinclair Lewis.
Who was the first black student at the University of Alabama?
A: Autherine Lucy.
Who invented the liquid fuel powered rocket?
A: Robert H. Goddard.
Who was Geena Davis's husband when they made the loss-maker Cutthroat
Island?
A: Renny Harlin.
Which novelist appeared in the film Day For Night?
A: Graham Greene.
In 1993 who tried to buy the rights of his first movie Sizzle Beach
USA?
A: Kevin Costner.
What is Barbra Streisand's middle name?
A: Joan.
What did Jorge Luis Borges refer to as "a fight between two bald men
over a comb?"
A: Falklands conflict.
Who was William Taft's Vice President between 1909 and 1912?
A: James S. Sherman.
Who said, "How can you rule a country which produces 246 different
kinds of cheese?
A: Charles de Gaulle.
Which US committee won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997?
A: Land Mines.
Who first drew Mickey Mouse when Disney first supplied the voice?
A: Ub Iwerks.
Who invented the Polaroid camera?
A: Edwin Herbert Land.
Which star of The Krays wrote a prose and poetry book called America?
A: Steven Berkoff.
How many films had Christopher Reeve made before Superman in 1978?
A: One.
Who owned the LA nightclub The Viper Room at the time of River
Phoenix's death there in 1993?
A: Johnny Depp.
Who starred in Roger Vadim's remake of And God Crated Woman?
A: Rebecca de Mornay.
Which future First Lady had walk on parts in Becky Sharp and Small
Town Girl in the 30s?
A: Patricia Nixon.
Which actress wrote the novel The Last of the Really Great
Whangdoodles?
A: Julie Andrews.
Who was described by co star Nick Nolte as, "...a ball buster.
Protect me from her?"
A: Barbra Streisand.
Who were the first two men to drive on the Moon?
A: David Scott and James Irwin.
Who in 1996 made the longest spaceflight by a woman?
A: Shannon Lucid.
Who won the first of his Nobel prizes in 1956 for research which led
to the invention of the transistor?
A: John Bardeen.
Who led the 12th Army group in WWII, the largest US force ever
assembled?
A: Omar Bradley.
Which electrical engineer invented the triode valve in 1907?
A: Lee De Forest.
Who performed the first artificial heart transplant?
A: William DeVries.
In which movie did Bogart have his first gangster part?
A: The Petrified Forest.
Which film maker's first film was Pather Panchali?
A: Satyajit Ray.
Which actress was Roger Moor's first Bond girl?
A: Jane Seymour.
Who did Winona Ryder replace on the set of Mermaids?
A: Emily Lloyd.
Who designed the Geodesic Dome in the US Pavilion at the 1967
Montréal's World's Fair exhibition?
A: Buckminster Fuller.
Who was the top star at the US box office in 1935?
A: Shirley Temple.
Who was the star of the film based on the record Harper Valley PTA by
Jeannie C Riley?
A: Barbara Eden.
How is Paul Reubens also known in the film and TV world?
A: Pee Wee Herman.
Who founded the magazine Camera Work?
A: Alfred Stieglitz.
