Celebrity Trivia Questions

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If you think you know everything there is about celebrity trivia, check out these celebrity trivia questions old and new. Whip them out at a party and impress your friends with your extensive knowledge of movies, pop culture and famous celebrities.

Celebrity Trivia Questions about Men

1. Who owes his early career success to playing "the man with no name" in the spaghetti westerns? (Clint Eastwood)
2. What Sex and the City actor used to be a licensed hair stylist? (John Corbett)
3. What lifelong actor frequently starred alongside Shirley Temple? (Mickey Rooney)
4. What 1990s TV show was Robert Downey Jr. fired from after being arrested on drug charges? (Ally McBeal)
5. What writer/director team was at the helm of the major success Basic Instinct and the magnificent failure Showgirls? (Joe Eszterhas and Paul Verhoeven)
6. For what role did Robert De Niro win his first Academy Award? (Vito Corleone in the Godfather II, 1974)
7. Who dated actresses Juliette Lewis and Robin Givens? (Brad Pitt)
8. What famous actor lost 45 pounds to play an AIDS victim fighting wrongful termination, and then lost it again a few years later to play a man living on a deserted island? (Tom Hanks for his roles in Philadelphia and Castaway)
9. What actor once worked with the circus as a fire-eater? (Pierce Brosnan)
10. What actor from the TV show MASH was born with the name Alphonso D'Abruzzo? (Alan Alda)
11. What actor famously shoved a grapefruit in the face of his co-star in an improvised scene in the 1931 movie The Public Enemy? (James Cagney)
12. What two actors turned down the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather? (Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson)
13. What dashing Oscar-winning actor had a recurring role on the 1980s sitcom The Facts of Life? (George Clooney)
14. Who is actor William Mapother's famous celebrity cousin? (Tom Cruise)
15. What actor played a gangster turned mob rat in a 1990 movie directed by Martin Scorsese? (Ray Liotta in Goodfellas)
16. What best friends decided to write a screenplay so that they would have a film to star in and ended up winning an Oscar for it? (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for the film Good Will Hunting)
17. What actor publicly came out in support of cockfighting? (Wilford Brimley)

Celebrity Trivia Questions about Women

1. Who directed the uber-masculine action films Near Dark, Point Break, and The Hurt Locker? (Kathryn Bigelow)
2. What female celebrity appeared on the first cover of TV Guide next to a picture of her television baby? (Lucille Ball)
3. Who played the Las Vegas hustler Ginger McKenna in Casino? (Sharon Stone)
4. What head writer for Saturday Night Live left the show to star in her own NBC comedy? (Tina Fey)
5. Which blonde Texan formerly married to a famous British rocker had a reality show where she auditioned men to be her boyfriend? (Jerry Hall)
6. Which famous actress is Carrie Fisher's mother? (Debbie Reynolds)
7. Whose modeling career took off after she attended a movie premiere in a dress held together by safety pins? (Elizabeth Hurley)
8. What celebrity suffered several injuries while performing her own stunts in the hit show Alias? (Jennifer Garner)
9. Who is actress Shirley MacLean's brother? (Warren Beatty)
10. What actress grew up in Smyrna, Georgia? (Julia Roberts)
11. What actress from the Law and Order franchise is the daughter of blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield? (Mariska Hargitay)
12. What Home Alone mother voices a character in the film adaptation of the classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are? (Catherine O'Hara)