Q 01/05

Burt Reynolds caused a sensation in 1972 by posing nude for a centrefold in which women's magazine?

A) Cosmopolitan

B) Playgirl

C) Harper's Bazaar

D) Mademoiselle

Answer · why

A) Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan ran the centrefold in its April 1972 issue, just before Deliverance opened. Reynolds said he posed for a kick and later regretted it.

Q 02/05

Burt Reynolds said in 2016 that he regretted turning down which role in the original Star Wars?

A) Luke Skywalker

B) Han Solo

C) Darth Vader

D) Obi-Wan Kenobi

Answer · why

B) Han Solo

Han Solo was a part Reynolds passed on because he didn't want that kind of role at the time. Decades later he admitted he wished he had taken it.

Q 03/05

In Smokey and the Bandit, Burt Reynolds's Bandit runs interference for a beer truck in which black car?

A) Chevrolet Camaro Z28

B) Ford Mustang

C) Pontiac Trans Am

D) Dodge Charger

Answer · why

C) Pontiac Trans Am

Pontiac Trans Am sales almost doubled within two years of the film's release. The carmaker's president promised to supply Reynolds with a new one ever...

Q 04/05

Burt Reynolds grew his famous mustache partly so people would stop saying he looked like which actor?

A) James Dean

B) Montgomery Clift

C) Paul Newman

D) Marlon Brando

Answer · why

D) Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando had little respect for his look-alike, and their feud became Hollywood legend. A young Reynolds was told he couldn't be in the film Sayo...

Q 05/05

Burt Reynolds turned down which film role after Sean Connery, insisting an American could never play it?

A) Sherlock Holmes

B) Robin Hood

C) James Bond

D) King Arthur

Answer · why

C) James Bond

James Bond was offered to Reynolds by the series producer Albert R. Broccoli. Reynolds refused, saying the part simply couldn't be done by an American...