Q 01/05

Which saber-toothed tiger has Denis Leary voiced in the Ice Age films since the 2002 original?

A) Soto

B) Diego

C) Manny

D) Sid

Answer · why

B) Diego

Diego begins the 2002 film as a spy for his pack, ordered to bring back a human baby alive, before turning on his own leader to save a mammoth.

Q 02/05

In The Sandlot, Denis Leary plays the stepfather whose prized baseball was signed by which legend?

A) Babe Ruth

B) Lou Gehrig

C) Mickey Mantle

D) Joe DiMaggio

Answer · why

A) Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth signed the ball that young Scotty Smalls borrows for a game, not knowing who the slugger was or what the autograph was worth.

Q 03/05

In Pixar's A Bug's Life, Denis Leary voices Francis, a hot-tempered male of which insect?

A) Grasshopper

B) Caterpillar

C) Praying mantis

D) Ladybug

Answer · why

D) Ladybug

Ladybug is the running joke: Francis is constantly mistaken for a female, which fuels his temper, and he ends up den mother to a troop of young ant sc...

Q 04/05

Which late-night talk show host and fellow comedian is a third cousin once removed of Denis Leary?

A) Jimmy Fallon

B) Stephen Colbert

C) Conan O'Brien

D) Jimmy Kimmel

Answer · why

C) Conan O'Brien

Conan O'Brien grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, the same state where his distant cousin Leary was raised by immigrant parents.

Q 05/05

Denis Leary turned down the role of Sergeant Dignam in which Martin Scorsese crime film?

A) Gangs of New York

B) The Departed

C) Cape Fear

D) Goodfellas

Answer · why

B) The Departed

The Departed went on to win Best Picture, with Mark Wahlberg taking the sergeant's part that Leary passed up because of his Rescue Me schedule.

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