Q 01/05

What name appears on the star's birth certificate?

A) Thomas Mapother Cruise

B) Thomas Andrew Cruise

C) Thomas Cruise Mapother IV

D) Thomas Cruise Pfeiffer

Answer · why

C) Thomas Cruise Mapother IV

He was born in Syracuse, New York in July 1962 to an electrical engineer and a special education teacher.

Q 02/05

In which New York city was he born?

A) Rochester

B) Syracuse

C) Albany

D) Buffalo

Answer · why

B) Syracuse

His parents were both from Louisville, Kentucky, and the family moved constantly through his childhood.

Q 03/05

How many schools did he attend in fourteen years?

A) Eight

B) Four

C) Twenty-two

D) Fifteen

Answer · why

D) Fifteen

Part of that childhood was spent in Ottawa, where his father worked as a defence consultant.

Q 04/05

Which vocation did the teenage Cruise briefly train for?

A) Naval aviation

B) Hospital medicine

C) Corporate law

D) The priesthood

Answer · why

D) The priesthood

He took a church scholarship to a seminary in Cincinnati and left after a year.

Q 05/05

In which 1981 film did he make his screen debut, in a bit part?

A) The Outsiders

B) Risky Business

C) Endless Love

D) Taps

Answer · why

C) Endless Love

A major supporting role as a crazed military academy student in Taps came later the same year.

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