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

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on 3 July 1962 to Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer, and Mary Lee Pfeiffer, a special education te...

Q 02/05

In which New York city was he born?

A) Rochester

B) Syracuse

C) Albany

D) Buffalo

Answer · why

B) Syracuse

Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York, on 3 July 1962; his parents were both from Louisville, Kentucky, and the family moved constantly through his ch...

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

At 14 he enrolled at St Francis Seminary in Cincinnati on a church scholarship, intending to train for the priesthood as a Franciscan, but left after ...

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

Endless Love, Franco Zeffirelli's 1981 romance, gave Cruise a bit part as Billy; a major supporting role as a crazed military academy cadet in Taps fo...