Screen Test
Your monthly dose of movie trivia
1) Miley Cyrus stars in this month’s Hannah Montana: The Movie. But Miley’s not her real name (it’s short for “Smiley”). What’s Miley’s birth name? Clue: Her parents gave it to her because they felt she had a great future.
2) Jamie Foxx plays real-life homeless musician Nathaniel Ayers in The Soloist. Which real-life musician did Foxx play in a 2004 movie?
3) With which model-turned-actor did Obsessed star Jerry O’Connell recently have twins — a girl named Dolly and a boy named Charlie?
4) Country singer Dwight Yoakam resumes the role of Doc Miles in Crank 2: High Voltage. For which movie was Yoakam nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, along with the rest of his cast mates?
5) The father of one of 17 Again’s stars is an actor with a long list of TV credits, including Dirty Sexy Money, The Closer, Veronica Mars, 7th Heaven and The West Wing. Whose dad is it — Zac Efron’s, Matthew Perry’s, Leslie Mann’s or Michelle Trachtenberg’s?
6) The nature documentary Earth is released in North America this month, two years after it hit theatres in the U.K. Here, it’s being narrated by James Earl Jones. There, it was narrated by an English actor who is best-known for playing a character who spends very little time on Earth. Name him.
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Answers
1. Destiny
2. Ray Charles
3. Rebecca Romijn
4. Sling Blade
5. Matthew Perry
6. Patrick Stewart