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George Clooney

Still on screens in his friend Steven Soderbergh's Solaris, George Clooney brings a film of his own to our screens this week in the shape of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Find out whether your obsession with the actor-turned-director goes beyond swooning and into inconsequential trivia ...

Question 1 George Clooney's movie career got off to a shaky start. What were his first three feature films?
 
  Summer Camp Killer, Mad Cop 2 and Daylight Robbery
  From Dusk Till Dawn, One Fine Day and Batman and Robin
  Return to Horror High, Grizzly 2 and Return of the Killer Tomatoes
  High-School Nudist Camp, Rabid Cat 4 and Psycho Parsnip at Bloodbath High
 
Question 2 What was Clooney's relationship with actor and singer Rosemary Clooney?
 
  She was his mum
  She's his elder sister
  She was his first wife
  She was his aunt
 
Question 3 What role did Clooney play in the top-rated hospital drama ER?
 
  A neurosurgeon
  A hypochondriac who never leaves casualty
  An ambulance driver
  A paediatrician
 
Question 4 Clooney committed to acting only after narrowly missing out on his dream job. What was it?
 
  A sports reporter on ABC nightly news
  A professional baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds
  A gym teacher at a girls school in Wisconsin
  A press secretary for New York governor Mario Cuomo
 
Question 5 What character does Clooney voice in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut?
 
  An incompetent hospital doctor who kills Kenny
  Satan, who has a gay affair with Saddam Hussein
  The nerdish teacher at South Park Junior High
  Cartman's mother
 
Question 6 Clooney had a bit-part in the little-seen 1993 thriller The Harvest. How do the film's credits describe his character?
 
  "Hispanic Santa Claus"
  "Crazy Frank"
  "Lip-Syncing Transvestite"
  "Angry Man on Street Corner"
 
Question 7 What has Clooney sworn he will never do?
 
  Allow his waxwork to appear in Madame Tussaud's
  Play a doctor in a film
  Marry and have children
  Make a film in France (he hates the place)
 
Question 8 Clooney's ER character Doug Ross cropped up for a brief cameo in the last series of the hospital drama. What was he doing?
 
  Mugging an elderly couple on the streets of Dallas
  Tinkering about with his boat on a dock in Seattle
  Treating sports injuries at a tennis tournament in Knoxville
  Handing out prescriptions at a Baltimore drug-store
 
Question 9 In hindsight, why did Clooney's 1984 TV debut prove so prophetic?
 
  He starred in a medical drama called E/R (10 years before starring in ER)
  He played the part of Batman in a morning kids show (13 years before starring in Batman and Robin)
  He played a drunken janitor called Doug Ross (the same name as his character in ER)
  He played the part of a looting American soldier (17 years before starring in Three Kings)
 
Question 10 With whom does Clooney share his Hollywood home?
 
  A pet pig called Max
  A pet llama called Danny
  A pet Alsatian called Bongo
  Michelle Pfeiffer
 
 


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