Nicolas Cage Trivia
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50 free Nicolas Cage trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
44 free Nicolas Cage trivia questions with answers. Nicolas Cage has made more films than almost any leading man of his generation, and almost none of them are boring. He pulled his own teeth for a role, ate a live cockroach for another, won an Oscar for playing a man drinking himself to death, then spent a decade making action blockbusters and another making some of the strangest independent films in America. This quiz runs 50 questions from easy (what is his real surname, which superhero inspired his stage name, which film won him the Academy Award) to genuinely hard: which uncle directed him in Peggy Sue Got Married, how many days his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley lasted before the divorce filing, which German castle he bought and sold, and how much his stolen Action Comics #1 fetched at auction after it turned up in a storage locker. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedia entry on the film or the man, and each question shows its source once you have answered, so it works for a movie night, a film-buff pub round or settling an argument about the Cage filmography.
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Q 01Which singer won the Best Actress Oscar for starring opposite Cage in Moonstruck (1987)?
Cher
Cher won as Loretta, an Italian-American widow who agrees to marry one man and then falls for his estranged younger brother, played by Cage; the film took three Oscars in all.
Q 02In Con Air (1997), which actor plays Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom, the convict who hijacks Cage's flight home?
John Malkovich
John Malkovich's Cyrus, who boasts that his last evaluation found him insane, leads the takeover; Steve Buscemi and Ving Rhames play fellow convicts, and John Cusack the marshal on the ground.
Q 03Which famous director is Nicolas Cage's uncle?
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is the brother of Cage's father, August, and gave his nephew small early parts in Rumble Fish and The Cotton Club.
Q 04What did Nicolas Cage's father, August, do for a living?
Literature professor
Literature professor at California universities was his day job; he is also credited with creating the Tactile Dome, a pitch-dark maze at San Francisco's Exploratorium that visitors feel their way through.
Q 05Which 1982 teen comedy gave Cage his big-screen debut, in a tiny part as a burger-joint worker?
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High still billed him under his family name; to escape his famous uncle's shadow he soon took a new surname, borrowed from the Marvel hero Luke Cage.
Q 06In which 1983 romantic comedy, loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, was Cage first credited as 'Nicolas Cage'?
Valley Girl
Valley Girl was also his first lead: he plays Randy, a Hollywood punk who wins a San Fernando Valley teenager away from her jock boyfriend.
Q 07For the 1984 film Birdy, Cage lost weight and had what done to play a wounded soldier?
Two teeth pulled out
Two teeth pulled out helped him feel the injuries of Al, a soldier sent home with his face in bandages who tries to coax his silent friend Birdy, played by Matthew Modine, out of a military hospital.
Q 08In which 1986 fantasy comedy directed by his uncle did Cage play Kathleen Turner's husband Charlie Bodell?
Peggy Sue Got Married
Peggy Sue Got Married sends Turner's unhappy wife from her 25-year school reunion back to 1960, where she can relive her youth and decide all over again whether to marry Charlie.
Q 09Which filmmaking duo made Raising Arizona (1987), with Cage as a baby-snatching ex-convict?
Coen brothers
The Coen brothers followed their dark thriller Blood Simple with this comedy, in which a childless couple steal one of a furniture tycoon's quintuplets.
Q 10In Moonstruck (1987), Cage plays Ronny Cammareri, a hot-tempered man with what job?
Baker
Baker Ronny lost a hand in a bread slicer and blames his brother Johnny, who distracted him, which is why the two have not spoken for five years.
Q 11In Vampire's Kiss (1989), Cage replaced a scripted raw egg by eating what for real?
A live cockroach
A live cockroach was Cage's own unscripted addition; his character, a New York literary agent who comes to believe he is turning into a vampire, was only meant to swallow an egg.
Q 12Which David Lynch film starring Cage as Sailor Ripley controversially won the 1990 Palme d'Or?
Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart has Cage play Sailor as a conscious Elvis imitation, even breaking into 'Love Me Tender'; at Cannes its top prize was greeted with cheers and boos alike.
Q 13Cage won the Academy Award for Best Actor for which 1995 film?
Leaving Las Vegas
Q 21The Family Man (2000), Cage's road-not-taken comedy, is often compared to which Christmas classic?
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life is turned inside out here: the rich bachelor's life is the real one, and the glimpse he is shown is the warm family he gave up, with Téa Leoni as the wife he never married.
Q 22In which 2002 film did Cage play twin brothers Charlie and Donald Kaufman?
Adaptation
Adaptation credits the fictional twin Donald Kaufman as co-writer alongside the real Charlie Kaufman, who wrote himself and an invented brother into the script; Spike Jonze directed.
Q 23The 2002 film in which Cage plays twin brothers is built around which Susan Orlean book?
Leaving Las Vegas was made as a low-budget independent film on Super 16, with director Mike Figgis grabbing scenes on the Strip without closing it; Cage also won the Golden Globe.
Q 14What is the occupation of Ben Sanderson, the alcoholic Cage plays in his Oscar-winning role?
Hollywood screenwriter
Hollywood screenwriter Ben is fired, takes his severance cheque and sets out to drink himself to death; to prepare, Cage spent two weeks binge-drinking and studied footage of himself drunk.
Q 15In The Rock (1996), Cage's FBI chemist Stanley Goodspeed breaks into which prison?
Alcatraz
Alcatraz has been seized by a rogue general aiming nerve-gas rockets at San Francisco, so the FBI sends in its chemist with Sean Connery's old convict, the only man ever to escape the island.
Q 16In Con Air (1997), Cage plays Cameron Poe, an honourably discharged member of which military unit?
Army Rangers
Army Rangers veteran Poe kills a drunk who attacks him and his pregnant wife, serves eight years, and is flying home on parole when the other convicts seize the plane.
Q 17What is Nicolas Cage's terrorist character called in Face/Off (1997)?
Castor Troy
Castor Troy's face is surgically swapped onto FBI agent Sean Archer, so Cage spends most of the film playing the hero trapped behind his enemy's face.
Q 18City of Angels (1998), with Cage as an angel who falls for Meg Ryan, is a loose remake of which German film?
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders's film about an angel who gives up immortality for a trapeze artist, was moved from Berlin to Los Angeles, and the remake's soundtrack launched the Goo Goo Dolls' hit Iris.
Q 19Which director cast Cage as a corrupt detective in the 1998 thriller Snake Eyes?
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma opens the film with a showpiece Steadicam shot that seems to run unbroken for minutes, trailing Cage's detective through an Atlantic City arena before a shooting.
Q 20Which director's 1999 New York City paramedic drama Bringing Out the Dead starred Cage as Frank Pierce?
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese reunited with Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader for the film, based on a novel by Joe Connelly, who had himself worked as a New York paramedic.
The Orchid Thief
The Orchid Thief gave Charlie Kaufman writer's block, so he wrote himself and his struggle into the script; Chris Cooper won an Oscar as the orchid poacher John Laroche.
Q 24In Matchstick Men (2003), Cage's con artist has Tourette syndrome and which other condition?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder leaves Roy barely able to face an open door, and it is his psychiatrist who makes the phone call that leads him to Angela, a teenager presented as the daughter he never knew he had.
Q 25In National Treasure (2004), the treasure map is hidden on the back of which document?
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is stolen by Cage's own hero, Ben Gates, who decides the only way to protect it is to take it before a rival treasure hunter can.
Q 26In Lord of War (2005), Cage plays Yuri Orlov, who makes his fortune in what trade?
Arms dealing
Arms dealing takes off for Yuri, a Ukrainian immigrant, when the Soviet Union collapses and its arsenals reach the black market, with a general in his own family ready to sell.
Q 27Which poorly reviewed 2006 remake starring Cage failed to make back its $40 million budget?
The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man, a remake of the 1973 British film, took just $38.8 million worldwide, but the scene of Cage tormented by bees found a second life as the internet meme 'Not the bees!'
Q 28In Ghost Rider (2007), Cage plays Johnny Blaze, who sells his soul while working as what?
Motorcycle stuntman
Motorcycle stuntman Johnny signs away his soul at 17 to cure his father's cancer; the father is cured, then dies in a stunt crash the next day, and the Devil later claims Johnny as his bounty hunter.
Q 29Which German director made Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) with Nicolas Cage?
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog insisted his film was no remake of Abel Ferrara's earlier Bad Lieutenant; Ferrara was publicly furious about the project.
Q 30In Kick-Ass (2010), Cage plays an ex-cop turned costumed vigilante known by what name?
Big Daddy
Big Daddy is Damon Macready, who trains his 11-year-old daughter Hit-Girl as a fellow vigilante, even shooting her at close range in a bulletproof vest to toughen her up.