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Quiz: How much do you know about Nicolas Cage?

Put your knowledge to the test in this week’s Best of the Box quiz.
11.18am, 21 May 2026
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ON WEDNESDAY, NEW series Spider-Noir drops on Prime.

It stars Nicolas Cage in his first lead TV role as a 1930s detective and former superhero who’s forced to get back to his old ways and fight baddies in his hometown.

Cage has had quite the career. Born in California in 1964 to a family steeped in the entertainment business, he was destined to become an actor. He’s done some truly wild things over the years and starred in many iconic, successful and not-so-successful movies. 

But how much do you know about Nicolas Cage? Put your knowledge to the test in our Best of the Box quiz.

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Let's start with an easy one: What's Nicolas Cage's real surname?
Ciccone
Scorsese

Coppola
Nic Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette on the first day he met her. True or false?
True
False
What was the first film he starred in?
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Valley Girl

Rumble Fish
Which film did he win an Oscar for in 1995?
Moonstruck
Raising Arizona

Leaving Las Vegas
Which actor did he star opposite (and swap faces with on screen) in Face/Off?
Tom Cruise
John Travolta

Al Pacino
In 2024, he starred in an Irish film. What was the name of the film?
The Surfer
The Farmer

The Butcher
His stage name of Cage was inspired by two things. One was the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage. The other was...?
The idea of being trapped in a cage
The Faraday Cage

The composer John Cage
In preparation for the 1984 Alan Parker film Birdy, Nic Cage did what extreme thing physically?
Had two teeth pulled out
Dislocated a kneecap on purpose

Had a toenail pulled
Cage has starred in two films that bear the name of which US city?
California
Texas

Vegas
The 2023 horror comedy Renfield was inspired by which 1897 novel?
The Woman in White
Dracula

Frankenstein
Nicolas Cage has developed his own style of acting. The method is called Nouveau...
Nouveau Saturnalia
Nouveau Shamanic

Nouveau Visage
Nicolas Cage once travelled to England and the US looking for the Holy Grail. True or false?
True
False
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