Paul Newman trivia quiz questions with answers
What was Paul Newman's full name?
Answer: Paul Leonard Newman
In what year was Paul Newman born?
Answer: 1925
In what city was Paul Newman born?
Answer: Shaker Heights, Ohio
What was Paul Newman's profession?
Answer: Actor
What was the name of Paul Newman's first major film
role?
Answer: "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
For what film did Paul Newman win his first Academy
Award for Best Actor?
Answer: "The Color of Money"
In what year did Paul Newman win his first Academy
Award?
Answer: 1987
In what year did Paul Newman receive an honorary
Academy Award for his lifetime of achievements in film?
Answer: 1986
In addition to acting, what was another profession of
Paul Newman's?
Answer: Race car driver
What was the name of the racing team that Paul Newman
co-owned?
Answer: Newman/Haas Racing
How many times did Paul Newman win the 24 Hours of
Daytona race?
Answer: 4
What was the name of the salad dressing company that
Paul Newman co-founded?
Answer: Newman's Own
What percentage of profits from Newman's Own products
are donated to charity?
Answer: 100%
What was the name of the charity that received the
majority of the proceeds from Newman's Own?
Answer: The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
In what year was The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
founded?
Answer: 1988
What is the mission of The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp?
Answer: To provide a summer camp experience for children with serious
illnesses
In addition to The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, what
other charities did Paul Newman support?
Answer: Numerous charities that focused on education, the environment, and
the arts
What was the name of the documentary that Paul Newman
directed about race car driving?
Answer: "Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman"
In what year did Paul Newman pass away?
Answer: 2008
How old was Paul Newman when he passed away?
Answer: 83
What was the cause of Paul Newman's death?
Answer: Lung cancer
In what year did Paul Newman marry his second wife,
actress Joanne Woodward?
Answer: 1958
How many children did Paul Newman have?
Answer: 6
What was the name of the theater company that Paul
Newman co-founded in Connecticut?
Answer: Westport Country Playhouse
What was the name of the
Broadway play that Paul Newman
directed in 2002?
Answer: "Our Town"
In what year did Paul Newman receive the Kennedy Center
Honor?
Answer: 1992
What was the name of the miniseries that Paul Newman
starred in with Sally Field?
Answer: "Absence of Malice"
What was the name of the film that Paul Newman directed
and starred in with his wife Joanne Woodward?
Answer: "Rachel, Rachel"
What was the name of the film that Paul Newman starred
in with Robert Redford?
Answer: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
What was the name of the film that Paul Newman starred
in with Elizabeth Taylor?
Answer: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
