Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal keep talent in the family. Which of the following films featured both Maggie and Jake?
Answer: Maggie and Jake played brother and sister in "Donnie Darko."
"Brokeback Mountain"
4%
"Donnie Darko" correct answer
50%
"The Good Girl"
9%
Maggie and Jake have not yet made a film together
37%
Which of the following real-life experiences did the Gyllenhaals actually share in 2006?
Answer: Jake and Maggie were staying at historic Manka's Inverness Lodge north of San Francisco when it caught fire one night (apparently because an old tree fell on a water heater). Our hero Jake helped "pull things out of the fire," a hotel co-owner said.
They started a film production company called G-Spot Productions
12%
They took a Lamaze (natural childbirth method) classes together
18%
The Northern California lodge where they were staying burned to the ground correct answer
42%
Their parents' Malibu home was destroyed during a Thanksgiving mudslide
28%
John and Joan Cusack are another fun Hollywood brother-sister pair, and they often appear in films together. Which of these movies does not feature both Cusacks?
Answer: John Cusack starred in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" without his sister Joan.
"Grosse Pointe Blank"
15%
"High Fidelity"
19%
"Bullets Over Broadway" correct answer
31%
"Cradle Will Rock"
34%
One brother and sister have each won Academy Awards for acting. Who are they?
Answer: Drew Barrymore's great aunt and uncle did it. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are real-life siblings who both won Oscars, but he got his for directing ("Reds"), not acting. Lynn Redgrave has been nominated (for "Georgy Girl"), but has never won.
Jane and Peter Fonda
26%
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine
55%
Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave
9%
Ethel and Lionel Barrymore correct answer
11%
Who's older and who's younger?
Answer: Maggie is 29 and Jake is 26.
Jake is Maggie's big brother
20%
Maggie is Jake's big sister correct answer
75%
Jake and Maggie are twins
4%
Jake and Maggie are secretly the same person
2%
Which Gyllenhaal said of the 9/11 attacks, "I think America has done some reprehensible things and is responsible in some way. . . "?
Answer: Maggie said it at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. She later apologized for that comment, and appeared in the film "World Trade Center."
Maggie correct answer
47%
Jake
13%
Father Stephen Gyllenhaal, a movie director
27%
Mother Naomi Foner, a screenwriter
14%
Which Gyllenhaal is an active member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?
Answer: Jake appears in ACLU magazine ads wearing a T-shirt that reads, "Goodlooking revolutionaries wanted." Maggie exercised her free speech rights at anti-war rallies before the current Iraq war. The ACLU awarded the whole family Torch of Liberty Awards in 2003.
Jake
15%
Maggie
17%
Their parents, Steven Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner
22%
All of the above correct answer
47%
Jake wore a T-shirt bearing the name of Maggie's newborn child, Ramona, on "Saturday Night Live" last weekend. Who's the father?
Answer: Would it be child abuse to force Ramona to spell out the full last name, Sarsgaard-Gyllenhaal?
James Spader
10%
Heath Ledger
4%
Ed Norton, Jr.
12%
Peter Sarsgaard correct answer
75%
Jake and Maggie come from what religious tradition?
Answer: Dad's Christian and Mom's Jewish. Jake reportedly had a "secular" bar mitzvah.
Christian
20%
Jewish
22%
Christian and Jewish correct answer
47%
Buddhist
11%
Where did Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal spend most of their childhood?
Answer: Jake was born in Los Angeles. Maggie was born in New York but moved to L.A. when she was very young.
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