Did Governor Schwarzenegger Once Pose Nude, and Other Trivia Questions

Answer a series of forehead-slapping anecdotal factoids. It's up to you to weigh each fact in each anecdotal factoid. They're tricky. One might seem like total B.S. until it's revealed to be strangely and disturbingly "True." Another anecdotal factoid might seem to contain all solid and verifiable facts until it's revealed to be yet one more big fat garden variety "Bald-Faced Lie." And here's the trickiest part: an anecdotal factoid might even be "Half-True"; in other words, a mishmosh of truths and bald-faced lies, where you don't know where one ends and the other begins, much like the usual slop served by Madison Avenue, Washington D.C., and the Internet in its entirety.

Category: He's da Governator Quiz

Decide for yourself, and mark "T" for "Truth", "F" for "Bald-Faced Lie" or "TF" for "Half-Truth" in the blank slot next to each factoid.

The answers will be revealed on the next page.

1) __ Arnold Schwarzenegger's last starring role was in the 2001 action film "Collateral Damage." The plot was about a terrorist attack on New York City, complete with shots of the World Trade Center. After the 911 attacks, Schwarzenegger and Warner Brothers executives agreed to never show the finished film, costing all parties involved millions of dollars. To this day, the film still sits in a vault on the Warner lot.

2) __ Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first private citizen in the United States to own a Hummer. He still owns four of them. Three have been converted to run on hydrogen fuel cells, keeping with the California Governor's green energy policies.

3) __ In 1990, Arnold went to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and requested an investigation into his own family. This was how he found out that his father Gustav, the police chief of Graz, Austria, had been an early Nazi party member.

4) __ His first starring screen role was as Hercules in the 1970 B-movie "Hercules in New York." In the credits, he was billed as "Arnold Strong". Unfortunately, because of his thick accent, all of his lines in the movie were dubbed by another actor.

5) __ In a 1977 interview for the men's magazine "Oui", Schwarzenegger admitted to using "grass and hash, -- no hard drugs." In the same interview, he also admitted to participating in group sex at Gold's Gym in Venice, California.

6) __ In 1992, Arnold Schwarzenegger married Maria Shriver. Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim served as best man. In Austria, Waldheim had served as teenaged Arnold's mentor. Shortly before the big wedding, the media revealed that Waldheim had hid his Nazi officer past and his knowledge and possible participation in the Holocaust. Although this stirred controversy, Schwarzenegger still wanted Waldheim to remain his best man.

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Here are the answers for He's da Governator Quiz.

Answers:

A reminder: "T" is for "Truth", "F" is for "Bald-Faced Lie" or "TF" is for "Half-Truth".

1) TF: This anecdote is both true and false. It's false that Arnold Schwarzenegger's last starring role was in "Collateral Damage." His last film was the 2005 comedy "The Kid and I."

It's true that the plot was about a terrorist attack. It's false that the attack was in New York City, complete with shots of the World Trade Center. It's also false that, after the 911 attacks, Schwarzenegger and Warner Brothers executives agreed to never show the finished film. Due to the film's terrorist theme alone, Schwarzenegger and the studio execs did delay the film's release by four months.

2) T: It's true that Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first private citizen in the United States to own a Hummer, and that he still owns four of them. It's also true that three Hummers have been converted to run on hydrogen fuel cells.

3) T: It's true that Arnold asked the Simon Wiesenthal Center to investigate his father, and they did discover that Gustav Schwarzenegger was the police chief of Graz, Austria, and an early Nazi party member.

A side note: Schwarzenegger is responsible for millions of dollars in donations to the Wiesenthal Center.

4) T: It's true that Arnold's first screen role was as Hercules in "Hercules in New York." It's also true that he was billed as "Arnold Strong", and all his lines in the movie were dubbed by another actor.

5) T: It's true that he told "Oui" in a 1977 interview that he had used "grass and hash, -- no hard drugs." Also true, he admitted to participating in group sex at Gold's Gym.

He also told "Oui" that "I make my protein drink with whiskey." Those were the times.

6) TF: This anecdote is both true and false. It's true that Arnold Schwarzenegger married Maria Shriver in 1992. It's false that Waldheim served as his best man, although the former Secretary General was indeed invited to the wedding. Bodybuilder Franco Colombu served as Arnold's best man.

It's true that, shortly before the big wedding, the media had revealed Waldheim's Nazi officer past.

It's false that Waldheim was young Arnold's mentor in Austria.

SOURCES:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216/bio

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/03/schwarzenegger.hitler/index.html

"The Arnold they remember back then", Collin Woodward, Christian Science Monitor, URL: (http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0924/p01s04-uspo.html)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3131155.stm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065832/trivia

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/arnoldoui1.html

"Arnold's Bad Business", Daniel Gross, Slate, URL: (http://www.slate.com/id/2086889/)

"Raunchy interview bedevils Schwarzenegger", Lance Williams and Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle, URL: (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/29/MN33107.DTL)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(magazine)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0173372/bio

"Arnold Schwarzenegger's Nazi Problem", Timothy Noah, Slate, URL: (http://www.slate.com/id/2086742/)