Arnold Schwarzenegger Trivia

• Schwarzenegger is nicknamed as the ‘Austrian Oak’ and the ‘Styrian Oak’. He is also called the ‘Arnold Strong’, ‘Arnie’ and ore recently ‘The Governator’.

• Schwarzenegger claims that he has suffered lot of child abuse at the hands of his father.

• After Barbara, in 1977 Schwarzenegger was engaged to Sue Moray (a Beverly Hills hair dresser and assistant). The couple had an “open relationship” according to Moray.
• Schwarzenegger won the Juniro Mr. Europe contest at the age of 19 in 1965.

• Schwarzenegger has directed a 1990 episode of the TV series Tales from the Crypt entitled “The Switch” and the 1992 tele-movie Christmas in Connecticut.

• In 1986 Schwarzenegger married the television journalist Maria Shriver, the niece of the former President of the United States John F. Kennedy. The couple has four children.
• Last year (2006) Schwarzenegger broke his right femur while skiing in the Sun Valley, Idaho with his family. The same year he had twice crashed motorcycles on public highways and injured himself.
• In 1968 Schwarzenegger started a bricklaying business with his fellow bodybuilder. Now Arnold has a whole business empire and he is counted in one of the richest men in the world.