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Who Is That? Trivia Quiz

Can you identify the actor or actress based on the information given?

A multiple-choice quiz by awkins. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
awkins

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
41,549

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
3433

Last 3 plays: Hayes1953 (6/10), Guest 73 (5/10), Guest 66 (0/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who reputedly had over 700 bank accounts under different names? Hint

Jack Benny

WC Fields

George Burns

Douglas Fairbanks Jr

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who reputedly competed in the 1928 Olympics as a boxer? Hint

Errol Flynn

Alan Hale

Victor McLaglen

Burt Lancaster

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who worked on a prison chain gang? Hint

Humphrey Bogart

Robert Mitchum

George C. Scott

Stewart Grainger

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who was sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis during WWII? Hint

Mel Brooks

Curt Jurgens

Jack Hawkins

George Peppard

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who was the daughter of a Dutch baroness? Hint

Audrey Hepburn

Anita Ekberg

Greta Garbo

Elke Sommer

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who sued Graham Greene for libel in 1938? Hint

Doris Day

Shirley Temple

Judy Garland

Jackie Coogan

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which celebrity was born in an elevator? Hint

Peter Falk

Walter Matthau

Jack Lemmon

Danny Devito

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Question 8 of 10

8. Whose parents were deaf mutes? Hint

Boris Karloff

Lon Chaney

Harold Lloyd

Buster Keaton

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who retired as a Brigadier General? Hint

Clark Gable

James Stewart

David Niven

James Mason

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Question 10 of 10

10. Adolf Hitler offered a reward for whose capture during WWII? Hint

Peter Lawford

John Wayne

Clark Gable

Burt Lancaster

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Most Recent Scores

Apr 02 2024 : Hayes1953: 6/10
Mar 25 2024 : Guest 73: 5/10
Mar 19 2024 : Guest 66: 0/10
Feb 20 2024 : Guest 38: 3/10

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who reputedly had over 700 bank accounts under different names?

Answer: WC Fields

He supposedly had a fear of being destitute, after growing up poor. He opened bank accounts in every town he played in. It is believed that there is as much as {$1M} in accounts that has never been discovered. His heirs did discover about 47 accounts.

2. Who reputedly competed in the 1928 Olympics as a boxer?

Answer: Errol Flynn

Actually a fabrication by the movie studio.

3. Who worked on a prison chain gang?

Answer: Robert Mitchum

When he was 14, he was arrested in Alabama for vagrancy and sentenced to the chain gang. He escaped.

4. Who was sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis during WWII?

Answer: Curt Jurgens

He was declared 'Politically Undesirable'.

5. Who was the daughter of a Dutch baroness?

Answer: Audrey Hepburn

Her birth name is Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, and her father was a wealthy English banker.

6. Who sued Graham Greene for libel in 1938?

Answer: Shirley Temple

He wrote that she was being used to 'excite old perverts' in her movie 'Wee Willie Winkie'. She won.

7. Which celebrity was born in an elevator?

Answer: Jack Lemmon

In a hospital in Newton Wellesley, a suburb of Boston. Supposedly there is a plaque there stating that fact. I guess it gave his career a 'lift'.

8. Whose parents were deaf mutes?

Answer: Lon Chaney

He felt that the introduction of sound to movies would alienate people with hearing difficulties.

9. Who retired as a Brigadier General?

Answer: James Stewart

After retiring from the Air Force Reserve. He is the highest ranking actor to date (excluding Ronald Reagan).

10. Adolf Hitler offered a reward for whose capture during WWII?

Answer: Clark Gable

No one collected on it, obviously.

Source: Author awkins

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