Celebrities M-P Trivia

1. Michael Palin was born on May 5, 1943 at Ranmoor, a suburb of which Yorkshire city?

From Quiz Michael Palin: A Man for Many Roles

Answer: Sheffield

His parents were Edward Moreton Palin and Mary Rachel Lockhart. Edward was an engineer. The family had also a daughter, Angela, who was older than Michael. He attended Birkdale School, where he made his acting debut at the age of five.

From Quiz What About Bill? A Quiz About Bill Murray.

Answer: Illinois

Bill was born in Evanston, Illinois. His mother, Lucille, was a mail-room clerk and his father, William, was a lumber salesman. Bill has eight brothers and sisters and grew up in a Catholic household. Three of his brothers are actors and one of his sisters is a nun.

From Quiz Christopher Plummer, True Legend

Answer: His parents' divorce

Christopher Plummer was born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer in 1929 in Toronto, Ontario. Due to his parents divorcing, he grew up with his mother's family in in Senneville, Quebec, Canada's French-speaking province, so he fluently spoke French and English. His mother was the granddaughter of Sir John Abbot, who had been Canada's Prime Minister from 1891-92.

From Quiz Helen Mirren. A True Calendar Girl

Answer: Russian

Helen was born to Kathleen and Vasily Mironoff in 1945. Kathleen, usually known as "Kitty" was a London born Englishwoman and Vasily was a Russian born cab driver who had been brought to UK by his father when aged two. He also played the viola with the London Philharmonic Orchestra before WWII, and during the war, he put his cab driving skills to good use as an ambulance driver. Vasily changed his name to Basil following the war, and in 1951, when Helen was six years old, changed the family name to Mirren.

From Quiz Carry the Zero

Answer: Samuel

Zero Mostel was born Samuel Joel Mostel. His parents were Israel and Celia Mostel and he was their seventh of eight children. His parents were originally Jews from Poland who had separately relocated to Vienna and then the United States. Their Jewish background and culture would be heavily adopted in their home life and influenced Zero's career.

From Quiz Morecambe & Wise (IV) - Tea Ern?

Answer: Thames Television

The announcement that Eric & Ernie were leaving the BBC for ITV was such a bombshell that it made front page news in the United Kingdom. The duo had been pursued by Thames for much of 1977, and had actively discussed the fact that they had received an offer during the production of the Christmas show. Bill Cotton, who had recently been appointed Controller of BBC1, had found out about the offer at Christmas 1977, and had hurriedly put together a financial package that would match Thames's in an attempt to get them to stay. However, Thames were able to offer Morecambe & Wise the opportunity to make a film, something they had sought to do since the 1960s, which the BBC were unable to do.

From Quiz Morecambe and Wise (II) - You Can't See the Join

Answer: Manchester

The relative failure of "Running Wild" led to Morecambe & Wise being forced to accept variety bookings lower down the bill than they had been used to up to that point. However, although their first post-television variety date, at the Ardwick Hippodrome in Manchester, saw them only fourth on the bill, they received a standing ovation which saw their morale significantly improved, and the offers of work continue unabated.

From Quiz A Salute To Jim Nabors: The Man Behind Gomer Pyle

Answer: He thought the climate would help his asthma.

He attended The University of Alabama and after graduating moved to New York City where he worked as a typist for The United Nations. After that he moved to Chattanooga, TN where he got he first exposure to the TV industry working as a film cutter. Because he believed the climate would help his asthma he would eventually move to Los Angeles.

From Quiz Agnes Moorehead

Answer: A Presybyterian clergyman

Agnes Moorehead's first "stage role" was reciting the Lord's Prayer in church when she was just 3 years old. Her parents were highly supportive of her desire to perform.

From Quiz The Incomparable Vincent Price

Answer: Art history

Vincent Price was an art connoisseur his entire life. He accumulated a vast collection of masterpieces, and in 1957 donated 90 pieces from his collection to East Los Angeles Community College; these became the nucleus of what is now known as the Vincent Price Art Museum. From 1962 through 1971, he was a consultant to Sears for what was called "The Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art." For as little as $10, people could buy an original work of art by a well-known artist; more expensive pieces could be purchased for $5 down and $5 a month on an installment plan. Many people ridiculed the idea of buying fine art through a mail order catalog, but Price's expertise enabled many people to buy works of fine art at bargain prices. Artists included in the program included Picasso, Dali, Whistler, Rembrandt, and Chagall. Can you imagine buying an original oil painting by Picasso for $800 on the installment plan? Over 50,000 pieces of fine art were sold through the program, and almost all are worth much more now than when they were originally sold.

From Quiz Live Long and Prosper

Answer: Queen for a Day

He made his screen debut with an appearance in just a single scene in "Queen for a Day". He was credited with the misspelled last name of Nemoy. This was better than his next few roles which were all uncredited. "Queen for a Day" was released in 1951 and was a dramatic telling of the behind the scenes of a TV game show of the same name. The show began airing in 1945.

From Quiz Classic British Cinema - Powell and Pressburger

Answer: Emeric

The name Emeric has its origins in the German language and means leader or ruler. Imre József Pressburger was educated at both Prague and Stuttgart universities before beginning work as a journalist and author. He escaped persecution because of his Jewish heritage and settled in London in 1935. It was in 1939 that Pressburger was introduced to British director Michael Powell with whom he would go on to produce some of the finest films of the period and, to many minds, some of the finest films ever made.

From Quiz Dylan Moran: Man, Legend, Irish.

Answer: Navan

Navan was also the birthplace of Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), who devised the famous Beaufort wind scale. Also, although he was not actually born there, James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan lived in Navan as a child. The towns of Cork, Killarney and Dingle are all in the south-west of Ireland, quite a long way from Dublin.

From Quiz Richard Pryor

Answer: Good Times

Richard Pryor wrote for 1970s television shows including "Sanford and Son", "The Flip Wilson Show" and a 1974 Lily Tomlin television special called "Lily". For his work on the television special, Pryor shared the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy, Variety or Music Special with Rosalyn Drexler, Ann Elder, Karyl Geld Miller, Robert Illes, Lorne Michaels, Jim Rusk, Herb Sargent, James R. Stein, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren and George Yanok. "Good Times" was an American sitcom which aired in the 1970's. The writers of the show included Al Schwartz, Elroy Schwartz, Bill Freedman, John Fenton Murray and Bruce Howard but not Richard Pryor.

From Quiz The Life of Dana Plato

Answer: Michelle

Dana Plato was born in November 1964 to an unwed 16-year old mother who already had an 18-month old baby. Dana was adopted by Kay and Dean Plato who divorced when she was three. Plato was raised in the San Fernando Valley.

From Quiz Jo Marie Payton

Answer: Perfect Strangers

She was originally supposed to be just a guest star, but ended up becoming a regular character on "Perfect Strangers". The show ran from March 25, 1986 to August 6, 1993.

From Quiz The Late Great Spike Milligan

Answer: Poona, India

Spike was born to a military family in Poona, India, as his father was serving there as a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Royal Artillery. Spike kept very happy memories of his Indian Childhood, as he told in his autobiographies 'It Ends With Magic' and 'The Family Album'.

From Quiz The Genius of Karl Pilkington

Answer: An Idiot Abroad

Karl THOUGHT the program was going to be called "Karl Pilkington's Seven Wonders". The show is all about Karl going to see the most amazing accomplishments of mankind, and of course totally missing the point.

From Quiz Pete Postlethwaite Remembered

Answer: Warrington

Pete Postlethwaite, christened Peter William Postlethwaite, was born into a middle-class area of Cheshire. His father Bill Postlethwaite was a labourer who opposed the idea of his son going to college to study acting and drama; as he would have preferred to see his son pursue a more stable career.

From Quiz All About the Beautiful Rue McClanahan

Answer: Oklahoma

Eddi-Rue McClanahan was born on the 21st of February, 1934, in Healdton, Oklahoma. After attending Ardmore High School, she went on to study German and theatre at the University of Tulsa.

From Quiz Agnes Nixon 101

Answer: Chicago

Agnes Nixon, born Agnes Eckhardt, was born on December 10th, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents divorced when she was a little girl. It was in 1951 that she married her husband, Robert Nixon, and they had four children. Mr. Nixon passed away in 1996.

From Quiz Leonard Nimoy: Renaissance Man

Answer: Boston, Massachusetts

Nimoy is the son of Ukrainian immigrants. He speaks fluent Yiddish, Ukrainian, as well as English. He was born March 26, 1931 into a lower income area of Boston where his father was a barber and his mother a homemaker. His first acting job was at the age of eight.

From Quiz Nailing Jimmy Nail

Answer: James Michael Aloysius Bradford

James Michael Aloysius Bradford was born to mother Laura Bradford (nee Johnson) and father Jimmy Bradford in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1954. Jimmy Nail was born on the 16th day of March, in Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

From Quiz Edward R. Murrow

Answer: CBS

Murrow was hired in 1935. He was only 27 but claimed he was 32. Within two years, he was dispatched to London as their correspondent.

From Quiz Audie Murphy

Answer: Army

Audie enlisted in the Regular Army in 1942 after the Marines and Army Paratroopers turned him away due to his size, he was 5'5" and about 110 pounds. There is some confusion about his birth date because his sister Corrine altered his birth certificate when he tried to enlist in 1941. Some sites list it as 1924 and others say 1926, whatever it was, he was a very young man.

From Quiz The World Of Bob Monkhouse

Answer: Beckenham, Kent

Born, Robert Alan Monkhouse, Bob was born June 1, 1928. Bobs mother and father owned a factory which made custard, although Bob never worked in the business. Bob attended Dulwich College a public school but was later expelled.

From Quiz David Mitchell

Answer: History

David has a degree in history. He said of his time at Cambridge: "Out of comedy, drinking and history I could have done any two. And I didn't choose to do comedy and history."

From Quiz Jane Powell

Answer: Suzanne Lorraine Burce

Powell was born in Portland, Oregon in 1929 and began to sing on the radio at age 13. She was a contralto soprano, although she could not read music or play an instrument. He father worked for Wonder Bread. Eventually the family moved to Los Angles where Suzanne (Jane) attended Beverly Hills High School.

From Quiz The Life & Times of Paul Newman

Answer: Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)

'Green Lantern' was created by John Broome and Gil Kane with Hal Jordan being the character's second re-creation. This version of 'Green Lantern' appeared in the 1959 'Showcase #22' edition and has proven to be the most popular of the 'Green Lanterns' to date.

From Quiz Danny Pintauro Fanatic

Answer: 6 January 1976

Danny was born 6 January 1976 in Milltown, New Jersey. His birth name is Daniel John Pintauro.

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