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  Kate Hepburn!   great trivia quiz  
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This quiz comes in honor of the great Kate who passed away in 2003.
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  Katharine Hepburn   popular trivia quiz  
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The world lost a cinematic treasure when Katharine Hepburn died. There is no doubt that she left her mark on cinematic history. The only person to win 4 Best Acting Oscars! My - she
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  Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn    
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She was labeled Box Office Poison. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Acadamy Awards. She was Great Kate, and here's where you can test your knowledge of a woman once known as a living legend.
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Katharine Hepburn Trivia Questions
1. Katharine Hepburn is a descendent of the Houghton family, who owned which famous manufacturing company?

From Quiz Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Corning Glass Company

Katharine's maternal grandfather was the younger brother of Amory Houghton, who ran Corning Glass. Her grandfather committed suicide while Hepburn's mother, also named Katharine, was still a teen. The elder Katharine made sure that her uncle paid for her and her younger sisters' post-secondary education at Bryn Mawr following their mother's death soon after their father's. Kate's mother became an advocate for women's rights and birth control in the early 20th century.

2. Katharine Hepburn was born in what year?

From Quiz Kate Hepburn!

Answer: 1907

This was somewhat up for debate, thanks to agents and fools in Hollywood who love to play games with people's ages, until her death. She was born to a doctor and his wife in 1907.

3. What was Katharine Hepburn's first movie?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: A Bill of Divorcement

Kate starred with John Barrymore in the film, 'A Bill of Divorcement.'

4. Following one infamous opening night on Broadway in the late 1930's, one observer noted that "Miss Hepburn's performance ran the emotional gamut from A to B". Who said quipped this often quoted line?

From Quiz Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Dorothy Parker

The play was "The Lake", produced by Jed Harris and marked Kate's return to Broadway following her Hollywood success. She later admitted she was terrified that night and walked through her performance. Although the show was a sell-out, she was horrified to learn that Harris wanted to take it on the road. She offered him every cent she had to get out of her contract - Harris took her up on her offer and depleted Kate's $13,675.75 bank account.

5. Which Katharine Hepburn comedy showed her doing a flip off of Cary Grant's shoulders?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Holiday

While 'The Philadelphia Story' featured the famous scene of Cary Grant pushing Hepburn through the doorway, it was in the lesser known 'Holiday' that Kate actually did a flip off Grant's shoulders.

6. In the film "Stage Door", Kate plays a spoiled rich girl who goes to live with a bunch of young actresses at a boarding house. Who were just three of the other actresses who appeared in the movie?

From Quiz Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Ginger Rogers, Eve Arden, Lucille Ball

This is a good movie - it's the one where Kate utters the line "The Calla Lilies are in bloom again". FYI - Bennett, Dee and Parker were Hepburn's co-star's in the 1933 (and best yet) version of "Little Women".

7. Which pithy satirist and columnist said of Kate, 'She runs the gamut of emotion from A to B'?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Dorothy Parker

Yup, it was Dorothy Parker. That was right before Hepburn was labeled box office poison.

8. For the 1940 film "Philadelphia Story" - my all-time favourite film - Kate ended up choosing which two actors to play the characters of C.K. Dexter Haven and Macauley Conner?

From Quiz Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart

Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, listened to Kate's request and gave her Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart as only a couple of years before she had been listed as box office poison. Kate had a huge hit on Broadway in 1939 with this Philip Barry play. Her "significant other" at the time - Howard Hughes - lent her the money to buy the rights so that she could would have the starring role in the film. Rent this movie -you will love it! By the way, Kate's first choices were Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey. Both were unavailable.

9. What was the first movie Kate filmed with Spencer Tracy?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Woman of the Year

The dynamic duo teamed up for the first time in 'Woman of the Year'.

10. Katharine Hepburn, in her last Oscar winning performance, did what?

From Quiz Kate Hepburn!

Answer: jumped into the water and swam

"On Golden Pond" (1981): while in a hysteric moment, Kate's character dove off a boat in search of Norman (Henry Fonda). She found him and the little boy. That she could do all that in her 70s was pretty amazing.

11. In what film did Kate utter her famous line, 'The calla lilies are in bloom again'?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Stage Door

'Stage Door' featured a play within a film, and Kate's character spoke those lines during her first entrance.

12. In which Tracy-Hepburn film is Kate's name misspelled in the opening credits?

From Quiz Katharine Hepburn

Answer: State of the Union

In the opening credits of "State of the Union", Hepburn's name is spelled Katherine, instead of Katharine. Kate is the estranged wife of a politician played by Tracy. Look out for Angela "Murder She Wrote" Lansbury - she plays a woman in her 40's, when in real life she was actually in her 20's.

13. How many of the actors/actresses in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" (1967) were nominated for Oscars?

From Quiz Kate Hepburn!

Answer: 4

Hepburn won. Spencer Tracy, Beah Richards and Cecil Kellaway were nominated.

14. What film featured the line, 'Mr. Alnutt...dear'?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: The African Queen

Kate's famous 'morning after' line was spoken in 'The African Queen', to Bogie's Charlie Alnutt.

15. At which famous acting couple's wedding did Hepburn and screenwriter, Garson Kanin act as witnesses for the early 1940's?

From Quiz Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh

Hepburn and Kanin rode in the car with Olivier and Leigh on the way to the ceremony. During the drive, Olivier got lost and the "nearly weds" had a big fight with their friends stuck listening in the back seat. Olivier and Leigh were married for nearly 20 years and were known as "the" golden couple of English theatre. Hepburn became friends with Bogie and Bacall while filming "The African Queen", released in 1951, after the couple had been married several years.

16. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy never married, despite a long romance. What was the reason for that?

From Quiz Kate Hepburn!

Answer: Tracy was Catholic and wouldn't divorce his wife

Spencer's son was deaf, not blind, and his belief in his faith made him unable to divorce his wife and marry Kate. Hepburn divorced her husband many years before she and Spencer met.

17. Where did Kate attend college?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Bryn Mawr

Kate attended Bryn Mawr College.

18. What profession did Kate's father practice?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Medicine

Kate's father was a respected doctor.

19. Hepburn portrayed two famous queens on film. Which two monarchs did she portray?

From Quiz Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots and Eleanor of Aquitaine

Kate won her 3rd Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1968's "Lion in Winter". In this film, she starred with Peter O'Toole as her husband Henry II, a young Anthony Hopkins as her son Richard the Lionheart and former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton as Philip of France. Kate also starred in the John Ford directed 1930's version of Mary, Queen of Scots.

20. What was Katharine Hepburn's first film with Henry Fonda?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: On Golden Pond

'On Golden Pond'. Kate and Henry weren't even in the other films.

21. In the 1981 movie "On Golden Pond" for which Kate won her record breaking 4th Best Actress Oscar, which item of clothing that had belonged to Spencer Tracy's did she give to Henry Fonda to wear while filming?

From Quiz Katharine Hepburn

Answer: fishing cap

Hard as it is to believe, Hepburn and Fonda had never met before filming began. She lent Fonda a favourite fishing cap of Tracy's to wear. Another wonderful film and the last silver screen hurrah of two acting legends.

22. Katharine Hepburn won 4 Oscars for Best Actress. In those 4 films, how many of her leading men were nominated for Best Actor and how many of them won for those pictures she got hers for?

From Quiz Kate Hepburn!

Answer: 3 nominated; 1 won

In her winning films the only one not to get a Best Actor nomination was her first, "Morning Glory" (1933). Spencer Tracy in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" (1967) and Peter O'Toole in "The Lion In Winter" (1968) were up for the award but did not win it. Henry Fonda won opposite her for "On Golden Pond". There will never likely be anyone like Kate Hepburn ever again. I hope you enjoyed this quiz in her memory.

23. What is the one-syllable title of Kate's autobiography?

From Quiz Great Kate : Katharine Hepburn

Answer: Me

Kate's rambling, first-person autobiography was called Me. Because, it's all about me.

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