Kyle Chandler Trivia Quiz

Answer: Homefront

"Homefront" was set in 1945-1947 in the fictional town of River Run, Ohio. It first aired in September of 1991 and featured Kyle Chandler as a young baseball player named Jeff Metcalf. The two-season show ended in 1993.

Answer: Catch-22

Heller's satirical war novel was turned into a dark comedy miniseries and aired on Hulu beginning in May of 2019. Colonel Cathcart was the main antagonist of Heller's novel, a colonel who, in an attempt to please his superiors and earn a promotion to general, keeps raising the number of missions his men must fly in order to be allowed to complete their tour of duty.

He does this every time they come close to reaching their target.

Answer: Texas

Chandler purchased his ranch in the town of Dripping Springs, outside of Austin, Texas. Because his television show "Friday Night Lights" (which ran from 2006-2011) was filmed in Austin, the move to Dripping Springs meant no more commutes back home to the family in Los Angeles, California, which had been Chandler's previous residence for almost twenty years.

He moved to Texas with his wife, Kathryn, and their daughters, Sawyer and Sydney. He met Kathryn in a dog park, and the couple married in 1995.

In 2020, they celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

Answer: Dylan Young

"Grey's Anatomy" is a medical drama that premiered in 2005. In Season 2 of the series, Kyle Chandler played Dylan Young, who responded to a bomb scare at the hospital. Dylan had to keep the title character, Dr. Meredith Grey, calm as she held a bomb inside a patient's body.

He was killed when the bomb exploded as he was carrying it out of the operating room. His character made additional post-death appearances in Meredith's dream visions. In 2006, Chandler was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role in "Grey's Anatomy."

Answer: Firefighter

Chandler volunteered as a firefighter in Dripping Springs, Texas. He also made a Public Service Announcement for the State Firefighters' and Fire Marshals' Association of Texas, urging people to become volunteer firefighters.

In addition to his television roles, Chandler has played several small parts in films, including FBI Agent Patrick Denham in "The Wolf of Wall Street", Joseph Bradley in "Zero Dark Thirty", and Joe Chandler in "Manchester by the Sea".

Answer: Theater

Chandler majored in theater/drama at the University of Georgia, but dropped out when he was signed by ABC in 1988 for a minor role as Skinner in the television movie "A Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story." He was only seven credits short of a bachelor's degree at the time.

Answer: Bloodline

"We're not bad people, but we did a bad thing" is the tagline for "Bloodline," which first aired on Netflix in 2015. A second season aired in 2016 and a third and final season in 2017. Kyle Chandler played John Rayburn, a Monroe County sheriff's office deputy, and the second oldest son in the Rayburn family. The show was set in the Florida Keys.

Answer: 1965

Kyle Chandler was born on September 17, 1965. His father was a traveling salesman while his mother, Sally Jeanette Meyer, was a dog breeder who raised Great Danes. Chandler told "Men's Journal" that "It was the closest thing my mom could get to a horse." As an adult, he has owned several dogs himself, along with donkeys, at his Texas ranch.

He once told "Men's Journal", "Every time I come home, we have another dog."

Answer: Grant Rashton

Kyle Chandler played an amoral lawyer named Grant Rashton in the 2003 American legal drama "The Lyon's Den," which starred Rob Lowe as Jack Turner. He is perhaps best known, however, for his role as Coach Eric Taylor in "Friday Night Lights". In 2011, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his "Friday Night Lights" role.

Answer: Chicago

Chandler was born in Buffalo, New York, but his family soon moved to Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb about thirty miles outside of Chicago. He grew up there until he was eleven, when his family moved to Monroe, Georgia, where he attended George Walton Academy and later the University of Georgia.

He settled in Los Angeles, California, in the late 1980s to pursue his acting career and later moved to Texas in 2007.

Answer: Early Edition

"Early Edition," set in Chicago, Illinois, premiered in September of 1996. Kyle Chandler played Gary Hobson, a bartender who for unknown reasons began receiving the Chicago Sun-Times a day before its publication. This early news alerted him to various impending disasters he then sought to avert.

Answer: What About Joan?

In the sitcom "What About Joan?", Joan Cusack played high school teacher Joan Gallagher, who was in a relationship with Jake Evans, played by Kyle Chandler. The primary setting was Joan's apartment in Chicago. The show aired for two seasons in 2001.

Answer: Tour of Duty

"Tour of Duty" ran for three seasons form 1987-1990. The drama is set during the Vietnam War and depicts an American infantry platoon on a tour of duty. It examined a wide range of themes, from racism and suicide to politics and faith.

Answer: Shark finning

Sawyer, when eleven years old, created an advocacy website to stop the practice of shark finning. In 2013, Kyle and his daughter attended Humane Lobby Day to support a bill to prohibit the sale, trade, purchase, and transportation of shark fins in Texas. Shark finning involves cutting off the fins of sharks to use in shark fin soup.

The rest of the body is then discarded, often alive, into the ocean. This typically results in starvation or drowning because the shark is unable to swim properly.

Answer: Godzilla vs. Kong

Chandler first took on the role of Dr. Mark Russel, an animal behavior and communication specialist and the deputy director of special projects for Monarch, in the 2019 film "Godzilla: King of the Monsters". In the sequel, "Godzilla vs. Kong", a team of humans attempts to lure Kong into the Hollow Earth so as to retrieve a power source that can be used for a special weapon that will stop Godzilla.