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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
3498

Last 3 plays: Guest 71 (5/10), Guest 86 (3/10), Guest 98 (5/10).

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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

Victor McLaglen

Errol Flynn

Alan Hale

Burt Lancaster

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who worked on a prison chain gang? Hint

Humphrey Bogart

Stewart Grainger

George C. Scott

Robert Mitchum

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Question 4 of 10

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

Mel Brooks

George Peppard

Jack Hawkins

Curt Jurgens

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Question 5 of 10

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

Greta Garbo

Audrey Hepburn

Anita Ekberg

Elke Sommer

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Question 6 of 10

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

Shirley Temple

Judy Garland

Doris Day

Jackie Coogan

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which celebrity was born in an elevator? Hint

Jack Lemmon

Danny Devito

Walter Matthau

Peter Falk

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Question 8 of 10

8. Whose parents were deaf mutes? Hint

Boris Karloff

Buster Keaton

Harold Lloyd

Lon Chaney

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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

John Wayne

Peter Lawford

Burt Lancaster

Clark Gable

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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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