Q 01/05

Raised in the South Bronx, Pacino was born in which Manhattan neighbourhood?

A) East Harlem

B) Little Italy

C) Hell's Kitchen

D) The Lower East Side

Answer · why

A) East Harlem

East Harlem: he was born there in 1940, but after his parents split, his mother took him to live with her parents in the South Bronx.

Q 02/05

Pacino's maternal grandfather had emigrated to New York from which Sicilian town?

A) Messina

B) Corleone

C) Agrigento

D) Palermo

Answer · why

B) Corleone

Corleone: his mother's father came from the very town Mario Puzo made the birthplace of Don Vito in The Godfather.

Q 03/05

Pacino's memoir title 'Sonny Boy' was his mother's nickname for him, from a song by whom?

A) Enrico Caruso

B) Bing Crosby

C) Frank Sinatra

D) Al Jolson

Answer · why

D) Al Jolson

Al Jolson: Pacino's mother sang him Jolson's 1928 hit 'Sonny Boy', and the nickname became the title of his 2024 memoir.

Q 04/05

Which ice cream flavour gave the teenage Pacino his nickname among his Bronx friends?

A) Pistachio

B) Spumoni

C) Tutti Frutti

D) Rocky Road

Answer · why

A) Pistachio

Pistachio: those friends drifted into drugs, but his mother kept him in when they called for him, and Pacino credits her with saving his life.

Q 05/05

Pacino trained at which New York acting studio, where Charlie Laughton became his mentor?

A) HB (Herbert Berghof)

B) Neighborhood Playhouse

C) Juilliard

D) Stella Adler Conservatory

Answer · why

A) HB (Herbert Berghof)

HB (Herbert Berghof) Studio: his years there led him on to the Actors Studio, which later accepted him as a member.