Q 01/05

In which US city was Andy Warhol born in 1928?

A) Pittsburgh

B) Cleveland

C) Philadelphia

D) Buffalo

Answer · why

A) Pittsburgh

His parents were working-class Rusyn immigrants from Austria-Hungary; his father worked in a coal mine.

Q 02/05

Warhol's parents came from Miková, a village in what is now which country?

A) Poland

B) Ukraine

C) Slovakia

D) Hungary

Answer · why

C) Slovakia

They were Ruthenian Catholics; a funeral liturgy in English and Church Slavonic was said for him in 1987.

Q 03/05

Which neurological condition, also called St. Vitus' Dance, did young Warhol develop?

A) Tourette's syndrome

B) Sydenham's chorea

C) Bell's palsy

D) Epilepsy

Answer · why

B) Sydenham's chorea

Bedridden, he drew, made scrapbooks from Hollywood magazines and cut up comic books bought for him.

Q 04/05

Warhol's father died in 1942 after years earlier drinking contaminated water where?

A) On the ship from Europe

B) In a Pittsburgh steel mill

C) At a Slovak village well

D) In a West Virginia coal mine

Answer · why

D) In a West Virginia coal mine

Andy was about to graduate from Holmes School at the time.

Q 05/05

Warhol's prize-winning Carnegie Tech drawings satirised customers from which summer job?

A) Department-store elevator boy

B) Ice-cream vendor

C) Newspaper delivery

D) Produce huckster

Answer · why

D) Produce huckster

He called the job a 'wonderful experience' and concluded that 'people are funny'.