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

Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 6, 1928, the fourth child of working-class Rusyn immigrants from Austria-Hungary...

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 nervous-system disorder kept young Warhol bedridden for stretches in third grade?

A) Tourette's syndrome

B) Sydenham's chorea

C) Bell's palsy

D) Epilepsy

Answer · why

B) Sydenham's chorea

Warhol had Sydenham's chorea in third grade, a complication of streptococcal infection that causes involuntary jerking movements; confined to bed, he ...

Q 04/05

From which high school did Warhol graduate in 1945?

A) Schenley High School

B) Taylor Allderdice High School

C) Peabody High School

D) Westinghouse High School

Answer · why

A) Schenley High School

Warhol graduated from Schenley High School, in his home city's Oakland district, in 1945 and entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology that autumn.

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

Warhol spent summers as a produce huckster, selling fruit and vegetables from his brother Paul's truck; his sketches of the customers won a Carnegie T...