Q 01/05

Brad Pitt was born in Shawnee, in which US state?

A) Oklahoma

B) Missouri

C) Kansas

D) Arkansas

Answer · why

A) Oklahoma

His father ran a trucking company and his mother was a school counselor; the family soon moved north to Missouri.

Q 02/05

Pitt grew up in which Missouri city, which he calls 'Mark Twain country'?

A) Kansas City

B) Springfield

C) Columbia

D) Joplin

Answer · why

B) Springfield

He attended Kickapoo High School there, playing golf, swimming and tennis and appearing in school musicals.

Q 03/05

What did Pitt major in at the University of Missouri before leaving for Los Angeles?

A) Architecture

B) Business

C) Journalism

D) Theatre

Answer · why

C) Journalism

He focused on advertising and quit two weeks short of finishing the coursework because films, a 'portal into different worlds', were not made in Misso...

Q 04/05

Pitt's first leading film role, shot in 1988, was in which shelved Yugoslav–American co-production?

A) The Image (1990)

B) Happy Together (1989)

C) Glory Days (1990)

D) The Dark Side of the Sun

Answer · why

D) The Dark Side of the Sun

He played a young American taken to the Adriatic for a skin-condition cure. The Croatian War of Independence delayed its release until 1997.

Q 05/05

On which primetime soap did Pitt play Randy, boyfriend of Jenna Wade's daughter, in 1987–88?

A) Dallas

B) Dynasty

C) Knots Landing

D) Falcon Crest

Answer · why

A) Dallas

Four episodes. He dated co-star Shalane McCall, who played the daughter, and also turned up twice on Growing Pains.