Q 01/05

Brad Pitt grew up in Missouri but was born in Shawnee, in which neighbouring state?

A) Oklahoma

B) Kansas

C) Arkansas

D) Nebraska

Answer · why

A) Oklahoma

Oklahoma. Shawnee is home to Oklahoma Baptist University, where his parents had met as students; they married in 1962 and their first child arrived th...

Q 02/05

In which Missouri city did Brad Pitt grow up?

A) Kansas City

B) Springfield

C) Columbia

D) Joplin

Answer · why

B) Springfield

Springfield. At Kickapoo High School there he was on the golf, swimming and tennis teams and sang in the musicals, though the career he had in mind wa...

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

Journalism. With graduation in sight he walked away just short of his degree and drove to Los Angeles, where he took odd jobs, chauffeuring a limousin...

Q 04/05

Pitt's first leading film role was shot in 1988 in which now-vanished country?

A) Czechoslovakia

B) Yugoslavia

C) East Germany

D) The Soviet Union

Answer · why

B) Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia. The Dark Side of the Sun, shot on the Adriatic coast with Pitt as a young American seeking a cure for a skin disease, went unseen until 19...

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

Dallas. Randy lasted four episodes, one of several bit parts Pitt picked up in his first year of screen work while paying the rent with odd jobs such ...