Q 01/05

What was Cary Grant's birth name?

A) Albert Alec Leigh

B) Archibald Alec Leach

C) Arthur Alan Lynch

D) Archibald Cary Grantham

Answer · why

B) Archibald Alec Leach

He ad-libbed the line 'the last man who said that to me was Archie Leach' in His Girl Friday, and legally became Cary Grant only when naturalised in 1...

Q 02/05

In which English city was Cary Grant born in 1904?

A) Bristol

B) Liverpool

C) Birmingham

D) Manchester

Answer · why

A) Bristol

A statue by Graham Ibbeson stands in the city's Millennium Square, and the biennial Cary Comes Home Festival started there in 2014.

Q 03/05

What did Cary Grant's father tell him had happened to his mother when the boy was nine?

A) That she had emigrated to Australia

B) That she had run off with a sailor

C) That she had gone away on a long holiday

D) That she had entered a convent

Answer · why

C) That she had gone away on a long holiday

She had actually been placed in a mental institution; Grant did not learn she was alive until he was 31 and arranged her release in 1935.

Q 04/05

How old was Cary Grant when he discovered his mother was still alive?

A) 45

B) 24

C) 18

D) 31

Answer · why

D) 31

His father confessed the lie shortly before his own death; Grant visited her regularly afterwards, including after filming Gunga Din.

Q 05/05

From which institution was the 14-year-old Archie Leach expelled in March 1918?

A) Bristol Cathedral

B) Colston's

C) Fairfield Grammar

D) Clifton College

Answer · why

C) Fairfield Grammar

Explanations included being found in the girls' lavatory; he rejoined the Pender acrobatic troupe three days later.