Q 01/05

Cate Blanchett was born in 1969 in which suburb of Melbourne?

A) Toorak

B) Brunswick

C) St Kilda

D) Ivanhoe

Answer · why

D) Ivanhoe

Her Texan father was a US Navy chief petty officer whose ship broke down in Melbourne; he died of a heart attack when she was ten.

Q 02/05

From which drama school did Blanchett graduate in 1992?

A) WAAPA

B) NIDA

C) RADA

D) Juilliard

Answer · why

B) NIDA

The National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. She had started a business degree at the University of Melbourne first.

Q 03/05

Blanchett's first screen appearance was as a cheerleader extra in which 1990 Egyptian film?

A) Al-Kitkat

B) Terrorism and Kebab

C) Kaboria

D) The Yacoubian Building

Answer · why

C) Kaboria

She was travelling in Egypt, needed money and said yes to a boxing film.

Q 04/05

Her first stage role, opposite Geoffrey Rush in 1992, was in which David Mamet play?

A) Glengarry Glen Ross

B) Speed-the-Plow

C) American Buffalo

D) Oleanna

Answer · why

D) Oleanna

The following year she won Sydney's Best Newcomer and Best Actress awards at once, the first actor to take both in one year.

Q 05/05

Blanchett's feature film debut was as a captured nurse in which 1997 Bruce Beresford film?

A) Black Robe

B) Mao's Last Dancer

C) Breaker Morant

D) Paradise Road

Answer · why

D) Paradise Road

Glenn Close and Frances McDormand co-starred; it made about $2 million on a $19 million budget.