Q 01/05

In which Australian city was Cate Blanchett born?

A) Perth

B) Brisbane

C) Adelaide

D) Melbourne

Answer · why

D) Melbourne

Melbourne. Her Texan father was serving in the US Navy and met her Australian mother there when his ship broke down.

Q 02/05

From which drama school did Blanchett graduate in 1992?

A) WAAPA

B) NIDA

C) RADA

D) Juilliard

Answer · why

B) NIDA

NIDA, Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art. She had first started an art history and economics degree at university before turning to acting...

Q 03/05

Short of money while travelling, Blanchett first appeared on screen as a cheerleader extra in a boxing film in which country?

A) Egypt

B) Morocco

C) Turkey

D) India

Answer · why

A) Egypt

Egypt. She was staying at a cheap Cairo hotel when a chance meeting led to work as an American cheerleader in the 1990 film Kaboria.

Q 04/05

Soon after drama school, Blanchett played the student in David Mamet's two-hander Oleanna opposite which Australian actor?

A) Hugo Weaving

B) Guy Pearce

C) Mel Gibson

D) Geoffrey Rush

Answer · why

D) Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Rush. He played the professor she accuses, and it won her a critics' best actress award in the year the same critics named her best newcomer ...

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

Paradise Road. Glenn Close led the cast as a prisoner who starts a 'vocal orchestra' in a Japanese camp on Sumatra, a story Beresford drew from surviv...