Q 01/05

In which London district did Chaplin spend his early years with his mother and brother Sydney?

A) Camden

B) Hackney

C) Kennington

D) Whitechapel

Answer · why

C) Kennington

Kennington. Outside a pub at Kennington Cross the boy heard two street musicians play 'The Honeysuckle and the Bee', and he later called it the moment...

Q 02/05

Where was seven-year-old Chaplin sent in 1896 when his mother fell ill and had no means to support her sons?

A) A workhouse

B) A convent

C) A foundling hospital

D) A Salvation Army shelter

Answer · why

A) A workhouse

A workhouse: he and his brother were soon moved on to a school for pauper children, where treatment for ringworm meant a shaved head painted with iodi...

Q 03/05

In a famous scene from The Great Dictator, Chaplin's tyrant performs a dreamy solo ballet with what?

A) A giant flag

B) A portrait of himself

C) A balloon globe

D) His own shadow

Answer · why

C) A balloon globe

A balloon globe: the dictator dances with the world to the prelude from Wagner's Lohengrin, and just when he believes he has it in his grasp, it burst...

Q 04/05

With which clog-dancing troupe did the young Chaplin tour English music halls in 1899 and 1900?

A) The Crazy Gang

B) Casey's Court Circus

C) The Eight Lancashire Lads

D) The Seven Little Foys

Answer · why

C) The Eight Lancashire Lads

The Eight Lancashire Lads gave Chaplin his professional debut. He quickly won favour as a dancer, but the boy wanted a comedy act instead and soon mov...

Q 05/05

Which role did the teenage Chaplin play in Sherlock Holmes opposite William Gillette?

A) Moriarty's clerk

B) A Cockney newsboy

C) Wiggins the street urchin

D) Billy the pageboy

Answer · why

D) Billy the pageboy

Billy the pageboy: he first toured in the part opposite H. A. Saintsbury, and played it so well that he was called to London to do it beside Gillette,...