Q 01/05

What is Chevy Chase's real first name?

A) Charles

B) Chester

C) Cornelius

D) Christopher

Answer · why

C) Cornelius

He was named for his adoptive grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, heir to the Crane Company fortune.

Q 02/05

Where did the nickname 'Chevy' come from?

A) An English ballad his grandmother liked

B) A Chevrolet his father drove

C) The Maryland town where he was born

D) A childhood mispronunciation

Answer · why

A) An English ballad his grandmother liked

'The Ballad of Chevy Chase' seemed apt to a grandmother proud of her Clan Douglas descent.

Q 03/05

Chase's grandfather, Rear Admiral Miles Browning, served on which carrier at Midway?

A) USS Yorktown

B) USS Hornet

C) USS Lexington

D) USS Enterprise

Answer · why

D) USS Enterprise

Browning was chief of staff of Task Force 16 aboard the carrier USS Enterprise at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, serving under Rear Admiral Raymon...

Q 04/05

At Bard College, Chase played drums in a band with two future founders of which group?

A) Talking Heads

B) Steely Dan

C) The Eagles

D) Blue Öyster Cult

Answer · why

B) Steely Dan

The Leather Canary also featured Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who went on to found Steely Dan; Chase graduated from Bard in 1967 with a BA in Engli...

Q 05/05

By a legend Chase himself half-confirmed, why was he thrown out of Haverford College?

A) Setting fire to a dorm

B) Keeping a cow in his room

C) Streaking the chapel

D) Stealing a college bell

Answer · why

B) Keeping a cow in his room

Keeping a cow in his room is the reason Chase himself has given for his Haverford expulsion, though the college and a former roommate say he simply le...