Q 01/05

What nickname was Clark Gable widely known by?

A) The Duke

B) The King of Hollywood

C) The Great Profile

D) The Man of a Thousand Faces

Answer · why

B) The King of Hollywood

The King of Hollywood. A newspaper poll run by columnist Ed Sullivan made it official: readers elected Gable king and Myrna Loy queen, and Sullivan pr...

Q 02/05

Gable lost the Best Actor Oscar for Gone with the Wind; which film won him his only one?

A) Manhattan Melodrama

B) San Francisco

C) It Happened One Night

D) Idiot's Delight

Answer · why

C) It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night. Studio legend says MGM lent him to lowly Columbia as a punishment; he came back with the only Oscar of his career.

Q 03/05

In which Ohio town was Clark Gable born in 1901?

A) Dayton

B) Cadiz

C) Canton

D) Marietta

Answer · why

B) Cadiz

Cadiz. His mother died when he was ten months old, and her family cared for him on a Pennsylvania farm until his father, an oil driller, remarried.

Q 04/05

What was Gable's real first name?

A) Charles

B) Walter

C) William

D) Frank

Answer · why

C) William

William. Named after his father, he was briefly billed on stage as W. C. Gable before settling on his middle name.

Q 05/05

Which company did the teenage Gable leave the family farm to work for in Akron?

A) Firestone Tire and Rubber

B) Goodrich Rubber Company

C) Standard Oil of Ohio

D) Ford Motor Company

Answer · why

A) Firestone Tire and Rubber

Firestone Tire and Rubber. He started as a clerk in the timekeeping department, and it was in Akron that he saw the play The Bird of Paradise and deci...