Q 01/05

In which city was Clint Eastwood born on 31 May 1930?

A) Los Angeles

B) Oakland

C) San Francisco

D) Carmel-by-the-Sea

Answer · why

C) San Francisco

Eastwood was born in San Francisco on 31 May 1930, at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital; the family moved around northern California during the Depressi...

Q 02/05

As a young Army draftee in 1951, Eastwood survived what accident off the California coast?

A) A jeep rolling off a coastal cliff

B) A bomber ditching in the Pacific

C) A parachute failing to open on a jump

D) A troopship fire off San Diego

Answer · why

B) A bomber ditching in the Pacific

Eastwood survived a bomber ditching in the Pacific: the Navy Douglas AD giving him a lift from Seattle ran out of fuel near Point Reyes, and he and th...

Q 03/05

In 1955, Eastwood had a bit part as a lab technician in which Universal monster film?

A) Tarantula

B) Creature from the Black Lagoon

C) It Came from Outer Space

D) Revenge of the Creature

Answer · why

D) Revenge of the Creature

Revenge of the Creature gave him one of his first screen roles, but Universal soon dropped him, and he took labouring jobs between small parts.

Q 04/05

Which character did Eastwood play in the CBS Western Rawhide from 1959?

A) Rowdy Yates

B) Gil Favor

C) Wishbone

D) Pete Nolan

Answer · why

A) Rowdy Yates

Rowdy Yates was the ramrod under Eric Fleming's trail boss Gil Favor; when Fleming left after season seven, Rowdy took over as trail boss for the fina...

Q 05/05

At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Eastwood famously improvised a routine talking to what?

A) A cardboard cutout

B) An empty chair

C) A video screen

D) A campaign poster

Answer · why

B) An empty chair

An empty chair stood in for President Obama, and the idea reportedly came from a Neil Diamond song with a line about an empty chair that Eastwood hear...