Q 01/05

In which Montana city was David Lynch born in January 1946?

A) Billings

B) Missoula

C) Helena

D) Bozeman

Answer · why

B) Missoula

Missoula was home for only two months: his father's government job took the family to Sandpoint, Idaho, and through four more moves by the time David ...

Q 02/05

David Lynch's father Donald experimented on tree diseases as a research scientist for which federal agency?

A) The National Park Service

B) The Bureau of Land Management

C) The USDA

D) The EPA

Answer · why

C) The USDA

The USDA's Forest Service had Donald Lynch running experiments in a research forest near Boise, and he would drop young David in the woods for the day...

Q 03/05

Which Boy Scout rank did David Lynch say he reached 'so I could quit, and put it behind me'?

A) Tenderfoot

B) Life Scout

C) Star Scout

D) Eagle Scout

Answer · why

D) Eagle Scout

Eagle Scout is scouting's top rank. His father urged him to see it through, promising that one day he would be proud he had.

Q 04/05

Which Robert Henri book inspired the teenage Lynch to dedicate himself to 'the art life'?

A) The Painted Word

B) The Art Spirit

C) Concerning the Spiritual in Art

D) Ways of Seeing

Answer · why

B) The Art Spirit

The Art Spirit was pressed on him by Bushnell Keeler, a friend's painter father who gave the teenager space in his studio; Lynch said the 1923 book 's...

Q 05/05

In which city did David Lynch attend the Academy of the Fine Arts and make his first short films?

A) Baltimore

B) Boston

C) Philadelphia

D) Pittsburgh

Answer · why

C) Philadelphia

Philadelphia frightened and thrilled him: he called the city 'the biggest influence in my whole life' and described Eraserhead as 'my Philadelphia Sto...