Q 01/05
A) Mount Vernon
B) Yonkers
C) New Rochelle
D) White Plains
Answer · why
His mother ran a beauty parlour there; his father worked for the city water department and a department store as well as preaching.
Q 02/05
A) Jazz musician
B) Police officer
C) Postal worker
D) Pentecostal minister
Answer · why
The children were barred from the cinema and grew up on Bible epics like King of Kings and The Ten Commandments instead.
Q 03/05
A) New York University
B) Columbia University
C) Fordham University
D) Howard University
Answer · why
He later gave it $2 million for an endowed chair in the theatre department and received an honorary doctorate there in 1991.
Q 04/05
A) Rick Pitino
B) P. J. Carlesimo
C) Lou Carnesecca
D) Jim Boeheim
Answer · why
A colleague at a YMCA summer camp suggested he try acting after seeing him in a staff talent show.
Q 05/05
A) Wildcats
B) Red Raiders
C) Bulldogs
D) Tigers
Answer · why
He said the Lubbock uniforms looked like the ones he grew up wearing.
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