Q 01/05

In which city was Elizabeth Taylor born in 1932?

A) Los Angeles

B) London

C) Paris

D) New York

Answer · why

B) London

London. Her American father dealt in art there until 1939, when her mother took the children to California months before the war; the English accent s...

Q 02/05

Which US ambassador urged Taylor's father to bring the family home to America in 1939?

A) John Winant

B) Joseph Davies

C) Averell Harriman

D) Joseph P. Kennedy

Answer · why

D) Joseph P. Kennedy

Joseph P. Kennedy. The father of a future president had his office urge Americans to get their families out, and her mother sailed with the two childr...

Q 03/05

Taylor's famous eyes were rimmed by dark double eyelashes caused by what?

A) A genetic mutation

B) An eye infection

C) A hormonal condition

D) A childhood illness

Answer · why

A) A genetic mutation

A genetic mutation. It gave her a second row of lashes so dark that a cameraman on one of her first films took them for make-up and asked for it to be...

Q 04/05

Which studio dropped Taylor after a year and one film before MGM signed her?

A) RKO

B) Universal

C) Paramount

D) Warner Bros.

Answer · why

B) Universal

Universal. It gave her one small part, in There's One Born Every Minute, and let her go within a year; MGM then cast her beside a collie in Lassie Com...

Q 05/05

In her first starring role, at 12, Taylor plays a girl who wants to ride as a jockey in which race?

A) The Epsom Derby

B) The Melbourne Cup

C) The Grand National

D) The Kentucky Derby

Answer · why

C) The Grand National

The Grand National. The studio first judged her too small for the part and gave it to her only months later; decades on she still called it the most e...