Q 01/05

The name Jessica is first recorded in which Shakespeare play, where she is the daughter of the moneylender Shylock?

A) The Taming of the Shrew

B) The Merchant of Venice

C) Much Ado About Nothing

D) Twelfth Night

Answer · why

B) The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice gives the name to a daughter who elopes with the penniless Lorenzo and a chest of her father's money. Shakespeare may have adap...

Q 02/05

Rescuers in Midland, Texas, spent 58 hours in October 1987 freeing toddler "Baby Jessica" McClure from what?

A) An old mine shaft

B) A flooded storm drain

C) A grain silo

D) A backyard well

Answer · why

D) A backyard well

A backyard well only eight inches wide held the 18-month-old about 22 feet down, so crews drilled a parallel shaft through rock to reach her. All thre...

Q 03/05

In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which Body Heat star gave Jessica Rabbit her speaking voice without screen credit?

A) Kathleen Turner

B) Kim Basinger

C) Sharon Stone

D) Michelle Pfeiffer

Answer · why

A) Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner came to the part through director Robert Zemeckis, who had worked with her on Romancing the Stone. She took it while pregnant, since a...

Q 04/05

Jessica Simpson's marriage to which pop singer was followed by MTV cameras for the reality series Newlyweds?

A) Nick Carter

B) Joey Fatone

C) Nick Lachey

D) JC Chasez

Answer · why

C) Nick Lachey

Nick Lachey, lead singer of 98 Degrees, married her in Austin in October 2002, and the series began the next year. It made both of them household name...

Q 05/05

Jessica Chastain attended Juilliard on a scholarship funded by which comedian, himself a former student there?

A) Steve Martin

B) Whoopi Goldberg

C) Eddie Murphy

D) Robin Williams

Answer · why

D) Robin Williams

Robin Williams funded the scholarship she was granted on being accepted. He had left the school in his junior year, after a teacher suggested it had n...