Q 01/05

George Lucas was born in 1944 in which California city, later the setting of American Graffiti?

A) Fresno

B) Modesto

C) Sacramento

D) Bakersfield

Answer · why

B) Modesto

Modesto. Its weekend ritual of cruising up and down the main streets, which he joined as a teenager, became the whole subject of American Graffiti a d...

Q 02/05

What career did the teenage Lucas dream of before a near-fatal crash in June 1962 changed his mind?

A) Fighter pilot

B) Architect

C) Racing driver

D) Baseball player

Answer · why

C) Racing driver

Racing driver. Days before his high-school graduation his souped-up little car was hit and rolled into a tree; he has said nobody should have survived...

Q 03/05

George Lucas transferred to the film school of which institution, where his classmates included John Milius and Walter Murch?

A) UCLA

B) USC

C) NYU

D) CalArts

Answer · why

B) USC

USC. In 2006 he repaid the film school with a gift of about $175 million, then the largest single donation the university had received.

Q 04/05

Why was George Lucas turned down when he tried to join the US Air Force as an officer after film school?

A) Colour-blindness

B) Being under the height limit

C) Too many speeding tickets

D) Childhood asthma

Answer · why

C) Too many speeding tickets

Too many speeding tickets. The army then drafted him for Vietnam instead, but the medical tests turned up diabetes and he was excused from service alt...

Q 05/05

Which documentary of the Rolling Stones' ill-fated 1969 Altamont concert had George Lucas among its camera operators?

A) Gimme Shelter

B) Sympathy for the Devil

C) Shine a Light

D) Let's Spend the Night Together

Answer · why

A) Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter. Its cameras caught the moment that made the concert infamous: a Hells Angel stabbing a young fan to death in front of the stage.