Q 01/05

In which Californian community was Gregory Peck born in 1916?

A) La Jolla

B) Pasadena

C) Malibu

D) Sausalito

Answer · why

A) La Jolla

La Jolla did not hold him long: after his parents divorced he was passed between them and his grandmother, and at ten they sent him to a military acad...

Q 02/05

What was Gregory Peck's real first name, which he dropped before heading to New York?

A) Eldred

B) Everett

C) Elmer

D) Edmund

Answer · why

A) Eldred

Eldred was a name his mother picked out of a phone book, he said, and he never liked it. Nobody knew him in New York, so he simply switched to his mid...

Q 03/05

What sport did Peck take up at the University of California, Berkeley?

A) Basketball

B) Water polo

C) Football

D) Rowing

Answer · why

D) Rowing

Rowing stayed with him for life: in 1996 he pledged $25,000 to the Cal men's crew in honour of his old coach, Ky Ebright.

Q 04/05

Which dance legend's movement class gave Gregory Peck the back injury that kept him out of WWII?

A) Agnes de Mille

B) Martha Graham

C) Katherine Dunham

D) Doris Humphrey

Answer · why

B) Martha Graham

Martha Graham taught movement at his New York drama school, and he hurt his back in her class. His studio blamed a college sports injury instead becau...

Q 05/05

Under which legendary acting teacher did Peck study at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse?

A) Lee Strasberg

B) Stella Adler

C) Uta Hagen

D) Sanford Meisner

Answer · why

D) Sanford Meisner

Sanford Meisner taught him there on a scholarship, at a time when Peck was so broke that he sometimes slept in Central Park.