Q 01/05

In which Californian neighbourhood was Gregory Peck born in 1916?

A) La Jolla

B) Pasadena

C) Malibu

D) Sausalito

Answer · why

A) La Jolla

His father was a pharmacist; he later co-founded the La Jolla Playhouse in his birthplace.

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

He had planned to be a doctor and studied English and pre-med at Berkeley.

Q 03/05

What sport did the 6-foot-3 Peck take up at the University of California, Berkeley?

A) Basketball

B) Water polo

C) Football

D) Rowing

Answer · why

D) Rowing

In 1996 he gave 25,000 dollars to the Berkeley crew in honour of his coach Ky Ebright.

Q 04/05

Peck was exempt from WWII service due to a back injury he actually suffered doing what?

A) Rowing on the Berkeley crew

B) Falling through a Broadway trapdoor

C) Taking dance lessons from Martha Graham

D) A car crash outside Abingdon, Virginia

Answer · why

C) Taking dance lessons from Martha Graham

The studio preferred to say he hurt it rowing, since a dance class 'wasn't macho enough'.

Q 05/05

Under which legendary 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

He went on to appear in some 50 plays and three Broadway productions.