Q 01/05

In which city was Greta Garbo born in 1905?

A) Malmö

B) Stockholm

C) Gothenburg

D) Uppsala

Answer · why

B) Stockholm

Stockholm's working-class Södermalm district was her childhood home, and the city took her back in the end: her ashes were interred there in 1999, nin...

Q 02/05

What was Garbo's surname at birth?

A) Andersson

B) Gustafsson

C) Bergström

D) Lindqvist

Answer · why

B) Gustafsson

Gustafsson became Garbo while she was still a drama student; the director who gave her a first major film role is usually credited with choosing the n...

Q 03/05

Where did the young Garbo's family nickname, 'Kata', come from?

A) A children's book character

B) Her own mispronunciation of Greta

C) A neighbour's cat

D) Her grandmother's pet name

Answer · why

B) Her own mispronunciation of Greta

Her own mispronunciation of Greta, from her toddler days, stuck as a family nickname; the shy girl behind it left school at 13 and was soon nursing he...

Q 04/05

Before acting, Garbo modelled hats for the catalogue of which Swedish department store?

A) Åhléns

B) Ikea

C) NK

D) PUB

Answer · why

D) PUB

She had started as a soap-lather girl in a barber shop before running errands in the store's millinery department.

Q 05/05

Which director cast the drama student Garbo in The Saga of Gösta Berling and became her mentor?

A) G. W. Pabst

B) Mauritz Stiller

C) Carl Theodor Dreyer

D) Victor Sjöström

Answer · why

B) Mauritz Stiller

Mauritz Stiller went to Hollywood with her, but while she became a star he quarrelled with two studios, returned to Sweden and died soon afterwards.