Q 01/05

Daeida Wilcox took the name 'Hollywood' from an acquaintance's estate in which state?

A) Ohio

B) New York

C) Massachusetts

D) Illinois

Answer · why

D) Illinois

Her husband Harvey Wilcox laid out the town; H. J. Whitley, who opened the Hollywood Hotel in 1902, is also called the 'Father of Hollywood'.

Q 02/05

Why did the independent city of Hollywood vote to merge with Los Angeles in 1910?

A) To attract movie studios

B) To avoid a state tax

C) To secure water and sewer access

D) To build a streetcar line

Answer · why

C) To secure water and sewer access

Hollywood had been incorporated as its own municipality only in November 1903.

Q 03/05

Which 1910 D. W. Griffith Western is credited as the first film shot in Hollywood?

A) The Birth of a Nation

B) The Squaw Man

C) Ramona

D) In Old California

Answer · why

D) In Old California

Griffith's Biograph company came west for the winter and shot the short in the still-rural village.

Q 04/05

Hollywood's first permanent movie studio, opened by the Nestor Film Company in 1911, was housed in what?

A) A barn

B) A tavern

C) A church

D) A citrus packing house

Answer · why

B) A tavern

The Blondeau Tavern stood on the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street.

Q 05/05

What 1914 Western was Cecil B. DeMille's directorial debut and the first feature shot in Hollywood?

A) The Virginian

B) The Covered Wagon

C) The Squaw Man

D) Hell's Hinges

Answer · why

C) The Squaw Man

It was the first film of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, made in a rented barn.