Q 01/05

In which city was Harrison Ford born?

A) Detroit

B) Chicago

C) Cleveland

D) Milwaukee

Answer · why

B) Chicago

Chicago-born and raised in its suburbs, he left the Midwest for Los Angeles in 1964 after a summer-stock season in Wisconsin.

Q 02/05

Ford's fifth Indiana Jones film premiered at which festival?

A) Cannes

B) Venice

C) Sundance

D) Toronto

Answer · why

A) Cannes

Cannes: before the premiere of The Dial of Destiny the festival gave Ford, then 80, an honorary Palme d'Or, and he said his life had just flashed befo...

Q 03/05

Ford studied philosophy at which college, in the self-styled birthplace of the Republican Party?

A) Carleton

B) Beloit

C) Lawrence

D) Ripon

Answer · why

D) Ripon

Ripon College: in The Last Crusade, Indy points truth-seekers to 'Dr. Tyree's philosophy class', Ford's shout-out to his old professor there.

Q 04/05

For what offence was Ford expelled from college four days before graduation?

A) Vandalism

B) Cheating on an exam

C) Plagiarism

D) Skipping classes

Answer · why

C) Plagiarism

Plagiarism: he has said he was not strict enough about whose words went into his senior thesis, admitted it when accused, and left without a degree.

Q 05/05

Which Boy Scout rank, short of Eagle, did Ford reach and later share with the young Indiana Jones?

A) Star

B) Life

C) First Class

D) Tenderfoot

Answer · why

B) Life

Life: Ford served on the summer staff of a Wisconsin Scout camp, and The Last Crusade pinned the rank's red-heart badge on River Phoenix's teenage Ind...