Q 01/05

In which US state was Howard Hawks born in 1896?

A) Wisconsin

B) Ohio

C) Indiana

D) California

Answer · why

C) Indiana

Indiana was home only briefly: the family soon moved to his grandfather's paper-mill town in Wisconsin, then settled in Pasadena, California, where he...

Q 02/05

Which critic called Hawks "the greatest American director who is not a household name"?

A) Leonard Maltin

B) Roger Ebert

C) Gene Siskel

D) Pauline Kael

Answer · why

A) Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin wrote it in his Movie Encyclopedia, adding that with very few exceptions Hawks is the name modern filmmakers cite most often as an infl...

Q 03/05

What did Hawks study at Cornell University?

A) Landscape architecture

B) Constitutional law

C) English literature

D) Mechanical engineering

Answer · why

D) Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering got little of his attention: a college friend recalled him shooting craps and drinking rather than studying, and he left Cornel...

Q 04/05

Hawks claimed to have been a national junior champion in which sport?

A) Swimming

B) Tennis

C) Boxing

D) Golf

Answer · why

B) Tennis

Tennis was the boast, but biographer Todd McCarthy found no record of Hawks playing at any school he attended and judged the title 'virtually impossib...

Q 05/05

During World War I Hawks served in the Army Signal Corps doing what?

A) Photographing enemy lines

B) Teaching aviators to fly

C) Designing engines

D) Flying bombing raids over France

Answer · why

B) Teaching aviators to fly

Teaching aviators to fly left its mark on his work: The Dawn Patrol, Ceiling Zero, Only Angels Have Wings and Air Force all followed.