Q 01/05

Humphrey Bogart's real birthday, long doubted because reference books gave a January date, fell on which holiday in 1899?

A) Thanksgiving

B) Halloween

C) Christmas Day

D) New Year's Eve

Answer · why

C) Christmas Day

Christmas Day. A rival date of January 23 circulated for decades, but a newspaper birth notice printed on January 10, 1900 rules it out, and Bogart al...

Q 02/05

Bogart's mother Maud used a drawing of her son in a national advertising campaign for which brand?

A) Quaker Oats

B) Pears' Soap

C) Campbell's Soup

D) Mellins Baby Food

Answer · why

D) Mellins Baby Food

Mellins Baby Food. The ads made the infant Bogart briefly famous: he later said there was a time you couldn't pick up a magazine 'without seeing my ki...

Q 03/05

Which elite Massachusetts boarding school did Bogart leave in 1918 with failing grades?

A) Phillips Academy, Andover

B) Deerfield Academy

C) Noble and Greenough School

D) Groton School

Answer · why

A) Phillips Academy, Andover

Phillips Academy, Andover. Accounts differ on the exit: in one he was expelled for throwing a member of staff into the campus pond, in another his fat...

Q 04/05

In which branch of the military did Bogart serve at the end of World War I?

A) US Army

B) US Marine Corps

C) US Navy

D) US Coast Guard

Answer · why

C) US Navy

US Navy. He enlisted weeks after leaving school, recalling later that at that age war seemed 'great stuff', and spent most of his sea time after the a...

Q 05/05

In one famous story of Bogart's lip scar, who struck him in the mouth during military service?

A) A drunken officer

B) A handcuffed prisoner

C) A dockside brawler

D) A German sailor

Answer · why

B) A handcuffed prisoner

A handcuffed prisoner. As the tale goes, the man asked his escort for a cigarette and swung his cuffs when Bogart reached for a match; other accounts ...