Q 01/05

In which state was Jack Nicholson born and raised?

A) New York

B) New Jersey

C) California

D) Pennsylvania

Answer · why

B) New Jersey

New Jersey never left him: he grew up on the Shore, in Neptune City, Manasquan and Spring Lake, and told the state's Hall of Fame in 2010, "You can't ...

Q 02/05

In 1974, Time researchers told Nicholson his supposed sister was actually his what?

A) His mother

B) His cousin

C) His stepmother

D) His aunt

Answer · why

A) His mother

His mother, June, was unmarried, so her parents raised him as their own son and never told him; he called the discovery dramatic but not "what I'd cal...

Q 03/05

The teenage Nicholson's first Hollywood job was as an office boy in which studio's cartoon department?

A) MGM

B) Warner Bros.

C) Walt Disney

D) Universal

Answer · why

A) MGM

MGM's cartoon unit was the home of Tom and Jerry; its directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera are said to have offered him a start as an animator, ...

Q 04/05

Which actor directed Nicholson in both The Crossing Guard and The Pledge?

A) Sean Penn

B) Tim Robbins

C) Robert Redford

D) Warren Beatty

Answer · why

A) Sean Penn

Sean Penn cast Nicholson's former partner of many years as his character's ex-wife in The Crossing Guard, and Roger Ebert found an "eerie resonance" i...

Q 05/05

Nicholson made his film debut in which 1958 Roger Corman teen drama?

A) The Cry Baby Killer

B) The Wild Ride

C) Ride in the Whirlwind

D) The Little Shop of Horrors

Answer · why

A) The Cry Baby Killer

The Cry Baby Killer cast him as a teenager who panics after a shooting and takes hostages; its producer Roger Corman kept him busy in B-movies for the...