Q 01/05

In which Pennsylvania town was James Stewart born in 1908?

A) Altoona

B) Scranton

C) Indiana

D) Lancaster

Answer · why

C) Indiana

Indiana, Pennsylvania, dedicated a bronze statue of Stewart on his 75th birthday in 1983, and it still stands on the courthouse lawn near his boyhood ...

Q 02/05

What kind of business did Stewart's father run?

A) A pharmacy

B) A newspaper

C) A hardware store

D) A dairy farm

Answer · why

C) A hardware store

A hardware store, founded by his grandfather: his father hoped Jimmy would come home to run it, and put his son's Academy Award on display there.

Q 03/05

Which instrument did James Stewart play as a boy and later on screen in the Western Night Passage?

A) Accordion

B) Banjo

C) Harmonica

D) Ukulele

Answer · why

A) Accordion

Accordion: Stewart was an amateur accordionist long before he acted, and the director who quit Night Passage later accused him of making the film only...

Q 04/05

What subject did Stewart major in at Princeton?

A) English

B) Chemistry

C) Engineering

D) Architecture

Answer · why

D) Architecture

Architecture: with few building jobs to be had in the Depression, he took up a friend's offer to join a summer theatre company on Cape Cod instead.

Q 05/05

Which future star shared rooms with Stewart in New York when both were struggling stage actors in the early 1930s?

A) Henry Fonda

B) Gary Cooper

C) Spencer Tracy

D) Cary Grant

Answer · why

A) Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda, a liberal Democrat, stayed friends for life with the conservative Stewart by a simple rule: the pair did not talk politics.