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

His father ran the J. M. Stewart and Company Hardware Store and hoped his son would take it over.

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

Stewart later gave his Oscar to his father, who displayed it in the shop alongside the family's military medals.

Q 03/05

Which instrument, taken by his father as payment for a debt, became a fixture of James Stewart's life offstage?

A) Accordion

B) Banjo

C) Harmonica

D) Ukulele

Answer · why

A) Accordion

A local barber taught him to play it.

Q 04/05

What subject did Stewart major in at Princeton?

A) English

B) Chemistry

C) Engineering

D) Architecture

Answer · why

D) Architecture

His thesis on an airport terminal design won him a graduate scholarship, which he turned down for summer stock theatre.

Q 05/05

Which future screen legend roomed with a nearly broke Stewart in New York in the early 1930s?

A) Henry Fonda

B) Gary Cooper

C) Spencer Tracy

D) Cary Grant

Answer · why

A) Henry Fonda

They built model aeroplanes together for decades and reportedly came to blows once over politics, then never discussed it again.