Q 01/05

In which Canadian province was Jim Carrey born in 1962?

A) Ontario

B) Manitoba

C) Alberta

D) Quebec

Answer · why

A) Ontario

Ontario is where a 10-year-old Carrey wrote to The Carol Burnett Show, hoping to land a job on it.

Q 02/05

What factory job did a teenage Jim Carrey take to help support his struggling family?

A) Janitor

B) Machine operator

C) Forklift driver

D) Shipping clerk

Answer · why

A) Janitor

Janitor was the job, and by 1979 Carrey had left the factory to earn his living as a stand-up comic.

Q 03/05

Carrey made his stand-up debut at 15 at which Toronto comedy club?

A) Second City

B) The Comedy Store

C) Yuk Yuk's

D) The Laugh Resort

Answer · why

C) Yuk Yuk's

Yuk Yuk's launched a career in Canada's comedy clubs before Carrey moved to Los Angeles.

Q 04/05

Which veteran comedian signed the young Carrey to open his tour dates in the early 1980s?

A) Steve Martin

B) Don Rickles

C) George Carlin

D) Rodney Dangerfield

Answer · why

D) Rodney Dangerfield

Rodney Dangerfield noticed Carrey in US comedy clubs and was so impressed that the two began touring together.

Q 05/05

Which 1984 NBC sitcom gave Carrey his first starring TV role?

A) The Duck Factory

B) Buffalo Bill

C) Jennifer Slept Here

D) We Got It Made

Answer · why

A) The Duck Factory

The Duck Factory was gone after just 13 episodes, yet it still won two Emmys, for its art direction and its animated title sequence.