Q 01/05

In which New York town was Lucille Ball born in 1911?

A) Jamestown

B) Rochester

C) Utica

D) Elmira

Answer · why

A) Jamestown

Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, New York, on August 6, 1911; the city is home to the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum and the National Comedy Center...

Q 02/05

Ball's father, Henry, worked as a lineman for which company?

A) Western Union

B) New York Central Railroad

C) Bell Telephone

D) General Electric

Answer · why

C) Bell Telephone

Bell Telephone employed Henry Ball as a lineman in Michigan, where the family had moved after a spell in Montana. He died there of typhoid fever while...

Q 03/05

Ball grew superstitious about what after seeing some at the window the day her father died?

A) Bats

B) Mice

C) Birds

D) Moths

Answer · why

C) Birds

Birds. She remembered them at the window that day, and as an adult she refused hotel rooms with bird pictures or bird wallpaper.

Q 04/05

Ball's strict step-grandparents kept just one mirror in the house to guard against what?

A) Bad luck

B) Vanity

C) Idleness

D) Evil spirits

Answer · why

B) Vanity

Vanity, by most accounts. The Petersons are said to have left a single mirror over the bathroom sink, and when they caught young Lucille studying her ...

Q 05/05

Which future star was the teenage Ball's classmate at a New York drama school in the 1920s?

A) Katharine Hepburn

B) Judy Garland

C) Marilyn Monroe

D) Bette Davis

Answer · why

D) Bette Davis

Bette Davis was the star pupil of the John Murray Anderson school, and Ball said she was spellbound by her. The school wrote to Ball's mother that Luc...