Q 01/05

What was Marilyn Monroe's birth name?

A) Norma Jeane Mortenson

B) Gladys Pearl Baker

C) Marilyn Miller

D) Jean Norman

Answer · why

A) Norma Jeane Mortenson

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson (and baptised Norma Jeane Baker), she adopted the stage name in 1946 and made Marilyn Monroe her legal name only in 1956.

Q 02/05

In which city was Marilyn Monroe born?

A) Chicago

B) San Francisco

C) Los Angeles

D) New York

Answer · why

C) Los Angeles

She was born at Los Angeles General Hospital in the Boyle Heights district on June 1, 1926; her mother Gladys worked as a film negative cutter at Cons...

Q 03/05

Where did the 'Monroe' in her screen alias come from?

A) A street near the studio

B) President James Monroe

C) Her mother's maiden name

D) Her first husband's mother

Answer · why

C) Her mother's maiden name

'Monroe' was her mother Gladys's maiden name; Fox executive Ben Lyon paired it with 'Marilyn' because she reminded him of the Broadway star Marilyn Mi...

Q 04/05

How old was Monroe when she married her first husband, James Dougherty?

A) 18

B) 17

C) 16

D) 20

Answer · why

C) 16

She married Dougherty at 16 in June 1942, weeks after her birthday; the match was arranged so she would not have to return to the orphanage when her g...

Q 05/05

Monroe was discovered while working in a factory making what during World War II?

A) Army boots

B) Radio valves

C) Munitions and drones

D) Tank periscopes

Answer · why

C) Munitions and drones

Radioplane's Van Nuys plant made munitions and target drones; photographer David Conover, sent there to shoot morale-boosting pictures of women worker...