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

She legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe only in February 1956, a decade after adopting it.

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 Boyle Heights on June 1, 1926, and died in the same city 36 years later.

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

Fox executive Ben Lyon picked 'Marilyn' because she reminded him of the Broadway star Marilyn Miller.

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

The wedding was arranged so she would not have to go back to the orphanage when her guardians moved to West Virginia.

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) Aircraft parachutes

Answer · why

C) Munitions and drones

Photographer David Conover was sent to the Radioplane plant in Van Nuys to shoot morale-boosting pictures of women workers.