Q 01/05

In which city was Marlon Brando born in 1924?

A) Evanston, Illinois

B) Omaha, Nebraska

C) Libertyville, Illinois

D) Santa Ana, California

Answer · why

B) Omaha, Nebraska

His father was a travelling salesman and his mother a stage actress; his ancestry was German, Dutch, English and Irish, with no Italian at all.

Q 02/05

From which military academy was Brando effectively expelled in 1943 for insubordination?

A) Kemper

B) Culver

C) Valley Forge

D) Shattuck

Answer · why

D) Shattuck

His father had attended it too; a football injury there left him with a trick knee that kept him out of the Army.

Q 03/05

When Stella Adler told her class to act like chickens with a nuclear bomb falling, what did Brando do?

A) Refused to take part in the exercise

B) Sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg

C) Hid under a table and cried out

D) Ran clucking wildly around the room

Answer · why

B) Sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg

'I'm a chicken—what do I know about bombs?' he explained; he insisted Adler and Kazan, not Lee Strasberg, taught him.

Q 04/05

Which childhood friend from Evanston, Illinois stayed close to Brando until his 1973 death and later shared his ashes?

A) Karl Malden

B) Christian Marquand

C) Wally Cox

D) Jack Nicholson

Answer · why

C) Wally Cox

'If Wally had been a woman, I would have married him,' Brando said; their ashes were scattered in Tahiti and Death Valley.

Q 05/05

Brando made his Broadway debut in 1944 in which play?

A) O Mistress Mine

B) A Flag Is Born

C) I Remember Mama

D) Truckline Cafe

Answer · why

C) I Remember Mama

He played the son of Mady Christians; Truckline Cafe later got him voted Most Promising Young Actor.