Q 01/05

What is Meryl Streep's real first name?

A) Meredith

B) Marilyn

C) Mary Louise

D) Margaret

Answer · why

C) Mary Louise

Mary Louise: born Mary Louise Streep on June 22, 1949, she has gone by Meryl, a family nickname, since childhood.

Q 02/05

In which state was Streep born and raised?

A) Connecticut

B) New York

C) Pennsylvania

D) New Jersey

Answer · why

D) New Jersey

New Jersey, where she was raised a Presbyterian and was a high-school cheerleader and homecoming queen.

Q 03/05

At age 12, after a school recital, Streep began lessons in what?

A) Violin

B) Ballet

C) Opera

D) Piano

Answer · why

C) Opera

Opera: at 12 she began several years of lessons with Estelle Liebling, the coach who trained Beverly Sills, but quit, saying she was 'singing somethin...

Q 04/05

Which play at Vassar College in 1969 first got Streep interested in serious theatre?

A) Miss Julie

B) Hedda Gabler

C) A Doll's House

D) The Seagull

Answer · why

A) Miss Julie

Miss Julie: her 1969 title role in Strindberg's play at Vassar, directed by Clinton Atkinson, convinced her to pursue acting; Atkinson later said no o...

Q 05/05

At which university did Streep earn her Master of Fine Arts?

A) Juilliard

B) Carnegie Mellon

C) NYU

D) Yale

Answer · why

D) Yale

Yale: at the Yale School of Drama she appeared in a dozen productions a year, waited tables and typed to pay fees, and took her MFA in 1975.