Q 01/05

How was Oprah's first name spelled on her birth certificate?

A) Orpah

B) Ophra

C) Opera

D) Oprha

Answer · why

A) Orpah

It came from the biblical Orpah in the Book of Ruth; constant mispronunciation made 'Oprah' stick.

Q 02/05

In which Mississippi town was Winfrey born in 1954?

A) Tupelo

B) Meridian

C) Kosciusko

D) Natchez

Answer · why

C) Kosciusko

Kosciusko: her mother went north to look for work soon after the birth, leaving Winfrey on her grandmother's farm there for her first six years.

Q 03/05

As a small child Winfrey was mocked for wearing clothes made of what?

A) Flour bags

B) Potato sacks

C) Curtains

D) Old bedsheets

Answer · why

B) Potato sacks

Potato sacks: her grandmother Hattie Mae was too poor to buy clothes, yet she taught Winfrey to read before the girl was three.

Q 04/05

What childhood nickname did Winfrey earn for her recitations?

A) The Songbird

B) Little Sister

C) The Professor

D) The Preacher

Answer · why

D) The Preacher

The Preacher: by the age of three she was reciting Bible verses in church, and at home she practised interviewing her corncob doll and the crows on th...

Q 05/05

At six, Winfrey moved to an inner-city neighbourhood in which city?

A) Chicago

B) Detroit

C) Nashville

D) Milwaukee

Answer · why

D) Milwaukee

Milwaukee: she joined her mother Vernita Lee, whose long hours as a housemaid left little time for Oprah, and as a troubled teenager she was sent on t...