Q 01/05

In which Wisconsin city was Orson Welles born on May 6, 1915?

A) Milwaukee

B) Madison

C) Racine

D) Kenosha

Answer · why

D) Kenosha

Kenosha was home for only four years. His family then moved to Chicago, where he grew up among the musicians who gathered around his mother, a concert...

Q 02/05

In Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, the Martians first land in which US state?

A) New York

B) New Jersey

C) Pennsylvania

D) Massachusetts

Answer · why

B) New Jersey

New Jersey: the script set the landing on a farm at Grovers Mill and told it as breaking news bulletins. Some listeners who tuned in late took the inv...

Q 03/05

In Citizen Kane, the dying tycoon's last word, 'Rosebud', turns out to be the name of what?

A) His first newspaper

B) His childhood sled

C) His mother's boarding house

D) His favourite racehorse

Answer · why

B) His childhood sled

His childhood sled, which he was playing with in the snow on the day he was sent away from his parents. Nobody in the film ever finds out: only the au...

Q 04/05

At which boarding school did the young Welles come under the influence of teacher Roger Hill?

A) Lake Forest Academy

B) Culver Military Academy

C) Phillips Exeter

D) Todd Seminary for Boys

Answer · why

D) Todd Seminary for Boys

Todd Seminary for Boys gave him nearly all the formal schooling he ever had. He spent five years there staging and acting in plays, then skipped colle...

Q 05/05

Which town did Welles name as 'home' in a 1960 interview?

A) Woodstock, Illinois

B) Madison, Wisconsin

C) Chicago, Illinois

D) Grand Detour, Illinois

Answer · why

A) Woodstock, Illinois

Woodstock, Illinois, 'if it's anywhere,' he said, because he had gone to school there. He came back at 19 to direct a six-week summer theatre festival...