Q 01/05

Pedro Pascal was born in which city?

A) Santiago

B) Valparaíso

C) Buenos Aires

D) Lima

Answer · why

A) Santiago

Santiago was home for less than a year: his parents opposed the Pinochet dictatorship and fled Chile with him while he was still a baby.

Q 02/05

What was the profession of Pascal's mother, Verónica?

A) Opera singer

B) Child psychologist

C) Architect

D) Pediatric surgeon

Answer · why

B) Child psychologist

Child psychologist Verónica Pascal Ureta died early in his career, and he took her surname as his stage name in tribute.

Q 03/05

Pascal's father worked in which medical specialty?

A) Pediatric cardiology

B) Clinical neurology

C) Reproductive endocrinology

D) Orthopedic surgery

Answer · why

C) Reproductive endocrinology

Reproductive endocrinology is fertility medicine: his father returned to Chile in 1995 after being accused of secretly switching patients' embryos at ...

Q 04/05

Through his mother's family, Pascal is related to which Chilean president?

A) Augusto Pinochet

B) Eduardo Frei

C) Michelle Bachelet

D) Salvador Allende

Answer · why

D) Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende was overthrown two years before Pascal was born. His nephew Andrés Pascal Allende, a relative of Pascal's mother, led the Revolutiona...

Q 05/05

Pascal's parents escaped Pinochet's Chile by taking refuge in which embassy?

A) Mexican

B) Venezuelan

C) Swedish

D) Italian

Answer · why

B) Venezuelan

The Venezuelan embassy took them in after they went into hiding, left baby Pedro and his sister with an aunt, and climbed its wall during a guards' sh...