Q 01/05

Who reportedly coined 'Rat Pack' after seeing her husband and friends return from Las Vegas?

A) Lauren Bacall

B) Katharine Hepburn

C) Ava Gardner

D) Judy Garland

Answer · why

A) Lauren Bacall

'You look like a goddamn rat pack,' she reportedly said. The name may also be short for the 'Holmby Hills Rat Pack,' after her home with Humphrey Boga...

Q 02/05

Whose Holmby Hills home was the hangout of the original 1950s Rat Pack?

A) Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner's

B) Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall's

C) Errol Flynn and Patrice Wymore's

D) Judy Garland and Sid Luft's

Answer · why

B) Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall's

Visitors included Errol Flynn, Nat King Cole, Elizabeth Taylor and Cesar Romero; Bogart was 'rat in charge of public relations.'

Q 03/05

In the original Holmby Hills group, which office did Frank Sinatra hold?

A) Cage master

B) Historian

C) Pack master

D) Recording secretary

Answer · why

C) Pack master

Judy Garland was first vice-president, Sid Luft cage master, Swifty Lazar recording secretary and treasurer, and Nathaniel Benchley historian.

Q 04/05

In what year did Humphrey Bogart die, after which Sinatra took over leadership of the group?

A) 1953

B) 1957

C) 1961

D) 1965

Answer · why

B) 1957

Sinatra and Bacall briefly got engaged after Bogart's death from esophageal cancer; the Rat Pack then evolved into a Vegas-based mutual support machin...

Q 05/05

Which name did the 1960s group drop because it sounded too much like the Ku Klux Klan?

A) The Board

B) The Jack Pack

C) The Summit

D) The Clan

Answer · why

D) The Clan

When JFK hung around, they were sometimes 'the Jack Pack'; Sinatra himself later called 'Rat Pack' 'that stupid phrase.'