Q 01/05
A) 1965
B) 1967
C) 1969
D) 1971
Answer · why
He was born in Manhattan on April 4, 1965, into a filmmaking family, and was on screen before he started school.
Q 02/05
A) Putney Swope
B) Pound
C) Greaser's Palace
D) Chafed Elbows
Answer · why
His father, Robert Downey Sr., was an underground filmmaker, and his mother Elsie was an actress who appeared in his films.
Q 03/05
A) Firstborn
B) Tuff Turf
C) Baby It's You
D) Back to School
Answer · why
He had dropped out of Santa Monica High School the year before and moved back to New York to act full-time.
Q 04/05
A) The Breakfast Club
B) Sixteen Candles
C) Pretty in Pink
D) Weird Science
Answer · why
The same year he was hired for a famously short-lived, ratings-starved season of a late-night sketch show.
Q 05/05
A) Saturday Night Live
B) Second City Television
C) In Living Color
D) The Tracey Ullman Show
Answer · why
The 1985-86 season is often ranked among the show's worst; nearly the entire cast was let go the following summer.
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