Q 01/05

In which US city was Sidney Poitier born in 1927?

A) New York

B) Nassau

C) Miami

D) New Orleans

Answer · why

C) Miami

His Bahamian parents were there selling tomatoes; the premature birth gave him US citizenship.

Q 02/05

Where in the Bahamas did Poitier grow up until the age of ten?

A) Andros

B) Grand Bahama

C) Eleuthera

D) Cat Island

Answer · why

D) Cat Island

He did not see a car, electricity or a film until the family moved to Nassau.

Q 03/05

For which 1963 film did Poitier become the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor?

A) Lilies of the Field

B) A Raisin in the Sun

C) In the Heat of the Night

D) The Defiant Ones

Answer · why

A) Lilies of the Field

He played Homer Smith, a handyman who builds a chapel for East German nuns in Arizona.

Q 04/05

What is the name of Poitier's Oscar-winning character, a handyman who builds a chapel for nuns?

A) Mark Thackeray

B) Virgil Tibbs

C) Homer Smith

D) John Prentice

Answer · why

C) Homer Smith

The nuns believe God has sent him to build their chapel; the film was shot on a ranch owned by Linda Ronstadt's family.

Q 05/05

Which hymn do the nuns learn from Poitier's handyman in his Oscar-winning film?

A) 'Kumbaya'

B) 'Amazing Grace'

C) 'Down by the Riverside'

D) 'Amen'

Answer · why

D) 'Amen'

Their echoing rendition plays as he drives away at the end of the film.