Q 01/05

In which New York borough did the Kubrick family live when Stanley was born in 1928?

A) Manhattan

B) Queens

C) The Bronx

D) Brooklyn

Answer · why

C) The Bronx

His father Jack was a homeopathic doctor, and by West Bronx standards the family was fairly wealthy.

Q 02/05

What did Kubrick's father buy him at 13 that triggered his fascination with photography?

A) A Rolleiflex twin-lens

B) A Kodak Brownie

C) A Leica rangefinder

D) A Graflex camera

Answer · why

D) A Graflex camera

A year earlier Jack had taught him chess, which Kubrick said gave him 'patience and discipline'.

Q 03/05

For which magazine did Kubrick work as a staff photographer from 1946?

A) Look

B) Collier's

C) The Saturday Evening Post

D) Life

Answer · why

A) Look

He had sold it a photo series at 17 and became known for storytelling in pictures, covering boxers, jazz musicians and a circus.

Q 04/05

How did the young Kubrick supplement his income in Washington Square Park?

A) Selling photographs

B) Sketching portraits

C) Playing chess for quarters

D) Busking on trumpet

Answer · why

C) Playing chess for quarters

He later met his producer over a chessboard there.

Q 05/05

Kubrick's first film, the documentary Day of the Fight, was about which boxer he had photographed for Look?

A) Sugar Ray Robinson

B) Jake LaMotta

C) Rocky Graziano

D) Walter Cartier

Answer · why

D) Walter Cartier

He spent $3,900 and sold it to RKO-Pathe for $4,000, the most they had ever paid for a short.