Q 01/05

Steve Martin was born in 1945 in which central Texas city?

A) Lubbock

B) El Paso

C) Austin

D) Waco

Answer · why

D) Waco

Waco, also the birthplace of Dr Pepper, was home only until he was five, when the Martins moved to Inglewood, California, where his father sold real e...

Q 02/05

Where was Steve Martin's first job, selling guidebooks and later working in a magic shop?

A) Disneyland

B) The Santa Monica Pier

C) Knott's Berry Farm

D) Universal Studios

Answer · why

A) Disneyland

Disneyland hired him at 10 to sell 25-cent guidebooks, and he stayed eight years, watching vaudevillian Wally Boag's act until he had it memorised.

Q 03/05

What did Martin major in at California State University, Long Beach, before switching to theatre at UCLA?

A) Philosophy

B) Psychology

C) English literature

D) Mathematics

Answer · why

A) Philosophy

Philosophy. He credited his logic classes with his act: once he decided there was no cause and effect, twisting a punch line into a non sequitur came ...

Q 04/05

Martin won his first Emmy in 1969, aged 23, as a writer on which show?

A) The Carol Burnett Show

B) The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

C) The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

D) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Answer · why

B) The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour hired him after a girlfriend who danced on the show handed his college writing to head writer Mason Williams, who at...

Q 05/05

In 1968 Martin won a Dating Game date with the daughter of which Rat Pack star?

A) Frank

B) Joey

C) Sammy

D) Dean

Answer · why

D) Dean

Dean Martin's daughter Deana chose him, years before the unknown TV writer who happened to share her surname became famous himself.