Q 01/05

Timothée Chalamet grew up in which New York City neighborhood?

A) Greenwich Village

B) Astoria

C) Hell's Kitchen

D) Park Slope

Answer · why

C) Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen is home to Manhattan Plaza, the subsidized complex where his family rented and where Larry David once lived next door to Kenny Kramer, ...

Q 02/05

Chalamet's father Marc, a French journalist, also worked as an editor for which United Nations agency?

A) UNESCO

B) UNICEF

C) UNHCR

D) UNDP

Answer · why

B) UNICEF

UNICEF had Marc Chalamet overseeing its French publications, and because he is French his son holds French citizenship as well as American.

Q 03/05

Chalamet's mother Nicole Flender was formerly what?

A) An opera singer

B) A TV news anchor

C) A Broadway dancer

D) A ballet critic

Answer · why

C) A Broadway dancer

A Broadway dancer, as her own mother had been, Nicole Flender later taught dance in New York schools and then retrained to sell Manhattan apartments.

Q 04/05

Chalamet spent childhood summers in a French village two hours from which city?

A) Paris

B) Marseille

C) Lyon

D) Bordeaux

Answer · why

C) Lyon

Lyon is about two hours from Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, his grandparents' village, whose people hid thousands of Jewish refugees from the Nazis during Wor...

Q 05/05

Which performance inspired Chalamet to pursue acting?

A) Heath Ledger as the Joker

B) Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow

C) Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic

D) Christian Bale as Batman

Answer · why

A) Heath Ledger as the Joker

Heath Ledger as the Joker hit him at 12, when he talked his mother and grandmother into a Times Square screening of The Dark Knight and, he said, left...