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  • 1. Where is a collection of 50 portraits of Tallulah Bankhead from her London years housed?
A) University of Alabama in Birmingham
B) Library of Congress
C) Walker County Arts Alliance
D) United Kingdom's National Portrait Gallery
  • 2. Which artist painted a portrait of Tallulah Bankhead considered one of his greatest pieces?
A) Augustus John
B) Brendan Gill
C) Jeffrey Carrier
D) Frank Dobson
  • 3. Who sculpted a bust of Tallulah Bankhead during her London period?
A) Frank Dobson
B) Augustus John
C) Lee Israel
D) Kieran Tunney
  • 4. Which library houses numerous works of Tallulah Bankhead?
A) United Kingdom's National Portrait Gallery
B) Library of Congress
C) University of Alabama Press
D) Harper & Bros.
  • 5. What is the title of Tallulah Bankhead's autobiography published in 1952?
A) Tallulah: My Autobiography
B) Miss Tallulah Bankhead
C) Tallulah, A Memory
D) Tallulah!: The Life and Times of a Leading Lady
  • 6. Who authored 'Tallulah: Darling of the Gods'?
A) Kieran Tunney
B) Brendan Gill
C) Denis Brian
D) Pamela Cowie Patrick
  • 7. Which biography was published by Greenwood Press in 1991?
A) Tallulah Bankhead, A Bio-Bibliography
B) Tallulah, A Memory
C) Tallulah: Darling of the Gods
D) Tallulah: My Autobiography
  • 8. Who wrote 'Tallulah Bankhead: Alabama's Bad Girl Star'?
A) Bryony Lavery
B) Alecia Sherard Archibald
C) David Bret
D) Jeffrey Carrier
  • 9. When was the Tallulah Bankhead Tribute held in Jasper, Alabama?
A) 2004
B) June 11–15, 2015
C) November 1977
D) 1952
  • 10. Which character's voice and personality were inspired by Tallulah Bankhead?
A) Tallulah
B) Betty Lou Gerson
C) Margo Channing
D) Cruella De Vil
  • 11. Which studio described Cruella De Vil as a 'manic take-off' on Tallulah Bankhead?
A) Macmillan
B) Robson Books/Parkwest
C) Walt Disney Pictures
D) HarperCollins
  • 12. Which character in 'All About Eve' was compared to Tallulah Bankhead?
A) Cruella De Vil
B) Betty Lou Gerson
C) Tallulah
D) Margo Channing
  • 13. Where did Tallulah Bankhead move to in the late 1950s?
A) St. Paul's Episcopal Church
B) 333 East 57th Street
C) 230 East 62nd Street
D) St. Luke's Hospital
  • 14. What was the cause of Tallulah Bankhead's death?
A) Emphysema due to smoking
B) Hong Kong flu
C) Pleural double pneumonia
D) Malnutrition
  • 15. Where was Tallulah Bankhead buried?
A) Hollywood Walk of Fame
B) St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
C) St. Paul's cemetery in Chestertown, Maryland
D) St. Luke's Hospital
  • 16. What was the value of Tallulah Bankhead's estate at her death?
A) $3 million
B) $10 million
C) $2 million (equivalent to $18,516,746 in 2025)
D) $1 million
  • 17. Which church held a private funeral for Tallulah Bankhead?
A) St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City
B) St. Luke's Hospital Chapel
C) Hollywood Forever Cemetery
D) St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestertown, Maryland
  • 18. Which award did Tallulah Bankhead win for her work in the film Lifeboat?
A) New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress in a Film
B) Tony Award
C) Variety Award
D) Oscar
  • 19. Tallulah Bankhead was the first white woman to be featured on the cover of which magazine?
A) Variety
B) Ebony
C) Life
D) Time
  • 20. In what year was Tallulah Bankhead inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame?
A) 1980
B) 1968
C) 1972
D) 1955
  • 21. What were Tallulah Bankhead's last coherent words reportedly?
A) 'Thank you all'
B) 'I love acting'
C) 'Goodbye'
D) A garbled request for 'codeine ... bourbon'
  • 22. Which city held a memorial service for Tallulah Bankhead two days after her funeral?
A) New York City
B) London
C) Los Angeles
D) Chestertown, Maryland
  • 23. What was a notable aspect of Tallulah Bankhead's personality that benefited her career?
A) Her modesty
B) Her sobriety
C) Her shyness
D) Her eccentric personality
  • 24. Which community found Tallulah Bankhead to be an enormously popular icon?
A) The Hollywood elite
B) The Broadway critics
C) The theatrical and especially the gay community
D) The film industry moguls
  • 25. Which critic commented on Tallulah Bankhead's life choices after her death?
A) Elia Kazan
B) Brooks Atkinson
C) John Barrymore
D) Orson Welles
  • 26. What was Tallulah Bankhead's reputation like towards the end of her life?
A) She was widely respected and admired.
B) She retired quietly from public life.
C) She had fallen from former grandeur and was often scandalous.
D) She became a recluse.
  • 27. In which U.S. presidential election did Tallulah Bankhead vote for Robert La Follette of the Progressive Party?
A) 1960
B) 1924
C) 1932
D) 1948
  • 28. Which Democratic presidential nominee did Tallulah Bankhead support in 1956?
A) Lyndon B. Johnson
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Estes Kefauver
D) Adlai Stevenson II
  • 29. Who did Tallulah Bankhead boo during the 1949 inauguration parade?
A) The South Carolina float led by Strom Thurmond
B) The California float led by Adlai Stevenson II
C) The Texas float led by Lyndon B. Johnson
D) The New York float led by Thomas E. Dewey
  • 30. Which term did Tallulah Bankhead prefer over 'bisexual' to describe her sexuality?
A) "Ambisextrous"
B) "Pansexual"
C) "Homosexual"
D) "Heterosexual"
  • 31. Who was Tallulah Bankhead's lifelong friend whose children she was the godmother to?
A) Eugenia Rawls
B) Patsy Kelly
C) Dola Dunsmuir
D) Jane Bowles
  • 32. Which U.S. president did Tallulah Bankhead support in the 1948 election?
A) Dwight D. Eisenhower
B) Thomas E. Dewey
C) Richard Nixon
D) Harry S. Truman
  • 33. Which British spy agency tried to investigate allegations about Tallulah Bankhead in the 1920s?
A) KGB
B) MI5
C) FBI
D) CIA
  • 34. Who did Tallulah Bankhead reportedly lose her virginity to at age 29?
A) Rex Whistler
B) John Emery
C) David Herbert
D) Johnny Weissmuller
  • 35. Which actor did Tallulah Bankhead describe as a 'very satisfied Jane' after an affair?
A) Henry Fonda
B) Johnny Weissmuller
C) Spencer Tracy
D) Clark Gable
  • 36. Which Democratic presidential nominee did Tallulah Bankhead switch her support to in 1968 after her original pick failed?
A) Robert F. Kennedy
B) Lyndon B. Johnson
C) Eugene McCarthy
D) Hubert Humphrey
  • 37. What procedure did Tallulah Bankhead undergo in 1933?
A) Appendectomy
B) Hysterectomy
C) Gallbladder removal
D) Tonsillectomy
  • 38. Which actress confirmed having a sexual relationship with Tallulah Bankhead?
A) Jane Bowles
B) Eugenia Rawls
C) Dola Dunsmuir
D) Patsy Kelly
  • 39. In which film did Tallulah Bankhead play the character Constance Porter?
A) Rear Window
B) Psycho
C) Rebecca
D) Lifeboat
  • 40. Who directed the film 'Lifeboat' in which Tallulah Bankhead starred?
A) Orson Welles
B) Howard Hawks
C) Frank Capra
D) Alfred Hitchcock
  • 41. What did Tallulah Bankhead famously not wear during the production of 'Lifeboat'?
A) Jewelry
B) Underwear
C) A hat
D) Shoes
  • 42. How much was Tallulah paid for her work on 'Who Loved Him Best'?
A) $100
B) $50
C) $150
D) $75
  • 43. Where did Bankhead move into after arriving in New York City?
A) The Plaza Hotel
B) A boarding house
C) The Algonquin Hotel
D) A private apartment
  • 44. Which actress attempted to persuade Bankhead to change her name?
A) Bette Davis
B) Marilyn Monroe
C) Ethel Barrymore
D) Greta Garbo
  • 45. Which substance did Bankhead claim was not habit-forming?
A) Tobacco
B) Marijuana
C) Cocaine
D) Alcohol
  • 46. What was Tallulah Bankhead's first stage play in New York?
A) The Squab Farm
B) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
C) A Streetcar Named Desire
D) Death of a Salesman
  • 47. In which year did Bankhead make her stage debut?
A) 1920
B) 1922
C) 1921
D) 1919
  • 48. When was Tallulah Brockman Bankhead born?
A) June 15, 1915
B) January 31, 1902
C) December 12, 1968
D) March 3, 1899
  • 49. In which city was Tallulah Bankhead born?
A) Montgomery, Alabama
B) Huntsville, Alabama
C) New York City, New York
D) Memphis, Tennessee
  • 50. What illness did Tallulah Bankhead suffer from as a child that affected her voice?
A) Asthma
B) Tuberculosis
C) Pneumonia
D) Chronic bronchitis
  • 51. Who were Tallulah Bankhead's famous childhood friends?
A) Orville Wright
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
D) Wilbur Wright
  • 52. What was the name of Tallulah Bankhead's family estate?
A) Bankhead House
B) Brockman Estate
C) Huntsville Manor
D) Sunset
  • 53. What cause did Tallulah Bankhead support that was related to social justice?
A) Abolitionism
B) Women's suffrage
C) Prohibition
D) The civil rights movement
  • 54. How many cigarettes did Tallulah Bankhead reportedly smoke per day?
A) 200
B) 75
C) 120
D) 50
  • 55. What was the cause of Tallulah Bankhead's mother's death?
A) Cholera
B) Car accident
C) Blood poisoning (sepsis)
D) Heart attack
  • 56. What was Tallulah Bankhead's voice type described as?
A) Alto
B) Mezzo-basso
C) Tenor
D) Soprano
  • 57. What year did Tallulah Bankhead's father die?
A) 1940
B) 1968
C) 1950
D) 1936
  • 58. In which year did Tallulah Bankhead make her debut on the London stage?
A) 1923
B) 1931
C) 1924
D) 1922
  • 59. At which theatre did Tallulah Bankhead make her London stage debut?
A) Lyric Theatre
B) Wyndham's Theatre
C) West End Theatre
D) Royal Opera House
  • 60. Which play earned Tallulah Bankhead fame in 1924?
A) Conchita
B) They Knew What They Wanted
C) The Dancers
D) The Gold Diggers
  • 61. Who wrote the play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925, starring Tallulah Bankhead?
A) Irving Thalberg
B) George Cukor
C) Avery Hopwood
D) Sidney Howard
  • 62. What type of car did Tallulah Bankhead buy while in London?
A) Rolls-Royce
B) Aston Martin
C) Ford
D) Bentley
  • 63. What was Tallulah Bankhead's first film in Hollywood?
A) Devil and the Deep
B) Faithless
C) They Knew What They Wanted
D) Tarnished Lady
  • 64. Who directed Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood film?
A) George Cukor
B) Robert Montgomery
C) Irving Thalberg
D) Sidney Howard
  • 65. Which producer did Tallulah Bankhead meet in Hollywood and ask about social life?
A) Sidney Howard
B) George Cukor
C) Robert Montgomery
D) Irving Thalberg
  • 66. Who starred opposite Tallulah Bankhead in 'Faithless'?
A) Gary Cooper
B) Cary Grant
C) Irving Thalberg
D) Robert Montgomery
  • 67. Which play marked Tallulah Bankhead's return to Broadway in 1933?
A) The Skin of Our Teeth
B) Jezebel
C) Forsaking All Others
D) The Little Foxes
  • 68. Who starred in the film adaptation of 'Forsaking All Others'?
A) Vivien Leigh
B) Joan Crawford
C) Tallulah Bankhead
D) Bette Davis
  • 69. Which character did Tallulah Bankhead play in 'The Circle'?
A) Scarlett O'Hara
B) Cleopatra
C) Elizabeth
D) Regina Giddens
  • 70. Who did Tallulah Bankhead play in 'The Skin of Our Teeth'?
A) Regina Giddens
B) Cleopatra
C) Scarlett O'Hara
D) Sabina
  • 71. In which play did Tallulah Bankhead appear in a revival from 1948 to 1950?
A) The All Star Revue
B) The Big Show
C) Private Lives
D) The Glass Menagerie
  • 72. Who was Bankhead's frequent co-star and close friend from the 1920s?
A) Dorothy Parker
B) Gertrude Lawrence
C) Laurette Taylor
D) Estelle Winwood
  • 73. How much could Bankhead command of a play's gross after her success with 'Private Lives'?
A) 5%
B) 20%
C) 10%
D) 15%
  • 74. Who wrote the monologues that Bankhead performed on The Big Show?
A) Noël Coward
B) Tennessee Williams
C) Dorothy Parker
D) Irving Rapper
  • 75. Who was ultimately cast as Amanda in the film version of The Glass Menagerie?
A) Tallulah Bankhead
B) Laurette Taylor
C) Gertrude Lawrence
D) Estelle Winwood
  • 76. In what year was Tallulah Bankhead's autobiography 'Tallulah: My Autobiography' published?
A) 1960
B) 1955
C) 1952
D) 1949
  • 77. What was the weekly payment Tallulah Bankhead received for her performances at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas?
A) $15,000
B) $10,000
C) $20,000
D) $25,000
  • 78. Which city hosted Tallulah Bankhead's successful stage act that critics initially bet would flop?
A) Las Vegas
B) Los Angeles
C) Chicago
D) New York City
  • 79. How long did Tallulah Bankhead return to perform at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas?
A) Five years
B) Two years
C) One year
D) Three years
  • 80. Who was originally slated to play the part in 'The Celebrity Next Door' before Tallulah Bankhead?
A) Marilyn Monroe
B) Greta Garbo
C) Bette Davis
D) Joan Crawford
  • 81. What was the reason Bette Davis could not play her part in 'The Celebrity Next Door'?
A) Family emergency
B) Cracking a vertebra
C) Illness
D) Scheduling conflict
  • 82. In which year did Tallulah Bankhead appear as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire?
A) 1947
B) 1963
C) 1956
D) 1957
  • 83. For which play did Tallulah Bankhead receive a Tony Award nomination?
A) The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
B) Midgie Purvis
C) A Streetcar Named Desire
D) Antony and Cleopatra
  • 84. What was the nature of Bankhead's role in Midgie Purvis?
A) A villain
B) A bizarre 50-year-old mother
C) A supporting character
D) A young ingenue
  • 85. What physical demand did Bankhead insist on performing herself in Midgie Purvis?
A) Running across the set
B) Climbing a ladder
C) Sliding down a staircase banister
D) Jumping off the stage
  • 86. How long did Midgie Purvis last before closing?
A) For one year
B) Beyond a month
C) Over six months
D) Indefinitely
  • 87. How many performances did Tallulah Bankhead make in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore?
A) Twenty
B) Five
C) Fifteen
D) Ten
  • 88. In which BBC radio program did Tallulah Bankhead make one of her last appearances?
A) The Today Programme
B) Woman's Hour
C) Desert Island Discs
D) The Archers
  • 89. What health issue did Tallulah Bankhead suffer from during her Desert Island Discs interview?
A) Emphysema
B) Asthma
C) Pneumonia
D) Bronchitis
  • 90. Who recalled Tallulah Bankhead's frail appearance during their interview?
A) John Peel
B) Jimmy Young
C) David Attenborough
D) Roy Plomley
  • 91. What was the original title of Tallulah Bankhead's last motion picture?
A) Fanatic
B) The Haunting
C) Psycho
D) Die! Die! My Darling!
  • 92. How did Tallulah describe her appearance in Fanatic during a private screening?
A) Looking like a Hollywood starlet
B) Looking youthful and vibrant
C) Looking older than God's wet nurse
D) Looking glamorous
  • 93. In which TV series did Tallulah Bankhead play the villainous Black Widow?
A) Superman
B) Wonder Woman
C) The Green Hornet
D) Batman
  • 94. On what date did Tallulah appear on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour?
A) December 17, 1967
B) November 25, 1967
C) February 10, 1968
D) January 5, 1968
  • 95. In which skit did Tallulah appear on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour?
A) Cleopatra
B) Joan of Arc
C) Mata Hari
D) Elizabeth I
  • 96. How did Tallulah Bankhead identify religiously?
A) As a Catholic
B) As a Methodist
C) As a Baptist
D) As an Episcopalian
  • 97. Which playwright wrote the play 'Everyday' specifically for Tallulah Bankhead?
A) Lillian Hellman
B) Zoe Akins
C) Rachel Crothers
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 98. Which playwright described Tallulah Bankhead as resulting from the crossbreeding of a moth and a tiger?
A) Rachel Crothers
B) Lillian Hellman
C) Zoe Akins
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 99. How many female roles did Tennessee Williams write specifically for Tallulah Bankhead?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five
  • 100. In which musical is there a song with the line 'I'm not so fond of Bankhead, but I'd love to meet Tallulah'?
A) The Skin of Our Teeth
B) Sweet Bird of Youth
C) A Streetcar Named Desire
D) I'd Rather Be Right
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