Lucille Ball Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers
What was Lucille Ball’s birth name?
A: Lucille Désirée Ball
On what date was Lucille Ball born?
A: August 6, 1911.
Where was Lucille Ball born?
A: Celoron, New York, U.S.
When did Lucille Ball die?
A: April 26, 1989.
What was Lucille Ball’s cause of death?
A: Abdominal Aortic Dissection
Where is Lucille Ball’s final resting place?
A: Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, New York
What was Lucille Ball’s father’s name?
A: Henry Durrell Ball.
What was Lucille’s mother’s name?
A: Désirée "DeDe" Evelyn Hunt.
What religion did Lucille’s family practice?
A: Baptist.
What was Lucille Ball’s ancestry?
A: Her ancestry included Scottish, French, Irish, and English.
Lucille’s father did what for a living?
A: He was a telephone lineman for Bell Telephone Company.
By the time Lucille was three, her family had moved
Jamestown to Anaconda, and then to where?
A: Trenton.
While DeDe Ball was pregnant with her second child,
Frederick, what happened to Henry Ball?
A: He contracted typhoid fever and died.
When did Lucille’s father die?
A: February 1915.
After her father died, her mother returned to where?
A: Her parents in New York.
Where were Ball and her brother, Fred Henry Ball, raised by
their mother and maternal grandparents?
A: In Celoron, New York.
Lucy loved Celoron Park, one of the best “what” in the
United States at that time?
A: Amusement areas.
Four years after the death of her father, Ball’s mother
DeDe remarried, to whom?
A: Edward Peterson.
Lucille’s mother arranged for Lucille to go to what drama
school?
A: The John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in
New York City.
Bette Davis was one of Lucille’s a fellow what?
A: Students.
After a stint as a Goldwyn Girl in Roman Scandals (1933),
Ball moved permanently to Hollywood to appear in what?
A: Films.
She appeared in many small movie roles in the
1930s as a
contract player for who?
A: RKO Radio Pictures.
What comedy short did Lucille appear with the Three
Stooges?
A: Three Little Pigskins, 1934.
She also appeared in what movie with the Marx Brothers?
A: Room Service, 1938.
In 1936 Lucille landed what role that she hoped would
lead her to Broadway?
A: Hey Diddle Diddle, a comedy set in a duplex apartment in Hollywood.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed Ball to a contract in the
1940s,
but she never achieved “what” from her appearance in the studio's films?
A: Stardom.
Lucille was known in many Hollywood circles as what?
A: "Queen of the B's".
In 1938, Ball joined the cast of The Wonder Show starring
Jack which lasted how long?
A: One season.
In 1948, Ball was cast as Liz Cugat (later "Cooper"), a
wacky wife, in what radio show?
A: My Favorite Husband.
Ball was originally considered by who for the role of Mrs.
Iselin in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate?
A: Frank Sinatra.
During the mid-1980s, Ball attempted to resurrect her what?
A: Television career.
In May 1988 Ball was hospitalized after suffering what?
A: A mild heart attack.
Lucille Ball’s last public appearance, just one month
before her death, was at the what?
A: 1989
Academy Awards telecast in which she and fellow presenter, Bob Hope,
were given a standing ovation.
