Jim Parsons grew up in Spring, Texas, and stayed in his home state to study theatre as an undergraduate. Where did he take that degree?

The University of Texas at Austin

Jim Parsons won a Golden Globe for playing the theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper. In which category?

Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film

Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama

Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film

Best Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy

In the 2016 film Hidden Figures, Jim Parsons played the NASA engineer Paul Stafford. What is true of that figure?

He was a real Langley engineer who later joined the Apollo programme

He was Katherine Johnson's real first husband

He is a composite, invented for the film rather than drawn from one real man

He was a real NASA administrator appearing under a changed name

In the 2012 Broadway revival of Harvey, Jim Parsons played Elwood P. Dowd. Who or what is the Harvey of the title?

An invisible rabbit standing more than six feet tall

A talking cat that only children can see

A ventriloquist's dummy Elwood carries everywhere

A dead brother whose voice Elwood still hears

Jim Parsons led the 2018 Broadway premiere of Mart Crowley's 1968 drama The Boys in the Band. What was historic about the way that production was cast?

Its actors rotated roles from performance to performance

It was drawn entirely from the cast of the 1970 film version

Every one of its actors was openly gay

Every one of its actors was making his Broadway debut

In the 2015 Broadway comedy An Act of God, which part did Jim Parsons take?

God himself, in human form, handing down a revised set of commandments

The Archangel Michael, narrating from the wings

Moses, arguing with an unseen voice

A televangelist convinced he is receiving dictation

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Jim Parsons TV Shows: Multiple Choice

Twenty questions on Jim Parsons: where he trained, the theatre work, how the roles came about, the producing, and the awards. Not a list of titles asked back.

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