Brigitte Bardot Trivia
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60 free Brigitte Bardot trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Brigitte Bardot trivia quiz covers the actress who became France's most famous export and then walked away from it all at 39. The easy questions handle her birthplace, the initials the world knew her by, the film that made her a star and the Riviera town she never left. From there it moves into the work itself: the Godard film with Fritz Lang playing himself, the Clouzot courtroom drama that won her an Italian award, the Louis Malle comedy in which she accidentally invents striptease, and her two shots at Hollywood. The harder end is for cinephiles and Francophiles: Roger Vadim's real surname, the price she paid for La Madrague, the husband who had a Gainsbourg recording shelved, the Beatle who met her on LSD, the number of Warhol portraits, and how she raised the money to start her animal foundation. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries on Bardot, her films, her songs and her foundation, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, our French cinema, Jean-Luc Godard and 1960s quizzes are natural next stops.
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Q 01Brigitte Bardot was born in 1934 in which city?
Paris
Paris: she grew up in the wealthy 16th arrondissement in a strict, devoutly Catholic family, then became the star whose films were denounced as immoral.
Q 02Which painter welcomed Bardot to his Riviera studio in 1956?
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso posed for photographs with her but never painted her; the blonde in his portraits of those years was a lookalike, his model Sylvette David.
Q 03Which art form did the young Bardot study at France's national conservatoire before modelling took over?
Ballet
Ballet: years of classes, some alongside the future film star Leslie Caron, gave her the dancer's poise and gait that later fascinated cinema audiences.
Q 04At 15, Bardot appeared on the cover of which magazine, which led directly to her first film offer?
Elle
Elle's cover won her an audition with director Marc Allégret; no part came of it, but there she met his assistant Roger Vadim, her future husband.
Q 05Which motorcycle maker shares its name with a 1967 Bardot hit single?
Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson: the song gained extra notoriety from a TV clip in which Bardot, dressed in leather, sang it while straddling one of the firm's bikes.
Q 06Bardot's second film, Manina (1952), is credited with popularising which garment?
The bikini
The bikini was still widely thought immodest when the 17-year-old wore one on screen; by its 1958 US release the film had been retitled Manina, the Girl in the Bikini.
Q 07Why did Bardot first dye her hair blonde?
A film role
A film role: the director of the Italian comedy Nero's Weekend wanted a blonde, so she dyed her hair instead of wearing a wig, liked the result and kept it.
Q 08Which singer's 2023 song "Lacy" calls its subject a reincarnation of Bardot?
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo began "Lacy" as a poem for a university class about envying another woman's beauty, then turned it into a track on her album Guts.
Q 09And God Created Woman was banned in several cities of which country, yet broke its foreign-language box-office record?
United States
United States: Philadelphia officials had prints seized from cinemas, yet the film went on to out-earn every foreign-language release America had seen before it.
Q 10And God Created Woman is set in which Riviera town, later Bardot's home for decades?
Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez, long a haunt of painters such as Signac and Matisse, became an international jet-set resort after the film's success and Bardot's move there.
Q 11Which Danish model became Vadim's second wife after his divorce from Bardot?
Annette Stroyberg
Annette Stroyberg gave birth to Vadim's daughter the day after his divorce from Bardot became final, married him in 1958 and starred in his Les Liaisons dangereuses.
Q 12Bardot's affair with which And God Created Woman co-star ended her first marriage?
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant was married too, to actress Stéphane Audran; he and Bardot lived together for about two years, a romance strained by his long absences on military service.
Q 13Which 1959 hit comedy was the first film since her stardom in which Bardot kept all her clothes on?
Babette Goes to War
Q 21Bardot starred opposite which James Bond actor in the 1968 Western Shalako?
Sean Connery
Sean Connery played the ex-cavalryman who rescues Bardot's French countess from an Apache attack, in a Western shot not in America but in the deserts of southern Spain.
Q 22Which French writer's essay 'The Lolita Syndrome' called Bardot a 'locomotive of women's history'?
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir argued that by scorning make-up and high heels Bardot asserted herself as the equal of men, which was exactly what made her seem dangerous.
Q 23Charles de Gaulle famously compared Bardot's importance as a French export to which company's products?
Renault cars
Babette Goes to War: its producer kept her clothed because, he said, everything there was to show had been shown, and the comedy still became one of France's big hits of 1959.
Q 14Bardot won Italy's David di Donatello award for which 1960 courtroom drama?
The Truth
The Truth cast her as Dominique Marceau, on trial for shooting her lover; director Henri-Georges Clouzot bullied his cast and once gave her sleeping pills, telling her they were aspirin.
Q 15Godard's Contempt (1963), starring Bardot, was based on a novel by which Italian writer?
Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia's novel Il disprezzo was Godard's choice; he first pictured Kim Novak and Frank Sinatra in the leads, and Bardot was cast only after they turned it down.
Q 16Which legendary director appears as himself in Contempt, filming an adaptation of the Odyssey?
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang, the director of Metropolis, plays himself with Godard on screen as his assistant director, while Jack Palance's crass American producer meddles with the film.
Q 17Which Italian star played opposite Bardot in the 1971 Western comedy The Legend of Frenchie King?
Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale's Marie brawls with Bardot's outlaw Louise before the two join forces against the town's men; it was a third Western for each star.
Q 18In Viva Maria! (1965), Bardot and her co-star play showgirls turned revolutionaries who accidentally invent what?
Striptease
Striptease is born when a skirt rips mid-song and the crowd roars, so the two Marias build the accident into their act before taking up arms in a revolution.
Q 19Which French star played the other Maria opposite Bardot in Viva Maria! (1965)?
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau and Bardot were both nominated for the BAFTA for Best Foreign Actress for the film, and it was Moreau who took the award home.
Q 20Which American actor starred as the professor in Dear Brigitte (1965), in which Bardot plays herself?
James Stewart
James Stewart's professor has a maths-prodigy son who writes love letters to Bardot; she appears only briefly, when the boy flies to France to meet her and leaves with a puppy.
Renault cars were the yardstick: her films sold so well abroad that she was said to bring France as much foreign currency as the state-owned carmaker.
Q 24Bardot became the first celebrity to lend her features to which French national symbol?
The bust of Marianne
The bust of Marianne in town halls had always worn an anonymous face; sculptor Aslan's Bardot version began a tradition of star models that later included Catherine Deneuve.
Q 25Which seaside house, bought in 1958, was Bardot's home until her death?
La Madrague
La Madrague was so besieged by fans and paparazzi that Bardot won special permission to extend its walls down to the water's edge, creating a small private beach.
Q 26Bardot's pink 1959 wedding dress set off a craze for which fabric?
Gingham
Gingham: she married in a pink checked cotton dress by Jacques Esterel instead of a white gown, and the look was at once copied by countless women.
Q 27Bardot's third husband, married in 1966, was a millionaire from which country?
Germany
Germany: Gunter Sachs, an heir to the Opel car fortune, wooed her by having a helicopter shower roses over her home, and they married within weeks of meeting.
Q 28In which country did Bardot marry her fourth husband?
Norway
Norway: the couple were about to visit her son Nicolas, who lived near Oslo, when she suggested marrying while they were there; they wed in a small wooden church.
Q 29Bardot's only child, Nicolas, was born in January 1960 from her marriage to which actor?
Jacques Charrier
Jacques Charrier won sole custody of Nicolas after the 1962 divorce, and in 1997 father and son successfully sued Bardot over hurtful remarks in her memoir.
Q 30Who wrote 'Je t'aime... moi non plus' for Bardot in 1967 at her demand for 'the most beautiful love song'?
Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg wrote it and 'Bonnie and Clyde' in a single night, as the apology she demanded after he lost his nerve on their first date.