Q 01/05

Delon played the assassin of which revolutionary in Joseph Losey's 1972 film co-starring Richard Burton?

A) Che Guevara

B) Pancho Villa

C) Emiliano Zapata

D) Leon Trotsky

Answer · why

D) Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky. Delon played the Soviet agent who befriended one of the exile's followers to get inside his Mexican home and kill him, with Richard Burt...

Q 02/05

Delon's father later ran a cinema in Bourg-la-Reine; what was his job there when Alain was born?

A) Usher

B) Projectionist

C) Ticket seller

D) Caretaker

Answer · why

B) Projectionist

Projectionist. His mother worked in a pharmacy in the same town; the couple divorced when Alain was four and placed him with a foster family.

Q 03/05

Whose execution did the young Delon hear from his foster family's home next to Fresnes prison in 1945?

A) Joseph Darnand

B) Robert Brasillach

C) Fernand de Brinon

D) Pierre Laval

Answer · why

D) Pierre Laval

Pierre Laval. Vichy's former premier swallowed poison on the morning of his execution, so doctors revived him to face the firing squad whose volley th...

Q 04/05

In which trade did the teenage Delon earn a vocational certificate?

A) Charcuterie

B) Plumbing

C) Baking

D) Carpentry

Answer · why

A) Charcuterie

Charcuterie. His mother had married a pork butcher in Bourg-la-Reine and put the boy to work in the family shop, a future he escaped at 17 by enlistin...

Q 05/05

Which branch of the armed forces did Delon join at 17, serving in Indochina?

A) The Army

B) The Navy

C) The Air Force

D) The Foreign Legion

Answer · why

B) The Navy

The Navy. Posted ashore in Saigon, he spent almost a year of his service locked up for indiscipline and was dishonourably discharged.