Q 01/05

In which Taiwanese city did Ang Lee grow up from the age of two, while his father ran its teachers' college?

A) Kaohsiung

B) Hualien

C) Taipei

D) Tainan

Answer · why

B) Hualien

Hualien: Lee went to two primary schools in the east-coast city before the family moved on to Tainan, where his father became principal of the high sc...

Q 02/05

Which director made The Virgin Spring, the 1960 film Ang Lee has called a formative experience?

A) Akira Kurosawa

B) Ingmar Bergman

C) Federico Fellini

D) Carl Theodor Dreyer

Answer · why

B) Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman's medieval revenge tale won the Oscar for foreign-language film. The same story was later reworked by Wes Craven as his first horror fi...

Q 03/05

Ang Lee earned his theatre degree in 1980 at which American university?

A) Michigan at Ann Arbor

B) California at Los Angeles

C) North Carolina at Chapel Hill

D) Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Answer · why

D) Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Lee arrived from Taiwan hoping to act, but his struggles with spoken English pushed him towards directing, and he went o...

Q 04/05

At NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Ang Lee worked on the thesis film of which classmate?

A) Spike Lee

B) Jim Jarmusch

C) Oliver Stone

D) Martin Scorsese

Answer · why

A) Spike Lee

Spike Lee won a Student Academy Award for it and had his first feature out three years later. Ang Lee, the classmate on his crew, had to wait until th...

Q 05/05

How did Ang Lee spend the six years between film school and his first feature?

A) Working as a talent agent

B) Raising his sons at home

C) Editing TV commercials

D) Teaching film in Taipei

Answer · why

B) Raising his sons at home

Raising his sons at home: his wife, the microbiologist Jane Lin, was the family's breadwinner while he looked after the children and wrote the screenp...