Q 01/05

In which city was Audrey Hepburn born?

A) Brussels

B) Amsterdam

C) Paris

D) London

Answer · why

A) Brussels

She was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston at 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles on 4 May 1929, and her family called her Adriaantje.

Q 02/05

What was Hepburn's surname at birth?

A) Ferrer

B) Van Heemstra

C) Ruston

D) Dotti

Answer · why

C) Ruston

Her father later double-barrelled it to Hepburn-Ruston, wrongly believing he descended from the Earl of Bothwell; she dropped the Ruston in London.

Q 03/05

Hepburn's mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra, belonged to which nobility?

A) Austrian

B) Belgian

C) Dutch

D) Swedish

Answer · why

C) Dutch

Ella's father had been mayor of Arnhem and governor of Dutch Guiana.

Q 04/05

What false name did Hepburn use during the German occupation of the Netherlands?

A) Ella Quarles

B) Adriaantje Ruston

C) Edda van Heemstra

D) Anna Wels

Answer · why

C) Edda van Heemstra

She spent the war years at the Arnhem Conservatory, becoming ballet teacher Winja Marova's star pupil.

Q 05/05

During the 1944-45 Dutch famine, Hepburn's family made flour from what?

A) Sugar beet

B) Sawdust

C) Tulip bulbs

D) Acorns

Answer · why

C) Tulip bulbs

The malnutrition left her gravely ill with jaundice, anaemia and oedema; her mother's ex-lover Micky Burn sent cigarettes to sell for penicillin.