Q 01/05

In which city was Audrey Hepburn born?

A) Brussels

B) Amsterdam

C) Paris

D) London

Answer · why

A) Brussels

Brussels. Though born in Belgium she was a British citizen through her father, and she spent part of her childhood at school in England.

Q 02/05

What was Hepburn's surname at birth?

A) Hanson

B) Van Heemstra

C) Ruston

D) Wolders

Answer · why

C) Ruston

Ruston. Her father later added 'Hepburn' to it, believing he was descended from the 16th-century Earl of Bothwell, and she dropped the Ruston when she...

Q 03/05

Why did Hepburn's mother move her from England to the Netherlands in 1939?

A) Her English school had closed

B) She thought it would stay neutral

C) A ballet school wanted her

D) Her father had moved there

Answer · why

B) She thought it would stay neutral

She thought it would stay neutral, as it had in the First World War. Germany invaded eight months later, and Hepburn spent the next five years under o...

Q 04/05

What first name did Hepburn go by during the German occupation of the Netherlands?

A) Greta

B) Hanna

C) Trudi

D) Edda

Answer · why

D) Edda

Edda. Her mother made the change because 'Audrey' sounded dangerously English under German rule, and she went back to her own name once the war was ov...

Q 05/05

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

A) Birch bark

B) Sawdust

C) Tulip bulbs

D) Acorns

Answer · why

C) Tulip bulbs

Tulip bulbs, ground to bake cakes and biscuits. The Germans had cut off food shipments to punish a Dutch railway strike, and by the end of that winter...