Q 01/05

Which Picasso painting of five women takes its title from a street in Barcelona?

A) Guernica

B) The Old Guitarist

C) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

D) Girl before a Mirror

Answer · why

C) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The brothel it depicts is on Barcelona's Carrer d'Avinyó, not in the French city of Avignon.

Q 02/05

Which Pedro Almodóvar film, in which a grieving nurse travels from Madrid to Barcelona, won the foreign-language Oscar?

A) Volver

B) All About My Mother

C) Talk to Her

D) Pain and Glory

Answer · why

B) All About My Mother

All About My Mother. Manuela's teenage son is killed by a car while chasing an actress for her autograph, sending her to Barcelona to find his other p...

Q 03/05

While building the Sagrada Família, where did Gaudí live for the last months of his life?

A) In Casa Milà

B) In its workshop

C) In a nearby monastery

D) In a Paris hotel

Answer · why

B) In its workshop

In its workshop. In 1925 Gaudí moved out of his house and onto the building site, where he lived for his last months.

Q 04/05

Which pope consecrated the Sagrada Família and proclaimed it a basilica in 2010?

A) John Paul II

B) Benedict XVI

C) Francis

D) Leo XIV

Answer · why

B) Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI. A later pope, Leo XIV, blessed the completed central Tower of Jesus Christ on 10 June 2026, the centenary of Gaudí's death.

Q 05/05

During which war were many of Gaudí's Sagrada Família plans destroyed?

A) The First World War

B) The Napoleonic Wars

C) The Second World War

D) The Spanish Civil War

Answer · why

D) The Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War. In July 1936, at the war's outbreak, the crypt was set alight and Gaudí's original plans were partly destroyed.