Q 01/05

Brigitte Bardot was born in 1934 in which city?

A) Marseille

B) Paris

C) Lyon

D) Nice

Answer · why

B) Paris

Paris: she grew up in the wealthy 16th arrondissement in a strict, devoutly Catholic family, then became the star whose films were denounced as immora...

Q 02/05

Which painter welcomed Bardot to his Riviera studio in 1956?

A) Marc Chagall

B) Salvador Dalí

C) Pablo Picasso

D) Joan Miró

Answer · why

C) Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso posed for photographs with her but never painted her; the blonde in his portraits of those years was a lookalike, his model Sylvette Dav...

Q 03/05

Which art form did the young Bardot study at France's national conservatoire before modelling took over?

A) Opera singing

B) Ballet

C) Painting

D) Piano

Answer · why

B) Ballet

Ballet: years of classes, some alongside the future film star Leslie Caron, gave her the dancer's poise and gait that later fascinated cinema audience...

Q 04/05

At 15, Bardot appeared on the cover of which magazine, which led directly to her first film offer?

A) Vogue

B) Elle

C) Paris Match

D) Marie Claire

Answer · why

B) Elle

Elle's cover won her an audition with director Marc Allégret; no part came of it, but there she met his assistant Roger Vadim, her future husband.

Q 05/05

Which motorcycle maker shares its name with a 1967 Bardot hit single?

A) Royal Enfield

B) Harley-Davidson

C) Moto Guzzi

D) Triumph

Answer · why

B) Harley-Davidson

Harley-Davidson: the song gained extra notoriety from a TV clip in which Bardot, dressed in leather, sang it while straddling one of the firm's bikes.