Q 01/05

Raised in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was born in which American city?

A) San Francisco

B) Seattle

C) Los Angeles

D) New York

Answer · why

A) San Francisco

San Francisco. His parents were living in its Chinatown during his father's working tour of America, and the birth made him a US citizen, which let hi...

Q 02/05

Bruce Lee's father, Lee Hoi-chuen, was a star of what?

A) Peking opera

B) Shaw Brothers action films

C) Cantonese opera

D) Radio drama

Answer · why

C) Cantonese opera

Cantonese opera. His father also acted in films, which is how Bruce reached the screen at three months old, cast as a baby girl, and made about 20 fil...

Q 03/05

Bruce Lee's Chinese screen name, Lee Siu-lung, makes him which kind of dragon?

A) Fierce

B) Little

C) Flying

D) Jade

Answer · why

B) Little

Little. He was born in both the hour and the year of the Dragon, and Hong Kong films billed him as Lee the Little Dragon from boyhood.

Q 04/05

In his widow's telling, Bruce Lee's mother named her American-born son Jun-fan because it meant what?

A) Bright future

B) Small phoenix

C) Strong branch

D) Return again

Answer · why

D) Return again

Return again. His widow wrote that his mother felt he would one day go back to the land of his birth; other writers render the name 'to arouse or shak...

Q 05/05

Bruce Lee famously urged people to empty the mind and be formless and shapeless, like what?

A) Wind

B) Smoke

C) Fire

D) Water

Answer · why

D) Water

Water. The lines were first heard as dialogue, spoken by the martial arts teacher he played in the 1971 TV series Longstreet; Lee then recited the sce...