Q 01/05

Édith Piaf's signature song, whose lyrics she wrote herself in 1945, is which?

A) La Vie en rose

B) L'Accordéoniste

C) La Foule

D) Padam, padam

Answer · why

A) La Vie en rose

It sold a million copies in the United States and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.

Q 02/05

What was Édith Piaf's surname at birth?

A) Gassion

B) Dupont

C) Maillard

D) Berteaut

Answer · why

A) Gassion

Gassion was the name of her father Louis, a street acrobat: she sang under it until she was 19, when the nightclub owner who discovered her rechristen...

Q 03/05

Piaf's first name is said to honour which British nurse, executed two months before her birth?

A) Edith Sitwell

B) Edith Nesbit

C) Edith Cavell

D) Edith Evans

Answer · why

C) Edith Cavell

Edith Cavell was shot by a German firing squad in October 1915 for helping Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium, and the outcry was still fresh whe...

Q 04/05

In French slang, what does 'piaf' mean?

A) A cheap cigarette

B) A tiny glass of wine

C) A small bird

D) A street urchin

Answer · why

C) A small bird

A small bird, above all a sparrow: under five feet tall, the nervous young street singer was billed as 'La Môme Piaf', the kid sparrow, and the name s...

Q 05/05

Which Hollywood blockbuster uses Piaf's 'Non, je ne regrette rien' as a recurring signal in its plot?

A) Saving Private Ryan

B) Ratatouille

C) Midnight in Paris

D) Inception

Answer · why

D) Inception

Inception: the song is the cue that a 'kick' out of the dream is coming, and Hans Zimmer built the film's booming score from slowed-down fragments of ...