Q 01/05

In which French city was Jean-Michel Jarre born?

A) Paris

B) Marseille

C) Lyon

D) Nice

Answer · why

C) Lyon

Lyon. His grandfather there, an oboist and engineer, gave him his first tape recorder, which the teenage Jarre used to twist the sound of his guitar i...

Q 02/05

Jarre's father, Maurice, was a film composer who won three Oscars for scores to films by which director?

A) David Lean

B) François Truffaut

C) Alfred Hitchcock

D) Steven Spielberg

Answer · why

A) David Lean

David Lean. All three Oscars came for Lean epics, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India, yet Jean-Michel barely knew his father, w...

Q 03/05

Jarre's mother, Francette Pejot, had done what during the Second World War?

A) Sung propaganda for Radio Vichy

B) Worked as a front-line war photographer

C) Nursed the wounded at Dunkirk

D) Served in the Resistance and survived a camp

Answer · why

D) Served in the Resistance and survived a camp

Served in the Resistance and survived a camp: she was deported to Ravensbrück in 1944. Her son later owned a glass bust of Beethoven that Hitler had c...

Q 04/05

Which science-fiction author became Jarre's friend and worked with him on a millennium concert in Okinawa?

A) Isaac Asimov

B) Ray Bradbury

C) Arthur C. Clarke

D) Frank Herbert

Answer · why

C) Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke. Jarre says the friendship began when he found his own name in the acknowledgements of Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two, a novel written to...

Q 05/05

Which French abstract painter did Jarre name as an inspiration for both his music and his stage visuals?

A) Yves Klein

B) Pierre Soulages

C) Jean Dubuffet

D) Georges Braque

Answer · why

B) Pierre Soulages

Pierre Soulages. Jarre sold his own paintings as a young man, and he lists Soulages beside Jackson Pollock among the abstract painters who shaped how ...