Q 01/05

In which French city was Jean-Michel Jarre born and raised?

A) Paris

B) Marseille

C) Lyon

D) Nice

Answer · why

C) Lyon

He spent half of each year at his grandparents' flat above the Cours de Verdun, watching street performers below.

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

Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India; the parents separated when Jean-Michel was five and he did not see his father again until 1...

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

She later sold antiques at the Saint-Ouen flea market and took him to a Paris jazz club run by a friend from her resistance days.

Q 04/05

Which musique concrète pioneer, whose Groupe de Recherches Musicales Jarre joined in 1969, most influenced him?

A) Karlheinz Stockhausen

B) Pierre Schaeffer

C) Pierre Boulez

D) Olivier Messiaen

Answer · why

B) Pierre Schaeffer

There he met the Moog modular synthesiser and also spent time at Stockhausen's studio in Cologne.

Q 05/05

Which French painter's textured canvases made Jarre think he could 'act as a painter with frequencies'?

A) Yves Klein

B) Pierre Soulages

C) Jean Dubuffet

D) Georges Braque

Answer · why

B) Pierre Soulages

Jarre also sold his own paintings as a young man at a Lyon gallery.