Q 01/05

Luis Buñuel was born in 1900 in Calanda, a small town in which region of Spain?

A) Aragon

B) Navarre

C) Catalonia

D) Galicia

Answer · why

A) Aragon

Aragon. Calanda is known for its Good Friday drums, beaten through the day and night, and Buñuel ended his film Nazarín with their thunder.

Q 02/05

Buñuel's father had made his fortune running a hardware business in which city?

A) Buenos Aires

B) Havana

C) Manila

D) Mexico City

Answer · why

B) Havana

Havana. Leonardo Buñuel came home to Calanda a rich man at 43, shortly before Cuba's independence, and married an 18-year-old from the village.

Q 03/05

At Madrid's Residencia de Estudiantes, Buñuel befriended Salvador Dalí and which poet?

A) Antonio Machado

B) Miguel Hernández

C) Federico García Lorca

D) Juan Ramón Jiménez

Answer · why

C) Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca used to read Buñuel his poems on the grass behind the Residencia, and Buñuel said that through him he discovered a whole new wor...

Q 04/05

Which director's silent film Der müde Tod convinced the young Buñuel that he had to make films?

A) F. W. Murnau

B) G. W. Pabst

C) Robert Wiene

D) Fritz Lang

Answer · why

D) Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang. Buñuel never forgot the debt: at 72 he called on the director, by then past 80, and asked him to sign a photograph, something he said he n...

Q 05/05

Which French director fired Buñuel from The Fall of the House of Usher for belittling Abel Gance?

A) Jean Epstein

B) Jean Renoir

C) René Clair

D) Marcel L'Herbier

Answer · why

A) Jean Epstein

Jean Epstein. Giving Buñuel a lift afterwards, he warned him to keep away from the Surrealists, the very group Buñuel joined soon after.