Q 01/05

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

A) Aragon

B) Andalusia

C) Catalonia

D) Galicia

Answer · why

A) Aragon

He said that in Calanda 'the Middle Ages lasted until World War I'; the family soon moved to Zaragoza.

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

Leonardo Buñuel left home at 14, returned rich at 43 and married the innkeeper's 18-year-old daughter.

Q 03/05

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

A) Antonio Machado

B) Rafael Alberti

C) Federico García Lorca

D) Juan Ramón Jiménez

Answer · why

C) Federico García Lorca

The three formed the nucleus of the 'Generación del 27'; Buñuel mourned Lorca's murder in 1936 for the rest of his life.

Q 04/05

Which Fritz Lang film left Buñuel 'completely transformed' and set on a career in cinema?

A) Metropolis

B) M

C) Dr. Mabuse the Gambler

D) Der müde Tod

Answer · why

D) Der müde Tod

At 72 he was still enthusiastic enough to ask the elderly Lang for his autograph.

Q 05/05

Which French director employed Buñuel as assistant, then fired him for insulting Abel Gance?

A) Jean Epstein

B) Jean Renoir

C) René Clair

D) Marcel L'Herbier

Answer · why

A) Jean Epstein

Epstein's parting shot: 'You seem rather surrealist. Beware of surrealists, they are crazy people.'