Q 01/05

The brothers' surname, Lumière, is also the French word for what?

A) Shadow

B) Light

C) Mirror

D) Picture

Answer · why

B) Light

Light: the apt surname was no stage name, since their father Antoine Lumière already carried it when he opened his first photography studio.

Q 02/05

In which French city was the Lumière family business and factory based?

A) Marseille

B) Lyon

C) Lille

D) Paris

Answer · why

B) Lyon

Lyon: the family left eastern France for the city in 1870 as the war with Prussia closed in, and the old factory site in its Monplaisir quarter now ho...

Q 03/05

In which eastern French town, also Victor Hugo's birthplace, were the Lumière brothers born?

A) Grenoble

B) Dijon

C) Besançon

D) Nancy

Answer · why

C) Besançon

Besançon: their father Antoine arrived in the town as a painter and switched to portrait photography there, the trade that led his sons to moving pict...

Q 04/05

What three functions did the Lumières' single machine combine?

A) Camera, enlarger and projector

B) Camera, phonograph and projector

C) Camera, peephole viewer and projector

D) Camera, printer and projector

Answer · why

D) Camera, printer and projector

Camera, printer and projector: with all three in one portable box, a Lumière operator could shoot, print and screen films wherever he travelled.

Q 05/05

Who had originally patented a device called the Cinématographe in 1892?

A) Léon Bouly

B) Louis Le Prince

C) Étienne-Jules Marey

D) Émile Reynaud

Answer · why

A) Léon Bouly

Léon Bouly registered the name cinématographe for his camera in February 1892 but let the patent lapse in 1894, freeing the term.