Q 01/05

What were the first names of the two Lumière brothers?

A) Auguste and Louis

B) Antoine and Jules

C) Émile and Léon

D) Georges and Charles

Answer · why

A) Auguste and Louis

Auguste was the elder by two years; both outlived their brief film careers by decades.

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

The factory in the Monplaisir quarter is now the Institut Lumière, on a street renamed rue du Premier-Film.

Q 03/05

In which town were the Lumière brothers born?

A) Grenoble

B) Dijon

C) Besançon

D) Nancy

Answer · why

C) Besançon

Their father Antoine ran a small photographic portrait studio there before the move to Lyon.

Q 04/05

What three functions did the Lumières' single machine combine?

A) Projector, screen and organ

B) Camera, telegraph and printer

C) Camera, phonograph and lamp

D) Camera, printer and projector

Answer · why

D) Camera, printer and projector

They patented their Cinématographe on 13 February 1895.

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

He could not pay his patent fees in 1894 and the name became available for the Lumières to use.