Q 01/05

Rudolph Valentino was born in 1895 in Castellaneta, in which country?

A) Spain

B) Italy

C) Argentina

D) France

Answer · why

B) Italy

The town in Apulia unveiled a ceramic statue of him in 1961 and opened a film school in his name.

Q 02/05

What was Valentino's real surname?

A) Guglielmi

B) Gandolfi

C) Giannini

D) Guarnieri

Answer · why

A) Guglielmi

Guglielmi was part of a name far too long for American ears, so he cut it down to a short stage name; he wanted to be Rodolpho, but the public insiste...

Q 03/05

Valentino's father, a former cavalry captain, ran what kind of practice in Castellaneta?

A) Accountancy

B) Medical

C) Veterinary

D) Dental

Answer · why

C) Veterinary

Veterinary medicine was his father's trade after the cavalry; when malaria killed him in 1906, the unruly Rodolfo lost his sternest critic and was soo...

Q 04/05

Valentino earned a diploma from an institute in Liguria in which subject?

A) Engineering

B) Music theory

C) Agriculture

D) Civil law

Answer · why

C) Agriculture

Agriculture was his mother's idea once the naval academy had turned him down, and he did use the training: one of his first jobs in America was tendin...

Q 05/05

Which gift from Natacha Rambova did newspaper critics mock as proof that Valentino was unmanly?

A) A pearl earring

B) A slave bracelet

C) A signet ring

D) A jewelled tie pin

Answer · why

B) A slave bracelet

A slave bracelet from Rambova stayed on his wrist whatever the papers said; when one editorial sneered at it, he replied that the wrist beneath it cou...