Q 01/05

In which Catalan town was Salvador Dalí born in 1904?

A) Figueres

B) Cadaqués

C) Girona

D) Sitges

Answer · why

A) Figueres

Figueres: as a teenager he showed early pictures in the town's theatre, and he later rebuilt its burnt-out shell as his own museum, where he now lies ...

Q 02/05

Dalí said his parents took him, aged five, to a grave and called him whose reincarnation?

A) His grandfather

B) His godfather

C) His older brother

D) A great-uncle

Answer · why

C) His older brother

His older brother: the first Salvador had died nine months before the painter was born, and Dalí wrote that the two resembled each other 'like two dro...

Q 03/05

Which Spanish TV series dresses its gang in red jumpsuits and masks of Dalí's face?

A) Élite

B) Money Heist

C) Locked Up

D) Cable Girls

Answer · why

B) Money Heist

Money Heist: creator Álex Pina said Dalí's face was chosen because it was the most iconic image Spain could offer and was almost pop culture already.

Q 04/05

Which actor plays Dalí in the 2011 time-travel comedy Midnight in Paris?

A) Johnny Depp

B) Joaquin Phoenix

C) Sacha Baron Cohen

D) Adrien Brody

Answer · why

D) Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody: when the film's time-travelling hero admits that he comes from the future, Dalí and his friends Man Ray and Luis Buñuel see nothing odd ...

Q 05/05

After Dalí's mother died in 1921, whom did his father marry?

A) The family housekeeper

B) A widowed neighbour

C) His secretary

D) Her sister

Answer · why

D) Her sister

Her sister: Dalí, who called his mother's death 'the greatest blow I had experienced in my life', respected the aunt who became his stepmother, even a...