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

He is buried there too, in a crypt beneath the stage of his own Theatre-Museum, 450 metres from the house where he was born.

Q 02/05

Dalí was named after his older brother, who had died nine months before his birth of what?

A) Diphtheria

B) Meningitis

C) Gastroenteritis

D) Scarlet fever

Answer · why

C) Gastroenteritis

He was haunted by the idea all his life, calling the boy 'probably the first version of myself but conceived too much in the absolute'.

Q 03/05

What was the profession of Dalí's strict father?

A) Country doctor

B) Lawyer and notary

C) Schoolmaster

D) Wine merchant

Answer · why

B) Lawyer and notary

He was an anti-clerical atheist and Catalan federalist; Dalí's mother tempered his discipline and encouraged her son's art.

Q 04/05

Two of Dalí's childhood football companions in Cadaqués went on to play for which club?

A) Real Madrid

B) Espanyol

C) Athletic Bilbao

D) FC Barcelona

Answer · why

D) FC Barcelona

Emili Sagi-Barba and Josep Samitier both went on to top-flight careers.

Q 05/05

After Dalí's mother died of uterine cancer 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

Dalí called his mother's death 'the greatest blow I had experienced in my life' but did not resent the marriage, loving his aunt.