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A quiz between This is Spain and Images on Twitter:

1) In which small Spanish town was Salvador Dali born?
Answer: Figures, Catalonia

2) What was the name of Salvador Dali’s wife?
Answer : Gala Eluard who had been married before to the poet Paul Eluard.

3) In 1940, during the Second World war, Dali and his wife fled from Europe. Where did they live during the war?
Answer: The United States of America

4) The dramatic opening of Salvador Dali's film, “Un Chien Andalou”, shows what dramatic scene?
Answer: The slashing of a human eyeball with a razor.

5)Which “School of Art” is represented by Salvador Dali?

Answer: Surrealism

6) Which famous fellow-Spanish artists did Salvador Dali meet when he first went to Paris in 1926?
Answer: Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro

7) Which writer, Poet and Philosopher was the leader of the Surrealist movement of which Dali was a prominent member?
Answer: Andre Breton

8) The question of Dali’s religious beliefs is always a controversial one. What Church was he occasionally a believer in?
Answer: The Roman Catholic Church.

9) Salvador Dali was ennobled in 1982 and made Marquis of Dalí de Púbol . Who was the King who caused this to happen
Answer: Juan Carlos, King of Spain.
10) In 1988 as Dali lay dying he was visited by his King? What was his name?
Answer: Juan Carlos, King of Spain.

11) When Dali returned to Spain after the Second World War Dali became closer to which Spanish Dictator?
Answer: General Franco

12) In 1929 Dali became fascinated by the world of the unconscious that is recalled in our dreams. The surrealist theory was based on the work of which world famous psychologist who Dali met and admired?
Answer: Dr Sigmund Freud


1) In which small Spanish town was Salvador Dali born?
Answer: Figures, Catalonia

2) What was the name of Salvador Dali’s wife?
Answer : Gala Eluard who had been married before to the poet Paul Eluard.

3) In 1940, during the Second World war, Dali and his wife fled from Europe. Where did they live during the war?
Answer: The United States of America

4) The dramatic opening of Salvador Dali's film, “Un Chien Andalou”, shows what dramatic scene?
Answer: The slashing of a human eyeball with a razor.

5) Which “School of Art” is represented by Salvador Dali?