Double Dutch Trivia Quiz

Answer: Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is not Dutch, but was born in South-Africa in 1975. She started her career in 1995 as an extra to "Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest". Her first major roles were in movies such as "The Devil's Advocate" (1997) and "The Cider House Rules" (1999). Theron won an Oscar for her performance as former prostitute and serial killer Eileen Wuornos in "Monster's Ball" (2003).
Monique van de Ven (born 1952) started her career in 1973 in "Turks Fruit" (translated as "Turkish Delight"), a movie nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Movie. She also played a main role in "De Aanslag" ("The Assault", 1986), which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Movie.
Carice Van Houten (born 1976) started her career in the TV series "Het Labyrint" (1997). She is best known for her roles in the movies "Zwartboek" ("Black Book", 2006) and "Valkyrie" (2008), and as Melisandre in the TV series "Game of Thrones" (2012-2019).
Famke Janssen (born 1964) starred as Xenia Onatopp in "Goldeneye" (1995) and played the role of Jean Grey in several movies from the "X-Men" series.

Answer: Jo De Meyere

De Meyere (born 1939) was born in Eeklo (Flanders) and is best known for his work in television series. He started his career in 1967 in the TV series "Midas". Highlights of his career include the TV series "Wij, Heren Van Zichem" (1969-1972), "Dagboek van een Herdershond" (1978-1980) and "Flikken" (2003-2009).
Rutger Hauer (1944-2019) was a Dutch actor, best known for his leading roles in "Blade Runner" (1982) and "The Hitcher" (1986).
Rijk de Gooyer (1925-2011) played in several Dutch and German TV series. He is famous for his work with Johnny Kraaykamp in "Grijpstra & De Gier" (1979, police movie) and "Spass durch 2" (German comic TV series, 1970-1972)
Jeroen Krabbé (born 1944) started his career in 1963 in the Dutch movie "Fietsen naar de Maan". Some highlights from his career include "The Fugitive" (1993) and "The Living Daylights" (1987). He also directed "Left Luggage" in 1998, a movie in which he played the protagonist.

Answer: Anton Pieck

Pieck (1895-1987) was a painter, graphic artist and illustrator. He is best known for his design of the theme park Efteling near Kaatsheuvel, inspired by various fairy tales.
Alex van Warmerdam (born 1952) started his career as an actor in the short movie "Adelbert" (1977). His first full feature film was "Abel" in 1986, in which he played the title role and which he also directed. He also wrote the story to this movie. Out of his first ten full feature movies, he directed nine and wrote the script for these nine movies too.
Paul Verhoeven (born 1938) started his directing career in 1960 with a short movie titled "Een hagedis teveel" (which translates to "A Lizard too Much"). His first success was "Turks fruit" ("Turkish Delight", 1973). In 1983 he moved to the USA to direct movies such as "Robocop" (1987) and "Basic Insitinct" (1992). In 2006 he returned to the Netherlands and directed "Zwart boek" ("Blackbook").
Dick Maas (born 1951) started his career with some short movies. His first success was "De lift" (1983, "The Elevator"). Furthermore he wrote and directed three movies in the "Flodder" franchise.

Answer: Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen (1955-2020) was born in Nijmegen (Netherlands). The family moved to the USA in 1962, and Eddie and his brother Alex adopted American citizenships. At a young age Eddie and Alex formed a music band, which was named Van Halen in 1974. Eddie played guitar and keyboard, Alex played the drums, while David Lee Roth was the lead singer. Eddie also sang backing vocals. The fourth member was Michael Anthony on bass guitar.
Marco Borsato (born 1966 in Alkmaar, North Holland) started singing in Italian, but switched to his native language in 1994. His signature song was "Dromen zijn bedrog" (which translates to "Dreams Are Deceitful").
Gerard Joling (born 1960) sang in English and in Dutch. His greatest hits include "No More Boleros" (1989) and "Maak me gek" (2007, which I would translate as "Drive Me Crazy").
Boudewijn De Groot (born 1944) was born in Dutch East India (nowadays Indonesia). His greatest hits was "Welterusten, meneer de president" (1966, a protest against the Vietnam War).

Answer: Dimitri Vegas

Dimitri Vegas is the stage name for Dimitri Thivaios (born 1981). He and his brother Michael (born 1985) were born in Belgium, in a small town close to the Scheldt. They are from Greek descent. Dimitri and Michael (stage name Like Mike) became successful DJs in 2008, making it to the number one spot on the DJ MAG Top 100 DJs List in 2014 and 2019.
Armin Van Buuren (born 1976) was the top DJ in 2007 until 2010, and again in 2012.
DJ Tiesto (born in 1969 as Tijs Verwest) is another of the Dutch top DJs. He ranked number 1 on the Top 100 in 2002 until 2004.
Garrix (born Martijn Garritsen in 1996) was the third DJ to rank number 1 on the aforesaid list three years in a row (namely in 2016 until 2018), after DJ Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren. All three of them have the Dutch nationality.
By the way, another Dutch DJ has won this popular vote (installed in 1997) twice. Hardwell (born Robbert van de Corput) won in 2013 and 2014.

Answer: Cristina Deutekom

Deutekom (1931-2014) was an opera singer. She started her career in 1963 at De Nederlandse Opera as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's "Die Zauberflôte" ("The Magic Flute"). This very demanding piece for coloratura soprano gained her international fame, and the New York Times even crowned her "the best Queen of the Night" after a performance at the Metropolitan in New York.
She was especially acclaimed in Italy, where she gained the title of "best singer in Italy" twice.
Candy Dulfer (born 1969) played the saxophone professionally since 1987. Her preferred genre was jazz and pop music.
Isabelle Van Keulen (born 1966) started professionally playing classical music on violin in 1983. She preferred music by less known composers from the XXth Century.
Ruud Jolie was born in 1976. He has worked with many bands, but is best known as the lead guitarist of the symphonic metal band Within Temptation.

Answer: Jan Pelleboer

Pelleboer (1924-1992) was a trained meteorologist. He started in 1954 as weather forecaster for some newspapers. In 1972 he launched his career on the radio, and sometime in the seventies he also started presenting the weather forecast on television. (Sources don't indicate an exact start date, but the oldest fragment I found was from 1979).
Astrid Joosten (born 1958) started the presentation of the quiz show "Twee voor Twaalf" in 1991.
Mies Bouwman (1929-2018) started her career in 1951 with the benefit action "Open het Dorp", to raise funds for a village for disabled persons. She came up with the format for the game show "Een van de acht" (1969-1995) and also presented the show. British audiences know this game format as "The Generation Game".
Berend Boudewijn (born 1936) hosted his eponymous quiz show between 1971 and 1975.

Answer: Pim Fortuyn

Fortuyn (1948-2002) was not an entertainer, but a politician. Originally he supported de Partij van de Arbeid (Dutch version of the British Labour Party), but gradually he shifted more to the right of the political spectrum. He started his own party in 2002, but during the election campaign he was shot and killed.
Kan (1911-1983) started the Dutch (and Flemish) tradition of the New Year's Eve conferences, in which a comedian reflects on the events of the year that passed.
Sonneveld (1917-1974) will always be remembered for his song "Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten".
Hermans (1916-2000) started the "one man show" in 1958, in which he switched between songs and sketches (in his case mostly based upon word puns).

Answer: Johan Cruyff

Cruyff (1947-2016) was a soccer player and coach. There are a number of people who consider Cruyff the best player of the Twentieth century, while others grant that title to the Brazilian Pele.
Cruyff started his career with Ajax Amsterdam (1964-1973), and during this period Ajax won the European Cup twice. In 1973 he was transferred to Barcelona, where he played until 1978. Later he played briefly for Los Angeles Aztecs, Washington Diplomats, Levante Union Deportiva, a second period at Ajax, and finally Feyenoord Rotterdam.
Cruyff also led the national team to second place on the FIFA World Cup in 1974 (lost against West Germany after victories against Argentina and Brazil).
Bernard Haitink (born 1929) started conducting the Nederlandse Radio Orkest (Dutch Radio Orchestra) in 1954. He also conducted the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
André Rieu (born 1949) created his own orchestra, the Johann Strauss Orchestra, in 1987. This orchestra is well known for light classical music and the visual flair at the shows. If you would like to buy a CD or a DVD by this orchestra, you better go for the DVD, for there is always much going on.
Frans Brüggen (1934-2014) studied flute and recorder. In 1981, he was one of the founders and in fact the conductor of the Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw (Eightteenth-Century Orchestra).

Answer: Annie M.G. Schmidt

Annie M.G. Schmidt (1911-1995) was an author, especially of children's literature. Her best known titles were the series about Jip and Janneke, a boy and the girl from next door. Between 1952 and 1957, Schmidt published an adventure of these youngsters every week. Another famous book is "Pluk van de Petteflet", starring a young redhead boy living in the top apartment of a skyscraper. My favourite story however is "Minoes", about a cat who turned into a young woman and worked for a newspaper.
Doutzen Kroes (born 1985) started modelling in 2003. She worked for Victoria's Secret during seven years.
Karen Mulder (born 1970) showed fashion by Versace, Dior and Chanel, among other brands.
Jansen (born 1985) chose the first name Querelle as her stage name. Her real first name is Lisette. She worked (among others) for Prada and Hugo Boss.