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The Pivot Questionnaire
T he Pivot Questionnaire was invented by Bernard Pivot[1] in the mid-1970s and is directly inspired by the Proust questionnaire[2]. The famous literary critic used to submit his guests to a series of ten (10) questions during his programs "Apostrophes"[3] and "Bouillon de culture"[4]. This questionnaire has also become famous across the United States of America thanks to James Lipton[5] and his show "Inside the Actor's Studio"[6]. During the show, the host also submitted his guests to the questionnaire and paid a vibrant tribute to Bernard Pivot with the phrase "the great Bernard Pivot". However, some questions of the Pivot's questionnaire were considered potentially offensive to US audiences and replaced by a more accepted ones. For example, the question "If God exists, what would you like Him to tell you when you're dead?" was replaced by "If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the...