 In every episode, James Lipton (qv) asks his guests a series of  questions crafted by Bernard Pivot (qv) for his show  _"Bouillon de culture" (1991)_ (qv). In episode #6.12, Lipton tells  Alan Alda (qv) that he has never answered those questions and  never will. He later reneges on this statement when he is a guest on  "Bouillon de Culture" and answers those questions along with Pivot  himself, in French. He later answered them to Tom Cruise (qv) on  the 10th Anniversary Show, in English.