Audrey Hepburn Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
6correct to beat the crowd
56 free Audrey Hepburn trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Audrey Hepburn trivia quiz follows her from an aristocratic Brussels birth through the German occupation of Arnhem, ballet in Amsterdam and London, and the West End chorus line to the night Roman Holiday made her a star. The film questions cover Sabrina, Ondine on Broadway, Funny Face, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's and its little black dress, Charade, the My Fair Lady casting row and the dubbed vocals, Wait Until Dark, Robin and Marian and the angel cameo in Spielberg's Always. A second strand covers the woman herself: Colette spotting her in Monte Carlo, Gregory Peck insisting on equal billing, Givenchy's lifelong friendship, the four major awards, the marriages to Mel Ferrer and Andrea Dotti, the house called La Paisible, and the UNICEF missions to Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia that earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom weeks before she died. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is shown on every question. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. Try our Marilyn Monroe and Classic Hollywood quizzes next.
30 of 56 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01In which city was Audrey Hepburn born?
Brussels
Brussels. Though born in Belgium she was a British citizen through her father, and she spent part of her childhood at school in England.
Q 02What was Hepburn's surname at birth?
Ruston
Ruston. Her father later added 'Hepburn' to it, believing he was descended from the 16th-century Earl of Bothwell, and she dropped the Ruston when she began performing in London.
Q 03Why did Hepburn's mother move her from England to the Netherlands in 1939?
She thought it would stay neutral
She thought it would stay neutral, as it had in the First World War. Germany invaded eight months later, and Hepburn spent the next five years under occupation.
Q 04What first name did Hepburn go by during the German occupation of the Netherlands?
Edda
Edda. Her mother made the change because 'Audrey' sounded dangerously English under German rule, and she went back to her own name once the war was over.
Q 05During the 1944-45 Dutch famine, Hepburn's family made flour from what?
Tulip bulbs
Tulip bulbs, ground to bake cakes and biscuits. The Germans had cut off food shipments to punish a Dutch railway strike, and by the end of that winter city soup kitchens were boiling bulbs as well.
Q 06Which dance company's scholarship brought Hepburn to London after the war?
Ballet Rambert
Ballet Rambert. Marie Rambert rated her a fine pupil but is said to have told her she was too tall for a prima ballerina, so Hepburn took modelling and chorus-line jobs and drifted into acting.
Q 07Which French novelist spotted Hepburn in Monte Carlo and cast her in Gigi on Broadway?
Colette
Colette. Hepburn had spoken only a few lines in her whole acting career when the author picked her, yet she opened to rave reviews and won a Theatre World Award.
Q 08In which Ealing comedy about a gold-bullion robbery does a young Hepburn briefly appear as Chiquita?
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lavender Hill Mob. She has a few words with Alec Guinness, whose mild bank clerk smuggles the stolen gold abroad melted down into Eiffel Tower souvenirs.
Q 09Which character did Hepburn play in Roman Holiday (1953)?
Princess Ann
Princess Ann. Hepburn won the part with a screen test that William Wyler ordered kept running after the scene was over, so he could see how she came across once she stopped acting.
Q 10Which co-star insisted that Hepburn share top billing with him on Roman Holiday?
Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck. The credits were to carry his name alone, with 'Introducing Audrey Hepburn' below, but once filming began he was sure she would be a big star and had her moved up above the title.
Q 11In Roman Holiday, the American who shows Hepburn's character around Rome is secretly what?
A reporter
A reporter. He is after an exclusive on her day of freedom, with a friend snapping her on a camera hidden in a cigarette lighter, but he falls for her and never files the story.
Q 12Hepburn's performance in Roman Holiday won her which three awards?
Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA
Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA. All three came for her first starring role, and the cropped haircut and simple clothes she wore in it started a fashion among young women.
Q 13For which Broadway fantasy play did Hepburn win a Tony Award in 1954?
Ondine
Q 21Who played Professor Henry Higgins opposite Hepburn in the film of My Fair Lady?
Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison. He had created Higgins on Broadway and won the Best Actor Oscar for the film, on a night when Hepburn herself was not even nominated.
Q 22Who played Hepburn's husband in Two for the Road, the story of a marriage told through its road trips?
Albert Finney
Albert Finney. They played a couple whose marriage is coming apart on the roads of France, just as Hepburn's own first marriage was heading for divorce.
Q 23In The Children's Hour (1961), Hepburn and which actress play teachers accused of being lesbians?
Shirley MacLaine
Ondine. She played a water nymph who falls for a mortal, collected the Tony three days after her Oscar, and then never acted on Broadway again.
Q 14Which two actors played the wealthy brothers competing for Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)?
Humphrey Bogart and William Holden
Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. The chauffeur's daughter comes home from Paris set on Holden's playboy, only to end up with Bogart's all-business older brother.
Q 15Which French designer, first hired for Sabrina, became Hepburn's lifelong collaborator and friend?
Hubert de Givenchy
Hubert de Givenchy. Told that 'Miss Hepburn' wanted to see him, the young couturier expected Katharine Hepburn, and found instead a newcomer whose first big film had not yet opened.
Q 16Which heroine did Hepburn play opposite Henry Fonda in the 1956 film of War and Peace?
Natasha Rostova
Natasha Rostova. Showman Mike Todd had wanted her for his own version of the novel, but she signed with a pair of Italian producers instead and Todd's film was never made.
Q 17In Funny Face (1957), who plays the photographer who discovers Hepburn's bookshop clerk?
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire. His character was modelled on Richard Avedon, who shot the fashion stills used in the film, and Hepburn did her own singing opposite Astaire.
Q 18Which role did Variety call Hepburn's most demanding, and her finest performance?
Sister Luke in The Nun's Story
Sister Luke in The Nun's Story. She plays a nursing nun sent to the Congo who ends by walking away from her vows, and the part brought Hepburn her third Oscar nomination.
Q 19What was Hepburn's only western?
The Unforgiven
The Unforgiven. A horse threw her during the shoot in Durango, Mexico, and John Huston's production had to shut down while she recovered.
Q 20Truman Capote wanted which star, rather than Hepburn, to play Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's?
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe. Capote thought Hepburn miscast as Holly and disliked how the film softened his story, yet the part became one of the best remembered of her career.
Shirley MacLaine. William Wyler had filmed the same play once before, as These Three, when the censors made him turn its lesbian rumour into a love triangle; this time he could keep it.
Q 24Which Charade (1963) co-star had the script changed so that Hepburn's character pursued him?
Cary Grant
Cary Grant. A quarter of a century older than Hepburn, he was uneasy about romancing her on screen, so the writers had her do the chasing and gave him lines joking about his age.
Q 25In her first screen role, in 1948, Hepburn played a flight attendant for which airline?
KLM
KLM. She was a ballet student in Amsterdam when she took the bit part in a short travelogue about the Netherlands, and six years later she was collecting an Oscar.
Q 26Who originated Eliza Doolittle on stage but lost the My Fair Lady film role to Hepburn?
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews. Jack Warner passed her over as not bankable enough for the film, so she made her screen debut in Mary Poppins that year instead and won the Best Actress Oscar for it.
Q 27Which ghost singer dubbed Hepburn's songs in My Fair Lady?
Marni Nixon
Marni Nixon. Hepburn trained with a coach and expected to sing the part herself before the studio ruled her voice unsuitable; Nixon had already sung unseen for Deborah Kerr in The King and I.
Q 28In How to Steal a Million, the art collection owned by the father of Hepburn's character is made up of what?
Forgeries
Forgeries. When her father lends a fake Cellini statue to a Paris museum, she has to steal it back before the experts can examine it and expose the whole collection.
Q 29In Wait Until Dark (1967), Hepburn earned her fifth Oscar nomination playing a woman who is what?
Blind
Blind. In the climax her character smashes every light in the flat, so the killer hunting her has to fight in a darkness that she already knows how to live in.
Q 30Which director made Funny Face, Charade and Two for the Road with Hepburn?
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen. On the last of the three he kept her out of her usual couturier's clothes, wanting a less chic, more everyday look for her character.