Emma Stone Trivia
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49 free Emma Stone trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Emma Stone grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona, convinced her parents with a PowerPoint called 'Project Hollywood' to let her move to Los Angeles at 15, and spent her first years there auditioning for every Disney Channel show and getting none. Superbad, Zombieland and Easy A changed that, Gwen Stacy made her a franchise lead, and La La Land and Poor Things made her a two-time Best Actress winner before she turned 36. This quiz runs the whole arc: the stage name borrowed from a Spice Girl, the husky voice that started with infant colic, the bass guitar she learned for The Rocker, the Southern accent for The Help, Sally Bowles on Broadway, the Volpi Cup in Venice, the 15 pounds gained to play Billie Jean King, the Fruit Tree production company with Dave McCary, four films with Yorgos Lanthimos and the shaved head for Bugonia. There are also questions on Saturday Night Live, Cruella, Maniac, The Curse and the Beatles tattoo she shares with her mother. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a movie-night quiz.
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Q 01Emma Stone was born in which Arizona city?
Scottsdale
Scottsdale was home until she was 15, when she talked her parents into letting her quit high school after one semester and leave for California to act.
Q 02What is Emma Stone's real first name?
Emily
'Emily Stone' was already taken when she registered with the Screen Actors Guild at 16.
Q 03Stone's husky voice is traced to vocal-cord nodules caused by what in infancy?
Baby colic
Baby colic had her screaming so much as an infant that her vocal cords calloused over, and the husky result became one of her trademarks.
Q 04Stone's surname was anglicised from 'Sten', the name of her grandfather's family, who were of which origin?
Swedish
Swedish: 'sten' is simply the Swedish word for stone, so the family translated its name rather than inventing a new one.
Q 05At age 11, Stone made her acting debut playing which animal in The Wind in the Willows?
Otter
Otter came at a hard time: Stone had been having panic attacks since she was small, and has said that youth theatre and improv comedy are what got her through them.
Q 06Stone convinced her parents to let her move to LA with a PowerPoint presentation titled what?
Project Hollywood
Project Hollywood worked: in January 2004, aged 15, she dropped out of her Catholic high school and moved into an apartment there with her mother.
Q 07Between early auditions in California, Stone worked part-time at what kind of business?
A dog-treat bakery
A dog-treat bakery paid the bills while she auditioned to play the daughter on, by her own count, every sitcom going, and landed none of them.
Q 08Before settling on 'Emma', what stage name did Stone briefly use?
Riley
Riley lasted only a few months: when a crew called 'Riley' on set she had no idea who they meant, so she went looking for another name.
Q 09As a girl, Stone asked to be called Emma after which Spice Girl?
Baby Spice
Baby Spice is Emma Bunton, Stone's childhood idol; Stone made Emma her stage name as a teenager and said in 2024 that she would still rather be called by her real one.
Q 10Stone's TV debut was a VH1 reality show recasting which 1970s sitcom?
The Partridge Family
The Partridge Family revival came her way because her mother saw the advert and thought she looked like Susan Dey; Stone won the part of Laurie, but the pilot was never picked up.
Q 11Hayden Panettiere beat Stone to the role of cheerleader Claire Bennet in which NBC sci-fi drama?
Heroes
Heroes: through the wall she heard the casting team tell Panettiere 'on a scale of 1 to 10 you're an 11', went home for a meltdown, and calls it her rock bottom.
Q 12Which 2007 comedy marked Stone's feature film debut?
Superbad
Superbad was a box-office hit, and Stone played Jules, the classmate whose party invitation sends two teenage boys on an all-night hunt for alcohol.
Q 13Stone learned to play which instrument for her role in The Rocker (2008)?
Bass guitar
Bass guitar: she learned the right notes for every song so her hands would match on camera, but admits the bass you actually hear in the film isn't hers.
Q 21In The Help, Stone plays an aspiring writer known by what nickname?
Skeeter
Skeeter, born Eugenia Phelan, was a welcome change for Stone, who said she kept being sent scripts for, in her words, 'the sarcastic interest of the guy'.
Q 22The Help is set in the 1960s in which city?
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi is the setting, but most of the film was shot in Greenwood, a smaller Delta city picked to stand in for the state capital of the 1960s.
Q 23Stone turned down a role in which action comedy after signing on to The Amazing Spider-Man?
21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street was meant to reunite her with an old co-star, but the Spider-Man deal got in the way; 'I think Channing Tatum swept in,' she joked.
Q 14Stone played a sorority president opposite which star of the 2008 comedy The House Bunny?
Anna Faris
Anna Faris plays an ex-Playboy bunny who becomes house mother to Stone's socially hopeless sorority; Stone gets to sing, covering the Waitresses' 'I Know What Boys Like'.
Q 15In Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Stone plays a ghost who haunts her ex-boyfriend, played by which star?
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey plays a womanising photographer in this romcom spin on A Christmas Carol, and Stone's ghost drags him back through his romantic past.
Q 16What is the name of Stone's con-artist character in Zombieland?
Wichita
Wichita isn't her real name: the film's survivors go by their home cities so that nobody gets too attached, and Stone played her again in the sequel ten years on.
Q 17Stone voiced Mazie in a 2010 comedy about Marmaduke, a dog of which giant breed?
Great Dane
Great Dane Marmaduke got Owen Wilson's voice and Stone's Mazie was an Australian Shepherd, but critics savaged the film, which scored just 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Q 18Easy A, Stone's breakthrough, is partially based on which 1850 novel?
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is what Olive is reading in English class when a false rumour brands her promiscuous, so she stitches a red 'A' onto her clothes and plays along.
Q 19In a 2010 TV sketch, Stone impersonated which actress she was often said to resemble?
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan: asked about the likeness, Stone, whose red hair came from a bottle, replied, 'I'm the false one. She's the real redhead.'
Q 20Stone's character in Crazy, Stupid, Love has just graduated in which field?
Law
Law: Hannah expects her lawyer boyfriend to propose, and when he offers her a job at his firm instead, she storms off to find the smooth talker she had turned down.
Q 24Which actor has played Stone's love interest in three films, including Crazy, Stupid, Love and Gangster Squad?
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling made it three with La La Land, though the pair were second choices: Miles Teller and Emma Watson had been in talks for the parts first.
Q 25Stone voices which character in DreamWorks' The Croods?
Eep
Eep is the rebellious teenage daughter of Nicolas Cage's overprotective caveman, forever sneaking out of the family cave; Stone voiced her again in the 2020 sequel.
Q 26Stone's 2013 film Gangster Squad is set in which city during the 1940s?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles in 1949: the film is loosely based on the real police squad assigned to bring down mobster Mickey Cohen, and Stone's character falls for one of its detectives.
Q 27Who played Peter Parker opposite Stone's Gwen Stacy in the two Amazing Spider-Man films?
Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield and Stone were reported to be a couple off screen for about four years as well, though neither of them would ever confirm it.
Q 28In Birdman, Stone plays the daughter of an actor played by whom?
Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton plays a faded superhero star staging a Broadway play, in a film made to look like one continuous take; the part brought Stone her first Oscar nomination.
Q 29Stone starred as Sally Bowles in a Broadway revival of which musical from 2014 to 2015?
Cabaret
Cabaret was her Broadway debut, replacing Michelle Williams; she called it 'the most nerve-racking thing ever' and came close to losing her voice.
Q 30Stone regretted which 2015 Cameron Crowe film over the whitewashing of her part-Asian role?
Aloha
Aloha cast her as fighter pilot Allison Ng, written as a quarter Chinese and a quarter Hawaiian; Crowe apologised, and Stone called whitewashing a problem right across the film industry.