50 free Emma Stone trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
From ages 12 to 15 she lived on the grounds of the Camelback Inn resort.
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
She cried so much as a baby that she developed calluses on her vocal cords as a child.
Q 04Stone's paternal grandfather came from a family of which origin that anglicised its surname?
Swedish
Conrad Ostberg Sten's family became 'Stone'; she also has German, English, Scottish and Irish ancestry.
Q 05At age 11, Stone made her acting debut playing which animal in The Wind in the Willows?
Otter
She later appeared in 16 productions at Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre while homeschooled.
Q 06Stone convinced her parents to let her move to LA with a PowerPoint presentation titled what?
Project Hollywood
She moved with her mother in January 2004 and took online high-school classes between auditions.
Q 07Between early auditions in LA, Stone worked part-time at what kind of business?
A dog-treat bakery
She auditioned for every Disney Channel show and every sitcom daughter role and got none of them.
Q 08Before settling on 'Emma', what stage name did Stone briefly use?
Riley
She struggled to answer to Riley and switched to Emma in honour of Emma Bunton of the Spice Girls.
Q 09Stone's stage name honours which Spice Girl?
Emma Bunton
Bunton was Baby Spice; Stone made the change after guest spots on Medium and Malcolm in the Middle.
Q 10Stone's TV debut was a VH1 reality show recasting which 1970s sitcom?
The Partridge Family
She won the role of Laurie Partridge, but the resulting pilot was never sold.
Q 11Stone called her failed audition for which NBC sci-fi drama her 'rock bottom' experience?
Heroes
She had tried out for Claire Bennet; months later the Fox drama Drive cast her but was cancelled after seven episodes.
Q 12Which 2007 comedy marked Stone's feature film debut?
Superbad
She dyed her hair red to play Jonah Hill's love interest and won a Young Hollywood Award for Exciting New Face.
Q 13Stone learned to play which instrument for her role in The Rocker (2008)?
Bass guitar
She found it hard to play a straight-faced character so different from her own 'big smiler' personality.
Q 21Stone's character in Crazy, Stupid, Love has just graduated in which field?
Law
It was her first pairing with Ryan Gosling; the film grossed $142.9 million on a $50 million budget.
Q 22In The Help, Stone plays an aspiring writer known by what nickname?
Skeeter
Eugenia Phelan was her escape from being typecast as 'the sarcastic interest of the guy'; she learned a Southern accent for it.
Q 23The Help is set in the 1960s in which city?
Jackson, Mississippi
With $216 million worldwide against a $25 million budget, it became her highest-grossing film to that point.
Q 14In The House Bunny, Stone's sorority president covers which 1982 song by the Waitresses?
I Know What Boys Like
Reviews were poor but TV Guide said she was 'well on her way to becoming a star'.
Q 15Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, in which Stone plays a ghost, is loosely based on which Dickens work?
A Christmas Carol
She haunted Matthew McConaughey's character in the 2009 romantic comedy.
Q 16What is the name of Stone's con-artist character in Zombieland?
Wichita
The 2009 film grossed $102.3 million; she reprised the role in Zombieland: Double Tap a decade later.
Q 17Stone voiced which breed of dog in the 2010 comedy Marmaduke?
Australian Shepherd
Marmaduke himself is a Great Dane; the film was based on Brad Anderson's long-running comic strip.
Q 18Easy A, Stone's breakthrough, is partially based on which 1850 novel?
The Scarlet Letter
She plays Olive Penderghast, a student caught up in a false rumour; the film made $75 million on an $8 million budget.
Q 19Easy A grossed $75M worldwide; what was its production budget?
$8 million
Stone earned a BAFTA Rising Star nomination, a Golden Globe nomination and the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance.
Q 20Stone's first turn hosting SNL in 2010 played on her resemblance to which actress?
Lindsay Lohan
She called it 'the greatest week of my life' and returned to host in 2011 and for the 40th anniversary special.
Q 24Stone turned down a role in which action comedy after signing on to The Amazing Spider-Man?
21 Jump Street
She returned to her natural blonde for Gwen Stacy, having dyed her hair red for earlier roles.
Q 25Stone won a Spike Video Game Award for voicing a role in which 2012 game?
Sleeping Dogs
The crime-based game came out the same year as The Amazing Spider-Man.
Q 26Stone voices which character in DreamWorks' The Croods?
Eep
She reprised the role in The Croods: A New Age in 2020.
Q 27Gangster Squad (2013) is set in which city during the 1940s?
Los Angeles
A. O. Scott called it 'a hectic jumble of fedoras and zoot suits' but praised her pairing with Ryan Gosling.
Q 28An Empire reviewer compared Stone in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to which late actor?
Heath Ledger
The reviewer praised her for 'doing something unexpected with an easily dismissed supporting character'.
Q 29In Birdman, Stone plays the daughter of an actor played by whom?
Michael Keaton
Iñárritu based her recovering-addict character Sam on his experience with his own daughter.
Q 30Stone starred as Sally Bowles in a Broadway revival of which musical from 2014 to 2015?
Cabaret
She took over from Michelle Williams and listened to a French radio station to prepare for 'the most nerve-racking thing ever'.