Florence Pugh Trivia
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50 free Florence Pugh trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Florence Pugh was born in Oxford in 1996, spent part of her childhood in southern Spain for the sake of her lungs, posted cover songs on YouTube as Flossie Rose, and made her film debut while still in sixth form. Lady Macbeth won her a British Independent Film Award at 21; 2019 brought Fighting with My Family, Midsommar and Little Women in a single year and an Oscar nomination for Amy March. This quiz covers the breakthrough, the Marvel years as Yelena Belova, the Dune and Oppenheimer ensembles, the head she shaved for We Live in Time, the songs she wrote for A Good Person, the Merdeka 118 jump she insisted on doing herself, and the public-image chapters: the sheer Valentino gown, the Zach Braff relationship, the Venice premiere of Don't Worry Darling. There are also questions drawn from the films themselves — the Hårga's 90-year festival, the name Paige took from Charmed, the Bocuse d'Or, and the Victory Project. 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 01In which English city was Florence Pugh born?
Oxford
Oxford: her father ran restaurants in the city, and Pugh links performing to growing up in what she calls 'a big eating family'.
Q 02Pugh's family moved to which country when she was three, hoping warmer weather would ease her breathing problems?
Spain
Spain: they lived on the southern coast until she was six because of tracheomalacia, a condition in which the windpipe partly collapses and which had put her in hospital again and again.
Q 03Which actor, Game of Thrones' Trystane Martell, is Florence Pugh's brother?
Toby Sebastian
Toby Sebastian: born Sebastian Pugh, he works under a stage name, and brother and sister released the single 'Midnight' together in 2021.
Q 04Pugh made her acting debut in which 2014 film, opposite Maisie Williams?
The Falling
The Falling: still in sixth form, she played a schoolgirl whose death sets off a fainting epidemic among her classmates, and the part brought a Best British Newcomer nomination at the London Film Festival.
Q 05What did Pugh say executives on her unsold 2015 pilot Studio City pushed her to change?
Her looks
Her looks: she said they wanted to alter everything from her weight to the shape of her eyebrows, and when the pilot was dropped she went home and auditioned for Lady Macbeth two weeks later.
Q 06Pugh's 2016 breakthrough Lady Macbeth borrows only its title from Shakespeare, adapting a novella from which country?
Russia
Russia: Nikolai Leskov's 1865 story Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District was moved to Northumberland and filmed on a micro budget, with an ending that drops the heroine's punishment.
Q 07Which actor plays Laurie opposite Pugh and Saoirse Ronan in Little Women (2019)?
Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet: his Laurie proposes to Ronan's Jo, is turned down, and ends the story married to one of her sisters.
Q 08Pugh voices Kiriko in the English dub of which Hayao Miyazaki film?
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron: Miyazaki had announced his retirement in 2013 and then changed his mind, and his first feature in ten years gave Pugh her part beside Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson.
Q 09Which prize did Pugh win for Lady Macbeth?
A British Independent Film Award
A British Independent Film Award: best actress in 2017 for the part that, she says, made her fall back in love with cinema after a bruising first taste of Hollywood.
Q 10Pugh played Cordelia opposite which actor's King Lear in a 2018 TV film?
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins: Richard Eyre's BBC film cut the play to under two hours and moved it to a militarised present-day London, with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson as Cordelia's sisters.
Q 11In Outlaw King, Pugh played Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of which Scottish king played by Chris Pine?
Robert the Bruce
Robert the Bruce: the Netflix epic opened the Toronto festival to a cool response, so its director cut 20 minutes before most viewers saw it.
Q 12The Little Drummer Girl, Pugh's 2018 miniseries, adapts a spy novel by which author?
John le Carré
John le Carré: Korean director Park Chan-wook shot all six episodes, with Pugh as a young stage actress recruited by Israeli intelligence to play a part inside a bombing network.
Q 13Pugh played which real professional wrestler in Fighting with My Family?
Paige
Q 21Which title does Pugh's character win in a dancing contest in Midsommar?
May Queen
May Queen: the title carries a grim duty, since the winner must choose who becomes the last of the commune's nine sacrifices.
Q 22Which institution reportedly paid $65,000 for Pugh's Midsommar flower dress?
Academy Museum
The Academy Museum: the Oscars body outbid the fans after Ariana Grande and Halsey had both talked of bidding, and the money went to a foundation for New York firefighters during the pandemic.
Q 23Which of the March sisters did Pugh play in Little Women (2019)?
Amy
Amy: Pugh took the youngest sister from a schoolgirl of 12 to a grown woman, and the performance earned her a first Oscar nomination.
Paige: born Saraya Bevis, she took her ring name from Paige Matthews in the TV series Charmed, a character whose chin, she said, looked just like her own.
Q 14Who wrote and directed Fighting with My Family, the 2019 comedy-drama starring Pugh as a wrestler?
Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant: his script turned a 2012 Channel 4 documentary about a wrestling family into a comedy-drama that premiered at Sundance in January 2019.
Q 15Fighting with My Family is set in which English city, the wrestling family's home town?
Norwich
Norwich: the real family runs a wrestling promotion in the city, and in the film the heroine comes close to quitting WWE to go home and help train its recruits.
Q 16Which WWE star produced Fighting with My Family and plays himself in it?
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson: on screen he gives the siblings a backstage pep talk, but in reality he first came across the family in a 2012 TV documentary and then set the film up.
Q 17Who wrote and directed Midsommar?
Ari Aster
Ari Aster: producers pitched him a straight slasher among Swedish cultists, and he found his way in only by turning it into what he called a big operatic breakup movie.
Q 18What is the name of Pugh's grieving character in Midsommar?
Dani Ardor
Dani Ardor: mourning her family, she tags along with a wavering boyfriend to a Swedish commune, and the story ends with her choosing him as its final sacrifice.
Q 19Midsommar was mostly shot in which country, standing in for Sweden?
Hungary
Hungary: money decided it, along with Swedish rules capping a filming day at eight hours, so the countryside around Budapest stood in for rural Hälsingland.
Q 20In Midsommar, what do Hårga elders do at 72?
Leap from a cliff
Leap from a cliff: the ritual, an ättestupa, is the visitors' first real shock at a midsummer festival that the commune says comes round only once every 90 years.
Q 24Who directed the 2019 adaptation of Little Women?
Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig: for only her second film as solo director, after Lady Bird, she broke up the story's order, cutting between the sisters' girlhood and their adult lives.
Q 25Pugh's Oscar nomination for Little Women was in which category?
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actress: she lost to Laura Dern, her on-screen mother in Little Women, who won that night for a different film, Marriage Story.
Q 26In Little Women, Pugh's jealous character burns what belonging to Jo?
Her unpublished novel
Her unpublished novel: left behind on a night at the theatre, she feeds the manuscript to the fire, then falls through the ice next morning while chasing Jo to make peace.
Q 27Little Women (2019) is the seventh film adaptation of a novel by which author?
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott: her 1868 novel had already reached cinemas six times, and this script drew on her other writings as well as the book.
Q 28Which Marvel character does Pugh play in Black Widow, Hawkeye and Thunderbolts*?
Yelena Belova
Yelena Belova: the trained assassin's childhood football team supplies the name of the misfit squad in Thunderbolts*.
Q 29Pugh insisted on performing a jump from the top of which skyscraper herself for Thunderbolts*?
Merdeka 118
Merdeka 118: Marvel baulked on insurance grounds until she took her case all the way to studio chief Kevin Feige, and she made the leap in Kuala Lumpur without a stunt double.
Q 30Who directed Don't Worry Darling, with whom Pugh allegedly clashed during filming?
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde: reports of a rift between star and director grew when Pugh did almost no promotion for the film ahead of its Venice premiere.