Jennifer Lawrence Trivia
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49 free Jennifer Lawrence trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Jennifer Lawrence was a hyperactive, lonely kid in Louisville who played a Ninevite prostitute in a church play at nine, got spotted on a New York street at fourteen, and dropped out of school to act. Six years later Winter's Bone made her the second-youngest Best Actress nominee; two years after that she was Katniss Everdeen and an Oscar winner at 22. This quiz covers the whole run: the Bill Engvall Show, the Venice award for The Burning Plain, eight hours of blue Mystique makeup, the wall she ran into training for The Hunger Games, the Skype audition for David O. Russell, the Miracle Mop, the fog machine that nearly suffocated her, Passengers and Mother!, the $25 million Netflix comeback, Excellent Cadaver, Die My Love and the record-setting Donostia Award. Fifty questions with four options each and a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a movie-night quiz.
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Q 01Which city is Jennifer Lawrence's hometown?
Louisville
Louisville. She says she dropped out of middle school there at 14 to chase acting and holds no diploma or GED, calling herself self-educated.
Q 02Before The Hunger Games, Lawrence auditioned for the lead in which other young-adult film saga?
Twilight
Twilight. She read for Bella and didn't get the part, then a few years later was cast as the heroine of the next teen-book juggernaut.
Q 03Lawrence's mother Karen managed what kind of business?
A summer camp
A summer camp. Lawrence worked at the children's day camp as its assistant nurse, which she says is why nothing can shock her or gross her out.
Q 04Which rock star played Cinna, the stylist who dresses Lawrence's Katniss in The Hunger Games?
Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz. On set Lawrence insisted on calling him 'Mr. Kravitz', because she already knew him as the father of her friend and X-Men co-star Zoë.
Q 05Which sport did Lawrence play on a boys' team coached by her father?
Basketball
Basketball. Playing a sport was a rule in the Lawrence family, so she also did softball and field hockey, yet she says she never liked any of them.
Q 06Lawrence's first role, aged nine, was a prostitute from Nineveh in a church play based on which book?
Jonah
Jonah. Her mother recalls that the other girls simply stood there in lipstick, while nine-year-old Jennifer strutted in and stole the show.
Q 07Lawrence was spotted by a talent scout at 14 while visiting which city?
New York
New York. A scout asked to photograph her as she watched street dancers in Union Square, but her mother decided the agencies were lying to get their money and took her home to Kentucky.
Q 08Before acting, Lawrence modelled for which clothing brand, with the photos never released?
Abercrombie & Fitch
Abercrombie & Fitch. The models were told to play football on a beach, and while the others posed prettily she played to win: red-faced, sweating, nostrils flaring.
Q 09Lawrence's first regular TV role was on which TBS sitcom?
The Bill Engvall Show
The Bill Engvall Show. She played the comedian's teenage daughter for three seasons, and says the sitcom pay funded her indie career, letting her pick the films she wanted.
Q 10Which director made Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle and Joy with Lawrence?
David O. Russell
David O. Russell. He thought her too young to play a widow until a last-minute Skype audition from her father's house changed his mind; all three films brought her Oscar nominations.
Q 11In The Burning Plain, Lawrence played the teenage version of a woman portrayed by which Oscar winner?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron. Lawrence, then 17, played the girl whose discovery of her mother's affair sets the tragedy in motion, and Variety's review singled out her eye-catching performance.
Q 12In Winter's Bone, Lawrence's character Ree Dolly lives in which mountain range?
Ozarks
Ozarks. To play a girl raised in those hills, Lawrence spent time with a local Missouri family and learned to handle a rifle.
Q 13Who directed Winter's Bone, Lawrence's breakthrough film?
Debra Granik
Debra Granik. She first thought Lawrence too pretty for the part, so the actress took an overnight flight and auditioned again straight off the plane, unwashed.
Q 21Lawrence's character in Silver Linings Playbook was named what?
Tiffany Maxwell
Tiffany Maxwell. Anne Hathaway was first lined up for the part; after she left, Lawrence won it and then the Oscar, on the same night Hathaway took hers for Les Misérables.
Q 22Collecting her 2013 Best Actress Oscar, Lawrence did what?
Tripped on the steps
Tripped on the steps. The audience gave her a standing ovation anyway, and she joked from the stage that they were only standing because they felt bad that she fell.
Q 23Which actor played Pat Solitano opposite Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook?
Bradley Cooper
Q 14Which actress played Mystique before Lawrence took over in X-Men: First Class?
Rebecca Romijn
Rebecca Romijn. After watching her in the earlier films, Lawrence panicked that she had played the part all wrong: 'sweet and naive' where Romijn had been 'sultry and mean'.
Q 15In X-Men: First Class, Lawrence's Mystique was raised like a sister alongside which mutant?
Professor X
Professor X. The film has the two grow up together as brother and sister, which sharpens its ending, when she leaves his side to follow Magneto.
Q 16Who convinced Lawrence to accept the role of Katniss Everdeen?
Her mom
Her mom. Lawrence wavered for three days over the scale of the franchise, until her mother called her a hypocrite: she had always claimed to choose films for the story, not their size.
Q 17Who plays Peeta Mellark opposite Lawrence in The Hunger Games films?
Josh Hutcherson
Josh Hutcherson. He recalls that her five-minute welcome call after he was cast turned into a 45-minute rant about zombies and the apocalypse.
Q 18As of 2025, which Hunger Games film is Lawrence's highest-grossing release?
Catching Fire
Catching Fire. Its water scenes cost her: repeated dives gave Lawrence ear infections, then a jet of water punctured her eardrum, leaving her deaf in one ear for a while.
Q 19Lawrence sang lead on which song from the Mockingjay – Part 1 soundtrack?
The Hanging Tree
The Hanging Tree. She called singing in front of people her biggest fear and cried on set that day, yet the single entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 12.
Q 20Which veteran actor played President Snow, the tyrant Lawrence's Katniss defies in The Hunger Games?
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland. A lifelong activist, he said he hoped the films would stir young viewers into a real revolt against injustice, the very thing his tyrant exists to crush.
Bradley Cooper. Mark Wahlberg was set to play Pat until a production delay forced him out, and Cooper went on to make three more films with Lawrence.
Q 24American Hustle was inspired by which real FBI sting, built around a fake Arab sheikh?
Abscam
Abscam. Hidden cameras caught politicians pocketing the invented sheikh's cash, and a US senator and six congressmen were convicted of bribery.
Q 25In American Hustle, Lawrence's Rosalyn plants an angry kiss on the character played by whom?
Amy Adams
Amy Adams. Lectured in a ladies' room by her husband's mistress, Rosalyn answers by kissing her hard on the lips, a moment one critic thought partly improvised.
Q 26What product did Lawrence's character invent in the 2015 biopic Joy?
The Miracle Mop
The Miracle Mop. It flopped when QVC's presenters pitched it, so the real Joy Mangano talked her way on air and sold out every last mop herself.
Q 27Lawrence starred opposite whom in the 2016 space romance Passengers?
Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt. After a year alone on the ship, his character deliberately wakes hers decades early, dooming her to live out her life aboard with him.
Q 28Which singer friend warned Lawrence not to make Passengers, calling space movies 'the new vampire movies'?
Adele
Adele. Lawrence made the film anyway, and years later named it as the one she regrets, admitting she should have listened to her friend.
Q 29In Silver Linings Playbook, what does Lawrence's character persuade Pat to enter with her?
A dance competition
A dance competition. She agrees to slip a letter past the restraining order to his estranged wife, but only if he becomes her dance partner.
Q 30Who directed Mother! and later dated Lawrence?
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky. He wrote the script in a five-day burst, then put his cast through three months of rehearsal in a warehouse before a single scene was shot.