Julie Andrews Trivia
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50 free Julie Andrews trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Julie Andrews trivia quiz covers the girl from Walton-on-Thames who sang on a beer crate for the troops, played Eliza Doolittle on Broadway at twenty and won an Oscar for her very first film. The easy questions cover the roles everyone knows: Mary Poppins, Maria von Trapp, Queen Clarisse of Genovia and the queen in Shrek. From there the quiz moves through the career: the Royal Variety Performance at thirteen, The Boy Friend, My Fair Lady and the film part that went to Audrey Hepburn, the live Cinderella watched by 107 million people, Camelot, Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, the flops Star! and Darling Lili, and Victor/Victoria on screen and stage. The hard end covers her birth name and the parentage secret she kept until 2008, her voice teacher, the aria she sang at the Hippodrome, her husbands Tony Walton and Blake Edwards, the Tony nomination she refused, the 1997 throat surgery and the lawsuit that followed, her children's books, the damehood, Lady Whistledown and the AFI Life Achievement Award. Every answer was checked against Julie Andrews's encyclopaedia entry before publishing and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Our Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and classic movie musicals quizzes are natural next stops.
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Q 01In which 1964 film did Julie Andrews make her feature film debut?
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins. Walt Disney saw her on Broadway in Camelot and offered her the part; when she told him she was pregnant, he held the film until after the baby was born.
Q 02Which character did Andrews play in The Sound of Music?
Maria von Trapp
Maria von Trapp. Andrews had found the stage show 'rather saccharine', and had even sent it up in a 1962 TV sketch, three years before the film made her its star.
Q 03What was Julie Andrews's birth name?
Julia Elizabeth Wells
Julia Elizabeth Wells was named after her two grandmothers. She became Julie Andrews at about ten, taking her stepfather's surname when she joined the family's stage act.
Q 04Which actor played Captain von Trapp opposite Andrews in The Sound of Music?
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer mocked the film for years as 'The Sound of Mucus', yet he and Andrews stayed great friends until his death in 2021.
Q 05What family secret did Andrews first reveal in her 2008 memoir?
Her dad wasn't her real father
Her dad wasn't her real father. As a teenager, driving her mother back from a party, she learned that their host was her biological father, and resolved that the man who had raised her would always be her dad.
Q 06What kept knocking Andrews flat as she filmed the hilltop opening of The Sound of Music?
A helicopter's downdraft
A helicopter's downdraft. Each time the camera helicopter circled back for another take it flattened her into the grass, and she admitted to growing more and more irritated.
Q 07Which pop star sang a Sound of Music medley at the 2015 Oscars before Andrews walked out to embrace her?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga sang four songs from the film for its 50th anniversary, and her hug with Andrews set off the busiest moment of the night on Facebook and Twitter.
Q 08What did 12-year-old Andrews sing to stop the show at her 1947 London Hippodrome debut?
An opera aria
An opera aria, the polonaise from Mignon. The producers dropped her from the revue just before it opened, then put her back in, and she stopped the show on the first night.
Q 09In 1948 Andrews became the youngest soloist yet to appear in what?
A Royal Variety Performance
A Royal Variety Performance. At 13 she performed for King George VI at the London Palladium, and was then asked to lead the whole company in 'God Save the King'.
Q 10On which BBC radio comedy, starring a ventriloquist's dummy, was Andrews a regular from 1950 to 1952?
Educating Archie
Educating Archie made a radio hit of a ventriloquist nobody could see. The dummy was called Archie Andrews, and people, Julie recalled, took her for his sister.
Q 11In which pastiche of 1920s musicals did Andrews make her Broadway debut on the eve of her 19th birthday?
The Boy Friend
The Boy Friend. Reluctant to leave England at 18, she would sign for only one year instead of two, which left her free just as the makers of My Fair Lady came looking for a leading lady.
Q 12Which role did Andrews create on Broadway in My Fair Lady in 1956?
Eliza Doolittle
Eliza Doolittle. When the 20-year-old floundered in rehearsal, director Moss Hart dismissed the company for 48 hours and drilled her alone, scene by scene, until she found the character.
Q 13Which star got the lead in the 1964 film of My Fair Lady because the studio thought Andrews too little known?
Audrey Hepburn
Q 21Which director made the 1966 thriller Torn Curtain, starring Andrews and Paul Newman?
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock had not chosen his stars: Universal insisted on Andrews and Newman, and he later complained that the pair had no chemistry.
Q 22In which 1966 epic did Andrews play a missionary's wife?
Hawaii
Hawaii, from James Michener's novel, was one of the biggest hits of 1966. One of its extras was a local unknown, Bette Midler, who used the work to fund her move to New York.
Q 23Andrews's 1968 film Star! was a biopic of which stage performer?
Gertrude Lawrence
Gertrude Lawrence, the British musical-comedy star. The film reunited Andrews with the director of The Sound of Music, but audiences stayed away and the expensive musical flopped.
Audrey Hepburn took the part, with most of her singing dubbed by Marni Nixon. She was not even nominated for the Oscar, while Andrews won Best Actress that same night for her Disney debut.
Q 14Whom did Andrews pointedly thank in her Golden Globe speech for her 1964 Disney debut?
Jack Warner
Jack Warner had passed her over for the film of My Fair Lady, so she thanked him for making it all possible 'in the first place'. After a stunned pause the room erupted, and Warner laughed as hard as anyone.
Q 15More than 100 million people watched Andrews in which 1957 TV musical, written for her by Rodgers and Hammerstein?
Cinderella
Cinderella went out live on CBS in March 1957, while Andrews was still playing My Fair Lady on Broadway eight times a week.
Q 16Which role did Andrews create in the 1960 Broadway musical Camelot?
Guinevere
Guinevere. Ticket sales were slow until Andrews and Richard Burton, her King Arthur, performed scenes on The Ed Sullivan Show, after which the box office took off.
Q 17What did author P. L. Travers tell Andrews by phone about playing her magical nanny?
"You've got the nose for it"
"You've got the nose for it" came straight after "Well, you're much too pretty, of course." Travers rang the hospital to say so the day after Andrews gave birth.
Q 18Andrews turned down a cameo in the 2018 sequel to her Disney debut to avoid upstaging which star?
Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt. 'This is Emily's show,' Andrews told director Rob Marshall, turning him down at once so that nobody would look past the new nanny for the old one.
Q 19Which of her films did Andrews call her favourite, a view shared by her co-star James Garner?
The Americanization of Emily
The Americanization of Emily was a black-and-white anti-war comedy in which she did not sing a note. Andrews took it straight after her Disney debut so that she would not be typecast as a nanny.
Q 20In which Austrian city was The Sound of Music filmed in 1964?
Salzburg
Salzburg, where rain was a constant headache for the crew: on some days, Andrews recalled, they were lucky to get a single shot.
Q 24Which director, Andrews's second husband, made Darling Lili, S.O.B. and Victor/Victoria with her?
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards. Their first film together, Darling Lili, was a costly flop, but the partnership it began lasted 41 years, until his death in 2010.
Q 25What was the profession of Tony Walton, Andrews's first husband, whom she married in 1959?
Set designer
Set designer. Walton designed the costumes and street sets for her 1964 Disney debut, and long after their divorce he was still illustrating her children's books.
Q 26Andrews hesitated over the lead in which 1971 Disney musical, then said yes too late to get it?
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Afraid of being typecast, she wavered over playing its apprentice witch, and by the time she rang back to accept, Angela Lansbury had the part.
Q 27What had ABC done to The Julie Andrews Hour before it won seven Emmys in 1973?
Cancelled it
Cancelled it after one season. Reviewers loved the show, but its ratings were dismal even after a change of time slot, so the axe had already fallen when the seven Emmys arrived.
Q 28With which comedienne did Andrews make TV specials in 1962, 1971 and 1989?
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett. Lying in wait for director Mike Nichols by a Washington hotel lift, the pair staged a passionate kiss, only for the doors to open on a stranger whom Burnett swore was the First Lady.
Q 29In Victor/Victoria (1982), Andrews's character Victoria Grant passes herself off as what?
A male female-impersonator
A male female-impersonator: a penniless soprano plays a man who plays a woman, and the act makes her a hit in 1930s Paris.
Q 30In which 2018 superhero blockbuster did Andrews secretly voice a giant monster?
Aquaman
Aquaman. Her casting was kept quiet until weeks before release: the producers wanted the Karathen, the beast guarding a lost trident, to speak with the voice of a classic British actress.