50 free Love Actually trivia questions with answers. Love Actually has been a Christmas fixture since 2003, and this quiz digs into every corner of it: the ten interlocking storylines, the cast who play the Prime Minister, the widower, the bride and the rock star, the London locations, the soundtrack that topped the UK charts, and the 2017 reunion short Red Nose Day Actually. The questions start easy enough for anyone who watches the film once a year and climb to details only real devotees will know: the storyline that was cut, the Robert Palmer video Billy Mack's is copying, and who auditioned for Sam. Difficulty is spread evenly so it works for a Christmas party round or a solo run on the sofa. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the cast's own pages, and each question shows its source under the explanation, so you can settle arguments with something better than a hunch.
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Q 01Love Actually was the directorial debut of which screenwriter?
Richard Curtis
He had already written two Working Title hits for other directors before stepping behind the camera himself.
Q 02Which actor plays David, the newly elected Prime Minister?
Hugh Grant
His character reflects on the arrivals gate at the very start of the film, before any of the storylines begin.
Q 03The film opens and closes with scenes at which London airport?
Heathrow
The opening voiceover recalls scenes of affection at the arrivals gate there, and a month after Christmas the stories converge in the same place.
Q 04Billy Mack's novelty Christmas single is a reworked version of which song?
Love Is All Around
The Troggs original had already been given a second life by a Wet Wet Wet cover that spent 15 weeks at UK number one in 1994.
Q 05How does Mark silently confess his feelings to Juliet at her front door?
With cue cards
He pretends to be carol singers so her husband Peter, his best friend, will not come to the door.
Q 06Jamie's housekeeper Aurélia speaks only which language?
Portuguese
The pair fall for each other while unable to understand a word the other says, and each secretly learns the other's language.
Q 07Sam decides to win Joanna's attention by learning which instrument for the school concert?
Drums
He picks the one instrument that will get him on stage behind her while she sings the closing number.
Q 08Which comic actor plays Rufus, the maddeningly thorough jewellery salesman?
Rowan Atkinson
In an earlier draft the character was an angel, which explains why he keeps turning up at exactly the right moment.
Q 09Jamie discovers that his girlfriend is having an affair with whom?
His brother
The betrayal is what sends him off to the cottage in France, where the film's most tender storyline begins.
Q 10Karen is devastated when she finds evidence that Harry bought Mia what?
A necklace
She had discovered the box in his coat pocket and assumed it was for her.
Q 11Which actor plays Daniel, the recently widowed stepfather?
Liam Neeson
A year later he reunited with his co-star Laura Linney, who plays Sarah, in the biopic Kinsey.
Q 12Who plays Harry, the design-firm boss married to Karen?
Alan Rickman
His seething, exasperated reaction while waiting for the gift to be wrapped was reportedly not entirely acting.
Q 13Which actress plays Juliet, the bride whose wedding opens the film?
Keira Knightley
Curtis's daughter Scarlett agreed to appear in the film on the condition that she got to meet her.
Q 21The opening wedding was filmed in which Mayfair church?
Grosvenor Chapel
The surprise brass band and choir hidden among the congregation burst into 'All You Need Is Love' there.
Q 22In a cut storyline, Anne Reid's headmistress went home to her terminally ill partner, played by whom?
Frances de la Tour
It was the film's only gay love story, and Curtis said he regretted losing it.
Q 23Curtis cast his own mother-in-law, Jill Freud, in which small role?
The cleaner at Number 10
Casting family ran in both directions: his daughter Scarlett also appears in the school show.
Q 14Which real-life TV presenting duo appear as themselves interviewing Billy Mack?
Ant & Dec
Billy pointedly addresses one of them as 'Ant or Dec', a running gag about people confusing the pair.
Q 15Curtis's original concept for the film contained how many separate storylines?
14
Four were cut, two of them after they had already been filmed.
Q 16Billy Mack's music video is a shot-for-shot tribute to which 1986 Robert Palmer video?
Addicted to Love
The pouting, identically dressed backing 'band' of models is the giveaway.
Q 17In the US cut, which singer's 'The Trouble with Love Is' replaces a Sugababes track?
Kelly Clarkson
The UK and US versions of the film also swap the second song of the end-credit roll.
Q 18Which girl group's cover of 'Jump (For My Love)' plays over the UK end credits?
Girls Aloud
The US soundtrack album swapped it out for the Pointer Sisters original.
Q 19Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film what average grade?
B+
Critics were more split: the Rotten Tomatoes consensus called it 'a sugary tale overstuffed with too many stories'.
Q 20Where were the scenes set inside 10 Downing Street actually filmed?
Shepperton Studios
Almost everything else was shot on location around London, from Somerset House to the Millennium Bridge.
Q 24Colin's search for American women takes him to a bar in which city?
Milwaukee
He walks in out of the snow and is immediately adopted by three women who adore his accent.
Q 25When Jamie proposes, Aurélia reveals she has secretly been learning what?
English
Her reply, 'just in cases', is one of the film's most quoted lines.
Q 26After searching her street door-to-door, David finally reunites with Natalie where?
At a school nativity play
Their kiss is accidentally revealed to the whole audience when the curtain lifts.
Q 27Joanna brings the house down at the school concert singing which song?
All I Want for Christmas Is You
Ten-year-old Olivia Olson sang it so well the filmmakers added audible breaths so audiences would believe it was really her.
Q 28Who composed the film's orchestral score, including 'Glasgow Love Theme' and 'PM's Love Theme'?
Craig Armstrong
The Scottish composer had already scored Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet for Baz Luhrmann.
Q 29The soundtrack album peaked at what position on the UK Albums Chart?
1
By Christmas 2018 it had racked up 348 weeks on the chart, roughly six and a half years in total.
Q 30Which French screen legend appears uncredited, entering a taxi at Marseille Airport?
Jeanne Moreau
The star of Jules et Jim shares her fleeting scene with Colin Firth's Jamie as he lands in France.