Moonstruck Trivia
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50 free Moonstruck trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Snap out of it! This Moonstruck trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers about Norman Jewison's 1987 romantic comedy: Loretta Castorini and her plumbing-magnate father, the Cammareri brothers and their bakery, the night at the Met, Cosmo's moon, and the Oscar sweep that gave Cher, Olympia Dukakis and writer John Patrick Shanley their statuettes. The opening questions are for anyone who has seen the film: who directed it, what opera they see, why Johnny leaves for Sicily. Then it digs into how the movie got made, from a script called The Bride and the Wolf written for Sally Field, to Ray Liotta's rejected audition, Nicolas Cage's wooden hand and the test screenings that swapped Puccini for Dean Martin. There are box-office numbers, AFI rankings and a few cast biographies for the completists. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its awards, its song and its cast, and each question links to the page and sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who directed Moonstruck?
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison used his standing to found the Canadian Film Centre, a training school for filmmakers in his home country, which opened in 1988.
Q 02Who wrote the screenplay for Moonstruck?
John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley, a playwright from a rough part of the Bronx, dropped out of New York University to join the Marines, then went back and graduated as valedictorian.
Q 03Besides its two acting Oscars, Moonstruck won the Academy Award in which other category?
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay was handed over in the middle of a Hollywood writers' strike, which was five weeks old when the ceremony was held in April 1988.
Q 04What is Loretta Castorini's job in Moonstruck?
Bookkeeper
Bookkeeper: she keeps the accounts for local businesses and treats marriage just as practically, and her mother is relieved to hear that she does not love Johnny.
Q 05What task does Johnny Cammareri give Loretta before he flies to Sicily?
Invite his brother to the wedding
Invite his brother to the wedding: the two have not spoken in five years, and sending Loretta to make peace is what throws her and Ronny together.
Q 06What does Loretta blame for her first husband's death?
Failing to follow tradition when they married
Failing to follow tradition when they married: there was no proper ceremony, she says, so this time she makes Johnny go down on one knee and hand over a ring.
Q 07What kind of business does Loretta's father Cosmo run?
Plumbing
Plumbing: Cosmo talks customers into pricey copper pipe because 'it costs money because it saves money', yet he refuses to pay for his own daughter's wedding.
Q 08Ronny Cammareri blames his brother for the accident that cost him his hand and what else?
His fiancée
His fiancée left him after the accident, and in the five years since he has refused to speak to Johnny, who he feels should not get to marry when he could not.
Q 09In what setting does Loretta first track down Ronny in Moonstruck?
The bakery where he works
The bakery where he works: she finds him stoking the ovens in the cellar, and he greets her news of the wedding by raging that Johnny cost him his hand.
Q 10What does Loretta cook for Ronny in his apartment in Moonstruck?
A steak
A steak, after which she tells him some hard truths about himself; he answers by overturning the kitchen table, kissing her and sweeping her off her feet.
Q 11Which opera do Ronny and Loretta see at the Met in Moonstruck?
La bohème
La bohème deeply moves the hard-headed Loretta, and Puccini's music from it runs through the film's soundtrack alongside Dean Martin.
Q 12Whom does Loretta spot at the opera, to her horror, in Moonstruck?
Her father with his mistress
Her father with his mistress, Mona, though Cosmo is just as dismayed to find his engaged daughter there on another man's arm.
Q 13In Moonstruck, Rose Castorini, dining alone, watches a professor named Perry get dumped by whom?
One of his students
Q 21Which future Frasier star plays Perry, the professor who ends up at Rose's table in Moonstruck?
John Mahoney
John Mahoney, the future Martin Crane, had just won a Tony on Broadway, and this film and Suspect, another 1987 Cher picture, brought him wider film work.
Q 22Nicolas Cage modelled Ronny's 'I lost my hand' outburst on a mad scientist in which silent film?
Metropolis
Metropolis has the inventor Rotwang hold up the artificial hand he has built, a gesture Cage wanted to reproduce with Ronny's wooden one.
Q 23In Ronny's speech to Loretta after the opera, love doesn't make things nice; what does it do instead?
It ruins everything
One of his students throws a drink in his face and walks out; Rose invites him to her table, lets him walk her home, then turns him down: 'I know who I am.'
Q 14Which Moonstruck character recalls being woken years ago by a moon so big he thought Cosmo had brought it?
Rose's brother Raymond
Rose's brother Raymond tells it at the family dinner table: Cosmo was courting his sister at the time, so he blamed him for the giant moon outside the house.
Q 15Why does Johnny finally call off the wedding in Moonstruck?
He says marrying would kill his mother
He says marrying would kill his mother; Loretta gives back his ring, and Ronny promptly borrows it to propose to her himself.
Q 16What was the original title of the Moonstruck screenplay?
The Bride and the Wolf
The Bride and the Wolf was dropped because the director thought it sounded like a horror film, much to the screenwriter's chagrin.
Q 17For which actress was the Moonstruck screenplay originally written?
Sally Field
Sally Field had asked the screenwriter to write something for her over lunch at the Russian Tea Room, then found she could not picture herself as an Italian from Brooklyn.
Q 18Cher pushed for Nicolas Cage to play Ronny after seeing his odd-voiced turn in which film?
Peggy Sue Got Married
Peggy Sue Got Married had him speak in a cartoon voice modelled on Pokey, the clay horse from Gumby, a risk that Cher admired.
Q 19After her night with Ronny, to whom does Loretta admit that she slept with her fiancé's brother?
A priest
A priest hears it in confession, slipped in between taking the Lord's name in vain and bouncing a cheque at the liquor store, and he asks her to repeat 'that second thing'.
Q 20Which future star auditioned for Ronny in Moonstruck but was judged too young by the director?
Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta's audition drew the notes 'needs style' and 'too young', yet the part went to Nicolas Cage, who was nine years younger than Liotta.
It ruins everything, he says: snowflakes and stars are perfect, but people are here 'to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die'.
Q 24Interiors such as the Castorini family home were built in a warehouse in which Canadian city?
Toronto
Toronto was where the company moved in late January 1987, straight after filming Ronny's big outdoor speech in Brooklyn in freezing cold.
Q 25Julie Bovasso, who plays Aunt Rita, was also hired to coach the Moonstruck cast in what?
Brooklyn accents
Brooklyn accents were her brief as dialogue coach, but when she told Nicolas Cage to play a scene 'loud and fast' he threw a chair; he apologised afterwards.
Q 26What does Ronny promise Loretta if she will come to the opera with him just once?
To leave her alone for good
To leave her alone for good was the deal, and she throws it back at him after the opera: he had promised, she reminds him, to 'leave me alone forever'.
Q 27Nicolas Cage's breakthrough year of 1987 paired Moonstruck with which Coen brothers comedy?
Raising Arizona
Raising Arizona, in which he plays an ex-convict who kidnaps a baby, came out the same year; neither that film nor his Ronny earned him an Oscar nomination.
Q 28Passed over by the Academy, Nicolas Cage's Ronny did earn a best-actor nomination from which awards body?
The Golden Globes
The Golden Globes nominated him as best actor in a comedy or musical but he lost, while Cher and the actress playing her mother both went home with Globes.
Q 29'That's Amore' first appeared in which 1953 Martin and Lewis comedy?
The Caddy
Composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks earned an Oscar nomination for it, losing to 'Secret Love' from Calamity Jane.
Q 30Cher starred in three films released in 1987: Moonstruck, Suspect and which supernatural comedy?
The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches of Eastwick cast her as a glamorous witch close to her stage persona; Moonstruck did the opposite, starting her out as a dowdy widow with greying hair.