My Best Friend's Wedding
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50 free My Best Friend's Wedding trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
My Best Friend's Wedding turned the romantic comedy inside out in 1997. Julia Roberts plays Jules, who learns that her oldest friend Michael is about to marry someone else and decides, with only days to spare, that she wants him for herself. What follows is a string of schemes that keep backfiring, a scene-stealing confidant called George and an ending that still surprises people who expect the heroine to get her man. This quiz covers the whole story: the pact that starts it, the sabotage attempts, the chase across Chicago and the reception. It also goes behind the scenes, to the cast and the faces in small roles, the ending that had to be reshot, the soundtrack of sixties covers, the box office, the awards season and the remakes that followed. The questions run from easy openers for anyone who has seen the film once to deep cuts for fans who know every singalong by heart. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will learn something even when you guess.
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Q 01Which kind of writer is Julianne Potter in My Best Friend's Wedding, with George Downes as her editor and confidant?
Food critic
Food critic Jules is introduced at lunch, where a frantic fine-dining kitchen sweats over her veal and polenta. She likes it, and says she will write it up kindly.
Q 02In My Best Friend's Wedding, Jules and Michael once vowed to marry each other if both were still single at what age?
28
28 was the deadline, and the film opens three weeks before Jules reaches it. Their only romance was one month as college sophomores, and they stayed best friends afterwards.
Q 03Which baseball team does Kimmy Wallace's father own in My Best Friend's Wedding, alongside a cable television empire?
Chicago White Sox
Chicago White Sox owner Walter Wallace offers Michael a job at Jules's prompting. She expects a furious row, but the couple's quarrel ends in forgiveness instead.
Q 04Which Dionne Warwick hit does George lead an entire restaurant in singing in My Best Friend's Wedding?
I Say a Little Prayer
I Say a Little Prayer sweeps the whole rehearsal lunch after George starts it to embarrass Jules. A new cover from the film took the song back into the US top 40 thirty years on.
Q 05Which 1936 standard do Jules and Michael call their song in My Best Friend's Wedding, sung by Michael as they dance?
The Way You Look Tonight
The Way You Look Tonight changes hands at the reception, where Jules lends it to the newlyweds until they find a song of their own.
Q 06In My Best Friend's Wedding, which bridal job does Kimmy hand Jules after her own first choice shatters her pelvis?
Maid of honor
Maid of honor Jules gets four days at the bride's side, which she spends trying to split the couple. Kimmy offers the job almost as soon as they meet.
Q 07Which actor's role as George grew in reshoots after test audiences hated the first ending of My Best Friend's Wedding?
Rupert Everett
Rupert Everett's George became Jules's conscience, phoning to call out each scheme. The new final scene, shot eight months after filming wrapped, has him arrive to dance with her.
Q 08At which kind of venue does Jules push a reluctant Kimmy to sing, hoping to humiliate her, in My Best Friend's Wedding?
Karaoke bar
Karaoke bar regulars end up cheering Kimmy, whose off-key number wins the room through sheer showmanship. Michael looks more smitten than ever.
Q 09What does George Downes pretend to be when Jules summons him to Chicago in My Best Friend's Wedding?
Her fiancé
Her fiancé is the lie Jules blurts out to make Michael jealous. George, who is gay, had flown in to tell her to confess her feelings instead.
Q 10Which film kept My Best Friend's Wedding off the top of the US box office on its opening weekend in June 1997?
Batman & Robin
Batman & Robin opened to about $43 million, roughly twice the wedding comedy's debut. The rom-com had the last laugh, out-earning the superhero sequel worldwide.
Q 11Where does Julianne Potter live and work before flying out to stop the marriage in My Best Friend's Wedding?
New York City
New York City is home for Jules, yet the chef seen cooking her lunch in the opening scene is a real Chicago restaurateur playing himself.
Q 12What is Michael O'Neal's job in My Best Friend's Wedding, which he will not swap for a post with Kimmy's father?
Sportswriter
Sportswriter Michael is always on the road, and his idea of a honeymoon is taking his bride on a baseball road trip.
Q 13Which actor plays Michael O'Neal, the groom Julia Roberts schemes to win back, in My Best Friend's Wedding?
Dermot Mulroney
Q 21Which ABBA-soaked 1994 comedy made the name of P. J. Hogan before he directed Julia Roberts as Julianne Potter?
Muriel's Wedding
Muriel's Wedding was his first big hit, and it launched Toni Collette. Three years later he followed it with another comedy about a ceremony going wrong.
Q 22Ronald Bass, who wrote My Best Friend's Wedding, had already won an Oscar for co-writing which Dustin Hoffman film?
Rain Man
Rain Man won Bass the Oscar for original screenplay, shared with Barry Morrow. The wedding comedy was an original script too, not an adaptation.
Q 23Which actor played the stranger Jules met in the first ending of My Best Friend's Wedding, cut after a test screening?
John Corbett
Dermot Mulroney reunited with Roberts in 2013 in the ensemble of August: Osage County, this time playing her younger sister's fiancé.
Q 14Which actress plays Kimmy Wallace, the heiress Michael is about to marry, in My Best Friend's Wedding?
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz followed Kimmy with There's Something About Mary a year later, the hit that turned a rising supporting player into a headline star.
Q 15At which Chicago landmark does Jules catch Michael and confess to the forged email in My Best Friend's Wedding?
Union Station
Union Station is where Michael proposed to Kimmy, which is why he goes looking for her there. The same station appears in The Untouchables and The Sting.
Q 16In the ladies' room of which Chicago sports venue does Jules find a distraught Kimmy in My Best Friend's Wedding?
Comiskey Park
Comiskey Park is home to her father's ball club. Watched by a crowd of onlookers, Kimmy confronts Jules there, hears her apology and makes peace before the ceremony.
Q 17What does Jules commandeer to chase Michael, who is himself chasing Kimmy, in My Best Friend's Wedding?
A bread delivery van
A bread delivery van is the best Jules can find. Mid-chase she phones George, who points out that nobody is chasing her, a call added in reshoots.
Q 18In My Best Friend's Wedding, Jules forges an email from Kimmy's father asking Michael's boss to do what?
Fire him
Fire him, the message says, so that Michael would have to accept a job from the Wallace family. Jules only saves the draft, but a secretary sends it.
Q 19At which Ivy League school did Jules and Michael have their brief romance, years before My Best Friend's Wedding begins?
Brown University
Brown University is where the pair dated for about a month as sophomores before deciding they worked better as best friends. The marriage pact came later, sealed with a blood oath.
Q 20My Best Friend's Wedding took the record for a romantic comedy's opening weekend from which Meg Ryan film?
Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle had opened to $17.3 million; the wedding comedy took $21.7 million, which was also the best start of any Julia Roberts film to that point.
John Corbett was the new man Jules met in the original final scene. Test audiences hated it, so the scene was scrapped; he later found rom-com fame in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Q 24Returning months later to shoot the new ending of My Best Friend's Wedding, Julia Roberts hid a pixie cut under what?
A wig
A wig, and an expensive one, covered the crop she had since adopted, so the reshot reception scene would match the rest of the film.
Q 25Jules and Michael's song in My Best Friend's Wedding was introduced in Swing Time by which dancing star?
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire sang it to Ginger Rogers while she washed her hair in the next room, and the number won that year's Academy Award for best song.
Q 26Which songwriting duo's 1960s hits run through the My Best Friend's Wedding soundtrack, sung by cast and guest artists?
Bacharach and David
Bacharach and David wrote nearly half the album's tracks. When the film was later turned into a stage musical, its score was built from their songbook.
Q 27Which singer's reggae-style cover of a 1960s classic was the hit single from the My Best Friend's Wedding soundtrack?
Diana King
Diana King took the cover to number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Jamaican singer was already known for the 1995 hit Shy Guy.
Q 28What color is the gown Kimmy picks for Jules to wear as her chief attendant in My Best Friend's Wedding?
Lavender
Lavender is the choice, and the fitting turns awkward when Michael walks in on a half-dressed Jules and flirts with her days before his own ceremony.
Q 29Where is 20-year-old Kimmy Wallace a college junior when she gets engaged in My Best Friend's Wedding?
University of Chicago
University of Chicago junior Kimmy is ready to shelve her own plans and follow Michael from ballpark to ballpark, a sacrifice Jules tries to turn against her.
Q 30Which future Oscar nominee has a small early role as Richard the bellman in My Best Friend's Wedding?
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti's bellman comes across Jules in a hotel hallway. A year later he had supporting parts in Saving Private Ryan and The Truman Show.