Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Trivia
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49 free Once Upon a Time in Hollywood trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino's ninth film and, by his own account, his favorite: a day-in-the-life of a fading TV cowboy, his stunt double and the actress next door in the summer of 1969. This Once Upon a Time in Hollywood trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers on Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth, Sharon Tate, Bounty Law and Lancer, Spahn Ranch and the Manson Family, Brandy the pit bull, and the ending that rewrites August 8, 1969. It also goes behind the camera: the real actors and stuntmen the characters were built from, the parts written for Al Pacino and Burt Reynolds, why Sony got the film and what Tarantino demanded, where it was shot, the Bruce Lee controversy that cost it a Chinese release, the two Oscars, the novel and the Cliff Booth sequel. Questions run from easy for anyone who has seen it once to hard for people who have read the novelization. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia entry and each question links to the page that establishes it.
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Q 01Who plays fading TV cowboy Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio took a cut in his usual fee to work with Tarantino again, seven years after he played the villain of Django Unchained.
Q 02Which TV Western series made Rick Dalton a star in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Bounty Law
Bounty Law cast Rick as the bounty hunter Jake Cahill. To get inside his head, Tarantino wrote five complete half-hour episodes of the invented series.
Q 03Which real Steve McQueen series was Rick Dalton's TV show modeled on?
Wanted Dead or Alive
Wanted Dead or Alive made Steve McQueen's name on the small screen. He then made the leap to film stardom, which is exactly where Rick's own career stalled.
Q 04What is the name of Cliff Booth's pit bull in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Brandy
Brandy earns her dinner in the finale: on Cliff's command she brings down two of the three armed intruders in Rick's house.
Q 05In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which rumor about Cliff Booth keeps stunt coordinators from hiring him?
He killed his wife
He killed his wife, the story goes. The film shows only a boat, a quarrel and a speargun, but Tarantino's own later retelling of the story says outright that he did it.
Q 06Which real TV Western is Rick shooting as the guest villain in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Lancer
Lancer was a real series, and its pilot's real director, Sam Wanamaker, is a character here. Tarantino shot his version like a lavish feature, in a way no TV crew of 1969 could have.
Q 07Which young star of the sitcom American Housewife plays Trudi Fraser in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Julia Butters
Julia Butters plays the girl who takes her craft far more seriously than Rick takes his, and whose praise after their big scene gives him his confidence back.
Q 08Who plays Rick's agent Marvin Schwarz in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Al Pacino
Al Pacino, in a part written for him. Marvin warns Rick that playing the heavy who loses the fight every week is ruining his name, while in Italy he could be the lead again.
Q 09Which real Italian director, maker of the original Django, gives Rick the lead in Nebraska Jim?
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci made the 1966 Django that inspired Tarantino's own Django Unchained, in which the first film's star, Franco Nero, turns up for a cameo.
Q 10Rick returns from Europe in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with what?
An Italian wife
An Italian wife, the starlet Francesca Capucci. The actor who thought Italian Westerns were beneath him also comes back with a string of Italian films to his name.
Q 11Who plays Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie read Roman Polanski's autobiography to prepare but never contacted him, and Tate's sister Debra lent her some of Sharon's own jewelry to wear on screen.
Q 12Which of her own films does Sharon Tate slip into a theater to watch in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
The Wrecking Crew
The Wrecking Crew. The woman up on the screen is the real Sharon Tate, in the 1968 film's own footage; Tarantino based the scene on the day he talked his way into True Romance at the same theater.
Q 13The title Once Upon a Time in Hollywood salutes which Italian director's own 'Once Upon a Time' films?
Sergio Leone
Q 21Near the end of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, what are Rick and Cliff out drinking to?
A farewell
A farewell: Rick can no longer afford Cliff's wages, so the two settle on one last proper drunk together at Casa Vega, a real Mexican restaurant in the San Fernando Valley.
Q 22What does Cliff Booth smoke before walking his dog on the final night?
An acid-laced cigarette
An acid-laced cigarette, bought from a hippie girl at a traffic light. He lights it with the words 'And away we go', the line that starts the climax of Tarantino's Jackie Brown.
Q 23In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, what does Sadie blame for teaching her generation to kill?
Television
Sergio Leone made Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America. Tarantino also wanted the phrase's fairy-tale promise, because his 1969 ends more happily than the real one did.
Q 14Which Australian actor played Charles Manson in both Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Netflix's Mindhunter in 2019?
Damon Herriman
Damon Herriman is on screen only briefly. The film refuses to build Manson up: as one critic put it, it reduces the most notorious figure in the story to a cameo.
Q 15Which previous tenant is Charles Manson looking for when he turns up at the Polanski house?
Music producer Terry Melcher
Music producer Terry Melcher had already moved out. The visit really happened, though the man who sent Manson away that day was not Jay Sebring, as it is in the film.
Q 16What is the nickname of the hitchhiking Manson girl whom Cliff drives to Spahn Ranch?
Pussycat
Pussycat is sized up by the soundtrack: when Cliff first spots her, the radio plays Mrs. Robinson, the song written for The Graduate and its affair between an older and a younger lover.
Q 17Who plays ranch owner George Spahn in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a role Burt Reynolds died before filming?
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern stepped in for his late friend Burt Reynolds, who got as far as a rehearsal and a script reading. A line Reynolds suggested stayed in the film: that Cliff is pretty for a stunt guy.
Q 18At Spahn Ranch in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, what does Cliff make Clem do for sabotaging his car?
Change the flat tire
Change the flat tire, after a beating. The ranch girls send for Tex, who is out riding with customers, and he gallops back just too late to stop Cliff driving away.
Q 19Who plays "Squeaky" Fromme, George Spahn's caretaker, in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Dakota Fanning
Dakota Fanning plays the follower who stands guard at the old man's door. Six years after that summer, the real Squeaky Fromme pointed a pistol at President Gerald Ford.
Q 20Who plays Tex Watson, leader of the raid on Cielo Drive, in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Austin Butler
Austin Butler's Tex announces, 'I'm the Devil, and I'm here to do the Devil's business.' The real Watson said those words to his victims; here he says them to Cliff, which goes badly for him.
Television. Every show she grew up on except I Love Lucy was about murder, she argues, so they should turn on the TV cowboy who just yelled at them: 'My idea is to kill the people who taught us to kill!'
Q 24What does Flowerchild do as the Manson killers reach Rick Dalton's street?
Drives off
Drives off, taking the car and leaving the other three on foot. She stands in for Linda Kasabian, the real lookout that night, who later gave evidence against the rest of the Family.
Q 25What does Rick use to kill Sadie in his pool at the end of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
A stunt flamethrower
A stunt flamethrower, kept from Rick's war film The 14 Fists of McCluskey, is what he fetches from his pool shed to burn Sadie after she staggers into the water.
Q 26Which real 1963 film is Rick Dalton digitally inserted into, in Steve McQueen's role?
The Great Escape
The Great Escape. Tarantino wanted his 1969 rebuilt without computer imagery, but dropping Rick into the real film, in the part he says he nearly landed, was one place where only digital effects would do.
Q 27Which real Hollywood restaurant, open since 1919, hosts Rick's lunch with agent Marvin Schwarz?
Musso & Frank Grill
Musso & Frank Grill was a must-have location for Tarantino, who said he felt lucky that a place like it still exists exactly as it has always been.
Q 28Which fictional cigarette brand, a Tarantino-universe staple, does Rick Dalton advertise in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's closing commercial?
Red Apple
Red Apple cigarettes, the fictional brand seen in Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, star in the commercial that runs with the credits: Rick praises them on camera, then complains about the taste once the take ends.
Q 29Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was Tarantino's first film made without which producers?
Bob and Harvey Weinstein
Bob and Harvey Weinstein had backed him for his whole career. He cut ties after the 2017 abuse allegations against Harvey, and his next script went up for auction among the studios.
Q 30Which studio won the bidding war to release Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures won by agreeing to steep terms, among them final cut and a $95 million budget. It helped that Tarantino remembered how well Sony had handled Django Unchained abroad.