50 free Once Upon a Time in Hollywood trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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 50 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 Rick Dalton?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Dalton is an aging Western star whose stunt double, Cliff Booth, is his best friend, driver and gofer.
Q 02What is the name of the fictional 1959-63 TV Western that made Rick Dalton a star?
Bounty Law
It was inspired by a real Steve McQueen series; Tarantino wrote five half-hour episodes of it just to get inside Dalton's head.
Q 03Which real Steve McQueen series was Rick's fictional show modeled on?
Wanted Dead or Alive
McQueen himself appears in the film, played by Damian Lewis, at the Playboy Mansion party.
Q 04What is the name of Cliff Booth's pit bull?
Brandy
Brandy lives with Cliff in his trailer and does most of the damage in the finale.
Q 05Why does Cliff struggle to find stunt work?
A fight with Bruce Lee and rumors he murdered his wife
His wife Billie's death, and the ambiguity around it, is a nod to Natalie Wood; the novelization confirms he did kill her, with a speargun.
Q 06Which real TV Western does Rick guest-star in as the villain during the film?
Lancer
Sam Wanamaker, played by Nicholas Hammond, directed the real Lancer pilot too, and the Land Pirates were characters in it.
Q 07Who plays Trudi Fraser, the precocious child actor who impresses Rick on the Western set?
Julia Butters
The character was inspired by Jodie Foster; the novel says she grows up to earn three Oscar nominations.
Q 08Which agent, played by Al Pacino, urges Rick to make spaghetti Westerns in Italy?
Marvin Schwarz
Tarantino wrote the William Morris agent specifically for Pacino; the scene between them was first written as a one-act play.
Q 09Which real Italian director does Rick go to Italy to work for?
Sergio Corbucci
Rick shoots three more films there, one for the real Antonio Margheriti, and marries starlet Francesca Capucci.
Q 10What is the name of the Italian starlet Rick marries in Italy?
Francesca Capucci
Lorenza Izzo plays her; the character was based on Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Virna Lisi and Monica Vitti.
Q 11Who plays Sharon Tate?
Margot Robbie
She did not consult Roman Polanski but read his 1984 autobiography; Tate's sister Debra lent her some of Sharon's jewelry and perfume for the film.
Q 12Which of her own films does Sharon Tate watch in a theater?
The Wrecking Crew
The scene at the Fox Bruin was inspired by Tarantino's own experience of watching True Romance with a paying audience.
Q 13Which martial artist trained Tate for her spy comedy and fights Cliff on The Green Hornet set?
Bruce Lee
Mike Moh played him; Lee's daughter Shannon objected to the portrayal and China canceled the film's release a week before it was due.
Q 21On what date do Rick and Cliff return from Italy and go out drinking?
August 8, 1969
It is the night of the real Tate murders; in the film's universe they never happen, and neither do the LaBianca murders.
Q 22What does Cliff smoke before taking the dog for a walk on the final night?
An acid-laced cigarette
He bought it from a hippie girl at a traffic light, a scene whose dialogue Tarantino took from the 1968 documentary Revolution.
Q 23Why do the Manson followers decide to kill Rick instead of the Tate house occupants?
Sadie argues TV shows like his taught them to murder
Q 14Who plays Charles Manson?
Damon Herriman
He played Manson in David Fincher's Netflix series Mindhunter the same year.
Q 15Whom is Manson looking for when he turns up at the Polanski house?
Music producer Terry Melcher
Jay Sebring tells him Melcher has moved; the encounter is based on a real 1969 visit reported by the house's owner and a photographer friend of Polanski.
Q 16Cliff gives a hitchhiking Manson girl a ride to Spahn Ranch. What is her nickname?
Pussycat
Margaret Qualley plays her; the composite character was modeled mainly on Ruth Ann Moorehouse, whom Manson sent into the city to lure men with money.
Q 17Who plays ranch owner George Spahn, a role Burt Reynolds died before filming?
Bruce Dern
Reynolds' one lasting contribution was advising that someone should tell Booth he's "pretty for a stunt guy", a line delivered on the Green Hornet set.
Q 18What does Cliff force ranch hippie Clem to do after Clem sabotages his car?
Change the punctured tire himself
Tex, the group's leader, is summoned but arrives only as Cliff drives away; they meet again on August 8.
Q 19Who plays "Squeaky" Fromme, George Spahn's caretaker?
Dakota Fanning
Tarantino first approached Jennifer Lawrence for the part; Spahn gave Fromme the nickname because of the sound she made when he touched her.
Q 20Who plays Tex Watson?
Austin Butler
Tarantino told him he was auditioning for a villain or hero on Lancer, when the part was actually Tex.
Rick had come out and yelled at them over their car's loud muffler; one of the four then deserts and flees with the car.
Q 24Which Manson follower deserts the group and drives off with their car?
Flowerchild
Maya Hawke plays her; the character stands in for Linda Kasabian, the fourth member sent to the Tate house, who later testified against the others.
Q 25What does Rick use to kill Sadie in the pool?
A stunt flamethrower
He retrieves it from his shed; earlier we see him using it in a clip from one of his war movies.
Q 26Which real 1963 film is Rick Dalton digitally inserted into, in Steve McQueen's role?
The Great Escape
Dalton appears as Virgil Hilts; other inserted footage puts him in an episode of The F.B.I. and over Ty Hardin's face in Death on the Run.
Q 27Which real Hollywood restaurant did Tarantino insist on as a "must have" location?
Musso & Frank Grill
Tarantino said he felt lucky a place still existed exactly as it always had; production designer Barbara Ling made every marquee in the film historically accurate.
Q 28Which fictional cigarette brand from the Tarantino universe does Rick advertise in the mid-credits scene?
Red Apple
Big Kahuna Burger, another recurring Tarantino brand, appears on a billboard in the film.
Q 29This was Tarantino's first film made without which producers?
Bob and Harvey Weinstein
He cut ties after the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein and staged a bidding war for a new distributor.
Q 30Which studio won the bidding war to distribute the film?
Sony Pictures
Sony beat Warner, Universal, Paramount, Annapurna and Lionsgate by meeting Tarantino's demands, including final cut and 25 percent of first-dollar gross.