Rosemary's Baby Trivia
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59 free Rosemary's Baby trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Rosemary's Baby trivia quiz covers Ira Levin's 1967 novel, Roman Polanski's 1968 film and the odd afterlife of the story: the 1976 TV sequel, the 1997 novel Son of Rosemary, the 2014 Paris-set miniseries and the 2024 prequel Apartment 7A. Expect questions on the Bramford and its real-life stand-in, the tannis-root charm, the chocolate mousse with the chalky under-taste, the anagram that unmasks Roman Castevet and the last line about the baby's eyes. Behind-the-scenes history is here too: who was offered the director's chair before Polanski, who turned down the role of Guy, whose voice is really on the phone as the blinded actor, why Frank Sinatra's lawyer turned up on set, and what Ruth Gordon said when she collected her Oscar. There are easy questions for people who have only seen the film once and hard ones for readers who know the novel's Francoist censorship history. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, the novel, the sequels and the people involved, and each question quotes the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Which book does the dying Hutch leave to Rosemary to warn her about her neighbors?
'All of Them Witches'
All of Them Witches reaches her at his funeral; Guy later throws it in the garbage, saying he didn't want her upsetting herself.
Q 02Which rating did the US Catholic film office give Rosemary's Baby when it opened?
Condemned
Condemned, the office ruled, citing its nudity and its mockery of Christian beliefs; the C rating did nothing to stop the film becoming a major hit.
Q 03Rosemary's Baby author Ira Levin later wrote which of these novels, also filmed as a chiller?
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives followed in 1972: once again a newcomer senses a conspiracy among the neighbors, this time the husbands of a Connecticut town whose wives are all eerily submissive.
Q 04Who plays Rosemary Woodhouse in the 1968 film?
Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow also sings the wordless lullaby over the opening titles: the producers auditioned professional vocalists, then used her own voice instead.
Q 05Who plays Rosemary's actor husband, Guy Woodhouse?
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes also made films of his own: he paid for the independent drama Faces out of his own pocket, and it opened the same year as Rosemary's Baby.
Q 06Which Rosemary's Baby cast member won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 1969 ceremony?
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon had made her first film in 1915; collecting the statuette at 72, she told the audience she didn't know why it had taken her so long.
Q 07What is the name of the Gothic New York building the Woodhouses move into?
The Bramford
The Bramford owes its name to Bram Stoker: when a magazine review misprinted it, the author wrote in to say he had chosen it in memory of Dracula's creator.
Q 08Which real Manhattan building provided the exteriors for the Gothic apartment house in Rosemary's Baby?
The Dakota
The Dakota is so recognizable that it is often taken for the novel's model too, but the author's family says he based his building on the ornate Alwyn Court.
Q 09What is the surname of Rosemary's elderly, meddlesome next-door neighbors?
Castevet
The Castevets, Minnie and Roman, come across at first as merely nosy; the film's dark joke is that they turn out to be, almost literally, the neighbors from hell.
Q 10The foul-smelling pendant Minnie gives Rosemary as a good-luck charm supposedly contains what?
Tannis root
Tannis root is an invented herb that betrays the plot twice: Hutch grows suspicious when he tries to look it up, and its smell later gives Rosemary's doctor away.
Q 11What dessert does Minnie bring the couple on the night they plan to conceive?
Chocolate mousse
Chocolate mousse, or 'chocolate mouse' as Minnie calls it: Rosemary tastes something chalky and throws most of it away, which is why she half-wakes during what follows.
Q 12When Rosemary phones Donald Baumgart, the actor who mysteriously went blind, whose voice answers?
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis recorded the part without credit; at the next Academy Awards he was the presenter who handed the film's supporting actress her Oscar.
Q 13Which producer of gimmicky low-budget horror secured the film rights to Rosemary's Baby before the novel was published?
William Castle
Q 21Along with Tuesday Weld, which actress did Roman Polanski originally have in mind to play Rosemary?
Sharon Tate
Sharon Tate was his own partner, and he later said he had hoped someone else would suggest her, since proposing her himself felt improper.
Q 22Midway through filming Rosemary's Baby, its star was served divorce papers on set by a lawyer for which husband?
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra wanted her to walk off the overrunning shoot and join him on his own film The Detective; she stayed to finish, and his lawyer arrived with the papers.
Q 23Which jazz pianist, who had scored Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water, wrote the lullaby theme of Rosemary's Baby?
Krzysztof Komeda
William Castle, the showman who wired cinema seats to buzz during The Tingler, hoped to direct; the studio let him produce only, and he settled for a cameo by a phone booth.
Q 14Rosemary cracks Hutch's dying clue, 'the name is an anagram', by shuffling the pieces of which game?
Scrabble
Scrabble tiles get her nowhere with the title of the book he left her, so she tries her neighbor's name instead, and the letters fall into place.
Q 15Rosemary works out that her neighbor Roman's full name is an anagram of which name, his real one?
Steven Marcato
Steven Marcato is the son of Adrian Marcato, a self-proclaimed sorcerer once mobbed outside the building; Guy shrugs that with a father like that, no wonder he switched his name around.
Q 16Which veteran actor, later a scheming Duke brother in Trading Places, plays Rosemary's obstetrician, Dr. Sapirstein?
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy's smooth society doctor takes Rosemary off vitamin pills, puts her on a daily herbal drink mixed by Minnie, and warns her not to read books or listen to friends.
Q 17When Rosemary finally sees the child, what does Roman say to explain how it looks?
He has his father's eyes
'He has his father's eyes,' Roman says; when Rosemary protests that Guy's eyes are normal, he tells her that Guy is not the father at all.
Q 18Which studio released Rosemary's Baby in 1968?
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures ranked ninth among Hollywood's studios when Robert Evans took over production; this hit was among the first to revive its fortunes.
Q 19According to François Truffaut, which director was offered Rosemary's Baby first and turned it down?
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock passed for lack of interest in the material, by Truffaut's account, and the job went to a European director who had never made a film in America.
Q 20Which star did Roman Polanski and his producer both want as Guy Woodhouse before the deal fell through?
Robert Redford
Robert Redford was the man both wanted, but he never signed: by one account, talks collapsed when the studio's own lawyers served him with a subpoena over another film.
Krzysztof Komeda did not live to build on it: months after the release he suffered head injuries in a fall, slipped into a coma, and died in Poland in 1969.
Q 24Which well-known piano piece, practiced by another tenant, is heard in the background of Rosemary's Baby?
Für Elise
Für Elise drifts in from another apartment at breakfast, just as the couple realize that Rosemary's period is days overdue.
Q 25When the star walked into real Manhattan traffic for a scene in Rosemary's Baby, who operated the handheld camera?
The director
The director took the camera himself because nobody else would, after assuring her that no driver would hit a pregnant woman.
Q 26Which food did the star of Rosemary's Baby, then a committed vegetarian, eat raw on camera, take after take?
Liver
Liver: Rosemary's craving has her gulping raw chicken livers at the kitchen counter until she catches her reflection in the toaster, and the actress did it for real.
Q 27In 2010, The Guardian ranked Rosemary's Baby the second-best horror film ever made, behind which movie?
Psycho
Psycho took first place; the paper's entry on the runner-up noted that its success launched a run of devil-baby and satanic-pregnancy films that lasted well into the 1970s.
Q 28What was the title of the 1976 made-for-TV sequel to Rosemary's Baby?
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby was scripted by a television writer; the novelist's own sequel, published two decades later, tells a different story.
Q 29Which Oscar-winning former child star played Rosemary in the 1976 television sequel?
Patty Duke
Patty Duke had been in the frame for the part back in 1968 and lost it; eight years on she inherited it for television.
Q 30Sam O'Steen, who directed the 1976 TV sequel, had held which job on the original Rosemary's Baby?
Editor
Editor: Sam O'Steen cut the original and later Chinatown for the same director, and by 1976 was directing television films of his own, this sequel among them.