Saltburn Trivia
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41 free Saltburn trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Saltburn trivia quiz covers Emerald Fennell's 2023 dark comedy from Oliver Quick's first awkward weeks at Oxford to the last naked lap of the house. There are questions on the plot (the summer invitation, the birthday party, the hedge maze, the razor blades, the cafe encounter and the deathbed confession) and on the cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Carey Mulligan and the smaller roles you may not have clocked. The harder half is about how it was made and how it landed: the real Northamptonshire house that had never been filmed before, the 4:3 frame, Linus Sandgren's cinematography, Anthony Willis's score, the Handel anthem in the opening, the Sophie Ellis-Bextor song that re-entered the charts, the $75 million Amazon deal, the Telluride and London premieres, the Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, and the TikTok numbers. Easy questions suit anyone who streamed it over Christmas 2023; the expert ones are for people who know which Oxford colleges stood in for Oliver's. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed Saltburn?
Emerald Fennell
Emerald Fennell wrote, directed and co-produced Saltburn, her second feature film; she had already won a screenwriting Oscar for her first.
Q 02What is the name of Barry Keoghan's character?
Oliver Quick
Oliver Quick arrives at Oxford apparently poor and with no idea how the upper classes behave.
Q 03Which actor plays Felix Catton?
Jacob Elordi
Jacob Elordi's audition, Fennell said, was a genius piece of observational comedy about a spoiled little boy.
Q 04How is Oliver funding his place at university when he arrives?
On a scholarship
Oliver arrives at Oxford on a scholarship, presenting himself as a poor student from a broken home; his lack of money and polish is what sets him apart from Felix's set.
Q 05In what year is the main story of Saltburn set?
2006
The main story is set in 2006, the year Oliver starts at Oxford; the epilogue jumps forward to 2022, after Sir James's death.
Q 06Who plays Lady Elspeth Catton?
Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike plays Lady Elspeth Catton, Felix's glamorous and blithely cruel mother; Pike had earlier earned an Oscar nomination for Gone Girl (2014).
Q 07Which actor plays Sir James Catton?
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant plays Sir James Catton, the family patriarch who eventually pays Oliver to leave Saltburn; his death years later draws Oliver back.
Q 08Who plays Felix's sister, Venetia?
Alison Oliver
Alison Oliver plays Venetia Catton, Felix's troubled sister; the Irish actress had broken out as Frances in the 2022 series Conversations with Friends.
Q 09Who plays Farleigh Start, Felix's American cousin?
Archie Madekwe
Archie Madekwe plays Farleigh Start, Felix's American cousin; the same year Madekwe starred as racing driver Jann Mardenborough in Gran Turismo.
Q 10Which Promising Young Woman star plays Elspeth's friend 'Poor Dear' Pamela?
Carey Mulligan
Carey Mulligan, the lead of Fennell's Promising Young Woman, plays 'Poor Dear' Pamela, the troubled house guest Elspeth tires of and shows the door.
Q 11Who plays Duncan, the Saltburn butler?
Paul Rhys
Welsh actor Paul Rhys plays Duncan, the watchful butler who hovers over almost every scene at the house; Rhys earlier played Theo van Gogh in Altman's Vincent & Theo (1990).
Q 12What does Oliver tell Felix has just happened to his father, prompting the summer invitation?
He has died suddenly
Oliver tells Felix his father has died suddenly, which prompts the summer invitation; the lie unravels on his birthday when Felix drives him home and finds both parents alive and well.
Q 13In which town does Oliver's family really live?
Prescot
Prescot, a Merseyside town where the family's respectable middle-class home is nothing like the chaos Oliver described.
Q 21What is the theme of Oliver's birthday party at Saltburn?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Oliver's birthday party is a costume ball themed on A Midsummer Night's Dream; Oliver wears a set of antlers while Felix arrives in a pair of white wings.
Q 22Which piece of music opens the film?
Zadok the Priest
Handel's coronation anthem Zadok the Priest opens the film over Oliver's arrival at Oxford; written for George II's coronation in 1727, it has been sung at every British coronation since.
Q 23Who composed the score for Saltburn?
Anthony Willis
Anthony Willis composed the score, as he had for Fennell's first feature; his Saltburn score was nominated for the BAFTA for Original Score.
Q 14Why is Farleigh thrown out of Saltburn during the summer?
He apparently tried to sell family ceramics
Oliver later confesses he used Farleigh's email to make the Sotheby's offer himself.
Q 15In Saltburn, where on the estate is Felix found dead the morning after Oliver's birthday party?
In the hedge maze
Felix is found dead in the hedge maze, beside the Minotaur statue at its centre, the morning after Oliver's birthday party.
Q 16How does Oliver claim he killed Felix?
He poisoned his drink
He tells Elspeth this on her deathbed, along with every other thing he engineered.
Q 17How does Venetia die?
She slits her wrists in the bath
Oliver confesses he left razor blades beside her while she was bathing.
Q 18Where does Oliver 'accidentally' run into Elspeth years later?
At a cafe
Oliver contrives to bump into Elspeth at a cafe after reading of Sir James's death in 2022; she invites him back to Saltburn as her companion.
Q 19How does Oliver finally kill Elspeth?
He removes her life support
By then she has already bequeathed him all her assets, including the house.
Q 20Which song plays over the film's closing dance through the house?
Murder on the Dancefloor
Murder on the Dancefloor, a 2001 disco-pop single that originally peaked at number 2 in the UK, scores Oliver's naked victory dance through the empty house.
Q 24In what aspect ratio is Saltburn presented?
4:3
Saltburn is presented in the near-square 4:3 (1.33:1) ratio, shot on 35mm film, so the towering house looms over the characters instead of sprawling across a widescreen frame.
Q 25Who was the cinematographer on Saltburn?
Linus Sandgren
Linus Sandgren, the Swedish cinematographer who won an Oscar for La La Land, shot Saltburn on 35mm film during the summer of 2022.
Q 26Which real stately home stood in for Saltburn?
Drayton House
Drayton House, a privately owned country house near Lowick that had never been used as a film location, played Saltburn; its owners asked that it not be publicised.
Q 27In which English county is the house that played Saltburn?
Northamptonshire
Fennell deliberately avoided estates audiences would recognise, and wanted the whole shoot in one place.
Q 28Saltburn opened which festival in October 2023?
BFI London
Saltburn was the opening-night gala of the 67th BFI London Film Festival on 4 October 2023, which doubled as its UK premiere.
Q 29After its cinema run, Saltburn began streaming worldwide on which service on 22 December 2023?
Prime Video
Prime Video saw viewership quadruple in the two weeks after launch as the film went viral on TikTok.
Q 30Which studio handled Saltburn's release in the UK and Ireland?
Warner Bros. Pictures
Amazon kept the US and streaming rights while Warner Bros. put it in British cinemas on 17 November 2023.