Titanic (1997 Film)
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69 free Titanic (1997 Film) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
68 free Titanic (1997 Film) trivia questions with answers. James Cameron's Titanic is the film everyone has seen and almost nobody knows as well as they think. This quiz covers the 1997 movie itself, not the ship: who was nearly cast as Jack and Rose, how a $200 million shoot in Mexico ran 22 days over, why the departure scenes had to be flipped, what happened the night someone spiked the crew's soup, and how a song Cameron did not want ended up winning an Oscar. It starts with the easy layer (the leads, the necklace, the singer) and works up to the details only repeat viewers and film-history nerds carry around: the record it tied, the meme it spawned, the real grave in Halifax, the artist who inspired old Rose. It suits a movie night, a pub quiz round, or a rewatch afterparty. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia entries, the 70th Academy Awards record and the pages on the people involved, and each question carries its source. No fan-forum guesses, no recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01Who plays Jack Dawson, the third-class artist at the heart of the film?
Leonardo DiCaprio
He was 21 when cast and turned down the lead in Boogie Nights to take the part, a choice he later said he regretted.
Q 02Which actress plays the young Rose DeWitt Bukater?
Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet plays the young Rose; she lobbied Cameron for the part, sending him a single rose with a card signed "From Your Rose."
Q 03Who plays Cal Hockley, Rose's arrogant fiancé and heir to a steel fortune?
Billy Zane
Billy Zane plays Cal Hockley, the Pittsburgh steel heir; Cameron had considered his Terminator regular Michael Biehn for the role before casting Zane.
Q 04Which actress plays the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, who lends Jack a dinner suit?
Kathy Bates
Kathy Bates plays Molly Brown, the new-money Denver millionairess who lends Jack her son's dinner suit; the real Margaret Brown rowed in Lifeboat 6 during the sinking.
Q 05Who plays the elderly Rose who narrates the story in 1996?
Gloria Stuart
Gloria Stuart plays the elderly Rose; Cameron wanted a retired Golden Age actress, and Stuart, a 1930s Universal contract player, earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the role.
Q 06Bill Paxton's character, the treasure hunter searching the wreck, is called what?
Brock Lovett
Bill Paxton plays Brock Lovett, the treasure hunter; Paxton later joined Cameron's 2001 dive to the real wreck for the documentary Ghosts of the Abyss.
Q 07What is the name of Jack's Italian best friend who boards the ship with him?
Fabrizio
Fabrizio De Rossi, played by Danny Nucci, is Jack's Italian friend; he dies when the ship's forward funnel breaks loose and crashes down on the swimmers.
Q 08What is the name of the blue diamond necklace the treasure hunter is searching the wreck for?
The Heart of the Ocean
The Heart of the Ocean prop was made by London jewelers Asprey & Garrard from cubic zirconia set in white gold; a real sapphire-and-diamond version later sold at a 1998 charity auction for $1.4 million.
Q 09When John Jacob Astor asks about his family at dinner, Jack says he is one of the Dawsons from where?
Chippewa Falls
When Astor asks if he is of the Boston Dawsons, Jack answers "the Chippewa Falls Dawsons, actually"; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is his hometown.
Q 10How does Jack come by his third-class ticket for the voyage?
He wins it in a poker game
Jack wins the ticket in a poker game at a dockside pub minutes before sailing, beating two Swedes, Olaf and Sven, with a full house.
Q 11Who composed the film's score?
James Horner
James Horner composed the score; he and Cameron had clashed badly on an earlier film a decade before, but Cameron rehired him after admiring his Braveheart score.
Q 12Which singer performs the end-credits song "My Heart Will Go On"?
Celine Dion
She initially did not want to record it, having already sung the film songs "Beauty and the Beast" and "Because You Loved Me"; her husband René Angélil talked her into a demo.
Q 13Who wrote the lyrics to the film's Oscar-winning theme song?
Will Jennings
Will Jennings wrote the lyrics to "My Heart Will Go On," writing from the viewpoint of a very old woman looking back on her life, to match the elderly Rose.
Q 21Whose long-standing record for most Oscar wins did the film equal?
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur, the 1959 chariot epic, had held the most-wins record alone for 38 years; Titanic tied it, and The Return of the King joined the tie in 2004.
Q 22With 14 nominations, the film tied the record set in 1950 by which movie?
All About Eve
All About Eve earned 14 nominations for 1950, a record Titanic tied in 1998 and La La Land matched in 2017.
Q 23The film's Best Actress nominee lost to which performer?
Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt won Best Actress for As Good as It Gets, which also took Best Actor for Jack Nicholson's third Oscar, beating Winslet's Rose.
Q 14Cameron wrote the screenplay listening to which Irish new-age musician, whom he first asked to score it?
Enya
Enya is the musician; Cameron wrote the script listening to her albums and asked her to score the film, and after she declined the score was composed in a similar Celtic style.
Q 15Which Norwegian singer performs the wordless vocals heard throughout the score?
Sissel
Sissel Kyrkjebø sings the wordless vocals; the composer auditioned around 30 singers before choosing her after hearing her recording of "Eg veit i himmerik ei borg."
Q 16What was the film's production budget, the largest ever at the time?
$200 million
The budget was $200 million, then the highest ever, roughly $1 million per minute of screen time; nervous Fox executives asked Cameron to cut an hour, which he refused.
Q 17Which studio partnered with 20th Century Fox to co-finance the film and took the US distribution rights?
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures co-financed the film, paying $65 million for US distribution rights while Fox kept international; the two studios had split Braveheart the same way two years earlier.
Q 18In which country did Fox build the studio and full-scale ship replica used for filming?
Mexico
Mexico: Fox built its studio and the near-full-scale Titanic replica at Playas de Rosarito in Baja California, on the Pacific coast south of Tijuana, in 1996.
Q 19How much water did the exterior horizon tank at Baja Studios hold?
17 million gallons
The horizon tank held 17 million gallons and offered a 270-degree view of the open Pacific, so the ship replica could be shot against a real ocean horizon.
Q 20How many Academy Awards did the film win at the 1998 ceremony?
11
Titanic won 11 of its 14 Oscar nominations at the 1998 ceremony, including Best Picture and Best Director, but none for acting or writing.
Q 24At what age did the actress playing the elderly Rose become the oldest acting nominee in Oscar history?
87
She was 87 when nominated for Best Supporting Actress, then the oldest acting nominee ever; she and the young Rose's actress were the first pair nominated for playing one character in the same film.
Q 25Cameron became the first person to win Oscars in which three roles on the same night?
Producer, director and editor
Cameron won as producer (Best Picture, shared with Jon Landau), director, and editor (shared with Conrad Buff and Richard A. Harris), the first person to take all three for one film.
Q 26Which of Cameron's own films finally overtook Titanic as the highest-grossing film ever, in 2010?
Avatar
Avatar, Cameron's own 2009 film, passed Titanic's worldwide record in January 2010, ending a twelve-year reign.
Q 27Which film had held the worldwide box-office record before Titanic overtook it in 1998?
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park, Spielberg's 1993 dinosaur blockbuster, had held the worldwide record at about $914 million until Titanic passed it in 1998.
Q 28How many consecutive weeks did the film spend at number one at the North American box office?
15
Titanic was number one for 15 consecutive weekends, from its December 1997 opening until Lost in Space finally displaced it in April 1998.
Q 29The film's world premiere took place on November 1, 1997, in which city?
Tokyo
Tokyo: the film premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival on November 1, 1997, more than six weeks before its December 19 US release.
Q 30The film was originally scheduled for release in which month of 1997 before being pushed to December?
July
The film was slated for July 2, 1997, but unfinished effects pushed it to December 19; Paramount rushed Event Horizon into the vacated summer slot.