Q 01/05

In A Room with a View, which river were Lucy and Charlotte promised they would see from their Florence rooms?

A) The Tiber

B) The Po

C) The Arno

D) The Adige

Answer · why

C) The Arno

The Arno was the view they had been promised, but their rooms faced a courtyard instead. Mr Emerson's blunt offer to swap rooms sets the whole story g...

Q 02/05

Which actress, aged eighteen, had her film breakthrough as Lucy Honeychurch in the 1985 film A Room with a View?

A) Helena Bonham Carter

B) Kristin Scott Thomas

C) Emma Thompson

D) Natasha Richardson

Answer · why

A) Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter had just finished Lady Jane when she was cast, and matched Forster's picture of Lucy as a pale young lady with a mass of dark hai...

Q 03/05

In A Room with a View, what does Lucy witness in the Piazza della Signoria that makes her faint into George's arms?

A) A public execution

B) A runaway carriage

C) A collapsing balcony

D) A fatal stabbing

Answer · why

D) A fatal stabbing

A fatal stabbing takes place right in front of Lucy as two men quarrel over a debt, and George carries her clear. Shaken, the pair end up talking alon...

Q 04/05

Which actress, later Downton Abbey's Dowager Countess, played Charlotte Bartlett in the 1985 film A Room with a View?

A) Vanessa Redgrave

B) Maggie Smith

C) Joan Plowright

D) Diana Rigg

Answer · why

B) Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe as Lucy's fretful cousin, and was Oscar-nominated too. Twenty-five years later she was trading barbs at Do...

Q 05/05

Which star of My Left Foot and Lincoln played the snobbish Cecil Vyse in the 1985 film A Room with a View?

A) Anthony Hopkins

B) Christopher Reeve

C) Daniel Day-Lewis

D) Jeremy Irons

Answer · why

C) Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis was offered either George or Cecil and chose the prig as the harder part, in the same year he broke through in My Beautiful Laundrett...