Q 01/05

Which Nanny McPhee star is the only person to have won Oscars for both acting and screenwriting?

A) Helena Bonham Carter

B) Kristin Scott Thomas

C) Emma Thompson

D) Julie Walters

Answer · why

C) Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson won Best Actress for Howards End, then the screenplay Oscar for adapting Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, in which she also starred.

Q 02/05

Which actress played Tom Hanks's mother in Forrest Gump despite being only ten years older than him?

A) Sally Field

B) Sissy Spacek

C) Jessica Lange

D) Goldie Hawn

Answer · why

A) Sally Field

Sally Field had shared top billing with Hanks as a fellow stand-up comedian in Punchline just six years before she was cast as Mrs. Gump.

Q 03/05

Which Oscar-winning star of Les Misérables shares her name with the wife of William Shakespeare?

A) Amanda Seyfried

B) Emily Blunt

C) Rachel McAdams

D) Anne Hathaway

Answer · why

D) Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway won her supporting Oscar as the doomed Fantine, a part her own mother had played on stage in the musical's first US tour.

Q 04/05

Which actress, rejected for the film of My Fair Lady, won that year's Best Actress Oscar as Mary Poppins?

A) Debbie Reynolds

B) Julie Andrews

C) Shirley MacLaine

D) Natalie Wood

Answer · why

B) Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews had created Eliza Doolittle on Broadway, but studio boss Jack Warner wanted a bigger screen name. Mary Poppins was her first film.

Q 05/05

Which Disney villain, a London heiress, have Glenn Close and Emma Stone both played in live action?

A) Lady Tremaine

B) Cruella de Vil

C) Maleficent

D) The Evil Queen

Answer · why

B) Cruella de Vil

Cruella de Vil was Glenn Close's role in 101 Dalmatians and its sequel. Emma Stone later played the character in an origin story set in 1970s punk-era...