Q 01/05

For which country-house film had Downton Abbey's creator already won a screenplay Oscar?

A) Gosford Park

B) The Remains of the Day

C) Howards End

D) Atonement

Answer · why

A) Gosford Park

Gosford Park won him the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, the film's only Academy Award, and proved such a turning point that he was wary when a produc...

Q 02/05

In Downton Abbey's first series, which unfamiliar idea prompts the Dowager Countess to ask what it is?

A) A salary

B) A holiday

C) A weekend

D) A pension

Answer · why

C) A weekend

A weekend: Matthew insists he can keep his job and learn the estate at the weekend, and Violet, for whom no day is a working day, asks what one is.

Q 03/05

Which sport pits the Downton Abbey household against the village in an annual match shown in series three?

A) Football

B) Cricket

C) Croquet

D) Lawn tennis

Answer · why

B) Cricket

Cricket: the match is interrupted when detectives arrive over a footman's complaint against the under-butler, and Robert persuades them it was all a m...

Q 04/05

Before becoming the heir presumptive to Downton Abbey, what was Matthew Crawley's profession?

A) Doctor

B) Solicitor

C) Banker

D) Journalist

Answer · why

B) Solicitor

Solicitor: Matthew practised law in Manchester and means to go on working after he moves to Downton, assuring Robert that there are plenty of hours in...

Q 05/05

Which Crawley daughter ends up a journalist?

A) Lady Rose

B) Lady Mary

C) Lady Sybil

D) Lady Edith

Answer · why

D) Lady Edith

Lady Edith begins with a published letter to a newspaper backing votes for women, is offered a weekly magazine column and later inherits the magazine'...