Q 01/05

Emma Stone was born in which Arizona city?

A) Tucson

B) Tempe

C) Flagstaff

D) Scottsdale

Answer · why

D) Scottsdale

Scottsdale was home until she was 15, when she talked her parents into letting her quit high school after one semester and leave for California to act...

Q 02/05

What is Emma Stone's real first name?

A) Emmeline

B) Emmanuelle

C) Emily

D) Emerson

Answer · why

C) Emily

'Emily Stone' was already taken when she registered with the Screen Actors Guild at 16.

Q 03/05

Stone's husky voice is traced to vocal-cord nodules caused by what in infancy?

A) Whooping cough

B) Baby colic

C) A tonsillectomy

D) Premature birth

Answer · why

B) Baby colic

Baby colic had her screaming so much as an infant that her vocal cords calloused over, and the husky result became one of her trademarks.

Q 04/05

Stone's surname was anglicised from 'Sten', the name of her grandfather's family, who were of which origin?

A) Norwegian

B) Swedish

C) Dutch

D) Danish

Answer · why

B) Swedish

Swedish: 'sten' is simply the Swedish word for stone, so the family translated its name rather than inventing a new one.

Q 05/05

At age 11, Stone made her acting debut playing which animal in The Wind in the Willows?

A) Mole

B) Badger

C) Rat

D) Otter

Answer · why

D) Otter

Otter came at a hard time: Stone had been having panic attacks since she was small, and has said that youth theatre and improv comedy are what got her...