Q 01/05

Emily Brontë published which 1847 novel of doomed love on the Yorkshire moors under the pen-name Ellis Bell?

A) Pride and Prejudice

B) Wuthering Heights

C) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

D) North and South

Answer · why

B) Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights was not generally admired at first: many critics found its characters coarse and immoral, and Emily died a year after it came out, a...

Q 02/05

Emily Blunt broke through in 2006 as Emily Charlton, senior assistant to fashion editor Miranda Priestly, in which film?

A) Confessions of a Shopaholic

B) Bridget Jones's Diary

C) Legally Blonde

D) The Devil Wears Prada

Answer · why

D) The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada left Meryl Streep so impressed that she called Blunt the best young actress she had worked with in some time, perhaps ever.

Q 03/05

In Friends, Ross Geller says which woman's name instead of Emily's during their London wedding vows?

A) Rachel

B) Carol

C) Elizabeth

D) Phoebe

Answer · why

A) Rachel

Rachel had flown to London to tell Ross she loved him, and a livid Emily went on with the ceremony, then locked herself in the bathroom at the recepti...

Q 04/05

Which actress plays Emily Cooper, a Chicago marketing executive posted to France, in the Netflix series Emily in Paris?

A) Lily James

B) Shailene Woodley

C) Lily Collins

D) Zoey Deutch

Answer · why

C) Lily Collins

Lily Collins is the daughter of the English musician Phil Collins, and she is also a producer of the series, which earned her an Emmy nomination in th...

Q 05/05

Emily Warren Roebling spent a decade steering which New York landmark to completion after her engineer husband fell ill?

A) Statue of Liberty

B) Brooklyn Bridge

C) Grand Central Terminal

D) Holland Tunnel

Answer · why

B) Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge honoured her before it officially opened: Emily was the first to cross it by carriage, carrying a rooster as a sign of victory.

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