Q 01/05

In which city was Hugh Grant born?

A) Edinburgh

B) Manchester

C) Bristol

D) London

Answer · why

D) London

London: he was born in Hammersmith, and in 2023 he spent Christmas Day back in the borough serving lunch to elderly residents who would otherwise have...

Q 02/05

Grant played the British Prime Minister in which 2003 ensemble comedy?

A) Notting Hill

B) About a Boy

C) Love Actually

D) Two Weeks Notice

Answer · why

C) Love Actually

Love Actually has him dance through 10 Downing Street to the Pointer Sisters, a scene he dreaded filming and has since called "absolute hell".

Q 03/05

Grant starred opposite Julia Roberts in which 1999 film?

A) Nine Months

B) Notting Hill

C) Two Weeks Notice

D) Music and Lyrics

Answer · why

B) Notting Hill

Notting Hill casts him as a bookseller who, mistaken for a reporter at the film star's press junket, claims to write for Horse & Hound magazine.

Q 04/05

Which 1994 comedy made Grant an overnight international star?

A) Four Weddings and a Funeral

B) The Remains of the Day

C) Sense and Sensibility

D) An Awfully Big Adventure

Answer · why

A) Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral arrived when, at 32, he was close to giving up acting; it became the most successful British film up to that time.

Q 05/05

Grant plays womanising publisher Daniel Cleaver in which film series?

A) Paddington

B) Bridget Jones

C) Johnny English

D) Kingsman

Answer · why

B) Bridget Jones

Bridget Jones: he returned as Cleaver in 2004 and again, two decades later, in Mad About the Boy, after reading a script that he says made him cry.