Q 01/05

In which 1964 film did Julie Andrews make her feature film debut?

A) The Sound of Music

B) Torn Curtain

C) Thoroughly Modern Millie

D) Mary Poppins

Answer · why

D) Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins. Walt Disney saw her on Broadway in Camelot and offered her the part; when she told him she was pregnant, he held the film until after th...

Q 02/05

Which character did Andrews play in The Sound of Music?

A) Liesl von Trapp

B) Maria von Trapp

C) The Baroness

D) Mother Abbess

Answer · why

B) Maria von Trapp

Maria von Trapp. Andrews had found the stage show 'rather saccharine', and had even sent it up in a 1962 TV sketch, three years before the film made h...

Q 03/05

What was Julie Andrews's birth name?

A) Julia Elizabeth Wells

B) Juliet Mary Walton

C) Julia Barbara Morris

D) Julie Ann Andrews

Answer · why

A) Julia Elizabeth Wells

Julia Elizabeth Wells was named after her two grandmothers. She became Julie Andrews at about ten, taking her stepfather's surname when she joined the...

Q 04/05

Which actor played Captain von Trapp opposite Andrews in The Sound of Music?

A) Dick Van Dyke

B) Rex Harrison

C) Christopher Plummer

D) Richard Burton

Answer · why

C) Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer mocked the film for years as 'The Sound of Mucus', yet he and Andrews stayed great friends until his death in 2021.

Q 05/05

What family secret did Andrews first reveal in her 2008 memoir?

A) She had a stillborn twin sister

B) Her dad wasn't her real father

C) She was adopted from an orphanage

D) Her mother was a former nun

Answer · why

B) Her dad wasn't her real father

Her dad wasn't her real father. As a teenager, driving her mother back from a party, she learned that their host was her biological father, and resolv...