Q 01/05

The barricade battle in the 2012 film Les Misérables is based on which real Paris uprising?

A) The French Revolution

B) The July Revolution

C) The June Rebellion

D) The Paris Commune

Answer · why

C) The June Rebellion

The June Rebellion of 1832 was a two-day republican rising put down by the army, more than forty years after the French Revolution that many viewers a...

Q 02/05

How were the songs in the 2012 film Les Misérables recorded, unlike most movie musicals?

A) Sung live on set

B) Pre-recorded in a studio

C) Dubbed by stage singers

D) Mimed to a cast album

Answer · why

A) Sung live on set

Sung live on set, the vocals followed a piano played through earpieces, and a 70-piece orchestra was recorded only after filming had finished.

Q 03/05

Which actress had her real hair cut off on camera to play Fantine in the 2012 film Les Misérables?

A) Amy Adams

B) Anne Hathaway

C) Kate Winslet

D) Marion Cotillard

Answer · why

B) Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway first fell for the stage at eight, watching her own mother play Fantine in the first US national tour of the musical.

Q 04/05

Which pop star was reported in January 2012 to have been offered a role in the film Les Misérables?

A) Katy Perry

B) Lady Gaga

C) Kelly Clarkson

D) Taylor Swift

Answer · why

D) Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift later said the reports were not entirely accurate, and the part of the innkeepers' daughter went to a West End actress who had already pl...

Q 05/05

For the 2012 film Les Misérables, crews built a replica of which Bastille monument in Greenwich?

A) A giant elephant

B) A crouching lion

C) A rearing horse

D) An imperial eagle

Answer · why

A) A giant elephant

A giant elephant really stood at the Bastille: Napoleon wanted it cast in bronze, but only a full-size plaster model was ever built.