Q 01/05

Who directed the 1998 film Practical Magic?

A) Griffin Dunne

B) Penny Marshall

C) Nora Ephron

D) Garry Marshall

Answer · why

A) Griffin Dunne

The After Hours actor and son of Dominick Dunne had made his directing debut with Addicted to Love the year before; he later said the studio cut his d...

Q 02/05

Whose 1995 novel is Practical Magic based on?

A) Anne Rice

B) Alice Hoffman

C) Amy Tan

D) Alice Walker

Answer · why

B) Alice Hoffman

Hoffman, born in New York and raised on Long Island, later wrote two prequels and a sequel that the 2026 film adapts.

Q 03/05

What are the first names of the two Owens sisters played by Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman?

A) Sally and Frances

B) Jet and Gillian

C) Sally and Gillian

D) Kylie and Antonia

Answer · why

C) Sally and Gillian

Bullock is the widowed, magic-averse Sally; Kidman is free-spirited 'Gilly.' Kylie and Antonia are Sally's daughters.

Q 04/05

Which sister does Sandra Bullock play?

A) Kylie, the daughter

B) Frances, the aunt

C) Gillian, the younger

D) Sally, the elder

Answer · why

D) Sally, the elder

Sally is widowed by the family curse and forbids her daughters to practice magic — until she needs it to save her sister.

Q 05/05

Which two actresses play aunts Frances and Jet?

A) Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest

B) Diane Keaton and Bette Midler

C) Cloris Leachman and Anne Bancroft

D) Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis

Answer · why

A) Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest

Channing's Frances is the frank one, Wiest's Bridget 'Jet' the gentle one; both return for the 2026 sequel.