Q 01/05

The Holiday's writer-director, Nancy Meyers, also made which of these films?

A) Sleepless in Seattle

B) Pretty Woman

C) It's Complicated

D) When Harry Met Sally

Answer · why

C) It's Complicated

It's Complicated followed in 2009, but the title had turned up three years earlier as the name of a one-minute cue on The Holiday's soundtrack album.

Q 02/05

In The Holiday, who plays Amanda Woods, the Los Angeles half of the house swap?

A) Reese Witherspoon

B) Jennifer Aniston

C) Cameron Diaz

D) Drew Barrymore

Answer · why

C) Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz was in Nancy Meyers's head while the script was still being written: "She seemed absolutely the right choice for a California girl."

Q 03/05

In The Holiday, who plays Iris Simpkins, the English newspaper columnist?

A) Keira Knightley

B) Emily Blunt

C) Rachel Weisz

D) Kate Winslet

Answer · why

D) Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet had made period films but never a romantic comedy, and missed having a wig or an accent to hide behind; she and a co-star swapped nervous...

Q 04/05

What does Amanda's company make in The Holiday?

A) Movie posters

B) Film trailers

C) TV commercials

D) Music videos

Answer · why

B) Film trailers

Film trailers pay for her mansion and invade her head: a booming announcer keeps cutting in to narrate her love life, beginning "Amanda Woods is proud...

Q 05/05

For which newspaper does Iris write a column in The Holiday?

A) The Evening Standard

B) The Daily Telegraph

C) The Guardian

D) The Daily Mail

Answer · why

B) The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph pays Iris to write up weddings, so her editor hands her a scoop in front of the whole staff: the engagement of the colleague she h...