Q 01/05

For his 1971 Wonka entrance, Gene Wilder insisted on limping with a cane and then doing what?

A) A cartwheel

B) A forward somersault

C) A tap-dance break

D) A pratfall into the crowd

Answer · why

B) A forward somersault

A forward somersault. Wilder made the stunt a condition of taking the part, so that from then on nobody would know whether Wonka was lying or telling ...

Q 02/05

After playing Charlie Bucket in 1971's Willy Wonka, Peter Ostrum never made another film; what did he become instead?

A) A dentist

B) An airline pilot

C) A schoolteacher

D) A veterinarian

Answer · why

D) A veterinarian

A veterinarian. Ostrum turned down a three-film deal, and back home the vet who treated his family's horse made such a huge impression that he took up...

Q 03/05

Britain's Roald Dahl first published Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in which country?

A) New Zealand

B) South Africa

C) United States

D) Australia

Answer · why

C) United States

United States. It came out there in 1964, but Dahl struggled to find a British publisher, and readers in his own country had to wait until 1967 for an...

Q 04/05

What happens to Violet Beauregarde after she tries Wonka's experimental three-course-dinner gum?

A) She is sucked up a pipe

B) She shrinks to a few inches

C) She swells into a giant blueberry

D) She falls down a rubbish chute

Answer · why

C) She swells into a giant blueberry

She swells into a giant blueberry when the gum reaches its dessert course, blueberry pie, so Oompa-Loompas roll her off to the Juicing Room to be sque...

Q 05/05

In Dahl's novel, squirrels throw Veruca Salt down the rubbish chute; which birds replaced them in the 1971 Wonka film?

A) Swans

B) Geese

C) Peacocks

D) Hens

Answer · why

B) Geese

Geese. The 1971 film gave Wonka geese that lay golden eggs, while the 2005 remake went back to the book and taught 40 real squirrels to crack walnuts ...