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

Wilder wanted the stunt so that from that moment on no one would know whether Wonka was lying or telling the truth.

Q 02/05

Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie Bucket in 1971, 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

Ostrum turned down a three-film contract at 13 and earned his doctorate from Cornell in 1984, working mostly with large animals.

Q 03/05

In what year was Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory first published?

A) 1964

B) 1968

C) 1972

D) 1975

Answer · why

A) 1964

It came out first in the United States; British readers had to wait another 11 months for the UK edition.

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 is shrunk to a few inches tall

C) She swells into a giant blueberry

D) She falls down a rubbish chute

Answer · why

C) She swells into a giant blueberry

The gum's dessert course is blueberry pie, and the Oompa-Loompas roll her off to the juicing room.

Q 05/05

In Dahl's novel, what does Veruca Salt try to grab as a pet just before she is judged a 'bad nut'?

A) A golden goose

B) A nut-testing squirrel

C) An Oompa-Loompa

D) A chocolate-river swan

Answer · why

B) A nut-testing squirrel

The 1971 film swapped the walnut-shelling animals for golden-egg-laying geese; the 2005 film restored the original scene with real trained rodents.