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60 free The Devil Wears Prada trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Devil Wears Prada trivia quiz covers everything Miranda Priestly would expect you to know: the 2006 film with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, the Lauren Weisberger novel it was adapted from, the Elton John stage musical, and the 2026 sequel that took the whole cast to Milan Fashion Week. Expect questions on the plot (the phone in the fountain, the New York Mirror, Jacqueline Follet), the famous lines and how they were written, and the behind-the-scenes stories: who turned down Andy, what Anne Hathaway wrote in a zen garden to get the part, and how Patricia Field dressed a movie the fashion industry was afraid to help. Roughly a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has seen the film, a third are medium, and the rest dig into casting, costuming, box office and the differences between the book and the screen versions. It works as a solo test, a movie-night round or a fashion-themed pub quiz. Every answer was checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it, so the explanations settle arguments rather than start them.
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Q 01Who directed the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada?
David Frankel
Frankel had made only one feature, Miami Rhapsody, plus episodes of Sex and the City and Entourage, and initially walked away because he thought the story punished Miranda too harshly.
Q 02Who wrote the 2003 novel the film is based on?
Lauren Weisberger
She had worked as an assistant at a major fashion magazine, and the book spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list.
Q 03Who has final screenplay credit on The Devil Wears Prada after Peter Hedges, Paul Rudnick and Don Roos drafted it?
Aline Brosh McKenna
She toned down Miranda's cruelty at the producers' request, then restored it once Meryl Streep was cast.
Q 04In the film, Andy Sachs has just graduated from which university?
Northwestern
The book gives her a different alma mater; the film also cut her opening scene, in which she goes to the wrong building on the way to her interview.
Q 05Andy's boyfriend Nate breaks up with her after she misses which occasion for work?
His birthday party
The scene was originally a much more elaborate night out at a concert with friends, but that proved too expensive, so the cupcake scene was written instead.
Q 06At the end of the film, Nate tells Andy he has taken a sous-chef job in which city?
Boston
An alternate, more optimistic ending in which the couple have the same conversation while running through the park was filmed but replaced with the restaurant scene.
Q 07Andy walks out on Miranda in Paris by tossing her ringing phone into a fountain in which square?
Place de la Concorde
The crew spent only two days in Paris shooting exteriors; every hotel interior in the Paris sequence is actually the St. Regis in Manhattan.
Q 08Andy lands a job at which fictional newspaper at the end of the film?
The New York Mirror
The newsroom used for the scene belonged to the real, now-defunct New York Sun.
Q 09Who is the editor of French Runway whom Andy learns is being groomed to replace Miranda?
Jacqueline Follet
Miranda already knew about the plot and neutralised it by handing Jacqueline the creative-director job Nigel had been promised.
Q 10Nigel accepts a job with which rising designer, only for Miranda to sacrifice it?
James Holt
Daniel Sunjata originally read unenthusiastically for Nigel, then spotted the Holt part and asked to audition for that instead.
Q 11Which two-word dismissal, kept from the novel, is Miranda's signature way of ending a conversation?
"That's all."
The coat-tossing on Andy's desk and the discarded steak lunch also came straight from the book.
Q 12Miranda's monologue tracing Andy's "lumpy blue sweater" back to the runways is named after which shade?
Cerulean
Streep saw the speech as being about marketing and business, and McKenna expanded it specifically for her.
Q 13Miranda's withering 'Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking' is her reply to a pitch from which staffer?
Jocelyn
The script simply read 'florals.' and 'spring.'; Streep's rising intonation turned them into questions and, many say, the best line in the film.
Q 21Who played Nate, the boyfriend later reassessed by fans as the film's 'real villain'?
Adrian Grenier
In 2021 the actor said that, after much online deliberation, he had come around to the view that Nate was 'a fragile, wounded boy'.
Q 22Which real designer, who made Miranda's black benefit gown, appeared on screen as himself?
Valentino Garavani
Producer Wendy Finerman dared costume designer Patricia Field to ask him in person while he happened to be in New York.
Q 23Which supermodel has a cameo as herself in the film?
Heidi Klum
Gisele Bündchen also agreed to appear, on the condition that she did not play a model.
Q 14Meryl Streep only signed on after the producers roughly doubled her offer to about how much?
$4 million
Her casting was the trigger for Fox to greenlight the film, and she was almost passed over because people did not think she was funny.
Q 15Which actress, coming off Mean Girls and The Notebook, turned down several offers to play Andy?
Rachel McAdams
Kate Hudson was also offered the part but had a scheduling clash with You, Me and Dupree.
Q 16Campaigning for the role of Andy, what did Anne Hathaway trace in a Fox executive's desktop zen garden?
"Hire me"
Frankel liked her enough to skip an audition, but she knew she was not the studio's first choice and would have to wait.
Q 17Emily Blunt read Emily's lines on the Fox lot right after auditioning for which fantasy film?
Eragon
Once that film cast Sienna Guillory instead, Frankel called Blunt back; she insisted on keeping the character's accent.
Q 18Blunt read for Emily in her own accent and insisted on keeping the character what nationality?
British
Over 100 actresses had been considered for the part before the casting agent's tape reached Frankel.
Q 19Stanley Tucci agreed to play Nigel how many days before shooting began?
3
The filmmakers had auditioned real fashion commentators Simon Doonan and Robert Verdi, plus Graham Norton and about 150 other actors.
Q 20Which actor auditioned for Christian Thompson in the same self-designed green jacket he wears on screen?
Simon Baker
Christian's hotel in the film is the W Hotel at Times Square, not anywhere in Paris.
Q 24The novel's author has an uncredited, non-speaking cameo in the film as what?
The twins' nanny
The twins themselves, played by Colleen and Suzanne Dengel, were asked for three years afterwards whether the Harry Potter manuscript prop was real; it was 'all gibberish'.
Q 25Streep said she borrowed Miranda's soft, near-whisper speaking style from which actor-director?
Clint Eastwood
Her joking came from director Mike Nichols, and 'the walk, I'm afraid, is mine'. It was the only film on which she stayed in character between takes.
Q 26Miranda's bouffant hairstyle was inspired by which veteran fashion model?
Carmen Dell'Orefice
The look was blended with the 'unassailable elegance and authority' of French politician Christine Lagarde.
Q 27Streep insisted Miranda's hair be what colour, over producers' fears it would make her look old?
White
The wig and forelock gave Miranda a signature look in the tradition of editors Diana Vreeland and Anna Wintour.
Q 28Which comedian did screenwriter McKenna cite as her main influence for Miranda's insults?
Don Rickles
Novelist Weisberger credited the same draft with pulling the film away from the 'typical chick flick' it had been becoming.
Q 29Frankel cited which 1995 Isaac Mizrahi documentary as his model for the film's attitude to fashion?
Unzipped
The New York Times later called the film 'easily the truest portrayal of fashion culture' since that documentary.
Q 30Principal photography in New York and Paris lasted how many days?
57
Filming ran from September 17 to mid-December 2005; the Paris shoot was only added after six weeks, when Frankel talked the studio into a small extra budget.