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50 free Four Weddings and a Funeral trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Four Weddings and a Funeral was shot in 36 days on a budget so tight that extras wore their own wedding clothes and Rowan Atkinson played the vicar twice to save hiring another actor. It then became the highest-grossing British film ever made, sent a Wet Wet Wet single to number one for 15 weeks, put a W. H. Auden poem back into print and turned Hugh Grant into an overnight star. This quiz covers the film itself, from Charles's serial lateness to the thunderbolt at the final kiss, and the story behind it: the actors who were cast first and dropped out, the actor Richard Curtis actually wanted, the 17 drafts, the title the American distributor tried to change, and the Comic Relief reunion 25 years later. Expect questions on the cast, the locations, the box office and the one-word swap made for US audiences. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. The easy ones anyone who has seen it will get; the expert ones are for people who have read the production notes.
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Q 01Who plays Charles, the perpetually late best man?
Hugh Grant
The producers saw about 70 actors for the part before him, and he claimed to be on the verge of quitting acting when the script arrived.
Q 02In which year was the film released?
1994
It opened in just five US cinemas in March that year and was number one in the UK for nine straight weeks.
Q 03Who plays Carrie, the American Charles keeps running into?
Andie MacDowell
She was in London promoting Groundhog Day when she read the script and took a 75% pay cut to do it.
Q 04Who wrote the screenplay?
Richard Curtis
He based Charles on himself, which is why he initially thought the handsome Grant was wrong for the part.
Q 05Rowan Atkinson plays what kind of character?
A bumbling vicar
He officiates at two of the weddings because the budget could not stretch to a second clergyman.
Q 06Which band's cover of 'Love Is All Around' topped the UK singles chart?
Wet Wet Wet
Curtis later recycled it as 'Christmas Is All Around' for Billy Mack in Love Actually.
Q 07Which character dies of a heart attack during a wedding speech?
Gareth
His death prompts Charles and Tom to realise that the couple in their circle who seemed most married were Gareth and Matthew.
Q 08Whose poem 'Funeral Blues' is read at the funeral?
W. H. Auden
Also known as 'Stop all the clocks', it first appeared in a 1936 play and was later rewritten as a cabaret song.
Q 09What does the jilted bride do to Charles at the altar?
Punches him
His deaf brother David has just signed to the vicar that the groom loves someone else.
Q 10Charles's brother David, played by David Bower, is what?
Deaf
He gets the girl too: the closing montage shows him married to Serena, who was smitten at the second wedding.
Q 11Whom does Charles nearly marry at the fourth wedding?
Henrietta
She is the ex-girlfriend who earlier called him a 'serial monogamist'; in the montage she ends up marrying an Army officer.
Q 12At the UK premiere, Elizabeth Hurley wore a famous black dress by which designer?
Versace
Several fashion houses had refused to lend her anything because they did not know who she was.
Q 13What does Charles propose to Carrie at the end of the film?
A lifetime together without marriage
Curtis deliberately never mentions anyone's job, reasoning that friends at a wedding would not discuss work.
Q 21What is the name of Carrie's wealthy Scottish fiancé?
Hamish
Charles helps her choose the wedding dress and then blurts out that he loves her, which she gently rebuffs.
Q 22Scarlett meets Chester, a man from where?
Texas
They meet again at the fourth wedding and are married by the closing photo montage.
Q 23The film's director later made which Harry Potter instalment?
Goblet of Fire
He was the first British director on the Potter series.
Q 24How many Academy Award nominations did the film receive?
Q 14Who plays Fiona, the aristocratic friend secretly in love with Charles?
Kristin Scott Thomas
She won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, one of three BAFTAs the film took home.
Q 15Who directed the film?
Mike Newell
Grant thought the director was working against the comedy's natural beats; Newell was 'obsessed with keeping it real'.
Q 16What happens in the sky as Charles and Carrie kiss at the end?
A thunderbolt flashes
The final scene was shot on Highbury Terrace in Islington, in the pouring rain.
Q 17Who plays the flamboyant friend who dies mid-film?
Simon Callow
He picked up a BAFTA nomination for the part, as did John Hannah for playing his partner.
Q 18Who plays Matthew, who recites the poem at the funeral?
John Hannah
The Scottish actor went on to Sliding Doors and The Mummy films.
Q 19Hurley's famous premiere dress was held together by what?
Gold safety pins
It is now simply known as 'THAT Dress' and is credited with launching her onto the global media stage.
Q 20Which band originally recorded 'Love Is All Around' in 1967?
The Troggs
Singer Reg Presley wrote it in about ten minutes after seeing a Salvation Army band on television.
Two
Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay; it won neither, losing the top prize to Forrest Gump.
Q 25Fiona ends up with whom in the closing photo montage?
Prince Charles
A joke that aged in an unexpected way once the real prince became king.
Q 26Which production company stepped in to close the funding gap in 1993?
Working Title
The film's profits wiped out the company's past losses and it went on to make Notting Hill and Love Actually.
Q 27In the US version, the opening expletive was replaced by which British swear word?
Bugger
The reshoot followed a test screening walkout by conservative council members in Salt Lake City.
Q 28Who created the 2019 Hulu anthology series based on the film?
Mindy Kaling
Alex Jennings, who was originally cast as Charles in 1992, got a supporting role in it.
Q 29Who plays Tom, Fiona's amiable brother?
James Fleet
Tom finally finds love with his distant cousin Deirdre while seating guests at the fourth wedding.
Q 30The film's screenwriter was born in which country?
New Zealand
His family moved between Sweden and the Philippines before settling in the UK when he was 11.