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50 free Julie Andrews trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Julie Andrews trivia quiz covers the girl from Walton-on-Thames who sang on a beer crate for the troops, played Eliza Doolittle on Broadway at twenty and won an Oscar for her very first film. The easy questions cover the roles everyone knows: Mary Poppins, Maria von Trapp, Queen Clarisse of Genovia and the queen in Shrek. From there the quiz moves through the career: the Royal Variety Performance at thirteen, The Boy Friend, My Fair Lady and the film part that went to Audrey Hepburn, the live Cinderella watched by 107 million people, Camelot, Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, the flops Star! and Darling Lili, and Victor/Victoria on screen and stage. The hard end covers her birth name and the parentage secret she kept until 2008, her voice teacher, the aria she sang at the Hippodrome, her husbands Tony Walton and Blake Edwards, the Tony nomination she refused, the 1997 throat surgery and the lawsuit that followed, her children's books, the damehood, Lady Whistledown and the AFI Life Achievement Award. Every answer was checked against Julie Andrews's encyclopaedia entry before publishing and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Our Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and classic movie musicals quizzes are natural next stops.
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Q 01In which 1964 Disney film did Julie Andrews make her movie debut?
Mary Poppins
Walt Disney had seen her in Camelot and, when she said she was pregnant, told her 'We'll wait for you.'
Q 02Which character did Andrews play in The Sound of Music?
Maria von Trapp
She later admitted she had thought the musical 'rather saccharine' before she was cast.
Q 03What was Julie Andrews's birth name?
Julia Elizabeth Wells
She took the surname of her stepfather, the entertainer Ted Andrews.
Q 04In which Surrey town was Andrews born in 1935?
Walton-on-Thames
Her family later settled in nearby Hersham, in a house where her grandmother had once been a maid.
Q 05What secret about her birth did Andrews learn at about 15 and only reveal publicly in her 2008 memoir?
Her biological father was a family friend
The man she called Dad, Ted Wells, was a woodwork and metalwork teacher.
Q 06Which concert soprano trained the young Andrews and called her 'my star pupil'?
Lilian Stiles-Allen
Andrews called her 'my third mother' and joked that her own four-octave voice brought dogs from miles around.
Q 07What did the young Andrews stand on to reach the microphone in her earliest shows with her parents?
A beer crate
Fellow child performer Petula Clark recalled the two of them sleeping in luggage racks while touring for the troops.
Q 08What aria did 12-year-old Andrews sing at her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome in 1947?
'Je suis Titania' from Mignon
She stopped the show cold and stayed at the Hippodrome for a year in the revue Starlight Roof.
Q 09In 1948 Andrews became the youngest solo performer ever to appear in what?
A Royal Variety Performance
She was 13 and shared the Palladium bill with Danny Kaye and the Nicholas Brothers before King George VI.
Q 10On which BBC radio comedy was Andrews a cast member from 1950 to 1952?
Educating Archie
Its star was a ventriloquist's dummy, which made it an unusual hit for radio.
Q 11In which musical did Andrews make her Broadway debut in 1954, on the eve of her 19th birthday?
The Boy Friend
Hattie Jacques recommended her for the part of Polly Browne; she directed a revival of the show herself in 2003.
Q 12Which role did Andrews create on Broadway in My Fair Lady in 1956?
Eliza Doolittle
Director Moss Hart spent 48 straight hours drilling her in the part, which she called the best acting lesson she ever had.
Q 13Which studio boss decided Andrews lacked the name recognition to star in the film of My Fair Lady?
Jack Warner
Audrey Hepburn got the part, with Marni Nixon dubbing most of her singing.
Q 21Which director cast Andrews opposite Paul Newman in the 1966 thriller Torn Curtain?
Alfred Hitchcock
After she publicly criticised her own performance he sent her a terse letter she called an important lesson.
Q 22Which 1966 film starring Andrews was the highest-grossing movie of its year?
Hawaii
That made three years running in which she headlined the year's top-grossing picture or a close rival.
Q 23Andrews's 1968 film Star! was a biopic of which stage performer?
Gertrude Lawrence
It became one of Hollywood's most expensive flops, though she still earned a Golden Globe nomination.
Q 14Whom did Andrews pointedly thank in her Golden Globe speech for her 1964 Disney debut?
Jack Warner
Songwriter Richard Sherman called it 'sweet revenge'; My Fair Lady was competing for the same awards.
Q 15How many viewers watched the live 1957 CBS broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella?
107 million
It went out in colour from CBS's only East Coast colour studio while she was still playing Eliza eight times a week.
Q 16Which queen did Andrews play in the 1960 Broadway musical Camelot?
Guinevere
Richard Burton was King Arthur and newcomer Robert Goulet played Lancelot.
Q 17What did author P. L. Travers tell Andrews on the phone about her casting as the magical nanny?
"You've got the nose for it"
She prefaced it with 'Well, you're much too pretty of course.'
Q 18How many Academy Awards did Andrews's 1964 Disney debut win from its 13 nominations?
5
Andrews's Best Actress statuette was among them, and the cast also won a Grammy for Best Album for Children.
Q 19Which 1964 war comedy-drama, co-starring James Garner, did Andrews name as her favourite of her films?
The Americanization of Emily
She took it partly to avoid being typecast as a nanny; Garner shared her opinion of the film.
Q 20In which Austrian city was The Sound of Music filmed in 1964?
Salzburg
Bad weather meant the cast were lucky to get a single shot's worth of scenes on some days.
Q 24Which director, Andrews's second husband, made Darling Lili, S.O.B. and Victor/Victoria with her?
Blake Edwards
They married in November 1969 and stayed together for 41 years until his death in 2010.
Q 25What was the profession of Tony Walton, Andrews's first husband, whom she married in 1959?
Set designer
They met in 1948 when she was playing the egg in Humpty Dumpty; Maggie Smith was a wedding guest.
Q 26Which Disney role was Andrews the first choice for in 1971 before Angela Lansbury was cast?
Eglantine Price in Bedknobs and Broomsticks
She was busy with television, including a 1971 special at the opening of Walt Disney World.
Q 27How many Emmy Awards did The Julie Andrews Hour win before ABC cancelled it after one season?
7
She went on to headline five more variety specials for the network between 1973 and 1975.
Q 28With which comedienne did Andrews make TV specials in 1962, 1971 and 1989?
Carol Burnett
The first, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, aired on CBS in June 1962.
Q 29In Victor/Victoria (1982), Andrews's character Victoria Grant passes herself off as what?
A male female-impersonator
Her dual role as Victoria Grant and Count Victor Grezhinski brought her third Oscar nomination.
Q 30How many Oscar nominations for Best Actress has Andrews received in her career?
3
For her Disney debut, The Sound of Music and Victor/Victoria; she won for the first.