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50 free Love Actually trivia questions with answers. Love Actually has been a Christmas fixture since 2003, and this quiz digs into every corner of it: the ten interlocking storylines, the cast who play the Prime Minister, the widower, the bride and the rock star, the London locations, the soundtrack that topped the UK charts, and the 2017 reunion short Red Nose Day Actually. The questions start easy enough for anyone who watches the film once a year and climb to details only real devotees will know: the storyline that was cut, the Robert Palmer video Billy Mack's is copying, and who auditioned for Sam. Difficulty is spread evenly so it works for a Christmas party round or a solo run on the sofa. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the cast's own pages, and each question shows its source under the explanation, so you can settle arguments with something better than a hunch.
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Q 01Who made his directorial debut with the 2003 film Love Actually?
Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis made his directing debut with Love Actually in 2003, having already written Notting Hill and co-written Bridget Jones's Diary for other directors.
Q 02Which actor plays David, the newly elected Prime Minister?
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant plays David, the bachelor Prime Minister who falls for his junior staffer Natalie; his voiceover about the arrivals gate opens the film.
Q 03The film opens and closes with scenes at which London airport?
Heathrow
Heathrow's arrivals gate frames the film: the opening voiceover celebrates the reunions seen there, and the closing montage returns to the same gate one month after Christmas.
Q 04Billy Mack's novelty Christmas single is a reworked version of which song?
Love Is All Around
Billy Mack's 'Christmas Is All Around' rewrites the Troggs' 'Love Is All Around'; Wet Wet Wet's cover of the same song had spent 15 weeks at UK number one in 1994.
Q 05Jamie's housekeeper Aurélia speaks only which language?
Portuguese
The pair fall for each other while unable to understand a word the other says, and each secretly learns the other's language.
Q 06Sam decides to win Joanna's attention by learning which instrument for the school concert?
Drums
Sam takes up the drums, practising relentlessly so he can be on stage behind Joanna when she sings the closing number at the school Christmas concert.
Q 07Which comic actor plays Rufus, the maddeningly thorough jewellery salesman?
Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson plays Rufus, whose elaborate gift-wrapping nearly exposes Harry; early drafts wrote Rufus as an angel, which is why he turns up at exactly the right moments.
Q 08Jamie discovers that his girlfriend is having an affair with whom?
His brother
Jamie comes home early from Juliet and Peter's wedding to find his girlfriend in bed with his own brother, and retreats to a cottage in France to write.
Q 09Karen is devastated when she finds evidence that Harry bought Mia what?
A necklace
She had discovered the box in his coat pocket and assumed it was for her.
Q 10Which actor plays Daniel, the recently widowed stepfather?
Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson plays Daniel, the widower coaching stepson Sam through his first crush; Neeson and Laura Linney, who plays Sarah, reunited a year later in the biopic Kinsey.
Q 11Who plays Harry, the design-firm boss married to Karen?
Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman plays Harry, the agency boss whose flirtation with his secretary Mia leads him to buy her a Christmas gift behind his wife Karen's back.
Q 12Which actress plays Juliet, the bride whose wedding opens the film?
Keira Knightley
Keira Knightley plays Juliet, who marries Peter in the opening wedding and later discovers Mark's video is filmed entirely of her; Knightley was 17 during the shoot.
Q 13Which real-life TV presenting duo appear as themselves interviewing Billy Mack?
Ant & Dec
Billy pointedly addresses one of them as 'Ant or Dec', a running gag about people confusing the pair.
Q 21Colin's search for American women takes him to a bar in which city?
Milwaukee
Colin lands in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, walks out of the snow into a bar and is instantly adopted by three women who adore his British accent.
Q 22When Jamie proposes, Aurélia reveals she has secretly been learning what?
English
Aurélia answers Jamie's proposal in newly learned English, her 'just in cases' becoming one of the film's most quoted lines.
Q 23After searching her street door-to-door, David finally reunites with Natalie where?
At a school nativity play
David finds Natalie at the school nativity play, the same concert Sam and Daisy are performing in; their backstage kiss is exposed when the curtain rises.
Q 14The film's original script contained how many separate storylines?
14
The original script ran to 14 storylines; several were dropped, among them a filmed romance between a headmistress and her dying partner that never reached the final cut.
Q 15Billy Mack's music video is a shot-for-shot tribute to which 1986 Robert Palmer video?
Addicted to Love
Billy Mack's video apes Robert Palmer's 'Addicted to Love', right down to the pouting, identically dressed backing 'band' of models behind the singer.
Q 16In the US cut, which singer's 'The Trouble with Love Is' replaces a Sugababes track?
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson's 'The Trouble with Love Is', from her album Thankful, replaces the Sugababes' 'Too Lost in You' in the US cut of the film.
Q 17Which girl group's cover of 'Jump (For My Love)' plays over the UK end credits?
Girls Aloud
Girls Aloud recorded 'Jump (For My Love)' for the film; it closes the UK credits, while the Pointer Sisters' original soundtracks David's dance through Downing Street.
Q 18Where were the scenes set inside 10 Downing Street actually filmed?
Shepperton Studios
The 10 Downing Street interiors were built as sets at Shepperton Studios, while most of the rest of the film was shot on location around London.
Q 19The opening wedding was filmed in which London church?
Grosvenor Chapel
Grosvenor Chapel on South Audley Street stood in for Juliet and Peter's wedding, where Mark's hidden brass band and choir burst into 'All You Need Is Love'.
Q 20In a cut storyline, Anne Reid's headmistress went home to her terminally ill partner, played by whom?
Frances de la Tour
Frances de la Tour played Geraldine, the dying partner of Anne Reid's headmistress; their storyline, the film's only gay love story, survives only among the DVD's deleted scenes.
Q 24Joanna brings the house down at the school concert singing which song?
All I Want for Christmas Is You
Joanna sings 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'; ten-year-old Olivia Olson's vocal was so polished the filmmakers added audible breaths so audiences would believe it was really her.
Q 25Who composed the film's orchestral score, including 'Glasgow Love Theme' and 'PM's Love Theme'?
Craig Armstrong
Craig Armstrong, the Glasgow-born composer who scored Moulin Rouge!, wrote the film's orchestral score, including the 'Glasgow Love Theme' and 'PM's Love Theme'.
Q 26Who plays the swaggering visiting US President?
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton plays the US President who makes a pass at Natalie; the same year he played the foul-mouthed mall Santa of Bad Santa.
Q 27Sarah's colleague Karl is played by which Brazilian actor?
Rodrigo Santoro
Rodrigo Santoro plays Karl, the colleague Sarah has loved for years; three years later he was nearly unrecognisable as the towering Persian king Xerxes in 300.
Q 28Harry's flirtatious secretary Mia is played by an actress from which country?
Germany
Heike Makatsch had recently played Lisa Addison in the first Resident Evil film.
Q 29Before playing Natalie, Martine McCutcheon was famous as Tiffany Mitchell in which soap?
EastEnders
Martine McCutcheon played Tiffany Mitchell in EastEnders from 1995 to 1998, when the character was killed off on New Year's Eve; Natalie was her first film role.
Q 30Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Olivia Olson reunited voicing Vanessa and her love interest in which series?
Phineas and Ferb
Olson said the two of them joked about 'the whole Ferb-Vanessa situation' given their Love Actually history.