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41 free Notting Hill trivia questions with answers. Notting Hill (1999) is the Richard Curtis romcom in which a Portobello Road bookseller falls for the most famous actress in the world. This Notting Hill trivia quiz covers the film scene by scene: the orange juice, Horse & Hound, the dinner party, the Chagall painting, Spike's underpants and the press conference, plus how it was made, the blue door that was auctioned, the songs on the soundtrack and the box-office records it broke. There are also questions on the cast (Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Hugh Bonneville, Gina McKee, Tim McInnerny), on Richard Curtis and Roger Michell, and a few on the real Notting Hill, from Portobello Road Market to the Carnival. It suits a film night, a London-themed quiz or anyone who has ever said 'I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy'. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia and cited on the question, so you can see where each fact comes from.
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Q 01What kind of shop does William Thacker run?
A travel bookshop
The shop used for filming, The Travel Book Store, was at 142 Portobello Road.
Q 02What is the name of the Hollywood star played by Julia Roberts?
Anna Scott
Roberts initially thought the pitch sounded terrible and only agreed after reading the script.
Q 03What does Will spill on Anna when they collide on the street?
Orange juice
He had gone out to buy his colleague Martin a juice.
Q 04Which magazine does Will claim to write for when he is mistaken for a journalist at the Ritz?
Horse & Hound
A young Mischa Barton plays the child actor he ends up interviewing for the magazine.
Q 05Will shares his flat with a scruffy Welshman named what?
Spike
Spike is played by Rhys Ifans, whose performance earned a BAFTA nomination.
Q 06Whose birthday party does Anna attend as Will's date?
His sister Honey's
Honey is played by Emma Chambers, better known as Alice in The Vicar of Dibley.
Q 07According to Will, his ex-wife left him for a man who resembles which actor?
Harrison Ford
The line comes early on, in Will's opening narration about his life.
Q 08Which artist painted La Mariée, the picture Will has as a print and Anna later gives him as the original?
Marc Chagall
The producers had to promise to destroy their reproduction in case it was good enough to be passed off as real.
Q 09According to Anna, 'happiness isn't happiness without' what, as depicted in the Chagall painting?
A violin-playing goat
The animal turns up again on the couple's wedding cake at the end.
Q 10Who inadvertently tips off the paparazzi, leading to the photos on Will's doorstep?
Spike
Anna blames Will and storms out, and several seasons pass before she returns.
Q 11When Anna returns to London, she is making a film based on a novel by which author, on Will's suggestion?
Henry James
He leaves the set after overhearing her being dismissive about him to a co-star.
Q 12What does Spike call Will that finally makes him change his mind and chase after Anna?
A daft prick
The whole gang then races across London to reach her press conference.
Q 13At which hotel is Anna's final press conference held?
The Savoy
Her earlier press junket, where Will posed as a journalist, was at the Ritz.
Q 21How long was the film's first cut before 90 minutes were removed?
3.5 hours
Location scouts wrote to thousands of residents, promising donations to their favourite charities; 200 charities got money.
Q 22Which studio hosted the interior filming?
Shepperton
The premiere scene was built in 24 hours after Leicester Square initially said no.
Q 23According to Hugh Grant, Notting Hill was loosely based on a friend of Curtis's who met a celebrity in which shop?
Harrods
Grant said he was not allowed to name the celebrity.
Which Charles Aznavour song opens the film and, in Elvis Costello's version, closes it?
Q 14In Notting Hill, what is Anna's one-word answer when asked again how long she will stay in Britain?
Indefinitely
The film ends with the pair married and Anna pregnant on a bench in the private garden.
Q 15Which two characters also end up marrying each other at the end of the film?
Spike and Honey
Bella, played by Gina McKee, is Max's wife and uses a wheelchair.
Q 16Which restaurant patron, played by Sanjeev Bhaskar in a cameo, does Anna calmly humiliate?
A man disparaging actresses
The men equate actresses with prostitutes before Will confronts them and Anna delivers the coup de grâce.
Q 17Which comedian has an uncredited cameo as the juice vendor?
Omid Djalili
Science-fiction author China Miéville also appears as an extra.
Q 18Who wrote the screenplay?
Richard Curtis
Curtis lived in the area and said it was 'a melting pot and the perfect place to set a film'.
Q 19Which Four Weddings and a Funeral director turned the film down to make Pushing Tin instead?
Mike Newell
He later admitted it was commercially the wrong call, but said he did not regret it.
Q 20Will's blue-doored house at 280 Westbourne Park Road was owned by whom?
The screenwriter, Richard Curtis
The famous blue door was auctioned for charity, and the current door is blue again.
She
US test audiences did not respond to Aznavour, so Costello was brought in and his cover was used at both ends in America.
Q 25Which Boyzone singer's cover of 'When You Say Nothing at All' from the soundtrack reached UK number one?
Ronan Keating
The song was first a country hit for Keith Whitley in 1988.
Q 26Which Bill Withers song plays as Will strides down Portobello Road through the changing seasons?
Ain't No Sunshine
The soundtrack won Best Soundtrack at the 2000 Brit Awards.
Q 27Which Britpop band recorded 'Born to Cry' for the European soundtrack?
Pulp
Shania Twain's 'You've Got a Way' also got a special Notting Hill remix.
Q 28Who composed the film's original score?
Trevor Jones
He also produced Costello's recording of 'She'.
Q 29Notting Hill opened in the US the same weekend as which blockbuster?
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
A month later Runaway Bride, also starring Roberts, took the record away again.
Q 30Roughly how much did Notting Hill gross worldwide?
$364 million
It was the seventh highest-grossing film of 1999 worldwide.