Notting Hill Trivia
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48 free Notting Hill trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
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
A travel bookshop: the real one that inspired it stood round the corner in Blenheim Crescent, but the film shot its shopfront at an antiques arcade on Portobello Road.
Q 02What is the name of the Hollywood star played by Julia Roberts?
Anna Scott
Anna Scott nearly went unplayed by Julia Roberts, who has said the pitch sounded awful and that she did not want the part until she met the film-makers and read the script.
Q 03What does Will spill on Anna when they collide on the street?
Orange juice
Orange juice was his colleague Martin's order, and the spill is what gets Anna into Will's house across the road, where she changes and, on leaving, kisses him.
Q 04Which magazine does Will claim to write for when he is mistaken for a journalist at the Ritz?
Horse & Hound
Horse & Hound has Will asking Anna whether her film might have had more horses in it, which she says was difficult, as it is set in space.
Q 05Whose birthday party does Anna attend as Will's date?
His sister Honey's
His sister Honey's welcome is the warmest of the night: she tells Anna that she adores her and has long believed the two of them could be best friends.
Q 06According to Will, his ex-wife left him for a man who resembles which actor?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford's double gets the blame in Will's opening narration; asked later by Anna why his wife left, he says simply that she saw through him.
Q 07Which artist painted La Mariée, the picture Will has as a print and Anna later gives him as the original?
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall's picture, Anna says, feels like how love should be; she later brings the original to Will's shop as a gift, and he still turns her down.
Q 08According to Anna, 'happiness isn't happiness without' what, as shown in the painting on Will's wall?
A violin-playing goat
A violin-playing goat is Will's own observation: when Anna says the picture feels like how love should be, he points out the animal and she agrees.
Q 09Who 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 10When Anna returns to London, she is making a film based on a novel by which author, on Will's suggestion?
Henry James
Henry James comes up while Will helps Anna rehearse an action script, which he calls gripping but no classic; months later he finds her in costume on a period film set.
Q 11What does Spike call Will that finally makes him change his mind and chase after Anna?
A daft prick
A daft prick is his flatmate's instant verdict on hearing that Will has turned Anna down, and Will uses the same words about himself at her press conference.
Q 12At which hotel is Anna's final press conference held?
The Savoy
The Savoy comes as a tip from a hotel concierge, who tells Will that the guest he wants has checked out and is meeting the press there before flying home to America.
Q 13In Notting Hill, what is Anna's one-word answer when asked again how long she will stay in Britain?
Indefinitely
Indefinitely reverses the answer given minutes earlier, when the room was told that Anna was leaving Britain that very night.
Q 21According to Hugh Grant, Notting Hill was inspired by a friend of the writer's who met a celebrity in which shop?
Harrods
Harrods is where, by Hugh Grant's account, an ordinary man met a very famous woman and took her home to Notting Hill; Grant says the writer let it slip when drunk and will not admit it.
Q 22Which Charles Aznavour song opens Notting Hill and, in Elvis Costello's version, closes it?
She
She plays in Aznavour's own voice only outside America: US test audiences did not respond to it, so Elvis Costello's cover was used at both ends of the film there.
Q 23Which Boyzone singer's cover of 'When You Say Nothing at All' from the Notting Hill soundtrack reached UK number one?
Ronan Keating
Q 14Which restaurant patron, played by Sanjeev Bhaskar in a cameo, does Anna calmly humiliate?
A man disparaging actresses
A man disparaging actresses within earshot gets a hesitant telling-off from Will first; Anna then walks over herself and coolly cuts his whole table down to size.
Q 15Which comedian has an uncredited cameo as the cashier who serves Will just before he collides with Anna?
Omid Djalili
Omid Djalili has joked that film-makers kept casting him as Middle Eastern rogues, such as the prison warden in The Mummy; here he is simply the man at a London till.
Q 16In Notting Hill, Anna says she is 'just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to' do what?
Love her
Love her, she says, after Will has turned her down in his shop; he tells his friends it was the sensible choice, then races across London to take it back.
Q 17Which Four Weddings and a Funeral director turned down the chance to direct Notting Hill?
Mike Newell
Mike Newell had made the same writer's Four Weddings five years earlier; his refusal handed the job to Roger Michell, until then known for stage work and a BBC Persuasion.
Q 18Which American actor makes an uncredited appearance as Anna's film-star boyfriend, Jeff?
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin spent a single day on the London set and took no credit; in his memoir he wrote that the appeal was breathing the same air as Julia Roberts.
Q 19Keziah, one of the blind dates Will's friends arrange for him, announces that she follows which diet?
Fruitarian
Fruitarian, she explains, means eating only what has already fallen from the tree or bush, which leaves Will asking about the carrots and hearing that they were murdered.
Q 20Which cartoon surname, Anna's hotel alias, finally gets Will put through to her room at the Ritz?
Flintstone
Flintstone only surfaces because Will's flatmate belatedly recalls the name she left with her message; Anna explains that she always checks in under a cartoon character's name.
Ronan Keating cut the song for the film while still in Boyzone; released as his first solo single, it topped the UK chart for two weeks and launched his career outside the group.
Q 24Which Bill Withers song plays as Will strides down Portobello Road through the changing seasons?
Ain't No Sunshine
Ain't No Sunshine begins as Anna walks out after the press find her at Will's door, and the single walk it accompanies stands in for the months he spends missing her.
Q 25Which Britpop band recorded 'Born to Cry' for the European edition of the Notting Hill soundtrack?
Pulp
Pulp recorded Born to Cry in Sheffield in late 1998, yet the song is never heard in the film itself and was left off the American edition of the album.
Q 26What does Will blurt out when he fails to climb the railings of a private garden?
Whoopsidaisies
Whoopsidaisies earns Will a ribbing from Anna, who says nobody has used the word for fifty years, and then only little girls with blonde ringlets; he promptly says it again.
Q 27Which blockbuster, in its second weekend, kept Notting Hill off the top of the US box office?
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace dwarfed it over the Memorial Day holiday, yet Notting Hill's $27.7 million four-day start was still the strongest opening a romantic comedy had had.
Q 28What is the title of the science-fiction film Anna is promoting when Will is ushered into her press junket?
Helix
Helix is the space adventure whose cast Will must interview while posing as a journalist; he is reduced to asking its leading man whether he enjoyed making the film.
Q 29During its 1999 run, Notting Hill took which record from Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Highest-grossing British film ever
Highest-grossing British film ever applied to worldwide takings only: at British cinemas The Full Monty's £52 million still dwarfed Notting Hill's roughly £30 million.
Q 30Notting Hill's three Golden Globe nominations were for Best Comedy or Musical, Julia Roberts and which other actor?
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts both lost on the night, as did the film, while Rhys Ifans's nomination came from BAFTA instead, for playing Will's flatmate.