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50 free Once Upon a Time in Hollywood trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino's ninth film and, by his own account, his favorite: a day-in-the-life of a fading TV cowboy, his stunt double and the actress next door in the summer of 1969. This Once Upon a Time in Hollywood trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers on Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth, Sharon Tate, Bounty Law and Lancer, Spahn Ranch and the Manson Family, Brandy the pit bull, and the ending that rewrites August 8, 1969. It also goes behind the camera: the real actors and stuntmen the characters were built from, the parts written for Al Pacino and Burt Reynolds, why Sony got the film and what Tarantino demanded, where it was shot, the Bruce Lee controversy that cost it a Chinese release, the two Oscars, the novel and the Cliff Booth sequel. Questions run from easy for anyone who has seen it once to hard for people who have read the novelization. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia entry and each question links to the page that establishes it.
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Q 01Who plays Rick Dalton?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Rick Dalton, a fading TV Western star of the late 1960s; it was his second film for Tarantino after Django Unchained (2012).
Q 02Which TV Western series made Rick Dalton a star in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Bounty Law
Bounty Law is the Western series that made Rick a star before his slide into guest-villain roles; Tarantino wrote five half-hour episodes of the fictional show to get inside Dalton's head.
Q 03Which real Steve McQueen series was Rick Dalton's TV show modeled on?
Wanted Dead or Alive
Wanted Dead or Alive (CBS, 1958-61) starred Steve McQueen as bounty hunter Josh Randall, the template for Rick's series; McQueen himself appears in the film, played by Damian Lewis.
Q 04What is the name of Cliff Booth's pit bull?
Brandy
Brandy lives with Cliff in his trailer and does most of the damage in the finale.
Q 05Why does Cliff struggle to find stunt work?
A fight with Bruce Lee and rumors he murdered his wife
A fight with Bruce Lee and rumors he murdered his wife keep Cliff off sets; the ambiguity around his wife Billie's death nods to Natalie Wood, and the novelization confirms he killed her with a speargun.
Q 06Which real TV Western does Rick guest-star in as the villain during the film?
Lancer
Sam Wanamaker, played by Nicholas Hammond, directed the real Lancer pilot too, and the Land Pirates were characters in it.
Q 07Who plays Trudi Fraser, the precocious child actor who impresses Rick on the Western set?
Julia Butters
Julia Butters, a child actress from the sitcom American Housewife, plays Trudi Fraser; Tarantino cast her after seeing her on that show, and Trudi tells Rick his scene was the best acting she had ever seen.
Q 08Which agent, played by Al Pacino, urges Rick to make spaghetti Westerns in Italy?
Marvin Schwarz
Marvin Schwarz, played by Al Pacino, tells Rick over lunch that losing to a new TV hero every week as a guest villain is killing his career, and steers him toward Italian Westerns.
Q 09Which real Italian director does Rick go to Italy to work for?
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci, the real director of Django (1966), gives Rick the lead in the spaghetti Western Nebraska Jim; Rick shoots three more Italian films, including one for Antonio Margheriti.
Q 10What is the name of the Italian starlet Rick marries in Italy?
Francesca Capucci
Francesca Capucci, played by Chilean actress Lorenza Izzo, is the starlet Rick marries while shooting Westerns in Italy; supporting her is part of why he can no longer keep Cliff on his payroll.
Q 11Who plays Sharon Tate?
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie plays Sharon Tate; she read Roman Polanski's 1984 memoir to prepare, and Tate's sister Debra lent her some of Sharon's own jewelry for the role.
Q 12Which of her own films does Sharon Tate watch in a theater?
The Wrecking Crew
The Wrecking Crew (1968), a Dean Martin spy comedy in which Tate played the clumsy Freya Carlson, is the film she watches at the Fox Bruin in Westwood, enjoying the audience's laughter at her pratfalls.
Q 13Which martial artist trained Tate for her spy comedy and fights Cliff on The Green Hornet set?
Bruce Lee
Q 21On what date do Rick and Cliff return from Italy and go out drinking?
August 8, 1969
August 8, 1969 is the film's final day: Rick and Cliff, back from Italy, drink at Casa Vega and end the night at Rick's house, the real date of the Tate murders, which the film rewrites.
Q 22What does Cliff Booth smoke before walking his dog on the final night?
An acid-laced cigarette
An acid-laced cigarette, bought from a hippie girl at a traffic light months earlier, is what Cliff smokes before walking the dog while Rick mixes margaritas.
Q 23Why do the Manson followers decide to kill Rick instead of the Tate house occupants?
Bruce Lee, played by Mike Moh, really did coach Tate for her 1968 spy comedy; in the film Cliff throws him into a car door on The Green Hornet set, a scene Lee's daughter Shannon criticized.
Q 14Who plays Charles Manson?
Damon Herriman
Damon Herriman, an Australian actor, plays Charles Manson; he played Manson again in season two of Netflix's Mindhunter, released the same summer of 2019.
Q 15Whom is Manson looking for when he turns up at the Polanski house?
Music producer Terry Melcher
Jay Sebring tells him Melcher has moved; the encounter is based on a real 1969 visit reported by the house's owner and a photographer friend of Polanski.
Q 16Cliff gives a hitchhiking Manson girl a ride to Spahn Ranch. What is her nickname?
Pussycat
Margaret Qualley plays her; the composite character was modeled mainly on Ruth Ann Moorehouse, whom Manson sent into the city to lure men with money.
Q 17Who plays ranch owner George Spahn, a role Burt Reynolds died before filming?
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern plays the blind, elderly George Spahn after Burt Reynolds died in September 2018 before shooting his scenes; Dern had earlier appeared in Tarantino's Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight.
Q 18In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, what does Cliff make hippie Clem do after Clem sabotages his car at Spahn Ranch?
Change the punctured tire himself
Cliff makes Clem change the punctured tire himself after beating him; the girls summon Tex, who rides up just as Cliff drives away, and the two meet again on the film's final night.
Q 19Who plays "Squeaky" Fromme, George Spahn's caretaker?
Dakota Fanning
Dakota Fanning plays Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, who blocks Cliff's path to George Spahn; the real Spahn gave Fromme the nickname for the sound she made when he touched her.
Q 20Who plays Tex Watson?
Austin Butler
Austin Butler plays Charles 'Tex' Watson, who leads the Manson followers to Cielo Drive on the final night; Butler went on to play Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (2022).
Sadie argues TV shows like his taught them to murder
Sadie argues TV shows like his taught them to murder, so they should kill Rick, the star they recognize after he yells at them about their car's loud muffler.
Q 24Which Manson follower deserts the group and drives off with their car?
Flowerchild
Flowerchild, played by Maya Hawke, loses her nerve and drives off with the car; she stands in for Linda Kasabian, the real fourth member at the Tate house, who later testified against the others.
Q 25What does Rick use to kill Sadie in the pool?
A stunt flamethrower
A stunt flamethrower, kept from Rick's war film The 14 Fists of McCluskey, is what he fetches from his pool shed to burn Sadie after she staggers into the water.
Q 26Which real 1963 film is Rick Dalton digitally inserted into, in Steve McQueen's role?
The Great Escape
The Great Escape (1963) is the film Rick is digitally inserted into, replacing Steve McQueen as Captain Virgil Hilts, the 'Cooler King', while Rick tells a co-star he had once been in the running for the part.
Q 27Which real Hollywood restaurant did Tarantino insist on as a "must have" location?
Musso & Frank Grill
Musso & Frank Grill, open on Hollywood Boulevard since 1919, hosts Rick's lunch with his new agent; Tarantino said he felt lucky that a place survived exactly as it always had.
Q 28Which fictional cigarette brand, a Tarantino-universe staple, does Rick Dalton advertise in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's closing commercial?
Red Apple
Red Apple cigarettes, the fictional brand seen in Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, star in the mid-credits commercial in which Rick praises them on camera and then complains about the taste once the take ends.
Q 29This was Tarantino's first film made without which producers?
Bob and Harvey Weinstein
Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Miramax or The Weinstein Company had released every Tarantino film from Reservoir Dogs to The Hateful Eight; he cut ties after the 2017 abuse allegations against Harvey and held a bidding war.
Q 30Which studio won the bidding war to distribute the film?
Sony Pictures
Sony beat Warner, Universal, Paramount, Annapurna and Lionsgate by meeting Tarantino's demands, including final cut and 25 percent of first-dollar gross.