Pretty Woman Trivia
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45 free Pretty Woman trivia questions with answers. Pretty Woman began life as a bleak script called 3000 and ended up as the biggest romantic comedy in American ticket history. This quiz covers the transformation: J. F. Lawton's original ending on a bus to Disneyland, Jeffrey Katzenberg's fairy-tale rewrite, the parade of actresses who said no before a 21-year-old Julia Roberts said yes, and Richard Gere's reluctant arrival. Then the film itself: the Lotus that Ferrari and Porsche would not supply, the Beverly Wilshire, Barney and Kit and Philip Stuckey, the polo match, La Traviata, the Prince song in the bath, the improvised jewellery-box snap, Gere's own piano tune, Roy Orbison and Roxette, the $463 million gross, Roberts' Golden Globe, the AFI ranking and the Bryan Adams musical. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it on a rainy Sunday; harder ones will test the fans who own the anniversary DVD. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the film and its musical, and the source line appears under each question after you answer.
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Q 01Who directed Pretty Woman?
Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall directed the 1990 film and gave a restless Richard Gere one note: in this movie one of you moves and one of you doesn't, and Gere was the one who had to stay still.
Q 02What was the title of J. F. Lawton's much darker original screenplay for Pretty Woman?
3000
3000 was the sum Vivian is paid for the week in Lawton's bleak first draft; studio executives dropped the title because they thought it sounded like science fiction.
Q 03Pretty Woman takes its title from a 1964 hit by which singer?
Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison began the song when his wife Claudette headed out shopping and co-writer Bill Dees quipped that a pretty woman never needs any money; the film borrowed the title, minus its 'Oh'.
Q 04What is the full name of Julia Roberts' character in Pretty Woman?
Vivian Ward
Julia Roberts plays Vivian Ward, a Hollywood Boulevard sex worker whom Edward Lewis hires as his companion for a week of business engagements.
Q 05What is the profession of Edward Lewis, Richard Gere's character in Pretty Woman?
Corporate raider
Edward Lewis is a corporate raider who buys struggling companies and sells them off in pieces; he is in Los Angeles to take over Jim Morse's shipbuilding firm.
Q 06Which line does Vivian deliver to the Rodeo Drive saleswomen on her return visit?
Big mistake. Big. Huge!
Returning to the boutique laden with shopping bags, Vivian asks the saleswomen 'You work on commission, right?' and tells them: 'Big mistake. Big. Huge! I have to go shopping now.'
Q 07At which hotel does Edward stay in Pretty Woman?
The Regent Beverly Wilshire
The Regent Beverly Wilshire, at the foot of Rodeo Drive, supplied the exterior, but Edward's penthouse was never there: the suite was a set built on a studio soundstage in Burbank.
Q 08What car is Edward struggling to drive when he meets Vivian in Pretty Woman?
A Lotus Esprit
A Lotus Esprit got the part after Ferrari and Porsche reportedly refused to have their cars linked with soliciting; Lotus lent a silver Esprit SE, and Vivian ends up taking the wheel.
Q 09Who plays hotel manager Barney Thompson?
Héctor Elizondo
Héctor Elizondo plays manager Barney Thompson, who drills Vivian on which fork to use before her dinner with the Morses and quietly watches out for her.
Q 10Which Seinfeld regular plays Philip Stuckey, Edward's lawyer, in Pretty Woman?
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander shot the film just as he was starting out as George Costanza; his Stuckey is the lawyer whose new sports car Edward borrows on the night he meets Vivian.
Q 11Who plays Kit De Luca, Vivian's roommate?
Laura San Giacomo
Laura San Giacomo, fresh from Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), plays Kit De Luca, the streetwise roommate who blows Vivian's rent money on drugs.
Q 12Which veteran actor gave his final film performance as shipbuilder Jim Morse in Pretty Woman?
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy, an Oscar nominee half a century earlier for The Awful Truth, bowed out as the gentlemanly shipbuilder who wins Edward's respect; he died in 1991, the year after the film opened.
Q 13Which opera does Edward fly Vivian to see in Pretty Woman?
La Traviata
La Traviata, Verdi's opera about a courtesan who falls for a young man from a respectable family, echoes Vivian's own story, and she is visibly moved by it.
Q 21Pretty Woman was Disney's highest-grossing R-rated film for 34 years until which 2024 film passed it?
Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool & Wolverine continued a series Disney acquired with its 2019 purchase of Fox and kept R-rated; the film passed Pretty Woman's total in its opening week.
Q 22How did Lawton's original Pretty Woman script end?
Vivian and her friend on a bus to Disneyland
Lawton's original script ended bleakly: Edward dumps Vivian back on the street, and the last image is Vivian and her friend on a bus to Disneyland, staring blankly ahead.
Q 23Which actor read with Julia Roberts before turning down the role of Edward in Pretty Woman?
Q 14Which sporting event does Edward take Vivian to in Pretty Woman?
A polo match
A polo match is where Edward's lawyer, who had taken Vivian for a business spy, learns how the two really met and crudely propositions her.
Q 15Which Prince song does Vivian sing in the bathtub in Pretty Woman?
Kiss
Kiss is what Vivian belts out in the bubble bath; kissing on the mouth is the one thing she tells Edward she won't do, a rule she later breaks for him.
Q 16Which Pretty Woman moment began as a prank that drew Julia Roberts' unscripted laugh?
Gere snapping the jewellery box shut
Gere snapping the jewellery box shut was a prank the director set up for the gag reel without warning Roberts; her startled laugh played so well that the take stayed in the film.
Q 17Which instrument does Richard Gere really play on screen as Edward in Pretty Woman?
Piano
Piano: Gere really plays the late-night piece in the empty hotel lounge, and the music is his own composition.
Q 18Which band's ballad 'It Must Have Been Love', from the Pretty Woman soundtrack, topped the US Hot 100 in 1990?
Roxette
Roxette first released the song in Sweden in 1987 as a Christmas single; with the festive reference rewritten for the film, it became a US No. 1 in the summer of 1990.
Q 19Which film topped 1990's worldwide box office, two places above Pretty Woman?
Ghost
Ghost led 1990 with more than $500 million worldwide, ahead of Home Alone and Pretty Woman, so two love stories out-earned every action film of the year.
Q 20Which award did Julia Roberts win for playing Vivian in Pretty Woman?
A Golden Globe
A Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical went to Roberts in 1991; she was Oscar-nominated too, but lost to Kathy Bates for Misery.
Al Pacino
Al Pacino read opposite Roberts but passed; screenwriter J. F. Lawton has said a Pacino version would probably have stayed closer to his dark original script.
Q 24Which actress passed on both Shelby in Steel Magnolias and Vivian in Pretty Woman, roles that went to Julia Roberts?
Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan gave up Shelby in Steel Magnolias to make When Harry Met Sally, then passed on Vivian as well; both parts brought Julia Roberts Oscar nominations.
Q 25Which actress nearly played Vivian in Pretty Woman before a scheduling conflict forced her to pass?
Diane Lane
Diane Lane has said she had to pass on Vivian because of conflicting schedules; Daryl Hannah also said no, and later called the film degrading to women.
Q 26Which film was Julia Roberts known for when cast in Pretty Woman?
Mystic Pizza
Mystic Pizza was Roberts' only released hit, so the studio was wary of an unknown and looked at better-known actresses first; Steel Magnolias had yet to open.
Q 27Which 1999 romantic comedy reunited Pretty Woman stars Julia Roberts and Richard Gere?
Runaway Bride
Runaway Bride brought the pair back with the same director; Roberts plays a woman who keeps leaving fiancés at the altar and Gere the reporter sent to write about her.
Q 28Which future Simpsons voice actor appears as a police detective early in Pretty Woman?
Hank Azaria
Hank Azaria, later the voice of Moe and Chief Wiggum, plays Detective Albertson, questioning bystanders on Hollywood Boulevard after a woman's body is found; it was his first cinema release.
Q 29In Pretty Woman, what does Edward order to go with champagne on Vivian's first night in the penthouse?
Strawberries
Strawberries arrive with the champagne because, Edward tells Vivian, the fruit brings out its flavour; she tells him to skip the seduction routine, since she is paid by the hour.
Q 30How did the director get Roberts to laugh during the I Love Lucy scene?
He tickled her feet off-camera
Roberts could not laugh naturally at I Love Lucy on cue, so the director did what worked: he tickled her feet off-camera until the giggles were real.