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40 free RocknRolla trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
RocknRolla is Guy Ritchie's 2008 return to the London underworld: a tangle of mob bosses, Russian money, small-time thieves and one burnt-out rock star, all pulled together by a single lucky painting that keeps changing hands. This quiz follows that painting from owner to thief to accidental buyer, and asks what the film does and does not tell you about it. It also covers the ensemble cast and the roles that came before and after, the songs on the soundtrack, the locations, the producers and how the film was received. It is written for fans who have seen the film more than once and for anyone who has just watched it and wants to check how much of the plot they caught. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01What is the only part of Uri Omovich's lucky painting that viewers of RocknRolla ever get to see?
The back of the frame
The back of the frame is all the camera shows, so the picture every crook in London chases stays a mystery. Only the characters' admiring faces hint at what it looks like.
Q 02Which regular Guy Ritchie leading man missed out on RocknRolla because of a scheduling conflict?
Jason Statham
Jason Statham had been in three of Ritchie's earlier films, first cast because the director liked his past as a market-stall salesman.
Q 03Which pop star was Guy Ritchie's wife when he wrote and directed the gangster comedy RocknRolla?
Madonna
Madonna and Ritchie were married from 2000 to 2008, so RocknRolla reached cinemas in their last year together.
Q 04In RocknRolla, which creatures is mob boss Lenny Cole fed to once Archy learns the truth?
Crayfish
Crayfish finish off Lenny, who is drowned among them after Archy discovers that his boss was the informant who had sent him to prison.
Q 05Which Scottish actor plays One-Two, the small-time crook at the centre of Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla?
Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler arrived not long after playing King Leonidas in 300, swapping a Spartan army for a crew of London thieves.
Q 06How does rock star Johnny Quid try to push up his record sales in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla?
Fakes his own death
Johnny fakes his own death, betting that news of his demise will sell records, then spends the film hiding out as an addict.
Q 07Which Robert Downey Jr. blockbuster did Guy Ritchie direct next after finishing RocknRolla?
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes grew out of RocknRolla: the star heard about the project while visiting his wife, producer Susan Downey, at work on the gangster film.
Q 08Which future Mad Max and Bane actor plays Handsome Bob, the getaway driver, in RocknRolla?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy won early notice as Handsome Bob, in the same year that his lead role in Bronson made critics take him seriously.
Q 09Which London punk band's reggae-flavoured single Bankrobber is featured in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla?
The Clash
The Clash never put Bankrobber on a studio album, and the 1980 single was at first sold in Britain only as an import.
Q 10In RocknRolla, what game are Uri Omovich and Lenny Cole playing when Victor breaks Lenny's leg?
Golf
Golf hands Victor his weapon: he takes a club to Lenny as a warning to give back the Russian's missing painting.
Q 11Which star of The Full Monty plays Lenny Cole, the old-school London mob boss, in RocknRolla?
Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson played Lenny in the same year he appeared as a German general opposite Tom Cruise in the war thriller Valkyrie.
Q 12Which star of The Wire plays Mumbles, One-Two's partner in crime, in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla?
Idris Elba
Idris Elba had finished his run as drug kingpin Stringer Bell, and his own detective series Luther was still two years off.
Q 13Which Mission: Impossible 2 actress plays the double-crossing Stella in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla?
Thandiwe Newton
Thandiwe Newton is billed in the credits as Thandie, the spelling she used on screen until she reclaimed her full first name in 2021.
Q 21Which actor, later the ape Koba in a Planet of the Apes sequel, plays Johnny Quid in RocknRolla?
Toby Kebbell
Toby Kebbell came to the role a year after winning a British Independent Film Award as Joy Division's manager in Control.
Q 22Which actress played June in RocknRolla in the same year she was a Bond girl in Quantum of Solace?
Gemma Arterton
Gemma Arterton was picked from around 1,500 candidates to play Strawberry Fields in the Bond film, which opened the same autumn as her small part for Ritchie.
Q 23Which actor, later Vecna in Stranger Things, has an early screen role as Rocker in RocknRolla?
Jamie Campbell Bower
Q 14Which American rapper, billed as Chris Bridges, plays Mickey in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla?
Ludacris
Ludacris, better known on screen as Tej Parker in the Fast & Furious films, plays one of Johnny Quid's two former managers.
Q 15Which Entourage star plays Roman, a former manager of rocker Johnny Quid, in RocknRolla?
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Piven made the film during his run as Hollywood agent Ari Gold, the role that won him three Emmys in a row.
Q 16Which actor plays Archy, Lenny Cole's right-hand man and the narrator of Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla?
Mark Strong
Mark Strong steers viewers through the tangled plot in voice-over, and later narrated the etiquette clips shown before films at Vue cinemas.
Q 17What does Handsome Bob ask One-Two for in RocknRolla before he expects to be sent to prison?
A dance
A dance is all he wants, and One-Two finally gives him one in a scene tucked in after the credits.
Q 18In RocknRolla, what is Stella's job when she double-crosses her billionaire client Uri Omovich?
Accountant
Accountant to an oligarch, Stella is asked to move his millions and instead hires One-Two's gang to rob the couriers.
Q 19Where does Archy collect Johnny Quid from at the end of RocknRolla before giving him the painting?
Rehab
Rehab is where the film leaves Johnny: clean, free of his stepfather, and handed the stolen picture as a welcome-home present.
Q 20One-Two's gang in RocknRolla shares its name with which violent 1969 Sam Peckinpah western?
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a grand name for three small-time London crooks: Peckinpah's originals were ageing outlaws on the Mexican border.
Jamie Campbell Bower had co-starred a year earlier in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd; his Vecna make-up later took up to eight hours a day.
Q 24Which actor, the villain Rasputin in Hellboy, plays Russian billionaire Uri Omovich in RocknRolla?
Karel Roden
Karel Roden is Czech rather than Russian, and gamers may know his voice from Grand Theft Auto IV.
Q 25Which Peep Show actor, best known as Super Hans, plays Cookie in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla?
Matt King
Matt King worked Australia's comedy circuit for 15 years before returning to Britain, where Super Hans made him a cult favourite.
Q 26Which pseudonym on legal papers exposes Lenny Cole as a police informant in RocknRolla?
Sidney Shaw
Sidney Shaw was Lenny's cover for handing associates to the police, buying his own freedom with years of their jail time.
Q 27Why does Uri Omovich call at Stella's house in RocknRolla, where he spots his missing painting?
To propose marriage
To propose marriage: Uri has long admired Stella, but the sight of his picture in her home ends with an order to have her killed.
Q 28In RocknRolla, who sells Uri's stolen painting to Cookie after taking it from Johnny Quid's hideout?
Two crackheads
Two crackheads lift it from the man who stole it first, and it then passes from Cookie to One-Two to Stella.
Q 29Which producer of The Matrix and Lethal Weapon backed RocknRolla through Dark Castle Entertainment?
Joel Silver
Joel Silver screened the film for rival studios during post-production, and Ritchie later said Silver wanted to fund a sequel.
Q 30Which Guy Ritchie caper about a stolen diamond, starring Brad Pitt, far out-grossed RocknRolla?
Snatch
Snatch took about $83 million worldwide against roughly $25 million for RocknRolla, which still made a modest return on its budget.