{"id":573832,"date":"2026-07-29T13:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573832\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:12:16","slug":"quiz-how-well-do-you-know-hugh-grant-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573832\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: How well do you know Hugh Grant? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"

HUGH GRANT HAS been a star since his turn in Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994, which made him famous overnight.<\/p>\n

Since then, he\u2019s starred in romantic comedies, murder mysteries, the Bridget Jones franchise, and lots more. This week you can stream the film Heretic on Sky Cinema Premiere\/NOW, which sees Grant play Mr Reed, a creepy homeowner who enters a cat-and-mouse game with two young missionaries.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s as good a time as any to put your knowledge of Hugh Grant to the test in our Best of the Box quiz.<\/p>\n

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\n Hugh Grant in the film About A Boy Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n

\n In which English city was Hugh Grant born?\n <\/p>\n

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\n In which movie did he make his feature film debut?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Grant played the love interest of one actress in a film and her brother in a another film. Who is this actress?\n <\/p>\n

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\n What’s the name of Hugh Grant’s character in Bridget Jones?\n <\/p>\n

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\n How many films has Grant been in that were nominated for a Best Picture Oscar?\n <\/p>\n

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\n In the early days of his acting career, Hugh Grant was part of a British comedy sketch group. What was the group’s name?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Which of these people is *not* in Grant’s family tree?\n <\/p>\n

\n Thomas Brodie-Sangster (actor from Love Actually)\n <\/p>\n

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\n Which film is this taken from? (Note: the film is in colour)\n <\/p>\n

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\n Alamy\n <\/p>\n

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\n Which film is this taken from?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Alamy\n <\/p>\n

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\n Four Weddings and a Funeral\n <\/p>\n


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\n In a 2002 interview, Hugh Grant is reported to have said which of his films is the worst he’s ever made?\n <\/p>\n

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\n The 2024 film Unfrosted, which starred Hugh Grant as ‘Thurl Ravenscroft’, was about which industry?\n <\/p>\n

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\n The fridge-freezer industry\n <\/p>\n


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\n In 2002, Grant starred in the film About a Boy. Who wrote the novel that the movie is based on?\n <\/p>\n

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Answer all the questions to see your result!<\/p>\n

\n You scored out of !\n <\/p>\n

\n Top marks\n <\/p>\n

\n You know Hugh almost as well as he knows himself\n <\/p>\n

\n You scored out of !\n <\/p>\n

\n Almost there\n <\/p>\n

\n You know Hugh Grant pretty well indeed\n <\/p>\n

\n You scored out of !\n <\/p>\n

\n Third place\n <\/p>\n

\n Back to Wikipedia for you!\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUGH GRANT HAS been a star since his turn in Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[163478,321,93,61,60,199345],"class_list":["post-573832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-best-of-the-box","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-show-quizness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}