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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Quiz: A Sweet Test of Memory

Fifteen chances to prove that all those movie nights paid off.

Published 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-10-24 15 questions

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). Watch the trailer.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: The Tour Guide Has a Strange Sense of Humor

A boy from a struggling family gets a chance to step inside a place most people can only dream about. The tour is full of impossible treats, puzzling rules, and children who are very sure those rules do not apply to them. Their host seems to find the whole thing rather entertaining. Being invited is lucky; making sensible choices once inside is another matter entirely.

Bring your curiosity. The questions are less sticky than the refreshments.

1. Who plays Willy Wonka in the 1971 film?
- Dick Van Dyke
- Peter Sellers
- Gene Wilder
- Johnny Depp
Wilder took the part on one condition: that his entrance have him limp out on a cane, let it stick in the cobbles and then tumble into a somersault, so nobody would know afterward whether he was lying. Johnny Depp played Wonka in Tim Burton's 2005 version.
2. What is the young boy's full name?
- Charlie Baxter
- Charlie Becket
- Charlie Bucket
- Charlie Brown
Charlie, a paperboy with four bedridden grandparents, buys the winning bar with a coin found in a gutter the day the fifth ticket is exposed as a forgery. The fake came from Paraguay, and the paper's photo of the forger is of the Nazi Martin Bormann.
3. Who plays Charlie?
- Freddie Highmore
- Peter Ostrum
- Mark Lester
- Jack Wild
Ostrum was twelve, found by a talent scout at a Cleveland children's theater, and turned down a three-picture contract afterward. He became a large-animal veterinarian in upstate New York and has spent years telling school groups about the movie.
4. What must a child find to win a factory visit?
- A purple wrapper
- A silver coin
- A golden key
- A Golden Ticket
The hunt sends the world into a frenzy shown in newsreel style, with a woman weighing her kidnapped husband against her case of Wonka bars and a computer refusing to say where the last tickets are. The prize is the tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate.
5. How many Golden Tickets are hidden?
- Five
- Three
- Six
- Ten
Five children get in, Augustus, Veruca, Violet, Mike and Charlie, each with one adult, and the film sends them home one by one before the last room. Dahl's early drafts had many more children, whittled down to five for the book.
6. Which relative accompanies Charlie to the factory?
- Grandma Georgina
- Grandma Josephine
- Grandpa George
- Grandpa Joe
Jack Albertson plays him, an Oscar winner for The Subject Was Roses, and the ticket gets him out of a bed he has not left in twenty years. He is also the one who talks Charlie into the Fizzy Lifting Drinks, which nearly costs them the prize.
7. Who wrote the book that inspired the film?
- Enid Blyton
- Roald Dahl
- A.A. Milne
- E.B. White
Dahl wrote the first draft of the screenplay, then disowned the film over the rewrites, the casting of Wilder and the shift of focus from Charlie to Wonka, which the new title announces. The 1964 novel's sequel sends Charlie into orbit in a glass elevator.
8. What are the factory workers called?
- Oompa Loompas
- Snozzwangers
- Whangdoodles
- Munchkins
Wonka imported them from Loompaland, where the Whangdoodles and Snozzwangers were eating them, and here they have orange faces and green hair. Each child's downfall gets a rhyming moral from them, and the factory was built on sound stages in Munich.
9. Which child falls into the chocolate river?
- Augustus Gloop
- Charlie Bucket
- Mike Teevee
- Violet Beauregarde
Augustus leans in to drink from the river Wonka has just told them never to touch and is sucked up a pipe toward the fudge room. The river was real liquid, water mixed with chocolate and cream, and it went off under the lights until the stage stank.
10. Which child is obsessed with chewing gum?
- Mike Teevee
- Augustus Gloop
- Violet Beauregarde
- Veruca Salt
Violet Beauregarde is chewing when she arrives, keeps the wad behind her ear and boasts of chewing the same piece for three months solid. Her father is a used-car dealer who works his sales pitch into every interview.
11. What fruit does Violet resemble after trying the gum?
- A strawberry
- A blueberry
- A grape
- A plum
The gum is Wonka's three-course dinner, and the blueberry pie dessert is the course that never worked, so Violet swells up violet and is rolled off to the juicing room. Denise Nickerson spent the scene inside an inflated ball with only her head showing.
12. Which child constantly demands that her father buy things for her?
- Violet Beauregarde
- Veruca Salt
- Matilda Wormwood
- Lucy Pevensie
Veruca's father owns a peanut factory and has his workers shelling Wonka bars by the thousand to find her ticket. She sings I Want It Now in the golden geese room and goes down the bad-egg chute, her father after her; Dahl's book used squirrels instead.
13. Which child is fascinated by television?
- Augustus Gloop
- Charlie Bucket
- Veruca Salt
- Mike Teevee
Mike turns up in a cowboy outfit and sends himself through Wonkavision, which shrinks him to a few inches, so he is sent to the taffy-pulling room to be stretched. He is the last of the four to go, leaving Charlie and Grandpa Joe alone with Wonka.
14. What candy does Charlie return to Wonka near the end?
- An Everlasting Gobstopper
- A Wonka Bar
- A Three-Course Gum
- A Fizzy Lifting Drop
Wonka has just screamed that Charlie gets nothing over the Fizzy Lifting Drinks, so putting the Gobstopper on his desk means giving up the one thing Slugworth would pay for. Slugworth is really Wonka's own man, Wilkinson, and the tour was a test of honesty.
15. Which song does Wonka sing as the visitors enter the chocolate room?
- The Candy Man
- Cheer Up, Charlie
- I've Got a Golden Ticket
- Pure Imagination
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley wrote the songs, and this one opens the door on a room where the grass and the giant mushrooms are edible. The Candy Man belongs to the shopkeeper at the start, and the score's Oscar nomination lost to Fiddler on the Roof.

All the answers

1. Who plays Willy Wonka in the 1971 film?

Gene Wilder

Wilder took the part on one condition: that his entrance have him limp out on a cane, let it stick in the cobbles and then tumble into a somersault, so nobody would know afterward whether he was lying. Johnny Depp played Wonka in Tim Burton's 2005 version.
2. What is the young boy's full name?

Charlie Bucket

Charlie, a paperboy with four bedridden grandparents, buys the winning bar with a coin found in a gutter the day the fifth ticket is exposed as a forgery. The fake came from Paraguay, and the paper's photo of the forger is of the Nazi Martin Bormann.
3. Who plays Charlie?

Peter Ostrum

Ostrum was twelve, found by a talent scout at a Cleveland children's theater, and turned down a three-picture contract afterward. He became a large-animal veterinarian in upstate New York and has spent years telling school groups about the movie.
4. What must a child find to win a factory visit?

A Golden Ticket

The hunt sends the world into a frenzy shown in newsreel style, with a woman weighing her kidnapped husband against her case of Wonka bars and a computer refusing to say where the last tickets are. The prize is the tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate.
5. How many Golden Tickets are hidden?

Five

Five children get in, Augustus, Veruca, Violet, Mike and Charlie, each with one adult, and the film sends them home one by one before the last room. Dahl's early drafts had many more children, whittled down to five for the book.
6. Which relative accompanies Charlie to the factory?

Grandpa Joe

Jack Albertson plays him, an Oscar winner for The Subject Was Roses, and the ticket gets him out of a bed he has not left in twenty years. He is also the one who talks Charlie into the Fizzy Lifting Drinks, which nearly costs them the prize.
7. Who wrote the book that inspired the film?

Roald Dahl

Dahl wrote the first draft of the screenplay, then disowned the film over the rewrites, the casting of Wilder and the shift of focus from Charlie to Wonka, which the new title announces. The 1964 novel's sequel sends Charlie into orbit in a glass elevator.
8. What are the factory workers called?

Oompa Loompas

Wonka imported them from Loompaland, where the Whangdoodles and Snozzwangers were eating them, and here they have orange faces and green hair. Each child's downfall gets a rhyming moral from them, and the factory was built on sound stages in Munich.
9. Which child falls into the chocolate river?

Augustus Gloop

Augustus leans in to drink from the river Wonka has just told them never to touch and is sucked up a pipe toward the fudge room. The river was real liquid, water mixed with chocolate and cream, and it went off under the lights until the stage stank.
10. Which child is obsessed with chewing gum?

Violet Beauregarde

Violet Beauregarde is chewing when she arrives, keeps the wad behind her ear and boasts of chewing the same piece for three months solid. Her father is a used-car dealer who works his sales pitch into every interview.
11. What fruit does Violet resemble after trying the gum?

A blueberry

The gum is Wonka's three-course dinner, and the blueberry pie dessert is the course that never worked, so Violet swells up violet and is rolled off to the juicing room. Denise Nickerson spent the scene inside an inflated ball with only her head showing.
12. Which child constantly demands that her father buy things for her?

Veruca Salt

Veruca's father owns a peanut factory and has his workers shelling Wonka bars by the thousand to find her ticket. She sings I Want It Now in the golden geese room and goes down the bad-egg chute, her father after her; Dahl's book used squirrels instead.
13. Which child is fascinated by television?

Mike Teevee

Mike turns up in a cowboy outfit and sends himself through Wonkavision, which shrinks him to a few inches, so he is sent to the taffy-pulling room to be stretched. He is the last of the four to go, leaving Charlie and Grandpa Joe alone with Wonka.
14. What candy does Charlie return to Wonka near the end?

An Everlasting Gobstopper

Wonka has just screamed that Charlie gets nothing over the Fizzy Lifting Drinks, so putting the Gobstopper on his desk means giving up the one thing Slugworth would pay for. Slugworth is really Wonka's own man, Wilkinson, and the tour was a test of honesty.
15. Which song does Wonka sing as the visitors enter the chocolate room?

Pure Imagination

Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley wrote the songs, and this one opens the door on a room where the grass and the giant mushrooms are edible. The Candy Man belongs to the shopkeeper at the start, and the score's Oscar nomination lost to Fiddler on the Roof.