Step back in time with these trivia questions about some of the best period dramas of all time!
Which 2013 period drama film is based on the life of American abolitionist Solomon Northup?
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12 Years a Slave
In the 1992 film 'The Last of the Mohicans', who played the character Hawkeye?
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Daniel Day-Lewis
What is the name of the character played by Mia Wasikowska in the movie 'Jane Eyre' (2011)?
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Jane Eyre
What is the name of the character played by Emma Stone in the movie 'The Help' (2011)?
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Skeeter Phelan
Which actress played the role of Elizabeth I in the movie 'Mary Queen of Scots' (2018)?
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Margot Robbie
What is the name of the character played by Claire Danes in the movie 'The Hours' (2002)?
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Julia Vaughan
What is the name of the character played by Kate Winslet in the movie 'The Reader' (2008)?
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Hanna Schmitz
Who played the lead role in the movie 'The Duchess'?
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Keira Knightley
Who played the lead role in the movie 'Atonement'?
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Keira Knightley
In which year was the movie 'The Piano' released?
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1993
In which year was the movie 'The English Patient' released?
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1996
Which movie is based on the life of Queen Anne?
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The Favourite
In which year was the movie 'The Remains of the Day' released?
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1993
Who played the lead role in the movie 'The Iron Lady'?
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Meryl Streep
Which actress won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the movie 'The Iron Lady' (2011)?
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Meryl Streep
Who played the lead role in the movie 'Little Women'?
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Winona Ryder
Which actor played the role of Mr. Darcy in the movie 'Pride and Prejudice' (2005)?
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Matthew Macfadyen
Which 2005 period drama film was based on a Jane Austen novel and starred Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet?
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Pride & Prejudice
Which movie is based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi?
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Gandhi
Which actress played the role of Queen Elizabeth I in the movie 'Elizabeth' (1998)?
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Cate Blanchett
In which year was the movie 'Dangerous Liaisons' released?
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1988
Which actress played the role of Elizabeth Bennet in the movie 'Pride and Prejudice' (1995)?
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Jennifer Ehle
In which year was the movie 'Shakespeare in Love' released?
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1998
Who played the lead role in the movie 'Out of Africa'?
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Meryl Streep
Who played the lead role in the movie 'The Danish Girl'?
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Eddie Redmayne
Who directed the movie 'The Remains of the Day' (1993), based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro?
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James Ivory
Which actress played the role of Georgiana Cavendish in the movie 'The Duchess' (2008)?
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Keira Knightley
Which actress played the role of Bathsheba Everdene in the movie 'Far from the Madding Crowd' (2015)?
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Carey Mulligan
What is the name of the character played by Keira Knightley in the movie 'Anna Karenina' (2012)?
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Anna Karenina
Which movie is based on the life of Marie Antoinette?
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Marie Antoinette
Which movie is based on the life of Beatrix Potter?
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Miss Potter
In which year was the movie 'The Duchess' released?
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2008
Who played the lead role in the movie 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'?
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Cate Blanchett
Which 2003 period drama film is based on the life of 18th-century English artist William Hogarth?
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A Harlot's Progress
Which actress played the role of Mary Shelley in the movie 'Mary Shelley' (2017)?
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Elle Fanning
Which movie is based on the life of Queen Elizabeth I?
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Elizabeth
What is the name of the fictional estate in the 2011 TV series 'Downton Abbey'?
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Downton Abbey
In which year was the movie 'Pride and Prejudice' released?
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2005
Which movie is based on the life of Charles Dickens?
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The Invisible Woman
Which 2014 period drama film is based on the life of British codebreaker Alan Turing?
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The Imitation Game
Which movie is based on the life of Mozart?
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Amadeus
In the 2009 film 'Bright Star', which actress played Fanny Brawne?
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Abbie Cornish
What is the name of the character played by Saoirse Ronan in the movie 'Atonement' (2007)?
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Briony Tallis
In the 2001 film 'Pearl Harbor', which actor played the role of Rafe McCawley?
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Ben Affleck
Which movie is based on the life of Jane Austen?
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Becoming Jane
In the 1997 film 'Amistad', who played the role of John Quincy Adams?
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Anthony Hopkins
In the 2002 film 'Gangs of New York', who played the role of Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting?
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Which 2016 period drama film is based on the life of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan?
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
What is the name of the character played by Rachel Weisz in the movie 'The Constant Gardener' (2005)?
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Tessa Quayle
What is the name of the character played by Alicia Vikander in the movie 'Testament of Youth' (2014)?
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Vera Brittain
What is the name of the character played by Emma Thompson in the movie 'Howards End' (1992)?
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Margaret Schlegel
In which year was the movie 'The Last Emperor' released?
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1987
Who played the lead role in the movie 'Anna Karenina'?
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Keira Knightley
Who directed the movie 'Barry Lyndon' (1975), based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray?
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Stanley Kubrick
Who directed the movie 'The Duchess' (2008), starring Keira Knightley?
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Saul Dibb
What is the name of the character played by Alicia Vikander in the movie 'Tulip Fever' (2017)?
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Sophia Sandvoort
Who directed the movie 'Atonement' (2007), based on the novel by Ian McEwan?
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Joe Wright
Who played the lead role in the movie 'The Young Victoria'?
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Emily Blunt
Which 1995 period drama film is based on the life of Scottish hero Rob Roy MacGregor?
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Rob Roy
Which movie is based on the life of Winston Churchill?
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Darkest Hour
Which actress played the role of Marianne Dashwood in the movie 'Sense and Sensibility' (1995)?
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Kate Winslet
In which year was the movie 'The Duchess of Duke Street' released?
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1976
In the 2013 film '12 Years a Slave', who played the role of Solomon Northup?
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
Which actor portrayed King George VI in the 2010 film 'The King's Speech'?
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Colin Firth
Who directed the movie 'The Age of Adaline' (2015), starring Blake Lively?
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Lee Toland Krieger
Who directed the movie 'The Other Boleyn Girl' (2008), based on the novel by Philippa Gregory?
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Justin Chadwick
In the 2014 film 'The Imitation Game', who played the role of Alan Turing?
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Benedict Cumberbatch
In the 2006 film 'Marie Antoinette', who played the title role?
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Kirsten Dunst
Which 2015 period drama film is based on the true story of Maria Altmann, who fought to reclaim her family's stolen artwork from the Austrian government?
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Woman in Gold
Which movie is based on the life of Queen Victoria?
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Victoria & Abdul
Who directed the 1993 period drama film 'Schindler's List'?
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Steven Spielberg
What is the name of the character played by Helena Bonham Carter in the movie 'Howard's End' (1992)?
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Helen Schlegel
Which 1997 period drama film is based on the life of Irish writer Christy Brown?
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My Left Foot
Which 1998 period drama film is based on the life of Elizabeth I of England?
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Elizabeth
In which year was the movie 'Sense and Sensibility' released?
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1995
Which movie is based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots?
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Mary Queen of Scots
Who played the lead role in the movie 'Gone with the Wind'?
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Vivien Leigh
In which year was the movie 'The Age of Adaline' released?
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2015
Who played the lead role in the movie 'The Other Boleyn Girl'?
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Natalie Portman
What is the name of the character played by Carey Mulligan in the movie 'An Education' (2009)?
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Jenny Mellor
What is the name of the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie 'Emma' (1996)?
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Emma Woodhouse
Who directed the movie 'Sense and Sensibility' (1995), based on the novel by Jane Austen?
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Ang Lee
Which 2011 period drama film is based on the life of silent film star Louise Brooks?
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The Chaperone
Who directed the movie 'Dangerous Liaisons' (1988), based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos?
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Stephen Frears
In which year was the movie 'Pride and Prejudice' released?
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2005
In the 2000 film 'Quills', who played the role of the Marquis de Sade?
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Geoffrey Rush
Which 2010 period drama film is based on the life of King George VI?
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The King's Speech
Which 1985 period drama film tells the story of Celie, an African-American woman living in the early 20th century rural South?
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The Color Purple
What is the name of the character played by Michelle Williams in the movie 'My Week with Marilyn' (2011)?
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Marilyn Monroe
In the 2008 film 'The Duchess', which actress played Georgiana Cavendish?
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Keira Knightley
Which 2012 period drama film is based on Victor Hugo's novel of the same name?
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Les Misérables
In the 1995 film 'Braveheart', who played the role of William Wallace?
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Mel Gibson
In the 2007 film 'Atonement', which actor played Robbie Turner?
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James McAvoy
What is the name of the character played by Saoirse Ronan in the movie 'Brooklyn' (2015)?
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Eilis Lacey
In the 2006 film 'The Prestige', which actor played the role of Robert Angier?
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Hugh Jackman
In the 2008 film 'Valkyrie', who played the role of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg?
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Tom Cruise
Which actor played the role of King George VI in the movie 'The King's Speech' (2010)?
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Colin Firth
What is the name of the character played by Emma Stone in the movie 'The Favourite' (2018)?
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Abigail Masham
In the 2005 film 'Memoirs of a Geisha', who played the role of Sayuri?
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Zhang Ziyi
Which 2004 period drama film is based on the life of Alexander the Great?
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Alexander
Which movie is based on the life of King George VI?