The first Bridget Jones novel was loosely based on Pride and Prejudice. But on which Jane Austen novel was its sequel, The Edge of Reason, based?
Sense & Sensibility
Persuasion
Mansfield Park
From which university did Bridget graduate?
Manchester
Keele
Bangor
What was the name of the live TV show for which Bridget was a researcher-cum-reporter?
Stand Up Britain
Sit Up Britain
What’s Up Britain?
Renée Zellweger was Oscar-nominated in 2001 for her role in Bridget Jones’s Diary, but didn’t win. Who did?
Halle Berry for Monster’s Ball
Nicole Kidman for The Hours
Charlize Theron for Monster
What are Bridget’s parents’ names?
Philip and Valerie
Colin and Pamela
Geoffrey and Una
Where did Bridget and her dastardly boss Daniel Cleaver work together?
Pemberley Press
P&P Publishing
Farquhar & Fitzwilliam
Bridget notoriously served blue soup at her birthday dinner party, but what else?
Cheese and peanut butter
Tuna and Branston pickle
Omelette and marmalade
Which famous (and dead) literary figure did Bridget pretend to be on the phone to?
WH Auden
PG Wodehouse
FR Leavis
Which of Bridget’s friends is a sweary feminist journalist?
Jude
Tom
Shazzer
What’s the working title of the third Bridget Jones film, currently in development?
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Widow Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Solutions
1:B, 2:C, 3:B, 4:A, 5:B, 6:A, 7:C, 8:C, 9:C, 10:A
Scores
3 and above.
F***wittage of the highest order.
6 and above.
Make a New Year’s resolution to do better. Choose vodka! Choose Chaka Khan!
10 and above.
You are a wanton sex goddess with a very bad man between your thighs. Vg.
