Michael Hogan 

How much do you know about Bridget Jones?

She's back. And this time, it's highly personal. Again. Put on your big knickers for our Bridget Jones quiz…
  
  


  1. 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?

    1. Sense & Sensibility

    2. Persuasion

    3. Mansfield Park

  2. From which university did Bridget graduate?

    1. Manchester

    2. Keele

    3. Bangor

  3. What was the name of the live TV show for which Bridget was a researcher-cum-reporter?

    1. Stand Up Britain

    2. Sit Up Britain

    3. What’s Up Britain?

  4. Renée Zellweger was Oscar-nominated in 2001 for her role in Bridget Jones’s Diary, but didn’t win. Who did?

    1. Halle Berry for Monster’s Ball

    2. Nicole Kidman for The Hours

    3. Charlize Theron for Monster

  5. What are Bridget’s parents’ names?

    1. Philip and Valerie

    2. Colin and Pamela

    3. Geoffrey and Una

  6. Where did Bridget and her dastardly boss Daniel Cleaver work together?

    1. Pemberley Press

    2. P&P Publishing

    3. Farquhar & Fitzwilliam

  7. Bridget notoriously served blue soup at her birthday dinner party, but what else?

    1. Cheese and peanut butter

    2. Tuna and Branston pickle

    3. Omelette and marmalade

  8. Which famous (and dead) literary figure did Bridget pretend to be on the phone to?

    1. WH Auden

    2. PG Wodehouse

    3. FR Leavis

  9. Which of Bridget’s friends is a sweary feminist journalist?

    1. Jude

    2. Tom

    3. Shazzer

  10. What’s the working title of the third Bridget Jones film, currently in development?

    1. Bridget Jones’s Baby

    2. Widow Jones’s Diary

    3. 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

  1. 3 and above.

    F***wittage of the highest order.

  2. 6 and above.

    Make a New Year’s resolution to do better. Choose vodka! Choose Chaka Khan!

  3. 10 and above.

    You are a wanton sex goddess with a very bad man between your thighs. Vg.

 

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