Question 1

True or false: Woody Allen is an accomplished jazz clarinetist who still performs weekly.

Accepted Answer

True. He has played clarinet since childhood and performs Monday nights at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City.

Question 2

True or false: Woody Allen has never won an Academy Award for Best Director.

Accepted Answer

False. He won Best Director for 'Annie Hall' in 1978, beating Steven Spielberg for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

Question 3

True or false: Woody Allen performed as a stand-up comedian at the Copacabana nightclub in the 1960s.

Accepted Answer

True. He was a regular at the Copacabana, honing his neurotic, intellectual humor before his film career took off.

Question 4

True or false: Woody Allen's real name is Allan Stewart Konigsberg.

Accepted Answer

True. Born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in 1935, he legally changed his name to Woody Allen in the early 1950s.

Question 5

True or false: Woody Allen directed the film 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' entirely in black and white.

Accepted Answer

False. It was shot in color; the film-within-the-film is black-and-white, but the main narrative is in color.

Question 6

True or false: Woody Allen has never appeared as an actor in any film directed by another director.

Accepted Answer

False. He acted in films like 'Casino Royale' (1967) and 'The Front' (1976), both directed by others.

Question 7

True or false: Woody Allen's film 'Manhattan' was shot in widescreen CinemaScope.

Accepted Answer

False. It was shot in 2.35:1 anamorphic Panavision, but that's not CinemaScope—a common myth due to the wide look.

Question 8

True or false: Woody Allen wrote a play entirely in rhyme called 'God.'

Accepted Answer

True. 'God' (1975) is a one-act musical farce written in rhyming couplets, a rare experiment for him.

Woody Allen Trivia Questions