The Ultimate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Quiz | Movies

Answer: Willy Wonka

In 1971, this part was played by Gene Wilder; here it is Johnny Depp who portrays the character that Roald Dahl had described as bright-eyed and full of fun, charming and friendly if occasionally insensitive. In this movie, he is given a back story involving a dentist father (Dr. Wilbur Wonka, played by Christopher Lee) from whom he had long been estranged due to their conflict over the issue of eating sweets.

Answer: Charlie Bucket

Charlie was played in 1971 by Peter Ostrum, an American actor who never appeared in another movie. In 2005, the part went to Freddie Highmore, whose accent was distinctly English. He is cheerful and helpful, and seemingly unphased by the poverty in which his family lives at the start of the film - the loving atmosphere makes up for the various deprivations he experiences. Because he is the last 'survivor' of the Golden Ticket winners, Willie selects him as heir to the chocolate factory, but Charlie refuses when told that his parents cannot join him.

After he helps Willy Wonka reconcile with his father, Willy becomes less parentophobic (I know that's not a word, but it suits!), and the whole Bucket family takes up residence in the factory.

Answer: Grandpa Joe

Charlie's Grandpa Joe worked at the chocolate factory until the day when Willie Wonka laid off all of his human employees. The loss of income left the family facing financial problems, and we see Charlie, his parents and his four grandparents all living in a single-room house near the chocolate factory, which looms over the neighbourhood.

He is the adult Charlie chooses to accompany him on the factory tour, but Willie almost refuses him entry, recognising him as a past employee, and concerned that he may now be working for a competitor as a spy.

Answer: Oompa-Loompa

Willy Wonka rescued the Oompa-Loompas from Loompaland, where they were subject to attack from various predators, and brought them to work in his factory, paying them in cocoa beans (their favorite food, and scarce back home). They love to sing as they work, and provide a sung version of Roald Dahl's cautionary verses as the children meet their fate, one by one.

A single actor, Kenya-born Deep Roy, played all of the Oompa-Loompas in the film.

Answer: Augustus Gloop

Augustus Gloop, the first person to find a Golden Ticket, is an enormously overweight German boy who is constantly eating chocolate (and usually has it smeared all over his face - not a good look). He is the first child to leave the tour, when he falls into the Chocolate River while drinking from it, and is sucked into a pipe leading to the Fudge Room, from which his parents retrieve him.

Answer: Veruca Salt

Veruca Salt is the second child to find a Golden Ticket, and the third child to be removed from the tour. A thoroughly spoiled child, whose parents have given her everything she demanded (which only led to ever more demands, of course), she makes the mistake of interfering with the trained squirrels who are selecting which nuts are to go into chocolate bars, and which are to be discarded.

She is discarded, and her parents follow her down another garbage chute. Her parents seem to have learned something from the experience, as they refuse her demand for her own Great Glass Elevator when they are leaving.

Answer: Violet Beauregarde

The third child to find a Golden Ticket, Violet Beauregarde is self-centered, highly competitive, and obsessed with chewing gum. In fact, she has trophies for it! Her downfall occurs when Willy Wonka shows them one of his projects - chewing gum that changes flavour, to produce a three course meal of tomato soup, roast beef and baked potato, and blueberry pie with ice cream.

Although she is warned not to try it, as it is still experimental, she insists on doing so, and enjoys it until all of a sudden she starts to turn blue and swell up into the globular shape of a blueberry.

The Oompa-Loompas roll her off to the Juicing Room to remove some liquid and get her body to shrink back to a normal size - but the blue skin remains.

Answer: Mike Teavee

In the book, Mike Teavee was obsessed with television, as his name suggests. In this film, he has been updated to have the internet and video games (especially shooting games) added to his interests. He is the fourth child to find a ticket, which he does using logic just so he can, even though he has no interest in chocolate.

After being reduced in the Television Chocolate room, he is taken to the Taffy-Puller Room, where he is stretched a bit too much - he ends up nearly ten feet tall, and so thin as to be virtually two-dimensional.

Answer: Prince Pondicherry

Prince Pondicherry only appears briefly, as a character in a story Grandpa Joe relates about Willy Wonka making a chocolate palace for an Indian prince, who refused to accept Willie's advice to eat it quickly before it melted in the hot weather. He and his wife, Princess Pondicherry, demanded a replacement palace, which was refused.

Answer: Arthur Slugworth

Arthur Slugworth, Mr Ficklegruber and Mr Prodnose are three rival chocolatiers, who try to send spies to steal Willy Wonka's secrets. In this film, the role is almost non-existent, but the character played a more significant role in the book. It was his theft of Willie Wonka's secret recipes that nearly destroyed Wonka's business, and caused him to turn to the use of Oompa-Loompas as his factory workers.

In the 1971 film, he is seen trying to get each of the children to steal a secret for him, but it is eventually revealed that the person calling himself Arthur Slugworth was actually an employee of Willy Wonka's named Wilkinson, setting a trap to test the character of each child.