Julie Andrews or Carol Burnett? Quiz

Answer: Julie Andrews

Andrews was first married to Tony Walton in 1959, and together they had one daughter named Emma. The two divorced in 1968, and a year later she married Blake Edwards. The two met completely by accident at their therapist's office!

Edwards, a well known Hollywood director, and Andrews collaborated on a movie called "Darling Lili" in 1970. It was a musical set during WWI. Lili was a spy for the Germans, who was supposed to obtain military secrets from an American pilot. In spite of the fact that the movie was a box office bomb, it did win a Golden Globe for Best Original Song - Motion Picture for "Whistling Away the Dark".

Altogether the couple collaborated on eight (some sources say seven) films and were married for forty-one years. Andrews was a step-mother to Edwards' two children from a previous relationship, and together the couple adopted two Vietnamese daughters. Edwards passed away in 2010.

Answer: Julie Andrews

Julia Elizabeth Wells was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, in 1935. Her mother and father divorced when she was about three, and her mother remarried a man named Ted Andrews, who legally adopted her. Growing up in England during the war years was difficult; even though her mom and step-dad worked with the Entertainments National Service Association, entertaining the troops, they were poor and lived in a slum, according to Andrews' autobiography.

When the war ended there was enough money to pay for lessons for the talented Julie. She was able to attend an arts educational school, and take voice and dance lessons. By the time she was ten, Julie was performing with her parents on stage; when she was twelve she performed at the London Hippodrome. A year later she became the youngest solo entertainer to perform for the King and Queen (George VI and Elizabeth) at the Royal Variety Performance.

Julie's fame has largely come from her roles in musicals as a movie or theater actress. Although she is very versatile in her abilities, her fame came from movies like "The Sound of Music" (1965) and Broadway shows like "My Fair Lady" (1955-1958).

Answer: Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews has had a long successful career; she has won just about every award possible in her field. These include a British Academy Film Award, three Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and seven Golden Globe Awards. In 2000 she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II, and the following year she received Kennedy Center Honors.

Although she may be best known for "The Sound of Music" (1965) or "Victor/Victoria" (1982), the role for which she earned her Oscar for Best Actress was "Mary Poppins" (1964). She also won the Best Recording for Children Grammy in 1965 for her role as the magical English nanny, as well as a Golden Globe for Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Answer: Julie Andrews

In 1997 Andrews was performing in "Victor/Victoria" on Broadway when her voice became hoarse after a performance. It was so bad that she had to be replaced. Doctors believed that she possibly had nodules on her throat and she underwent surgery. Unfortunately, the result was permanent damage to her lovely voice.

Andrews later wrote that the surgery had been completely unnecessary as she didn't have cancer or nodules or anything - her vocal cords were just strained. After settling a lawsuit for malpractice against the doctors in 2000, she underwent four other surgeries that did improve the quality of her speaking voice, but her singing voice has never returned.

The surgery led to Andrews finding other ways to use her talents, including voice acting in the "Shrek" movie franchise (2001-2010) and in "Despicable Me" (2010-present). In addition, Andrews has been writing children's books with her daughter.

Answer: Julie Andrews

Operation California was founded in 1979 to fund humanitarian relief programs that provided assistance, such as medical supplies, for Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. While some sources say that Andrews and her second husband were co-founders of the organization, others specify they were founding board members; Andrews has, however, served on the board for over forty-five years. The name of the organization changed to Operation USA in 1988, and the scope of the organization has expanded to help people worldwide. In 1997 the group won the Nobel Peace Prize for its work to help ban landmines.

Andrews has also been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and worked with groups like UNICEF and Save the Children. In addition she has been an advocate for the Hereditary Disease Foundation, which works to find cures for hereditary illnesses.

Answer: Carol Burnett

Carol has been married three times. Don Saroyan (1955-1962) was her college boyfriend, and Joe Hamilton (1963-1984), was a television producer, with whom she had three daughters.

During the 1990s she met Brian Miller, who was the drummer for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and also worked as a music contractor for the Hollywood Bowl and Hollywood Pantages Theatre. They were married in 2001. In 2023 he served as an executive producer for her television special called "Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love". The show was awarded the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), and received four other nominations.

Answer: Carol Burnett

Carol's oldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton, passed away in 2002 at the age of thirty-eight. She was an actress and singer, taking roles in the television version of "Fame" (1985-1987), and touring with the stage musical "Rent". Carrie also starred in the movie "Tokyo Pop" (1988), in which she sang several songs. At a very young age, Carrie abused drugs and alcohol, addictions that she mostly overcame by the time she was fifteen. She died from pneumonia as a complication of lung cancer.

Burnett has been very open about the family's struggles in dealing with Carrie's addiction in hopes of helping others find solutions to similar problems. She has even has said that the pressure in dealing with the problem contributed to the break up of her second marriage.

Answer: Carol Burnett

Like Andrews, Burnett has a long list of professional accomplishments that includes seven Gold Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2015.

While Andrews has been nominated three times for a Tony Award, it was Burnett who won a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award and the Special Tony Award in 1969. The award was not given for a specific performance, but in recognition of her contributions to the field of theater.

Answer: Carol Burnett

Remember the mysterious benefactor who gave Carol the money to go to New York? One of the conditions of the deal was that she help other people achieve their goals. Burnett has been a long-time donor to UCLA scholarship programs, and in 2025 she endowed a scholarship at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television to support students who are in the Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program. She has also donated approximately 140 of the awards and honors she has received so that they can be displayed for others to see.

Burnett is also a Lifetime Director for the heredity Disease Foundation and established the Carrie Hamilton Foundation in memory of her daughter.

Answer: Carol Burnett

Carol Creighton Burnett was born in Texas in 1933. When her parents divorced a few years later, the family moved to California and she lived in a low income area of Hollywood in a boarding house with her grandmother. Remember Carol's famous ear tug at the end of her shows? It was her way of saying she was thinking about her grandmother.

During a time in her life that she has described as being impoverished, Carol's grandmother would take her to the movies, where she would be able to forget life's problems. Carol later said that during that time the movies taught her about storytelling, and the poverty gave her determination to find a different life.

When Carol graduated from Hollywood High School, she received an anonymous gift of $50, which paid for a year of college tuition. Although she first thought of pursuing a degree in journalism, she changed her focus to theater arts and English. The acting class that she had to take to enter the playwright program changed her life, as did a mysterious stranger who loaned her money so that she could seek fame in New York.

Through the course of her long career, Burnett has played many roles on stage and screen, but she is best known for her work on "The Carol Burnett Show" (1967-1978). While it was a variety show, it mainly focused on comedy routines, film parodies, and spoofs. She is considered to be the forerunner for women in television comedy, winning 25 Emmy Awards for her show.