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Quiz: How well do you know Sydney Sweeney?

From hits to controversies, the young actor certainly knows how to stay in the headlines.
3.56pm, 9 Apr 2026
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THE CONTROVERSIAL BUT hugely popular series Euphoria is back this Sunday (read more about it in our guide here), and among the cast is 28-year-old Sydney Sweeney.

Euphoria helped to make Sweeney a star, and these days she’s a Hollywood fixture. But she’s also no stranger to controversies and headlines. 

Are you a fan of Sydney Sweeney? Put your knowledge of the star to the test with this week’s Best of the Box quiz. 

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Where was Sydney Sweeney born?
Houston
Spokane

Texas
Washington DC
How did Sydney convince her parents to allow her to pursue acting?
She wrote a five-part business plan
She got her acting teacher to call round and speak to them

She secretly got a role in the series Heroes and then told them this was her future career
She made a 20-page powerpoint and presented it to them in the living room
Which of these TV series has Sydney *not* had a supporting role or bit part in?
Criminal Minds
Pretty Little Liars

90210
The Vampire Diaries
Sydney stoked controversy over her ad for which American jeans brand?
Hollister
Gap

American Eagle
American Outfitters
In the ad, Sweeney said these lines. What is the missing word? "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are ___.”
Impeccable
Tight

Blue
Perfection
More controversy greeted Sydney when she launched a soap that allegedly contained what?
A cutting from her hair
A touch of her bathwater

The scent of her favourite perfume
Leftover coffee granules
Her character Olivia in The White Lotus season two reads a lot of books, including ones by Nietzsche and Freud. Sydney once told an interviewer: "Oh, she was not actually reading any of these books." True or false?
True
False
A scene from Euphoria where Cassie shouts at her friends in the school bathroom went viral during season two. What line specifically went viral?
"I hate you all so much!"
"I am the most beautiful of us all!"

"I have never, ever been happier!"
"I give up!"
In 2024, Sydney starred in Madame Web, which got terrible reviews. What did she say about taking on the role?
She "regretted taking on the role"
It was "a shame as it was a great movie"

The response was "sexist"
She took the role as a "strategic business decision"
What role has Sydney Sweeney not played on screen?
A 90s boxer
A kidnapped daughter

A mother who hires a mysterious housemaid
A US intelligence officer turned whistleblower
Sydney's future projects include remaking which 1968 science fiction film?
Zardoz
Barbarella

Eyes Without A Face
2001: A Space Odyssey
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Mysterious girl
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