🧠 The Wizard of Oz Quiz

Toto was played by a female Cairn Terrier named Terry in the 1939 film, and reportedly earned $125 per week — more than some of the human actors.

In L. Frank Baum's original novel, the Yellow Brick Road leads to the Emerald City, but the city's green appearance is actually an illusion created by green-tinted spectacles that everyone is made to wear.

In the 1939 film, the Wizard gives the Tin Man a heart-shaped watch as a symbolic gift, telling him that a heart is judged not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Dorothy Gale's surname is thought by some scholars to be a nod to the tornado — a gale — that sweeps her away to Oz.

Frank Morgan actually played five different roles in the film, including Professor Marvel, the Doorman, the Cabbie, the Guard, and the Wizard himself.

The silver slippers were changed to ruby red for the 1939 film specifically to show off the new Technicolor process — and the iconic ruby slippers have overshadowed the originals ever since.

The Wicked Witch's famous melting scene was achieved using a trap door in the stage floor, through which Margaret Hamilton descended as steam was pumped up around her.

Buddy Ebsen was hospitalised after the aluminium dust coated his lungs, and the role was recast to Jack Haley, who used aluminium paste instead — though Haley reportedly never knew why the formula had been changed.

Terry the Cairn Terrier earned $125 per week on the film — more than many of the human actors playing the Munchkins, who were paid around $50 per week.

Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1940, and was later voted the greatest song of the 20th century by the Recording Industry Association of America.