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50 free Humphrey Bogart trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Humphrey Bogart trivia quiz covers the AFI's greatest male screen legend from every angle. It begins with the Christmas Day birth Warner Bros. tried to hide, the illustrator mother who put baby Humphrey in a baby-food advert, the expulsion from Andover, the Navy and the disputed lip scar, the chess hustling in New York parks and the 'Tennis, anyone?' years on Broadway. Then the movies: Duke Mantee and Leslie Howard's telegram, the 34 pictures in which he was shot, hanged or jailed, High Sierra, Sam Spade, Rick Blaine and the blocks on his shoes, Bogie and Bacall on To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep's unsolved chauffeur, Sierra Madre, In a Lonely Place, the Oscar for The African Queen and Captain Queeg. The last stretch is the man himself: the four wives and the Battling Bogarts, the yacht Santana and the production company named for it, the Committee for the First Amendment, the birth of the Rat Pack, the cancer that killed him at 57, the whistle he was buried with and Godard's tribute in Breathless. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is shown on every question. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. Try our Casablanca and Classic Hollywood quizzes next.
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Q 01On what date was Humphrey Bogart born, a date Warner Bros. publicity later altered?
Christmas Day 1899
The studio moved it to January 23 to counter the idea that a man born on Christmas 'couldn't be as villainous as he appeared'; he joked about being cheated of a present every year.
Q 02Bogart's mother Maud used a drawing of the infant Humphrey in an advertising campaign for which brand?
Mellins Baby Food
A commercial illustrator who studied under Whistler, she earned $50,000 a year, far more than his surgeon father.
Q 03From which Massachusetts boarding school did Bogart depart in 1918 after failing four of six classes?
Phillips Academy, Andover
One story says he was expelled for throwing the headmaster into Rabbit Pond; his parents had hoped for Yale.
Q 04In which branch of the military did Bogart serve at the end of World War I?
US Navy
'At 18, war was great stuff. Paris! Sexy French girls! Hot damn!' he recalled; he spent most of his sea time ferrying troops home.
Q 05According to David Niven, what did Bogart say caused his famous lip scar?
A childhood accident
'Goddamn doctor. Instead of stitching it up, he screwed it up'; Niven said the wartime stories were studio inventions.
Q 06Before he made money acting, Bogart hustled players at which game in New York parks and at Coney Island?
Chess
He played at tournament level and, on Casablanca, played correspondence games with GIs until the FBI intercepted the notation as suspected code.
Q 07Bogart is reportedly the first actor to say which line on stage?
'Tennis, anyone?'
He called his early juvenile parts 'White Pants Willie' roles and appeared in at least 18 Broadway shows between 1922 and 1935.
Q 08Which actor and drinking companion first called him 'Bogie', in 1930?
Spencer Tracy
They made only one film together, Up the River; both wanted top billing on The Desperate Hours 25 years later, so Tracy dropped out.
Q 09Which escaped-killer role in The Petrified Forest made Bogart a star?
Duke Mantee
Producer Arthur Hopkins cast him on the strength of his 'dry and tired' voice, having never rated the 'antiquated juvenile' before.
Q 10Which star cabled Jack Warner 'Insist Bogart Play Mantee No Bogart No Deal', winning him The Petrified Forest?
Leslie Howard
Bogart never forgot it and named his daughter Leslie Howard Bogart in his honour.
Q 11By Bogart's own count, in his first 34 Warner pictures how many times was he shot?
12
He was also 'electrocuted or hanged in 8, and was a jailbird in 9', averaging a film every two months from 1936 to 1940.
Q 12Which 'hillbilly musical' with Bogart as a wrestling promoter did he consider his worst film?
Swing Your Lady
The Return of Doctor X, his only horror film, ran it close: 'they were drinking mine and I was making this stinking movie'.
Q 13What did the press call Bogart and third wife Mayo Methot, whose fights included stabbing and arson?
The Battling Bogarts
He named his boat Sluggy after her, and their friend Julius Epstein called the marriage 'the sequel to the Civil War'.
Q 21To Have and Have Not was loosely adapted from a novel by which author?
Ernest Hemingway
Howard Hawks directed, with Hoagy Carmichael as the piano-playing sidekick.
Q 22Whom did Hawks and Bogart telegraph, in vain, to ask who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep?
Raymond Chandler
Chandler wrote the novel; Faulkner helped with the script, whose added scenes were full of sexual innuendo.
Q 23At whose Ohio farm did Bogart marry Lauren Bacall in May 1945?
Louis Bromfield's
The Pulitzer-winning author's Malabar Farm hosted the small ceremony; Bogart admired writers above all.
Q 14In High Sierra (1941), whose dog played Pard, the dog belonging to the character Roy Earle?
Bogart's own dog, Zero
He thought the Warners wardrobe department so cheap that he often wore his own suits on screen too.
Q 15Which better-known actor turned down Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon because his contract excused remakes?
George Raft
Raft made Manpower instead; Bogart called the film 'practically a masterpiece... I don't have many things I'm proud of but that's one'.
Q 16The Maltese Falcon (1941) was the directorial debut of which friend and drinking partner of Bogart?
John Huston
They went on to make Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The African Queen and Beat the Devil together, and Huston gave his eulogy.
Q 17What is the name of Bogart's nightclub owner in Casablanca?
Rick Blaine
The AFI ranks him the fourth-greatest screen hero and his romance with Ilsa Lund the greatest love story in American cinema.
Q 18Because Ingrid Bergman was taller, what did Bogart have attached to his shoes in some Casablanca scenes?
Three-inch blocks
Off set they barely spoke; Bergman later said, 'I kissed him but I never knew him.'
Q 19To whom did Bogart lose the Best Actor Oscar for Casablanca?
Paul Lukas
Lukas won for Watch on the Rhine; Casablanca still took Best Picture and made Bogart the world's highest-paid actor by 1946.
Q 20How old were Bogart and Lauren Bacall when they fell in love filming To Have and Have Not?
44 and 19
He nicknamed her 'Baby'; it was the first affair he ever had with a leading lady.
Q 24How many films did Bogart and Bacall make together?
Four
To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo, the last with Edward G. Robinson billed second.
Q 25What was the name of Bogart's 55-foot sailing yacht, bought from Dick Powell in 1945?
Santana
He spent about thirty weekends a year aboard, mostly around Catalina, and named his production company after it.
Q 26In The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, who did Bogart call the only Hollywood performer he'd 'gladly lose a scene' to?
Walter Huston
The director's father won Best Supporting Actor; the film itself did mediocre business.
Q 27Bogart organised which Washington delegation to oppose HUAC's harassment of Hollywood?
Committee for the First Amendment
He later distanced himself with a Photoplay article titled 'I'm No Communist'.
Q 28Which Bogart film do several biographers and Louise Brooks say came closest to the real Bogart?
In a Lonely Place
His embittered writer Dixon Steele twice orders Bogart's own favourite meal, ham and eggs.
Q 29Which writer co-wrote Beat the Devil (1953), the last Bogart-Huston film?
Truman Capote
Bogart sold his interest in Santana Productions to Columbia for over $1 million in 1955.
Q 30Who suggested Bogart for The African Queen as 'the only man who could have played that part'?
Katharine Hepburn
Nearly the whole cast got dysentery in the Belgian Congo except Bogart and Huston, who lived on canned food and Scotch.