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70 free Ingrid Bergman trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Ingrid Bergman trivia quiz spans five decades of one of cinema's most admired careers. The easy questions cover the essentials: where she was born, the film with Humphrey Bogart everyone asks her about, the three roles that won Academy Awards and the director she made three thrillers with. From there it moves into her Swedish beginnings, David O. Selznick's worries about her eyebrows, and the wartime hits that made her America's most popular actress. The harder end is for classic-film devotees: the play that won her a Tony, the Hemingway novel whose author insisted on her, the Senate speech that branded her a powerful influence for evil, the Rossellini films made in exile, the small part she chose over a bigger one in Murder on the Orient Express, the Emmy she won posthumously and the key from Notorious she handed back to Hitchcock. Her marriages, her famous children and the tributes since her death are covered too. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries for the actress and her films before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, try our Casablanca, Alfred Hitchcock and Golden Age of Hollywood quizzes next.
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Q 01In which city was Ingrid Bergman born in 1915?
Stockholm
Her father was Swedish and her mother German, and she spent childhood summers in Germany.
Q 02After whom was Ingrid Bergman named?
A Swedish princess
She was raised as an only child after two older siblings died in infancy.
Q 03Which character did Bergman play opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca?
Ilsa Lund
She later said it was not one of her favourite performances, yet it was the only one people wanted to talk about.
Q 04How many competitive Academy Awards did Ingrid Bergman win?
Three
Only Katharine Hepburn, with four, has more acting Oscars among women.
Q 05Which director made three films with Bergman: Spellbound, Notorious and Under Capricorn?
Alfred Hitchcock
She hosted his AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony in 1979 and called him Hitch.
Q 06Bergman's American debut was the 1939 English-language remake of which of her own Swedish films?
Intermezzo
She played a piano accompanist opposite Leslie Howard as a violin virtuoso.
Q 07Which producer brought Bergman to Hollywood in 1939?
David O. Selznick
He was filming Gone with the Wind at the same time and had to give her a smaller dressing room.
Q 08According to Selznick's son, which of these was NOT one of his father's early concerns about Bergman?
She could not sing
He let her keep her looks and name, and told the make-up artists to lay off.
Q 09What did Bergman quip about her childhood, thanks to her photographer father?
She was the most photographed child in Scandinavia
Justus Bergman documented all her birthdays and made her a favourite subject.
Q 10How many languages did Bergman act in?
Five
Swedish, English, German, Italian and French.
Q 11In which Swedish film did Bergman play the scarred leader of a blackmail gang?
A Woman's Face
MGM remade it in 1941 with Joan Crawford under the same title.
Q 12Which 1941 film did Bergman insist on playing the "bad girl" barmaid Ivy in, rather than the fiancee?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Reviewers said her shining talent lifted itself above an impossibly written role.
Q 13What nickname did Selznick give Bergman, referencing a soap brand and a Swedish star?
The Palmolive Garbo
A critic covering her stage Anna Christie called her as unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowball.
Q 21For which Maxwell Anderson play did Bergman win the Tony Award for Best Actress?
Joan of Lorraine
Newsweek dubbed her Queen of the Broadway Season and Gallup certified her the most popular actress in America.
Q 22What did Ingrid Bergman protest at a 1946 Washington press conference, earning hate mail?
Racial segregation
She had seen it first hand at the Lisner Auditorium where she was performing.
Q 23Which Italian director's 1950 film Stromboli led to the affair that made Bergman a scandal in America?
Roberto Rossellini
She had written to him in 1949 expressing admiration and suggesting they make a film together.
Q 14Which novelist declared that Bergman and no one else should play Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Ernest Hemingway
It was her first colour film and earned her first Best Actress nomination.
Q 15For which 1944 film did Bergman win her first Academy Award?
Gaslight
She played a wife driven close to madness by her husband, played by Charles Boyer.
Q 16Who directed Bergman's first Oscar-winning role, in the 1944 film that introduced Angela Lansbury?
George Cukor
The film received seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.
Q 17Bergman played a nun opposite Bing Crosby in which film, the biggest box office hit of 1945?
The Bells of St. Mary's
It earned her a third consecutive Best Actress nomination.
Q 18Which artist was hired to design the dream sequence in Spellbound?
Salvador Dali
Bergman played psychiatrist Dr. Constance Petersen, analysing Gregory Peck's character.
Q 19In Notorious, Bergman's Alicia Huberman infiltrates a group of German emigres hiding in which city?
Rio de Janeiro
She marries Claude Rains's IG Farben executive, and the McGuffin turns out to be uranium ore in wine bottles.
Q 20Which prop from Notorious did Bergman present to Hitchcock at his 1979 AFI tribute?
The wine cellar key
Cary Grant had kept it for 10 years before giving it to her, and she kept it for 20 more.
Q 24On the floor of which body was Bergman denounced in 1950 as "a powerful influence for evil"?
The United States Senate
Senator Edwin C. Johnson said she had perpetrated an assault upon the institution of marriage.
Q 25Which TV host refused to book Bergman during the scandal, despite a poll showing the public wanted her?
Ed Sullivan
Steve Allen, whose show was equally popular, did have her on as a guest.
Q 26How much money did RKO lose on Stromboli in the United States?
$200,000
In Italy it was awarded the Rome Prize for Cinema as the best film of the year.
Q 27For which Rossellini film did Bergman win the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at Venice?
Europa '51
The prize was only awarded posthumously in 1992 because she had been dubbed in the festival version.
Q 28Which 1956 film marked Bergman's return to Hollywood studio work and won her a second Oscar?
Anastasia
Cary Grant accepted the award on her behalf.
Q 29Who played the scheming General Bounine opposite Bergman in her 1956 comeback film?
Yul Brynner
The plot was inspired by Anna Anderson, the best known of the Anastasia impostors.
Q 30With which co-star did Bergman present the Best Picture Oscar in 1959, her first post-scandal appearance?
Cary Grant
She received a standing ovation; the two had just starred together in Indiscreet.