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176 free Rom Coms trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
77 free Rom Coms trivia questions with answers. Romantic movie trivia across ninety years of screen love: the screwball classics (It Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story), the golden-age weepies (Casablanca, An Affair to Remember, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's), the Nora Ephron and Richard Curtis rom-coms (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Love Actually), the great romances (Gone with the Wind, The Graduate, Love Story, Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Titanic, The Notebook, Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine, La La Land) and the modern hits (Crazy Rich Asians, To All the Boys, Anyone but You). The questions favour the things fans argue about - who really said 'I'll have what she's having', which film beat Star Wars to Best Picture, why Pretty Woman's poster isn't quite Julia Roberts - over plot summaries. Easy ones open the set; the later ones will test a proper film buff. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and carries its source, so it is safe to lift wholesale for a Valentine's quiz night or a movie-club round.
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Q 01Which Frank Capra comedy was first to sweep the 'Big Five' Oscars?
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night won Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay, though by Capra's account neither Clark Gable nor Claudette Colbert had wanted to make it; no film matched the sweep for 41 years.
Q 02In It Happened One Night, what does Clark Gable's character call the blanket hung between the beds?
The walls of Jericho
Peter Warne (Clark Gable) dubs the blanket 'the walls of Jericho'; in the final shot a toy trumpet sounds and the blanket falls, echoing the biblical walls that fell to Joshua's trumpets.
Q 03Katharine Hepburn secured the screen rights to The Philadelphia Story after a 1938 list branded her what?
Box office poison
Box office poison was the label an exhibitors' ad pinned on her in 1938; she starred in Philip Barry's play, secured the screen rights, and the 1940 film became her comeback, winning James Stewart an Oscar.
Q 04Which blacklisted screenwriter wrote the story for Audrey Hepburn's 1953 Rome romance, uncredited?
Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo wrote the story while blacklisted, so Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him and collected the Oscar; Trumbo's widow finally received the statuette in 1993.
Q 05Audrey Hepburn won her only competitive Oscar for which romantic comedy?
Roman Holiday
Roman Holiday (1953) won Hepburn Best Actress in her first American film, as a runaway princess exploring Rome with Gregory Peck's reporter, who ends up giving away his scoop rather than expose her.
Q 06Why was Some Like It Hot shot in black and white?
Drag make-up looked ghoulish in colour
Drag make-up looked ghoulish in colour tests of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, so Billy Wilder shot in black and white; Monroe's contract called for colour, but she agreed once she saw the tests.
Q 07Which real California resort stood in for the Miami 'Seminole Ritz' in Some Like It Hot?
The Hotel del Coronado
The Hotel del Coronado, a Victorian beachfront resort near San Diego, doubled for the Florida Seminole Ritz because its vintage look suited the film's 1920s setting.
Q 08What was Woody Allen's working title for Annie Hall?
Anhedonia
Anhedonia, the clinical term for being unable to feel pleasure, was Allen's working title; after trying other names at test screenings he settled on the name of Diane Keaton's character.
Q 09Which shellfish do Alvy and Annie chase around a kitchen in Annie Hall?
Lobsters
Lobsters crawl loose across the kitchen floor of a Hamptons beach house as Alvy and Annie giggle through cooking dinner; Alvy, afraid to pick them up, suggests calling the police.
Q 10Who won the Best Actress Oscar for Moonstruck (1987)?
Cher
Cher won Best Actress as Loretta, a widowed bookkeeper who falls for her fiancé's brother and answers his declaration of love with a slap and 'Snap out of it!'; Olympia Dukakis won Best Supporting Actress.
Q 11The famous 'I'll have what she's having' line in When Harry Met Sally... was delivered by whom?
The director's mother
The director's mother, Estelle Reiner, delivers the line as a fellow diner after Sally's faked orgasm; Billy Crystal came up with it, and the AFI ranks it 33rd among its 100 movie quotes.
Q 12Harry and Sally share their first car ride from which university to New York?
University of Chicago
Harry Burns and Sally Albright drive from the University of Chicago to New York after graduating in 1977, arguing the whole way about whether men and women can be friends.
Q 13Which romantic comedy began as a dark script titled '3000'?
Pretty Woman
Q 21In Four Weddings and a Funeral, Matthew's eulogy for Gareth is a poem by which writer?
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden wrote 'Funeral Blues', which opens 'Stop all the clocks'; John Hannah's reading as Matthew gave the poem a new wave of popularity and renewed interest in Auden's other work.
Q 22Who plays Carrie, the American guest Charles keeps meeting, in Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Andie MacDowell
Andie MacDowell plays Carrie, whom Charles first meets at a wedding; she marries a wealthy Scot at a later one, and Charles ends up abandoning his own wedding for her.
Q 23In Notting Hill, Anna gives William the original of La Mariée, a painting by which artist?
Marc Chagall
Pretty Woman began as J.F. Lawton's '3000', a bleak drama named for the $3,000 Edward pays Vivian for the week; Disney had it reworked into a modern fairy tale with a happy ending.
Q 14In Pretty Woman, Edward flies Vivian to San Francisco to see which opera?
La Traviata
Edward takes Vivian by private jet to Verdi's La Traviata, the story of a courtesan loved by a wealthy man that mirrors their own; she is moved to tears.
Q 15In Sleepless in Seattle, Tom Hanks's Sam and Meg Ryan's Annie finally meet on Valentine's Day at what New York landmark?
The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building's observation deck hosts the Valentine's Day climax: Jonah flies to New York alone, Sam chases after him, and Annie arrives just as they return for a forgotten backpack.
Q 16In Sleepless in Seattle, Meg Ryan's Annie Reed is a reporter in which city?
Baltimore
Annie Reed writes for The Baltimore Sun and hears Sam on the radio while driving at Christmas; she later flies from Baltimore to Seattle to watch him from afar.
Q 17Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks first shared the screen, before Sleepless in Seattle, in which 1990 comedy?
Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Versus the Volcano paired them first: Hanks's Joe, told he is dying of a 'brain cloud', agrees to leap into a volcano, and Ryan plays a trio of different women he meets along the way.
Q 18You've Got Mail is based on a 1937 Hungarian play that had already been filmed in 1940 as what?
The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner, the 1940 film of Miklós László's play Parfumerie, has two bickering shop clerks falling in love by anonymous letter; Nora Ephron named Kathleen Kelly's bookshop after it.
Q 19What is Joe Fox's AOL screen name in You've Got Mail?
NY152
NY152 is Joe Fox's handle and Shopgirl is Kathleen Kelly's; they fall for each other by anonymous email while his Fox Books superstore threatens her small bookshop nearby.
Q 20Nora Ephron's semi-autobiographical novel Heartburn was about her marriage to which journalist?
Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein, the Watergate reporter, had an affair with Margaret Jay while Ephron was pregnant with their second son; Meryl Streep played the Ephron figure, Rachel Samstat, in Mike Nichols's 1986 film.
Marc Chagall painted La Mariée ('The Bride') in 1950; William owns only a print, so Anna, who admires it in his flat, later turns up with the original as a gift.
Q 24Which singer's cover of Charles Aznavour's 'She' closes Notting Hill and reached the UK top 20?
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello's version peaked at number 19 in the UK in 1999; it plays over the film's final scenes, as William and Anna marry and are last seen on a garden bench, Anna pregnant.
Q 25In My Best Friend's Wedding, which Bacharach song does Rupert Everett lead a restaurant in singing?
I Say a Little Prayer
I Say a Little Prayer is George's showstopper: posing as Julianne's fiancé to make Michael jealous, he overplays the part at lunch with the wedding party until the whole restaurant is singing along.
Q 26In Runaway Bride, Ike notices that Maggie orders what the same way as whichever man she is engaged to?
Her eggs
Her eggs change with every fiancé, which convinces Ike she doesn't know her own mind; after fleeing their wedding she tries every style and settles on eggs Benedict.
Q 27Clueless (1995) is a loose modern adaptation of which Jane Austen novel?
Emma
Its heroine is Emma Woodhouse moved to Beverly Hills. Director Amy Heckerling sat in on classes at Beverly Hills High to get the slang right, and the film entered the National Film Registry in 2025.
Q 2810 Things I Hate About You (1999) is a teen update of which Shakespeare comedy?
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew supplies the plot: Bianca may not date until her sharp-tongued sister Kat does, so a suitor pays bad boy Patrick Verona to woo Kat, as Petruchio woos Katherina.
Q 29In 10 Things I Hate About You, which Frankie Valli hit does Heath Ledger sing from the bleachers?
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Can't Take My Eyes Off You is Patrick's public apology to Kat, sung across the bleachers of the real Stadium High School in Tacoma; it lands him in detention, and Kat helps him sneak out.
Q 30The Wedding Singer (1998) is set in which year?
1985
The film is set in 1985, with Robbie Hart plying his trade in Ridgefield, New Jersey; Billy Idol appears as himself on the plane at the end, and it became a Broadway musical in 2006.