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50 free romance movie trivia questions with answers. This romance movie trivia quiz splits its time between the great love stories and the great rom-coms. On the drama side: Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, An Affair to Remember, Love Story, Ghost, Titanic, The Notebook, Brokeback Mountain and Call Me by Your Name. On the comedy side: It Happened One Night, When Harry Met Sally, Pretty Woman, Sleepless in Seattle, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones, Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Proposal, Crazy Rich Asians and Anyone but You, plus the directors who defined the genre. The first questions are date-night easy; the last will stretch people who know their Auden from their Alexander Pope. Every question is multiple choice with a short explanation after you answer. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01In Casablanca, which line, though closely associated with the film, is never actually spoken?
Play it again, Sam
Ilsa says 'Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By'; Bogart improvised 'Here's looking at you, kid' from a poker game between takes.
Q 02Which 1934 screwball comedy was the first film to win the 'Big Five' Oscars?
It Happened One Night
Legend says Clark Gable's bare chest in one scene dented undershirt sales.
Q 03Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar for which 1939 romantic epic?
Gone with the Wind
About 1,400 unknown women were interviewed for the role of Scarlett O'Hara.
Q 04Audrey Hepburn won her Best Actress Oscar for playing a runaway princess in which 1953 film?
Roman Holiday
Blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo only got his credit restored in 2011.
Q 05In An Affair to Remember, the lovers agree to reunite atop the Empire State Building after how long?
Six months
Terry is hit by a car on her way there; Sleepless in Seattle borrowed the rendezvous wholesale in 1993.
Q 06Which composer wrote the music for Breakfast at Tiffany's, including 'Moon River'?
Henry Mancini
Johnny Mercer supplied the lyrics; Marilyn Monroe was considered before Audrey Hepburn.
Q 07The Way We Were was based on writer Arthur Laurents's own college years at which university?
Cornell
Its title song was Billboard's number one pop hit of 1974.
Q 08Which 1970 tearjerker gave the world the line 'never having to say you're sorry'?
Love Story
Erich Segal wrote the screenplay and the novel at the same time; it was Tommy Lee Jones's film debut.
Q 09Dirty Dancing is set at a resort in which region during the summer of 1963?
The Borscht Belt
It was actually filmed in North Carolina and Virginia.
Q 10Which Dirty Dancing song won the Oscar for Best Original Song?
(I've Had) The Time of My Life
Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes also took the Golden Globe and a Grammy for it.
Q 11Which 1955 song, sung by the Righteous Brothers, became inseparable from Ghost's pottery-wheel scene?
Unchained Melody
Ghost was 1990's highest-grossing film and won Whoopi Goldberg an Oscar.
Q 12Pretty Woman's original screenplay had what title, and a much darker tone?
3000
J. F. Lawton's cautionary tale about class and prostitution became a big-budget rom-com.
Q 13Who delivers the line 'I'll have what she's having' in When Harry Met Sally?
Rob Reiner's mother
Estelle Reiner's deadpan order in Katz's Deli became one of cinema's most quoted lines.
Q 21Which Wet Wet Wet cover from Four Weddings and a Funeral spent fifteen weeks at UK number one?
Love Is All Around
Richard Curtis later had Billy Mack butcher it as 'Christmas Is All Around' in Love Actually.
Q 22Whose poem 'Funeral Blues' is read at the funeral in Four Weddings and a Funeral?
W. H. Auden
The film was made in six weeks for under £3 million and earned a Best Picture nomination.
Q 23Bridget Jones's Diary is a loose modern adaptation of which Jane Austen novel, complete with a Mr Darcy?
Pride and Prejudice
Colin Firth's Mark Darcy is the giveaway.
Q 14Sleepless in Seattle's Annie proposes meeting Sam atop the Empire State Building on which day?
Valentine's Day
The observation deck was recreated on a former naval base in Seattle when the real one was unavailable.
Q 15You've Got Mail was the third pairing of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Which was the first?
Joe Versus the Volcano
The 1998 film was based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie.
Q 16Which writer-director made Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail after writing When Harry Met Sally?
Nora Ephron
She was once married to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein.
Q 17Titanic tied which 1959 epic for the record of eleven Academy Awards?
Ben-Hur
It was also the first film to gross a billion dollars.
Q 18Composer James Horner wrote 'My Heart Will Go On' in secret because James Cameron had said what?
He did not want any songs in the film
Horner waited for Cameron to be in a good mood before playing it to him.
Q 19The Notebook is based on a novel by which author?
Nicholas Sparks
Gosling and McAdams won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss.
Q 20In Notting Hill, William Thacker's shop is what kind of bookstore?
A travel bookshop
The blue door of his flat was later auctioned for charity.
Q 2410 Things I Hate About You updates which Shakespeare comedy to a Tacoma high school?
The Taming of the Shrew
Heath Ledger's bleacher serenade of 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' took just three takes.
Q 25Clueless is loosely adapted from which Jane Austen novel?
Emma
Amy Heckerling observed students at Beverly Hills High to get the slang right.
Q 26(500) Days of Summer was the feature directing debut of which future Spider-Man director?
Marc Webb
Critics compared the nonlinear breakup story to Annie Hall and High Fidelity.
Q 27La La Land infamously lost Best Picture to which film after the wrong envelope was read?
Moonlight
Its 14 nominations tied the record, and 32-year-old Damien Chazelle became the youngest Best Director winner.
Q 28Which two actors were originally in talks to star in La La Land before Ryan Gosling and Stone were cast?
Miles Teller and Emma Watson
Chazelle first dreamed up the film at Harvard with composer Justin Hurwitz.
Q 29Crazy Rich Asians was the first major studio film with a majority Chinese-descent modern cast since which 1993 film?
The Joy Luck Club
It is set largely in Singapore, based on Kevin Kwan's novel.
Q 30The 2023 hit Anyone but You, with Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, is based on which Shakespeare play?
Much Ado About Nothing
Its $220 million gross was hailed as the return of the rom-com to cinemas.