Humphrey Bogart Trivia
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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 01Humphrey Bogart's real birthday, long doubted because reference books gave a January date, fell on which holiday in 1899?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day. A rival date of January 23 circulated for decades, but a newspaper birth notice printed on January 10, 1900 rules it out, and Bogart always kept December 25.
Q 02Bogart's mother Maud used a drawing of her son in a national advertising campaign for which brand?
Mellins Baby Food
Mellins Baby Food. The ads made the infant Bogart briefly famous: he later said there was a time you couldn't pick up a magazine 'without seeing my kisser in it'.
Q 03Which elite Massachusetts boarding school did Bogart leave in 1918 with failing grades?
Phillips Academy, Andover
Phillips Academy, Andover. Accounts differ on the exit: in one he was expelled for throwing a member of staff into the campus pond, in another his father pulled him out over his marks.
Q 04In which branch of the military did Bogart serve at the end of World War I?
US Navy
US Navy. He enlisted weeks after leaving school, recalling later that at that age war seemed 'great stuff', and spent most of his sea time after the armistice ferrying troops home.
Q 05In one famous story of Bogart's lip scar, who struck him in the mouth during military service?
A handcuffed prisoner
A handcuffed prisoner. As the tale goes, the man asked his escort for a cigarette and swung his cuffs when Bogart reached for a match; other accounts differ, so the scar's origin is unsettled.
Q 06Before he made money acting, Bogart hustled players at which game in New York parks and at Coney Island?
Chess
Chess. He played seriously all his life: during the war he took on servicemen by post until the FBI, reading his mail, mistook the move notation for secret code and made him stop.
Q 07Bogart is reportedly the first actor to say which line on stage?
'Tennis, anyone?'
'Tennis, anyone?' The legend grew from his 1920s parts as a well-bred juvenile with a racquet; Bogart told it both ways, owning up in 1948 to 'Tennis anybody?' and later swearing he never had to say the line.
Q 08The slang verb 'to bogart', inspired by Bogart's ever-dangling cigarette, means what?
To hog something
To hog something. It began as 1960s drug slang for keeping a joint dangling from your lip, as he did his cigarettes, instead of passing it on, as in the 1968 song 'Don't Bogart That Joint'.
Q 09Which escaped-killer role in The Petrified Forest made Bogart a star?
Duke Mantee
Duke Mantee. He had created the gangster on Broadway, a shock after a decade of playing well-bred young men in drawing-room comedies, and repeated it in the film.
Q 10Which star cabled Jack Warner 'No Bogart No Deal', winning him his part in The Petrified Forest?
Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard. Bogart never forgot the favour, and named his daughter Leslie Howard Bogart in his honour.
Q 11Casablanca ends with Bogart telling Captain Renault this is 'the beginning of a beautiful' what?
Friendship
Friendship. Producer Hal Wallis chose the line weeks after the cameras stopped, so Bogart had to be called back to dub it over the final shot.
Q 12Which 'hillbilly musical', with Bogart as a wrestling promoter, did he reportedly consider his worst film?
Swing Your Lady
Swing Your Lady. In the 1938 comedy his wrestler falls for the woman blacksmith he is meant to fight and refuses to go through with the bout.
Q 13What did the press call Bogart and his third wife, Mayo Methot, whose fights once left him with a stab wound?
The Battling Bogarts
Q 21Howard Hawks told which novelist that he could make a good film of the writer's worst book, then cast Bogart in it?
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway. He agreed which of his novels was the weakest, and William Faulkner then reworked the script, making it the only film story shaped by two Nobel laureates.
Q 22Whom did Hawks and Bogart telegraph, in vain, to ask who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep?
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler. He had written the novel, yet later admitted in a letter: 'They sent me a wire … asking me, and dammit I didn't know either.'
Q 23Bogart married Lauren Bacall in May 1945 at Malabar Farm, the home of novelist Louis Bromfield, in which state?
Ohio
The Battling Bogarts. Both drank heavily; he nicknamed her Sluggy for her temper, then gave the same name to his motor boat.
Q 14Which actress was billed above Bogart in the 1941 gangster film High Sierra?
Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino. Her name ran above his in the credits, but the film made Bogart a star, and top billing soon followed.
Q 15Which better-known actor turned down Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon because his contract excused remakes?
George Raft
George Raft. He made Manpower instead, having already passed on High Sierra, and both of the parts he refused went to Bogart and made him a star.
Q 16The Maltese Falcon (1941) was the directorial debut of which friend and drinking partner of Bogart?
John Huston
John Huston. He chose Dashiell Hammett's thriller for his first job as a director, kept casting Bogart for the next twelve years, and finally spoke the eulogy at his funeral.
Q 17What is the name of Bogart's nightclub owner in Casablanca?
Rick Blaine
Rick Blaine. Ingrid Bergman was taller, so Bogart was raised on blocks for some of their scenes; the AFI later ranked Rick fourth among the screen's greatest heroes.
Q 18Which song does Ilsa ask the pianist Sam to play in Casablanca, after Bogart's character has banned it from his café?
As Time Goes By
As Time Goes By. The film's composer, Max Steiner, wanted to swap it for a tune of his own, but Ingrid Bergman had already cut her hair for her next role, so the scenes could not be reshot.
Q 19Bogart lost Best Actor for Casablanca, but the film won three Oscars, including which?
Best Picture
Best Picture. It also won for its director and its screenplay, and although Bogart went home empty-handed the film made him one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
Q 20Bogart, 44, and Bacall, 19, fell in love while making which film, her screen debut?
To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not. He was still married to his third wife when shooting began; he and Bacall wed the following spring, less than two weeks after his divorce came through.
Ohio. Bromfield, a Pulitzer-winning friend of the groom, was best man, and the wedding made his farm famous; it is now a state park.
Q 24Which film was Bogart and Bacall's last together?
Key Largo
Key Largo. In the 1948 thriller, set in a hotel during a hurricane, Edward G. Robinson, once billed above Bogart in their gangster films, played the villain to his hero.
Q 25What was the name of Bogart's beloved sailing yacht?
Santana
Santana. He named his own film company after the boat in 1948; its pictures went out through Columbia, which bought his stake seven years later.
Q 26Which veteran actor won an Oscar as the old prospector alongside Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
Walter Huston
Walter Huston. Bogart said he was probably the only performer in Hollywood to whom he would gladly lose a scene.
Q 27In 1947 Bogart flew to Washington with which group to protest the HUAC hearings?
Committee for the First Amendment
Committee for the First Amendment. Stung by the backlash, Bogart soon distanced himself from the Hollywood Ten in a magazine piece headed 'I'm No Communist'.
Q 28Which 1950 film noir, made by Bogart's own company, cast him as a hot-tempered screenwriter suspected of murder?
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place. The actress Louise Brooks, who knew him, thought its proud, hard-drinking, sometimes violent writer the closest any part came to the real Bogart.
Q 29Which writer co-wrote the screenplay of Beat the Devil (1953), Bogart's caper comedy?
Truman Capote
Truman Capote. He was hired early in 1953, and the script he helped write turned the picture into a loose send-up of The Maltese Falcon.
Q 30On The African Queen's location shoot, Bogart claimed he stayed healthy by drinking what instead of the local water?
Scotch whisky
Scotch whisky. Most of the unit fell sick, co-star Katharine Hepburn among them, while Bogart lived on tinned food and Scotch and joked that any fly that bit him dropped dead.