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178 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 of these is NOT one of the 'Big Five' Oscars first swept by It Happened One Night?
Best Cinematography
The Big Five are Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay; Best Cinematography is not among them. It Happened One Night (1934) was the first film to sweep all five.
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 bought the rights to The Philadelphia Story after a 1938 list branded her what?
Box office poison
The Independent Theatre Owners of America's 1938 list called her 'box office poison'; she starred in Philip Barry's play, secured the film rights, and the 1940 film became her comeback, with James Stewart winning Best Actor.
Q 04Which blacklisted screenwriter wrote the story for Audrey Hepburn's 1953 Rome romance, uncredited?
Dalton Trumbo
Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him and collected the Oscar. Trumbo's widow finally received the statuette in 1993, and his credit was restored on the film in 2011.
Q 05Audrey Hepburn won her only competitive Oscar for which romantic comedy?
Roman Holiday
Roman Holiday (1953) won Hepburn the Best Actress Oscar in her first starring Hollywood role, as a runaway princess touring Rome with Gregory Peck's reporter; Peck insisted she share above-the-title billing.
Q 06Why was Some Like It Hot shot in black and white?
Curtis and Lemmon in drag looked grotesque in colour tests
Monroe's contract actually required colour, but she agreed once she saw the tests. The final line, 'Well, nobody's perfect!', was never meant to survive to the final cut.
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; the 1959 film was voted the greatest comedy ever by 253 critics in a 2017 BBC Culture poll.
Q 08What was Woody Allen's working title for Annie Hall?
Anhedonia
Anhedonia, the clinical term for being unable to feel pleasure, was the working title; Allen dropped it for the name of Diane Keaton's character, and Keaton, born Diane Hall, won Best Actress.
Q 09Which shellfish do Alvy and Annie chase around the kitchen in Annie Hall's most famous scene?
Lobsters
Alvy and Annie chase live lobsters around a Hamptons beach-house kitchen; Alvy later repeats the stunt with another date and it falls flat. Marshall McLuhan appears as himself in a cinema queue.
Q 10Who won the Best Actress Oscar for Moonstruck (1987)?
Cher
Cher won Best Actress for Moonstruck; Olympia Dukakis took Best Supporting Actress and John Patrick Shanley Best Original Screenplay. Cher's 'Snap out of it!' slap to Nicolas Cage made the AFI's top-100 movie quotes list.
Q 11The famous 'I'll have what she's having' line in When Harry Met Sally... was delivered by whom?
The director's mother
Estelle Reiner, director Rob Reiner's mother, plays the diner who delivers the line after Sally's faked orgasm; the AFI ranks it 33rd among the top 100 movie quotes, and Billy Crystal suggested it.
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 13Pretty Woman started life as a dark drama with what title?
3000
Q 21In Four Weddings, which W. H. Auden poem does Matthew read in memory of Gareth?
Funeral Blues
Matthew (John Hannah) reads Funeral Blues, Auden's 1938 poem beginning 'Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone'; the scene sent sales of Auden's poetry soaring and prompted a Faber tie-in pamphlet.
Q 22Who plays Carrie, the American guest Charles keeps meeting, in Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Andie MacDowell
Andie MacDowell plays Carrie, whom Hugh Grant's Charles meets at the first wedding; her rain-soaked closing line, 'Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed', became the film's most mocked moment.
Q 23The famous blue door in Notting Hill belonged in real life to whom?
'3000' (the $3,000 Edward pays for Vivian's week) was the title of J.F. Lawton's original dark script about a drug-using street prostitute; Disney's Touchstone reworked it into a fairy tale.
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, where Annie, having left her fiancé Walter, finally meets Sam and Jonah; the film grossed $227.9 million on a $21 million budget.
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 appeared together not in Sleepless in Seattle but in which 1990 flop?
Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) paired them first, with Ryan playing three women: DeDe, Angelica and Patricia. Born Margaret Hyra, she took Ryan, her maternal grandmother's maiden name, when joining the actors' union.
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
Nora Ephron named Kathleen Kelly's bookshop after the earlier film. With $250.8 million worldwide it was Ephron's biggest hit.
Q 19What is Joe Fox's AOL screen name in You've Got Mail?
NY152
Joe Fox writes as NY152 and Kathleen Kelly as Shopgirl; they trade anonymous emails without realising they are business rivals, in a film criticised on release for heavy AOL and Starbucks product placement.
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.
Screenwriter Richard Curtis
Screenwriter Richard Curtis owned 280 Westbourne Park Road, whose blue door fronts William's flat; the interior was a studio set, and the original door was auctioned for charity after filming.
Q 24Which 1950 Marc Chagall painting recurs throughout Notting Hill?
La Mariée
La Mariée (The Bride), Chagall's 1950 painting of a bride with a goat playing a violin, hangs as a print in William's flat, and Anna gives him the original at the end.
Q 25Which singer's cover of Charles Aznavour's 'She' plays over the end credits of Notting Hill and reached the UK top 20?
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello's 'She' closes the film; Rhys Ifans's Spike posing for the paparazzi in his underpants is its other most-quoted moment.
Q 26In My Best Friend's Wedding, which Bacharach song does Rupert Everett lead a restaurant in singing?
I Say a Little Prayer
George (Rupert Everett) leads the rehearsal-lunch crowd in Bacharach and David's 'I Say a Little Prayer'; his part grew after test audiences wanted more of him, and Julianne never gets Michael.
Q 27In Runaway Bride, Richard Gere's Ike Graham writes a column for which newspaper?
USA Today
Ike Graham is a USA Today columnist whose error-strewn piece about Maggie Carpenter's jilted grooms gets him fired, so he heads to Hale, Maryland, to cover her next wedding himself.
Q 28Clueless (1995) is a loose modern adaptation of which Jane Austen novel?
Emma
Cher Horowitz is Emma Woodhouse in 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 2910 Things I Hate About You (1999) is a teen update of which Shakespeare comedy?
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew's Katherina and Bianca Minola become Kat and Bianca Stratford; Heath Ledger was cast just three and a half weeks before filming began.
Q 30Which Frankie Valli song does Heath Ledger serenade Julia Stiles with from the bleachers in 10 Things I Hate About You?
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Can't Take My Eyes Off You is sung from the bleachers with the marching band joining in, a scene shot at the real Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington, which doubles as Padua High.