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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
Only two films have matched it since: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs. Clark Gable's bare chest in the film supposedly dented undershirt sales.
Q 02In It Happened One Night, what does Clark Gable's character call the blanket hung between the beds?
The walls of Jericho
The joke pays off in the final shot when the 'walls' come tumbling down. Animator Friz Freleng later said the film helped inspire Bugs Bunny.
Q 03Katharine Hepburn bought the rights to The Philadelphia Story after a 1938 list branded her what?
Box office poison
The gamble worked: it was her first hit in years, and James Stewart won his only Oscar for it. MGM remade it as the musical High Society in 1956.
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 Academy Award for which romantic comedy, her first major Hollywood role?
Roman Holiday
She plays a runaway princess who tours Rome on a Vespa with Gregory Peck's reporter. Peck insisted her name go above the title alongside his.
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 Victorian beachfront hotel near San Diego still trades on the connection. The film was voted the greatest comedy ever by 253 critics in a 2017 BBC poll.
Q 08What was Woody Allen's working title for Annie Hall?
Anhedonia
It is the clinical term for being unable to feel pleasure. The finished film beat Star Wars to Best Picture, and Diane Keaton, whose real surname is Hall, won Best Actress.
Q 09Which shellfish do Alvy and Annie chase around the kitchen in Annie Hall's most famous scene?
Lobsters
The scene was shot early and the production kept coming back to add material for another ten months. Media theorist Marshall McLuhan also turns up as himself in a cinema queue.
Q 10Moonstruck (1987) won three Oscars. Who took Best Actress?
Cher
Dukakis won Best Supporting Actress and John Patrick Shanley the screenplay. Cher's slap-and-'Snap out of it!' to Nicolas Cage is on the AFI's list of top movie quotes.
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, mother of director Rob Reiner, got the line, which the AFI ranks 33rd among all movie quotes. Katz's still hangs a sign over the table.
Q 12The deli scene in When Harry Met Sally... was filmed at which real Manhattan restaurant?
Katz's Delicatessen
Nora Ephron's script won the BAFTA and was Oscar-nominated. She got the idea for the film from Rob Reiner's laments about single life after his divorce.
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
'Stop all the clocks' sent Auden's sales soaring. Wet Wet Wet's cover of 'Love Is All Around' from the soundtrack sat at UK number one for fifteen weeks.
Q 22Wet Wet Wet's 'Love Is All Around' spent how many weeks at UK number one?
Fifteen
The band eventually asked for it to be deleted so something else could get to the top. The film itself was nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
Q 23The famous blue door in Notting Hill belonged in real life to whom?
Screenwriter Richard Curtis
The number was the price of Vivian's week. Disney's Touchstone turned it into a fairy tale, and Richard Gere snapping the necklace box on Julia Roberts's fingers was improvised.
Q 14In Pretty Woman, Richard Gere snapping the jewellery box on Julia Roberts's fingers was what?
Improvised
Her startled laugh was real, and director Garry Marshall kept it. Roberts earned her first Best Actress nomination and the film took $463 million worldwide.
Q 15In Sleepless in Seattle, where do Sam and Annie finally meet on Valentine's Day?
The Empire State Building
The whole film is a homage to An Affair to Remember, which the characters watch and weep over. It made $227.9 million on a $21 million budget.
Q 16Which 1957 film do the characters in Sleepless in Seattle keep watching and crying over?
An Affair to Remember
Rosie O'Donnell's Becky delivers the film's thesis: 'You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.'
Q 17Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks first appeared together not in Sleepless in Seattle but in which 1990 flop?
Joe Versus the Volcano
Ryan played three different women in it. Born Margaret Hyra, she took the surname Ryan from her grandmother when she joined 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
Kathleen is Shopgirl. The film was criticised at the time for wall-to-wall AOL and Starbucks product placement, which now plays as a period document.
Q 20Nora Ephron's semi-autobiographical novel Heartburn was about her marriage to which journalist?
Carl Bernstein
The Watergate reporter had an affair while she was pregnant. Meryl Streep played the Ephron figure in the 1986 film, and Ephron went on to earn three Oscar nominations for screenwriting.
280 Westbourne Park Road hides a grand house rather than William's poky flat, which was a studio set. The door was later auctioned for charity.
Q 24Which 1950 Marc Chagall painting recurs throughout Notting Hill?
La Mariée
Anna gives William the original at the end. On release the film overtook Four Weddings as the highest-grossing British film ever, with $364 million worldwide.
Q 25Which singer recorded the Charles Aznavour song 'She' for the end credits of Notting Hill?
Elvis Costello
The cover reached the UK top 20. Rhys Ifans's turn as flatmate Spike, posing for the paparazzi in his underpants, is the film's 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
The scene was added after test audiences wanted more of Everett's George. Unusually for the genre, Julia Roberts's character does not get the man at the end.
Q 27Julia Roberts became the first actress paid $20 million for a film. Which role was it?
Erin Brockovich
She won the Best Actress Oscar for it too. She had reunited with Richard Gere and Garry Marshall a year earlier for Runaway Bride.
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 is a teen update of which Shakespeare play?
The Taming of the Shrew
Kat and Bianca Stratford are Katherina and Bianca Minola. Heath Ledger was cast just three and a half weeks before filming began.
Q 30Which Frankie Valli song does Heath Ledger sing from the bleachers in 10 Things I Hate About You?
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
The serenade, with the marching band joining in, took only three takes. The school is the real Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington.