Q 01/05

Who plays nightclub owner Rick Blaine in Casablanca?

A) Cary Grant

B) James Cagney

C) Clark Gable

D) Humphrey Bogart

Answer · why

D) Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart. George Raft later said he had turned the role down, but studio memos show Raft asked for it and was refused; the producer wanted Boga...

Q 02/05

Which Swedish actress plays Ilsa Lund in Casablanca?

A) Greta Garbo

B) Vivien Leigh

C) Ingrid Bergman

D) Ann Sheridan

Answer · why

C) Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman. She was under contract to David O. Selznick, and the producer got her only by lending him Olivia de Havilland in exchange.

Q 03/05

Which song does Ilsa ask Sam to play when she first walks into Rick's café in Casablanca?

A) It Had to Be You

B) The Very Thought of You

C) Perfidia

D) As Time Goes By

Answer · why

D) As Time Goes By

As Time Goes By. Herman Hupfeld wrote it for a 1931 Broadway show, and the film turned the old tune into a bigger hit than it had ever been.

Q 04/05

Which famous line associated with Casablanca is never actually spoken in the film?

A) We'll always have Paris

B) The Germans wore gray, you wore blue

C) Play it again, Sam

D) I stick my neck out for nobody

Answer · why

C) Play it again, Sam

Play it again, Sam. Ilsa says "Play it once, Sam" and "Play it, Sam"; the misquote stuck anyway, and Woody Allen borrowed it for the title of a 1972 f...

Q 05/05

When Casablanca opens in December 1941, Rick's Café Américain stands in which territory?

A) Free French Algeria

B) Italian Libya

C) Spanish Morocco

D) Vichy French Morocco

Answer · why

D) Vichy French Morocco

Vichy French Morocco. France had fallen, but its Vichy government still ran the protectorate, which is why the Nazis in the café must lean on a French...