Q 01/05

Who plays nightclub owner Rick Blaine?

A) Cary Grant

B) James Cagney

C) Clark Gable

D) Humphrey Bogart

Answer · why

D) Humphrey Bogart

Studio records show producer Hal Wallis wanted him from the start, despite George Raft's later claim that he turned the part down.

Q 02/05

Which Swedish actress plays Ilsa Lund?

A) Greta Garbo

B) Hedy Lamarr

C) Ingrid Bergman

D) Ann Sheridan

Answer · why

C) Ingrid Bergman

Wallis borrowed her from David O. Selznick by lending Olivia de Havilland in exchange.

Q 03/05

Which song does Ilsa ask Sam to play when she first walks into the cafe?

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

Composer Max Steiner disliked the tune and wanted to replace it, but Bergman had already cut her hair for her next film so the scenes could not be res...

Q 04/05

Which line, closely associated with the film, is never actually spoken in it?

A) We'll always have Paris

B) Round up the usual suspects

C) Play it again, Sam

D) Here's looking at you, kid

Answer · why

C) Play it again, Sam

Ilsa says "Play it, Sam," and Rick later demands "Play it!" but the word "again" never appears; Woody Allen borrowed the misquote for a 1972 film titl...

Q 05/05

Rick's Cafe Americain is located in which country's territory when the film opens in December 1941?

A) Free French Algeria

B) Neutral Portugal

C) Spanish Morocco

D) Vichy French Morocco

Answer · why

D) Vichy French Morocco

The filmmakers deliberately set the story just before Pearl Harbor to make Rick's neutrality, and his eventual choice, more believable.