Q 01/05

Which famous line is closely associated with Casablanca but never actually spoken in it?

A) Play it again, Sam

B) Here's looking at you, kid

C) We'll always have Paris

D) Round up the usual suspects

Answer · why

A) Play it again, Sam

'Play it again, Sam' is a misquote: Ilsa says 'Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By', and Rick later snaps, 'You played it for her, you can play it for ...

Q 02/05

Which 1934 screwball comedy was first to win the 'Big Five' Oscars?

A) The Thin Man

B) It Happened One Night

C) Bringing Up Baby

D) The Philadelphia Story

Answer · why

B) It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night took Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay, a sweep not repeated until 1975. Claudette Colbert had only signed on for...

Q 03/05

Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar for which 1939 film?

A) Wuthering Heights

B) Gone with the Wind

C) The Wizard of Oz

D) Stagecoach

Answer · why

B) Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind won her Best Supporting Actress as Mammy, yet she sat at a small table against the far wall: the hotel had a no-blacks policy and a...

Q 04/05

Audrey Hepburn won her Best Actress Oscar for playing a runaway princess in which 1953 film?

A) Sabrina

B) Love in the Afternoon

C) Funny Face

D) Roman Holiday

Answer · why

D) Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday's story Oscar went to Ian McLellan Hunter, a front for the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo. The Academy finally presented the award to Trumbo'...

Q 05/05

In An Affair to Remember, which star waits in vain atop the Empire State Building for Deborah Kerr?

A) Rock Hudson

B) Gregory Peck

C) Cary Grant

D) William Holden

Answer · why

C) Cary Grant

Cary Grant's playboy waits for hours, unaware that she has been hit by a car on her way to meet him. Director Leo McCarey was remaking his own 1939 fi...