Q 01/05

Who directed You've Got Mail?

A) Nora Ephron

B) Rob Reiner

C) Garry Marshall

D) Penny Marshall

Answer · why

A) Nora Ephron

It became her highest-grossing film and opened at number one in North America.

Q 02/05

The film was the third pairing of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Which was their first?

A) Sleepless in Seattle

B) Joe Versus the Volcano

C) Turner & Hooch

D) The Money Pit

Answer · why

B) Joe Versus the Volcano

Their second, Sleepless in Seattle, was also directed by Ephron.

Q 03/05

The film's title comes from what?

A) A 1940s postal slogan

B) A Cole Porter song

C) The AOL greeting for a new email

D) The name of a New York bookshop

Answer · why

C) The AOL greeting for a new email

Kathleen and Joe correspond on AOL accounts, she on a laptop while her boyfriend clings to his typewriter.

Q 04/05

The plot is drawn from a 1937 Hungarian play. What is it called?

A) Two Clerks

B) The Little Shop

C) Budapest Letters

D) Parfumerie

Answer · why

D) Parfumerie

Miklós László's play had already been filmed twice before Ephron got to it.

Q 05/05

Which 1940 Ernst Lubitsch film is the direct ancestor of You've Got Mail?

A) The Shop Around the Corner

B) The Merry Widow

C) Trouble in Paradise

D) Design for Living

Answer · why

A) The Shop Around the Corner

James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan play feuding Budapest shop clerks who are secretly pen pals.