Q 01/05

Which earlier Nora Ephron film also starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan as strangers who fall in love from afar?

A) When Harry Met Sally...

B) Sleepless in Seattle

C) French Kiss

D) Michael

Answer · why

B) Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepless in Seattle, their 1993 hit, kept the pair apart for almost the whole film; You've Got Mail reunited both stars with its director and had the...

Q 02/05

Which comedy first paired Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, eight years before You've Got Mail?

A) The Man with One Red Shoe

B) Joe Versus the Volcano

C) Turner & Hooch

D) Nothing in Common

Answer · why

B) Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano gave Meg Ryan three different roles opposite Tom Hanks, as the three women his doomed hero meets on his way to a Pacific island...

Q 03/05

Which online service's spoken greeting for new email gave You've Got Mail its title?

A) CompuServe

B) AOL

C) Prodigy

D) Hotmail

Answer · why

B) AOL

AOL's cheery voice is what Kathleen waits for each morning: 'my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You've got mail.'

Q 04/05

You've Got Mail traces back to which 1937 Hungarian play by Miklós László?

A) Liliom

B) The Guardsman

C) The Play's the Thing

D) Parfumerie

Answer · why

D) Parfumerie

Parfumerie opened in Budapest in 1937, shortly before its author left for New York; Hollywood filmed its feuding-clerks plot twice before Nora Ephron ...

Q 05/05

Which director made the 1940 romantic comedy that You've Got Mail reworks for the email age?

A) Frank Capra

B) Ernst Lubitsch

C) Preston Sturges

D) Billy Wilder

Answer · why

B) Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch cast James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as Budapest shop clerks who bicker all day without knowing they are each other's adored pen pa...