🎬 Rom-Coms Trivia Questions & Answers
Meet-cutes, grand gestures and the best-loved romantic comedies. Below are 30 free rom-coms trivia questions with answers — part of Film trivia on BUZZ. Want a real challenge that adapts to what you know? Play the Film quiz — no signup needed to start.
30 Rom-Coms trivia questions
Q1. Which actress starred as the diary-keeping heroine in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)?
Answer: Renée Zellweger
💡 Texan Zellweger gained weight and mastered an English accent, earning an Oscar nod.
Q2. Audrey Hepburn plays which stylish New York socialite in Breakfast at Tiffany's?
Answer: Holly Golightly
💡 The film's song 'Moon River' won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
Q3. Which actor stars opposite Kate Hudson in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days?
Answer: Matthew McConaughey
💡 Her magazine columnist and his ad exec each secretly bet on their doomed romance.
Q4. Which British actor headlined Richard Curtis's hit Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Answer: Hugh Grant
💡 The 1994 comedy was the highest-grossing British film ever at the time of release.
Q5. In which city is the film 'La La Land' primarily set?
Answer: Los Angeles
💡 La La Land was shot in just 42 days across actual LA locations. The opening musical number on the I-105 freeway took four weekends to film during real freeway closures.
Q6. Who played Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997)?
Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio
💡 James Cameron fought hard to cast DiCaprio, who was reluctant to audition. DiCaprio agreed after reading the script and improvised the famous 'I'm king of the world' line.
Q7. In which film does Tom Hanks play a man who runs across America after years of jogging?
Answer: Forrest Gump
💡 Tom Hanks won his second consecutive Oscar for Forrest Gump, whose 'Run, Forrest, run!' became one of cinema's most quoted lines.
Q8. The 1995 teen comedy Clueless is a modern update of which Jane Austen novel?
Answer: Emma
💡 Director Amy Heckerling turned Austen's matchmaker Emma into Beverly Hills teen Cher.
Q9. In Silver Linings Playbook, the two leads train together to enter what kind of contest?
Answer: A dance competition
💡 Their partnership helps Bradley Cooper's character manage his bipolar disorder.
Q10. In The Proposal, Sandra Bullock's editor marries her assistant to avoid what?
Answer: Deportation
💡 Ryan Reynolds's assistant drags his fake fiancée home to Sitka, Alaska.
Q11. In Coming to America, Eddie Murphy plays a prince from which fictional nation?
Answer: Zamunda
💡 Prince Akeem travels to Queens, New York, to find a bride who'll love him for himself.
Q12. After Meg Ryan's deli scene in When Harry Met Sally, a diner delivers cinema's best follow-up order?
Answer: I'll have what she's having
💡 That diner was played by Estelle Reiner — mother of the film's director, Rob Reiner.
Q13. In which 1990 romcom does Julia Roberts play an escort hired for a week by a rich businessman?
Answer: Pretty Woman
💡 Director Garry Marshall's film, co-starring Richard Gere, is widely credited with reviving the romantic comedy genre in the 1990s.
Q14. What is the highest-grossing film of all time (not adjusted for inflation)?
Answer: Avatar (2009)
💡 Avatar (2009) reclaimed the top spot in 2021 after a re-release in China. James Cameron wrote the script in 1994.
Q15. Who directed the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally...?
Answer: Rob Reiner
💡 Nora Ephron wrote the screenplay, basing much of the character Harry on Reiner himself.
Q16. In Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's weatherman is stuck reliving one day in which town?
Answer: Punxsutawney
💡 The Pennsylvania town really does hold its groundhog ceremony every February 2.
Q17. Audrey Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar as a runaway princess in which 1953 film?
Answer: Roman Holiday
💡 It was her first major Hollywood role and her only competitive acting Oscar.
Q18. Which singer-turned-actress won a Best Actress Oscar for the 1987 romcom Moonstruck?
Answer: Cher
💡 She played a Brooklyn widow who falls for her fiancé's hot-headed younger brother.
Q19. Which Bridesmaids star earned an Oscar nomination for the 2011 comedy?
Answer: Melissa McCarthy
💡 She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, a rare feat for a broad comedy.
Q20. Who wrote and starred in the surprise 2002 hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding?
Answer: Nia Vardalos
💡 It grew from her one-woman stage show into the top-grossing romantic comedy.
Q21. Which actor plays buttoned-up barrister Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones's Diary?
Answer: Colin Firth
💡 The role nods to Mr. Darcy, whom Firth had famously played in a BBC Austen series.
Q22. Which actress won the Best Actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook?
Answer: Jennifer Lawrence
💡 At 22, she was one of the youngest ever winners of the Best Actress award.
Q23. Which actress paired with Adam Sandler in both The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates?
Answer: Drew Barrymore
💡 The pair reunited a third time for the 2014 family comedy Blended.
Q24. How many separate, interlocking love stories does Love Actually juggle across its ensemble cast?
Answer: 9
Q25. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall for each other over emails in 1998's You've Got Mail — directed by whom?
Answer: Nora Ephron
Q26. It Happened One Night (1934) was the first film to win how many major Oscars?
Answer: Five
💡 It swept Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay, a feat unmatched for 40 years.
Q27. Annie Hall famously beat which sci-fi blockbuster to the 1977 Best Picture Oscar?
Answer: Star Wars
💡 Woody Allen's small romance upset George Lucas's space epic at the 1978 ceremony.
Q28. In the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, what kind of animal is 'Baby'?
Answer: A leopard
💡 Cary Grant plays a flustered paleontologist opposite Katharine Hepburn's heiress.
Q29. Complete Some Like It Hot's closing line: 'Well, nobody's ___.'
Answer: perfect
💡 Billy Wilder's farewell gag is often voted one of cinema's best final lines.
Q30. 2018's Crazy Rich Asians was the first major-studio all-Asian-cast film since which 1993 movie?
Answer: The Joy Luck Club
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