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Romance quiz

Question 1 How did director Michael Curtiz stay within the budget for Casablanca?
 
  He used his own back yard as a set for the market scenes and his basement for the interior scenes at Rick's nightclub
  The aeroplane at the end of the film was a cardboard cut-out. Curtiz employed very small people to portray the crew to give the illusion that the plane was full-sized
  Ingrid Bergman wore the same outfit for the entire film
  Humphrey Bogart doubled up as a Nazi officer
 
Question 2 What's unusual about the relationship between Harold and Maude?
 
  He's dead and she's a spiritualist who falls in love during a seance
  They are brother and sister
  Although they correspond by post, they never actually meet
  She's 79 and he's 20
 
Question 3 Who says, "Hey, don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love"?
 
  Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind
  Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle
  Woody Allen in Annie Hall
  Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally
 
Question 4 Where do Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet consummate their relationship in Titanic?
 
  Swinging from a chandelier in the ballroom
  In a lifeboat
  In her cabin
  On the backseat of a car
 
Question 5 What was Patrick Swayze's job in Ghost?
 
  Surfer
  Dirty dancer
  Stockbroker
  Sculptor
 
Question 6 Which publication does Hugh Grant pretend to write film reviews for in Notting Hill?
 
  Horse and Hound
  The Guardian
  Razzle
  Harpers and Queen
 
Question 7 Why did Bette Davis turn down the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind?
 
  She thought it would be a commercial failure and ruin her career
  She was vehemently opposed to slavery and refused to play a Southern belle
  She objected to the script's strong language
  She thought she was going to star opposite Errol Flynn and she hated his guts
 
Question 8 Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn starred in the original Sabrina. Who starred in the 1995 remake?
 
  Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond
  Marlon Brando and Chloe Sevigny
  Clint Eastwood and Jennifer Lopez
  Robin Williams and Meg Ryan
 
Question 9 Why does Anne Heche break off her relationship with Todd Field in Walking and Talking?
 
  He gets drunk on their anniversary and pushes her down the stairs
  He borrows her clothes without asking
  She realizes she's a lesbian
  Instead of an engagement ring he gives her a mole he's just had removed
 
Question 10 What was going to happen to Julia Roberts's character in the original script for Pretty Woman?
 
  She agrees to marry Gere but jilts him at the altar
  She sets up a rival mergers company and runs Gere out of business
  She becomes a coke addict and Richard Gere throws her out of his car
  She opens a drop-in centre for prostitutes
 
 


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