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QUIZ

Reel Love

Test your knowledge of silver screen romance

By Sean Monkman

The rom-com. The chick flick. The weepy drama. No matter what you call them, romantic movies are a beloved part of cinema history. They have included some of the silver screen’s most memorable dialogue, delivered by some of its least forgettable couples: Bogie and Bacall, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, John Cusack and, er, innumerable women. These are movies suitable for watching with a partner — even if that partner is just a box of Valentine's Day chocolates. When the final reel starts, and the strings soar, and the obstacle keeping the two lovers apart is surmounted... well, you’ll just have to watch, won’t you?

1. In Gone With the Wind, Rhett Butler’s manly passion wins over Scarlett O’Hara. Which sweet nothing doesn’t he say to her?
	“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
	“I’ve always thought a good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely.”
	“I’ve loved you more than I’ve ever loved any woman and I’ve waited for you longer than I’ve ever waited for any woman.”
	“You had me at ‘Hello.’”
	“You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”

2. The American Film Institute named this 1942 film, set in Africa during the early days of the Second World War, the greatest love story of all time.
	Out of Africa
	An Affair to Remember
	Casablanca
	The Way We Were
	The Lion King

3. West Side Story, about two teenagers from rival gangs who fall in love, is based on what Shakespearean play?
	Romeo and Juliet
	Cymbeline
	Much Ado About Nothing
	A Midsummer Night’s Dream
	The Taming of the Shrew

4. At the dramatic conclusion of The Graduate, who does Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) ride off alongside in a bus?
	Mrs. Robinson
	Mrs. Robinson’s daughter Elaine
	Paul Simon
	Art Garfunkel
	Nobody

5. What Woody Allen film, considered a benchmark for romantic comedies, detailed several years of a relationship between Allen’s comedian Alvy Singer and Diane Keaton’s titular character?
	Hannah and Her Sisters
	Mighty Aphrodite
	Alice
	Annie Hall
	What’s Up, Tiger Lily?

6. In Say Anything...’s iconic scene, Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) holds aloft a boombox to serenade Diane Court (Ione Skye), the lover he feels is slipping away. What Peter Gabriel song does Dobler blast?
	Sledgehammer
	Solsbury Hill
	Shock the Monkey
	In Your Eyes
	Games Without Frontiers

7. Celine Dion’s ballad My Heart Will Go On is the theme tune to what epic love story?
	Titanic
	Moulin Rouge
	Doctor Zhivago
	Shakespeare in Love
	Il Postino

8. Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of what Michael Ondaatje romance novel — a winner of the Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award — claimed the 1997 Oscar for Best Picture?
	The English Patient
	In the Skin of a Lion
	Coming Through Slaughter
	Anil’s Ghost
	Running in the Family

9. What line does Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) deliver as he sweeps Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) off her feet, thus beginning Dirty Dancing’s climactic scene?
	“My lady, the tide waits for no man, but I swear it would wait for you.”
	“Nobody puts Baby in the corner.”
	“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
	“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
	“Swoon, I’ll catch you.”

10. Fill in the blank: Manitoba native Nia Vardalos’s one-woman play, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, became a movie after the wife of a Hollywood megastar saw its original theatrical production and recommended that her husband develop it for the screen. When he called to discuss the idea, Vardalos hung up in disbelief that it could really be __________.
	Tom Hanks
	Harrison Ford
	Mel Gibson
	Steven Spielberg
	Denzel Washington