In the title compound, C(16)H(11)N(3)O(3), the amide group is twisted away from the quinoline ring system and nitro-benzene ring by 8.02 (1)° and 54.92 (1)°, respectively. The crystal packing is stabilized by inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, and π-π inter-actions between the quinoline ring systems of inversion-related mol-ecules, with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.4802 (13) Å.