Book to Film Adaptations Quiz

Question 1

The Lord of the Rings trilogy was directed by whom?

Accepted Answer

Peter Jackson

Answer

Steven Spielberg

Answer

James Cameron

Answer

Ridley Scott

Question 2

Which Jane Austen novel was adapted into the 1995 film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen?

Accepted Answer

Pride & Prejudice

Answer

Sense and Sensibility

Answer

Emma

Answer

Persuasion

Question 3

Which Stephen King novel was adapted into a 1980 film directed by Stanley Kubrick?

Accepted Answer

The Shining

Answer

It

Answer

Carrie

Answer

Misery

Question 4

To Kill a Mockingbird was filmed in 1962 with which actor playing Atticus Finch?

Accepted Answer

Gregory Peck

Answer

Henry Fonda

Answer

James Stewart

Answer

Paul Newman

Question 5

The film 'Fight Club' (1999) was based on a novel by which author?

Accepted Answer

Chuck Palahniuk

Answer

Dennis Lehane

Answer

Bret Easton Ellis

Answer

Cormac McCarthy

Question 6

Which novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been adapted to film multiple times, most notably in 1974 and 2013?

Accepted Answer

The Great Gatsby

Answer

Tender is the Night

Answer

This Side of Paradise

Answer

The Beautiful and Damned

Question 7

Schindler's List (1993) was based on which novel?

Accepted Answer

Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

Answer

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Answer

Night by Elie Wiesel

Answer

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Question 8

The Godfather (1972) was based on a 1969 novel by which author?

Accepted Answer

Mario Puzo

Answer

Don DeLillo

Answer

Gay Talese

Answer

Joseph Wambaugh

Question 9

Which Roald Dahl novel was adapted into the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder?

Accepted Answer

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Answer

James and the Giant Peach

Answer

Fantastic Mr Fox

Answer

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Question 10

Gone with the Wind (1939) was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by whom?

Accepted Answer

Margaret Mitchell

Answer

Edna Ferber

Answer

Willa Cather

Answer

Pearl S. Buck

Question 11

Which Tolkien book (outside of Lord of the Rings) was expanded into a film trilogy by Peter Jackson?

Accepted Answer

The Hobbit

Answer

The Silmarillion

Answer

Unfinished Tales

Answer

Children of Húrin

Question 12

The Oscar-winning film 'No Country for Old Men' (2007) was based on a novel by which author?

Accepted Answer

Cormac McCarthy

Answer

Don DeLillo

Answer

James Lee Burke

Answer

James Ellroy

Question 13

The Silence of the Lambs is based on a novel by which author?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Harris

Answer

Patricia Cornwell

Answer

John Grisham

Answer

James Patterson

Question 14

Which Charles Dickens novel has been adapted to film and stage more than any other?

Accepted Answer

A Christmas Carol

Answer

Great Expectations

Answer

Oliver Twist

Answer

David Copperfield

Question 15

The film Atonement (2007) starring Keira Knightley was based on a novel by whom?

Accepted Answer

Ian McEwan

Answer

Kazuo Ishiguro

Answer

Nick Hornby

Answer

Julian Barnes

Question 16

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) was based on which Stephen King story?

Accepted Answer

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

Answer

Apt Pupil

Answer

The Body

Answer

Different Seasons

Question 17

Brokeback Mountain (2005) was based on a short story by which author?

Accepted Answer

Annie Proulx

Answer

Truman Capote

Answer

James Baldwin

Answer

Raymond Carver

Question 18

The novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick was adapted into which famous film?

Accepted Answer

Blade Runner

Answer

Total Recall

Answer

Minority Report

Answer

A Scanner Darkly

Question 19

Which 19th-century Russian novel was adapted into the 2012 film starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law?

Accepted Answer

Anna Karenina

Answer

War and Peace

Answer

Crime and Punishment

Answer

The Brothers Karamazov

Question 20

The 2023 Oscar-winning film 'Oppenheimer' was based on which book?

Accepted Answer

American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

Answer

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Answer

The Bomb by Fred Kaplan

Answer

Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes