Book to Film Adaptations Quiz

1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was directed by whom?

1. James Cameron
2. Peter Jackson
3. Ridley Scott
4. Steven Spielberg

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

1. Emma
2. Persuasion
3. Pride & Prejudice
4. Sense and Sensibility

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

1. Carrie
2. It
3. Misery
4. The Shining

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

1. Gregory Peck
2. Henry Fonda
3. James Stewart
4. Paul Newman

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

1. Bret Easton Ellis
2. Chuck Palahniuk
3. Cormac McCarthy
4. Dennis Lehane

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

1. Tender is the Night
2. The Beautiful and Damned
3. The Great Gatsby
4. This Side of Paradise

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

1. Night by Elie Wiesel
2. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
3. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
4. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

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

1. Don DeLillo
2. Gay Talese
3. Joseph Wambaugh
4. Mario Puzo

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

1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2. Fantastic Mr Fox
3. James and the Giant Peach
4. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

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

1. Edna Ferber
2. Margaret Mitchell
3. Pearl S. Buck
4. Willa Cather

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

1. Children of Húrin
2. The Hobbit
3. The Silmarillion
4. Unfinished Tales

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

1. Cormac McCarthy
2. Don DeLillo
3. James Ellroy
4. James Lee Burke

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

1. James Patterson
2. John Grisham
3. Patricia Cornwell
4. Thomas Harris

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

1. A Christmas Carol
2. David Copperfield
3. Great Expectations
4. Oliver Twist

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

1. Ian McEwan
2. Julian Barnes
3. Kazuo Ishiguro
4. Nick Hornby

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

1. Apt Pupil
2. Different Seasons
3. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
4. The Body

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

1. Annie Proulx
2. James Baldwin
3. Raymond Carver
4. Truman Capote

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

1. A Scanner Darkly
2. Blade Runner
3. Minority Report
4. Total Recall

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

1. Anna Karenina
2. Crime and Punishment
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. War and Peace

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

1. American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
2. Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes
3. The Bomb by Fred Kaplan
4. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes