Page To Screen Quiz No. 1
Posted: 16 Jan 2025 21:05
Test your knowledge of books and films.
Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.
- 1. Who played Cathy opposite Laurence Olivier's Healthcliffe in the 1939 film of Wuthering Heights ?
- 2. The actress Emma Thompson starred in the film adaptation of which Jane Austen book ?
- 3. What character does Gregory Peck play in the 1962 film of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird ?
- 4. Who directed the 1965 film adaptation of Boris Patsernak's novel Doctor Zhivago ?
- 5. Which actress disappeared from her life in the 2014 film Gone Girl ?
- 6. Who was the author that made Walt Disney's life hell when he tried to adapt her novel about a flying nanny into a movie ?
- 7. The Hours starring Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore is an adaptation of a novel by which author ?
- 8. Humphrey Bogart won his only Oscar for his role in The African Queen by C.S. Forester. The character he played was called .... ?
- 9. "Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again" is the opening line of which classic novel, made into an Oscar-winning film in 1940 ?
- 10. The Shinning, starring Jack Nicholson was based on the novel by which horror writer ?
- 11. Which animal is at the centre of Yann Martel's novel, Life of Pi, which went on to become an Oscar winning film in 2012 ?
- 12. Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? was loosely adapted into which sci-fi film ?
- 13. The film adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's won an Oscar for which now classic song ?
- 14. Which semi-autobiographical novel by J.G. Ballard was turned into a film by Steven Spielberg in 1987 ?
- 15. The Godfather by Mario Puzo was turned into a film by Frances Ford Coppola. Who starred in the title role as Don Corleone ?
Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.