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YOU’VE READ THE BOOK AND SEEN THE MOVIE – BUT CAN YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION?

1 The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and Stand By Me are based on books by which author best known for writing horror stories?

2 Atticus, Scout, Jem and Boo are characters in which Pulitzer Prize-winning book and Oscar-winning film?

3 Numerous film versions of this classic book have been made over the years, with actresses including Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Emma Watson and Saoirse Ronan playing the four sisters central to the story. What’s it called?

4 William Goldman, who won Oscars for writing the screenplays of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and

All The Presidents Men, also adapted his own novel into a film. What was it?

A. Cool Hand Luke

B. Love Story

C. The Sting

D. The Princess Bride

5 Emma Thompson won an Oscar for adapting a Jane Austen novel for the screen (and starred in the movie).

What was the film?

6 Who directed movie versions of the Lord of the Rings books?

7 J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books were made into a series of popular films. There were seven books – but how many movies?

8 Lauren Weisberger’s book about the fashion and magazine industries was optioned as a film before the novel was even finished. What’s the name of the book and the movie starring Meryl Streep?

9 The non-fiction book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich was turned into a 2010 movie starring Jesse Eisenberg as a famous internet entrepreneur. What’s the name of the movie?

10 Emma Donoghue wrote the screenplay adaptation of her novel before the book