Adaptations

Question 1

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Robert Mulligan

Answer 1

Harper Lee’s novel

Question 2

The Godfather (1972, 1974)
Francis Ford Coppola

Answer 2

Mario Puzo’s novel

Question 3

Little Women (2019)
Greta Gerwig

Answer 3

Louisa May Alcott’s novel

Question 4

The Color Purple (1985)
Steven Spielberg

Answer 4

Alice Walker’s novel

Question 5

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Victor Lonzo Fleming

Answer 5

L. Frank Baum’s novel

Question 6

The Remains of the Day (1993)
James Ivory

Answer 6

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel

Question 7

Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Ang Lee

Answer 7

Jane Austen’s novel

Question 8

Forrest Gump (1994)
Robert Zemeckis

Answer 8

Winston Groom’s novel

Question 9

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
David Lean

Answer 9

Boris Pasternak’s novel

Question 10

Hidden Figures (2016)
Theodore Melfi

Answer 10

Margot Lee Shetterly’s novel

Question 11

Schindler’s List (1993)
Steven Spielberg

Answer 11

Thomas Keneally’s book

Question 12

Great Expectations (1946)
David Lean

Answer 12

Charles Dickens’s novel

Question 13

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Frank Darabont

Answer 13

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Question 14

No Country for Old Men (2007)
Coen brothers

Answer 14

Cormac McCarthy

Question 15

Goodfellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese

Answer 15

Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

Question 16

Fight Club (1999)
David Fincher

Answer 16

Chuck Palahniuk’s novel

Question 17

Don’t Look Now (1973)
Nicolas Jack Roeg

Answer 17

Daphne Du Maurier’s short story

Question 18

MAS*H (1970)
Robert Altman

Answer 18

Richard Hooker’s novel

Question 19

The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
David Lean

Answer 19

Pierre Boulle’s 1952 novel

Question 20

The Social Network (2010)
David Fincher

Answer 20

The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

Question 21

The Exorcist (1973)
William Friedkin

Answer 21

William Peter Blatty

Question 22

Wonder Boys (2000)
Curtis Hanson

Answer 22

Michael Chabon’s novel

Question 23

Room (2015)
Lenny Abrahamson

Answer 23

Emma Donoghue

Question 24

L.A. Confidential (1997)
Curtis Hanson

Answer 24

James Ellroy’s classic noir

Question 25

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Miloš Forman

Answer 25

Ken Kesey’s novel

Question 26

Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock

Answer 26

Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel

Question 27

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme

Answer 27

Thomas Harris’s novel

Question 28

Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang

Answer 28

written by Thea von Harbou, then married to the film’s director, Fritz Lang) is unusual in that Harbou wrote the novel more or less as promotion for the film.

Question 29

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) Blake Edwards

Answer 29

Truman Capote’s novel

Question 30

American Psycho (2000) Mary Harron

Answer 30

Bret Easton Ellis’s novel

Question 31

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) Stephen Chbosky

Answer 31

Stephen Chbosky

Question 32

Jackie Brown (1997) Quentin Tarantino

Answer 32

Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard

Question 33

Trainspotting (1996) Danny Boyle

Answer 33

Irvine Welsh

Question 34

The Shining (1980)

Answer 34

Stephen King

Question 35

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Martin Scorsese

Answer 35

David Grann