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Quiz: Can you identify the film adaptation from the book’s cover?

From manuscript to the screen: do you recognise the book covers that spawned film adaptations?
  
  


  1. This cash-centric book became:

    1. Out of Sight

    2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    3. The Wolf of Wall Street

    4. Casino

  2. Which female-focused film came from this book?

    1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    2. Sophie's Choice

    3. Emma

    4. The Other Boleyn Girl

  3. Which book-to-film is this?

    1. Fight Club

    2. Babe

    3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    4. Filth

  4. Which Bond film came from this book?

    1. Live and Let Die

    2. Casino Royale

    3. For Your Eyes Only

    4. You Only Live Twice

  5. This emotive book transformed onscreen as:

    1. Girl, Interrupted

    2. Atonement

    3. Lolita

    4. The Lovely Bones

  6. This racially charged book became which of these films?

    1. The Colour Purple

    2. To Kill a Mockingbird

    3. Beloved

    4. A Time to Kill

  7. This modern classic entered cinemas as:

    1. Cool Hand Luke

    2. American Psycho

    3. Once Upon a Time in America

    4. No Country for Old Men

  8. Which film was inspired by this rustic tale?

    1. Fried Green Tomatoes

    2. Cold Mountain

    3. Little Women

    4. Brokeback Mountain

  9. Which puzzling book-to-film is this?

    1. Doctor Zhivago

    2. Vertigo

    3. The Talented Mr Ripley

    4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

  10. Which adapted film came from this sombre book?

    1. Driving Miss Daisy

    2. Mystic River

    3. Revolutionary Road

    4. The Road

Solutions

1:C, 2:A, 3:D, 4:B, 5:D, 6:A, 7:B, 8:A, 9:C, 10:B

Scores

  1. 2 and above.

    Look, you win some and you lose some. Luckily life isn't all film adaptation guessing games.

  2. 5 and above.

    Don't let anyone tell you that you didn't try. Good effort, considering how many different covers these book editions have spawned.

  3. 8 and above.

    You either spend lots of time in book shops or have a photographic memory. Either way, we're impressed.

  4. 10 and above.

    Well, someone's a bit of a literary and filmic buff! Top marks. Now go back to that screenplay you're working on.

 

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