False Endings Trivia Quiz

Answer: Esmerelda is hanged and, after killing Frollo, Quasimodo lies in the tomb next to Esmerelda's body and eventually dies of starvation.

In the film, Frollo plans to burn Esmerelda at the stake for rejecting his advances, but Quasimodo rescues her and takes her to sanctuary in the cathedral. Phoebus releases the gypsies and rallies the citizens of Paris against Frollo's men, who try to break into the cathedral. Frollo successfully breaks in and chases them on balconies until he and Quasimodo fall. Quasimodo is caught by Phoebus on a lower floor and hailed as a hero outside of the cathedral.

Obviously, the novel has a somewhat darker ending. Disney's target audience were never likely to be entranced by a story of hanging, starvation and unrequited love so deep that death becomes preferable.

Answer: Anna wins her case but is killed in a car accident, allowing her organs to be donated to Kate anyway.

In both the film and the novel it is shown to be Kate's wish that Anna fight for medical emancipation rather than donating, as she wants to die. In the novel, when Anna's case has been won, her lawyer is given a medical power of attorney over her. It is his decision to donate her organs to Kate following the car crash after which Anna is declared brain-dead. In the film, however, although it is eventually revealed that Anna won her case, Kate dies peacefully with her family at her side before the judgment has been given.

The false ending was included in the film against Jodi Picoult's wishes.

Answer: Anna is an infected spy sent to capture Neville, who is eventually executed by the infected masses.

In the novel, Anna is an infected spy sent to allow capture of Neville by the infected masses. They have begun to overcome their disease and to rebuild society. As it is now Neville (who is still uninfected) that is the different one, they fear him as he once feared them. He is taken to a prison and eventually executed. He realises as he dies that he is a new superstition and therefore "I am legend."

The film focuses more on the idea that an antidote may be available. Neville is shown to have been working on one and gives it to Anna before sacrificing himself to destroy the infected masses attacking them. She takes the antidote to a survivors' colony for reproduction. Anna tells the audience that Neville's fight for a cure is the legend of which the title speaks.

Answer: Clarice and Lecter become lovers and run off together.

The novel sees Lecter attempting to brainwash Clarice into thinking that she is Mischa, his deceased younger sister. Clarice is too strong and tells him that Mischa can only live within him. Perhaps somewhat unbelievably, the pair became lovers and disappeared together.

Perhaps more believably, the movie saw Clarice's attempts to apprehend Lecter fail, leaving her to continue her search whilst he escaped alone. When on the plane, he is seen telling a young boy with whom he shares his lunch that "it is important to try new things".

Answer: Forrest was still running his shrimp business whilst trying to build a life with Jenny and Forrest Jr.

The film elaborates further on Forrest's life than the book, creating a more advanced ending rather than an alternate one. Nevertheless, there are notable omissions of plotlines from the book in the film. In the novel, Forrest takes on a NASA mission with an ape named Sue and has a stint as a chess champion.

It is also the case that, in the novel, Forrest meets Lieutenant Dan in the infirmary - his loss of legs is in no way attributable to Forrest saving his life as suggested in the film.

Answer: Harry had already received the Firebolt earlier on in the novel.

In the novel, Harry recieves the Firebolt from an anonymous source at breakfast early on in the book, prompting the teachers to confiscate it in case of dark magic. Hermione guesses correctly that Sirius sent it but, until it is revealed that he is not the enemy he was once suspected to be, no-one guesses the correct reason. In the film, as there were fairly few Quidditch scenes, there was no need to introduce this gift early on. It is possible that, had the Firebolt not been such an important tool in Harry's defeat of the dragon in the proceeding story "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", it might not have been mentioned at all in the film.

There were various changes to the "Harry Potter" stories in the movie scripts, but few ending changes. Perhaps the most obvious change was in splitting the final novel, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" into two films. JK Rowling was consulted on each script, meaning that changes were usually more of omissions than full changes to the stories.

Answer: Jack dies in a boiler explosion whilst Hallorann and Jack's family escape (there is no hedge maze in the novel)

In both versions of the story, Jack is shown to be going slowly insane, culminating in his attempts to kill both his wife and son. His son is also shown to be almost possessed at times, though it is Jack that is the main antagonist of the story.

In the film, Hallorann returns to the hotel upon feeling that something is wrong. It is his appearance and killing that allows Jack's son time to enter the hedge maze and cover his tracks from Jack. Wendy and Danny escape in Hallorann's snowmobile, while Jack freezes to death in the hedge maze. A montage at the end shows a photograph in the hotel hallway dated July 4, 1921, in which Jack Torrance smiles amid a crowd of party revelers, referring to the spirit presences in the hotel that caused his madness.

The novel makes no mention of a hedge maze. Instead, whilst Hallorann is returning to the hotel, Jack has regained his own mind long enough to tell his son to run away from him. On realising what will happen, his son directs him to the boiler room where the boiler eventually explodes, killing Jack. The final scene is that of Jack's family on holiday, with Hallorann comforting them over Jack's death.

Answer: Dorothy clicks together her silver shoes to return home whilst Glinda uses the Wicked Witch of the West's Golden Cap to summon the winged monkeys to return her friends to their respective kingdoms.

The novel made no mention of ruby slippers, but rather had Dorothy wear the Wicked Witch of the East's Silver Shoes. Their power was as in the film (click the heels three times to return home), but there is no mention of the phrase "there's no place like home".

The Golden Cap was featured in the novel as the way in which the Wicked Witch of the West controlled the winged monkeys. Its use would summon them to serve. Although Glinda used it at the end of the novel; she subsequently returned it to the King of the Winged Monkeys, thereby freeing them from slavery. The Cap was not mentioned in the film.

The scarecrow, tin man and lion are returned by the monkeys to their respective kingdoms in the novel, but in the film they are shown just to be waving Dorothy off. We do not see how or whether they returned. In fact, in the film the same actors play Dorothy's farmhands as these characters, leading the audience to believe that the whole thing was a dream.

Answer: The narrator of the novel did not have children. He returns to find only his wife following the aliens' demise.

Wells' narrator did not mention having children, but rather is searching for his wife at the end of the novel. Like the movie, the novel does have a happy ending, though in a somewhat more subdued manner. Following the demise of the aliens, the narrator suffers a breakdown before returning home to find his wife alive and well. The Epilogue reflects on the legacy of the invasion and the doubt and insecurity it left in the narrator's mind.

An earlier film version was made in 1953. Like the 2005 movie, the ending in relation to the aliens was the same as the novel. However, in the 1953 adaptation, the narrator was shown to be a single man who eventually is reunited with and falls in love with a woman that he meets through the invasion.

Answer: The Camerlengo is the deceased Pope's biological son.

Although not a huge piece of information, it was an important fact in explaining the reasons for the Camerlengo's actions. Various other changes were made to the ending of the novel in the movie script. In the novel, Langdon is present in the helicopter when the Camerlengo destroys the antimatter, whilst in the film he is not. Furthermore, at the very end of the novel, Langdon is gifted the very last iron by the Vatican (an abigram of all classical four elements) though, in the movie, he is gifted the surviving copy of Galilleo's "Diagramma della Verita".