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Literary Movies Trivia Quiz

Can you identify the authors on whose works the following movies were based?

A multiple-choice quiz by davidmunn. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
davidmunn

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
574

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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2746

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Question 1 of 10

1. The Dead (1988) Hint

James Joyce

William Faulkner

Stephen King

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Question 2 of 10

2. The Fox (1968) Hint

D. H. Lawrence

Rudyard Kipling

James Fenimore Cooper

Gunter Grass

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Question 3 of 10

3. Gigi (1958) Hint

Victor Hugo

Francoise Sagan

Colette

Vladimir Nabokov

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Question 4 of 10

4. Sleepy Hollow (1999) Hint

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Damon Runyon

Mark Twain

Washington Irving

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Question 5 of 10

5. Barry Lyndon (1975) Hint

William Makepeace Thackeray

Henry Fielding

Henry James

Charles Dickens

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Question 6 of 10

6. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) Hint

Joseph Heller

Kurt Vonnegut

J.D. Salinger

William Burroughs

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Question 7 of 10

7. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Hint

Edgar Rice Burroughs

H. Rider Haggard

Joseph Conrad

Ernest Hemingway

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Question 8 of 10

8. Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) Hint

Edgar Wallace

Bram Stoker

Edgar Allen Poe

Anne Rice

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Question 9 of 10

9. The Secret Agent (1936) Hint

Ian Fleming

William Somerset Maugham

Joseph Conrad

Eric Ambler

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Question 10 of 10

10. Sayonara (1957) Hint

James Clavell

Pearl Buck

Yukio Mishima

James A. Michener

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The Dead (1988)

Answer: James Joyce

John Huston's last movie was based on a short story from James Joyce's book The Dubliners.

2. The Fox (1968)

Answer: D. H. Lawrence

The Fox was based on one of Lawrence's novellas.

3. Gigi (1958)

Answer: Colette

4. Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Answer: Washington Irving

The Headless Horseman was the creation of Washington Irving in his short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

5. Barry Lyndon (1975)

Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray

6. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

7. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

8. Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)

Answer: Bram Stoker

This film as well as The Awakening (1980) were based on the novel Jewel of the Seven Stars by the author of Dracula.

9. The Secret Agent (1936)

Answer: William Somerset Maugham

Hitchcock's film was based on Maugham's short stories about Ashenden, a British spy. His film Sabotage, made the same year, was an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel, The Secret Agent.

10. Sayonara (1957)

Answer: James A. Michener

Source: Author davidmunn

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