Adaptations from Page to Screen

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Ten questions about the source novels and authors behind specific films, with a year or director given.

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1. Which Philip K. Dick novel was adapted into Ridley Scott's 1982 film 'Blade Runner'?

   1. A Scanner Darkly
   2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
   3. The Man in the High Castle
   4. Ubik
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   B) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

2. Who wrote the source novel for Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film 'The Godfather'?

   1. James M. Cain
   2. Mario Puzo
   3. Dashiell Hammett
   4. Raymond Chandler
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   B) Mario Puzo

3. Which author wrote the work behind Peter Jackson's 2001 film 'The Fellowship of the Ring'?

   1. C. S. Lewis
   2. Philip Pullman
   3. J. R. R. Tolkien
   4. T. H. White
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   C) J. R. R. Tolkien

4. Who wrote the source novel for Joel and Ethan Coen's 2007 film 'No Country for Old Men'?

   1. Cormac McCarthy
   2. Larry McMurtry
   3. John Updike
   4. Don DeLillo
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   A) Cormac McCarthy

5. Which author wrote the source novel for David Fincher's 1999 film 'Fight Club'?

   1. Don DeLillo
   2. Tom Wolfe
   3. Chuck Palahniuk
   4. Bret Easton Ellis
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   C) Chuck Palahniuk

6. Who wrote the source novel for Jonathan Demme's 1991 film 'The Silence of the Lambs'?

   1. Ruth Rendell
   2. Patricia Highsmith
   3. John le Carré
   4. Thomas Harris
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   D) Thomas Harris

7. Who wrote the novel adapted into David Fincher's 2014 film 'Gone Girl'?

   1. Gillian Flynn
   2. Paula Hawkins
   3. Tana French
   4. Ruth Ware
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   A) Gillian Flynn

8. Who wrote the novel behind Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film 'The Shining'?

   1. Dean Koontz
   2. Peter Straub
   3. Stephen King
   4. Robert R. McCammon
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   C) Stephen King

9. Which author wrote the source novel for Steven Spielberg's 1993 film 'Jurassic Park'?

   1. Ray Bradbury
   2. Richard Matheson
   3. Arthur C. Clarke
   4. Michael Crichton
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   D) Michael Crichton

10. Who wrote the source novel for Robert Mulligan's 1962 film 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

    1. Eudora Welty
    2. Harper Lee
    3. Carson McCullers
    4. Flannery O'Connor
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    B) Harper Lee