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1. The 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on the short story by which author?
 
Isaac Asimov
Roald Dahl
Daphne du Maurier
F Scott Fitzgerald
 

 
2. Who played the title role in Scrooge, the 1951 film version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol?
 
Alec Guinness
John Laurie
Robert Newton
Alastair Sim
 

 
3. In Steven Spielberg's 2005 adaptation of H G Wells' The War of the Worlds, the action is switched from Woking in Surrey to which US state?
 
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York

Tom Cruise plays a Newark dock worker
 

 
4. Which character does Kermit play in the 1996 film Muppet Treasure Island, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel?
 
Billy Bones
Ben Gunn
Captain Smollett
Squire Trelawney

Billy Connolly is Billy Bones, Miss Piggy is Benjamina Gunn, Fozzie Bear is Squire Trelawney
 

 
5. Who played the title role in the 1948 film version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina?
 
Olivia de Havilland
Katharine Hepburn
Vivien Leigh
Ann Sheridan
 

 
6. The 1985 film The Color Purple is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by which author?
 
Toni Morrison
Philip Roth
John Updike
Alice Walker
 

 
7. What nationality is Thomas Keneally, whose novel Schindler's Ark became the 1993 film Schindler's List?
 
American
Australian
Irish
South African
 

 
8. Which 1954 war film was based on Guy Gibson's book Enemy Coast Ahead?
 
The Cockleshell Heroes
The Cruel Sea
The Dam Busters
The Sea Shall Not Have Them

Gibson led the raid on which the film is based
 

 
9. The 1963 film This Sporting Life, based on the David Storey novel, had its Rugby League scenes filmed on the ground of which club?
 
Castleford
Hunslet
Leeds
Wakefield Trinity

Storey had himself been a professional player with Leeds
 

 
10. The 1984 film Children of the Corn is based on a short story from which Stephen King collection?
 
Blood and Smoke
Different Seasons
Night Shift
Skeleton Crew
 

 
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