A Pre-Holiday Quiz; UPDATE
UPDATE: We’ve received several correct answers — these are all based on movies. However, we are looking for a more SPECIFIC answer!
HINT: These movies based on books are tied together by a person who will receive a major award on Jan. 22
To take your mind off all you have to do between now and tomorrow’s feast, we offer the following quiz.
Below is a list of books. If they were in a display, what would tie them together (other than the obvious)?
Bonus question: Why would this display be particularly relevant right now?
Please try to answer without the aid of reference books or Google (in this case, we DON’T want you to cite a source!)
Fiction
- Austen, Jane, Emma
- Chabon, Michael, Wonder Boys
- Condon, Richard, The Manchurian Candidate
- Connelly, Joe, Bringing Out the Dead
- Cunningham, Michael, The Hours
- Erian, Alicia, Towelhead
- Foer, Jonathan Safran, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Goldsmith, Olivia, The First Wives Club
- Gregory, Philippa, The Other Boleyn Girl
- Grisham, John, The Firm
- Heller, Zoe, Notes on a Scandal
- Irving, Washington, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Kureishi, Hanif, Venus
- Larsson, Stieg, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Levin, Ira, The Stepford Wives
- McCarthy, Cormac, Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men
- Portis, Charles, True Grit
- Price, Richard, Freedomland
- Russo, Robert, Nobody’s Fool
- Sinclair, Upton, Oil!
- Tidyman, Ernest, Shaft
- Yates, Richard, Revolutionary Road
Nonfiction
- Bayley, John, Elegy for Iris
- Goldsmith, Barbara, Little Gloria… Happy at Last
- Gordon, Barbara, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can
- Harr, Jonathan, A Civil Action
- Lewis, Michael, Moneyball
- McCourt, Frank, Angela’s Ashes
- Mezrich, Ben, Accidental Billionaires
- Powell, Julie, Julie & Julia
- Rawicz, Slavomir, The Long Walk
- Schiff, Stacy, Cleopatra
- Waizkin, Fred, Searching for Bobby Fischer
Childrens
- Dahl, Roald, Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
November 24th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
1. “Saw the movie? Read the book!”
2. Harry Potter
November 24th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Books to Movies – Katie beat me to it!
November 24th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
1. Don’t Judge a Book by Its Movie!
2. It’s the start of awards season?
November 24th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Need something to watch, er read, over the holiday?
November 24th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Need something to watch, er read, over the holidays? Also the slew of book based movie out or about to open?
November 24th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
First books?
November 26th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Well, they’ve all been turned into movies, but I also think these are the authors’ first books.
November 26th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Books to Movies. Stepford Wives was not Ira Levin’s first book.
November 28th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Scott Rudin was the producer of many of the movies based on these books and he’s receiving the Selznick Award at the PGAs on January 22.
November 29th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
SCOTT RUDIN