Can you name the books by the names of their film adaptations?

Film	Book	Author
Manhunter		Thomas Harris
Precious		Sapphire
Goodfellas		Nicholas Pileggi
The King and I		Margaret Landon
Stand By Me		Stephen King
Blade Runner		Philip K. Dick
Clueless		Jane Austen
A Cry in the Wild		Gary Paulsen
Troy		Homer
Slumdog Millionaire		Vikas Swarup
The Secret of NIMH		Robert C. O'Brien
O Brother, Where Art Thou?		Homer
There Will Be Blood		Upton Sinclair
Mean Girls		Rosalind Wiseman
Field of Dreams		W. P. Kinsella
10 Things I Hate About You		William Shakespeare
Apocalypse Now		Joseph Conrad
The Haunting		Shirley Jackson
21		Ben Mezrich
Shooter		Stephen Hunter
The Lion King	Stephen Hunter
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory	Stephen Hunter

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Book Title by Movie Quiz

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Created by: JayHankEdLyonJr -
Contributed: December 4th, 2009
Published: March 17th, 2010
Category: Literature
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Tags: Book Quizzes, Novel Quizzes, play, adaptation, author, title, film

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	Sally:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 20:47 GMT	7 points
	I think the Film for "Q&A" is supposed to read Slumdog Millionaire, right?

	TJL:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 21:01 GMT	15 points
	What percentage of people guessing the Odyssey are guessing it for Troy, I wonder

	ShveLaSoul:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 21:07 GMT	8 points
	If you gave the full title for the movie Push, then the answer becomes much easier.

	sussman:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 21:19 GMT	3 points
	I never understood until now. They titled the movie in the second row specifically for this Sporcle.

	rockgolf:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 21:30 GMT	16 points
	The really weird part is now the movie-tie-in book for Push has been retitled. The book is now titled "Precious: Based on the Novel Push". Really. the novel is named for the movie which includes the name of the novel. The literary equivalent of being one's own grandpa. http://www.amazon.com/Precious-Push-Movie-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307474844/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268861244&sr=1-1

	PirateBaller24:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 21:49 GMT	-4 points
	it's kind of sad that I'm 11 and the only books I got right were The Iliad and Odyssey by Homer. Not really a fail, but still. :l

	newenglander:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 22:00 GMT	9 points
	really, after so much emphasis on "Precious, based on the novel push by sapphire" only 40% got the book title for Precious?

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	confused:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 22:44 GMT	4 points
	@rockgolf: Once I saw a novelization of "Little Women", based on the screenplay for the 1994 film, which was based on Alcott's book. An actual rewrite of the classic. Luckily, it seems to have vanished. @JayHEL: I missed this last December. Good idea, and thanks for including authors up front!

	JayHankEdLyon:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 22:48 GMT	-3 points
	@rockgolf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7x1ETPkZsk

	shanekelby:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:17 GMT	2 points
	I have to say that, along with the Phantom Tollbooth, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH was one of my favorite books when I was a kid.

	JoeFish:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:26 GMT	3 points
	Umm... Pootah... no it's not.

	RoloTomasi:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 00:31 GMT	-2 points
	@ Pootah... spelled is "spelt" wrong.

	kristen58:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 01:11 GMT	4 points
	Damn, I said "Anna and the King", I wish that had counted.

	afrownfe:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 12:27 GMT	1 point
	I tried "mrs frisby and the rats of nimh" and it didn't work.. just because I didn't have a capital NIMH or a "." after the mrs??

	baron:	Mar 19th, 2010 at 00:41 GMT	9 points
	"Precious, based on the novel push by sapphire" is beyond annoying. Did the author force the producers to do this when he/she sold them the rights to the book? I know the title was changed from Push because there was a recent lame action movie with that title. But i don't like this Sapphire person one bit. One, for being named sapphire. Two, because the movie title includes the name of the book and the author's name. What if all movies did that? As in, hey i want to go rent "Apocolypse Now: based on the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad" and then later we can watch "Goodfellas: based on the novel Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi" after we eat dinner

	chikka2:	Mar 19th, 2010 at 03:04 GMT	1 point
	lots of material for a sequel. Good quiz

	midnight_dreary:	May 15th, 2010 at 16:20 GMT	5 points
	I didn't even know there was a movie called A Cry in the wild lol. But I guessed right, because Hatchet was the only Gary Paulsen book I knew lol.

	alekstu:	Jul 2nd, 2010 at 04:53 GMT	-2 points
	it would have be easier if they put harry potter series down

	Phine:	Oct 25th, 2011 at 19:31 GMT	2 points
	I don't claim to be any sort of expert, but maybe someone could enlighten me. Isn't Red Dragon a movie all its own? I've never seen any of those movies, but I was fairly certain it went Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon.

	luke78:	Nov 2nd, 2011 at 01:35 GMT	2 points
	@phine...manhunter was a movie that came out before silence of the lambs, that was based on the book red dragon. after silence of the lambs was such a hit, hannibal was made, and red dragon was re-made.

	xJadedGurlx:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 18:20 GMT	0 points
	Apparently the super-long title for Precious came about because this way: The title of the film was originally Push, but after Push came out the title was changed to Precious. While Precious was in production, another filmed named Precious (which I'm guessing was never released) was also in production, so 'to avoid confusion' the studio decided to add the whole "based on the novel Push by Sapphire" subtitle to clarify which film was their project (just in case the films were release at the same time). It screened that way at Cannes, so that was the title that it got in its wide release. As for her bizarro name: Her real name is Ramona something. She decided 'Sapphire' would look better on her books than her birth name. Sounds to me like she just needed to make herself feel like a special snowflake.:X