Can you name the author by the movie adaptation pictured?

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Author by Movie Scene Quiz

by lupin

Created Jan 10, 2010 in Literature
Featured Jan 16, 2010
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Jan 16th, 2010 at 04:37 GMT

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This is just a beautiful selection of movies.

	JohnJF:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 04:43 GMT		39 points
	I learned three important things from this quiz: I watch too many movies, I read too few books, and I will never learn how to properly spell Palahniuk.

	Saulmeister:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 04:46 GMT		18 points
	Once again, a beautiful picture quiz by lupin. I wish there could be a way to display the name of the movie/book too, just to be thorough.

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	Snorkel:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 05:03 GMT		12 points
	It'd be nice if the title of the book/movie would come up with the author, I think. But great quiz!

	rockgolf:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 05:28 GMT		28 points
	Movies / Books: Row 1: Jaws / A Clockwork Orange / 1984 / American Psycho / A Scanner Darkly Row 2: Apocalypse Now (based on Heart Of Darkness) / Breakfast At Tiffany's / catch-22 / Fight Club / The Exorcist Row 3: Matilda / The Da Vinci Code / The Godfather / The Great Escape / The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Row 4: Lord of the Rings trilogy / L.A. Confidential / The Lovely Bones / Jurassic Park / Interview With The Vampire Row 5: The Hunt For Red October / The Silence of the Lambs / Alice In Wonderland (based on characters from Alice Through the Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) / The Shawshank Redemption (based on Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, from the collection Different Seasons) / Lolita Hope that helps.

	shanekelby:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 06:19 GMT		17 points
	I would like to thank Don't Stand So Close to Me for my knowing Nabokov.

	worldconqueror:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 06:42 GMT		1 point
	Thanks rockgolf, I couldn't figure out a few of the titles. Kept looking at American Psycho knowing that I knew it, but not being able to place it. Didn't know the authors name any way, as it turned out. Thanks for the help.

	jas1548:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 06:50 GMT		13 points
	I love this idea for a quiz! Requires a little extra thinking... identify the movie, then think of the book, then the author.

	RoloTomasi:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 07:09 GMT		2 points
	Two quizzes in one! Fantastic! I'm the opposite of MovieDynamic - I would have got more right had I recognized all the movies.

	Leboieski:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 07:15 GMT		5 points
	Great idea for a quiz, well done.

	Sneuticles:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 07:54 GMT		5 points
	Obviously ^^ there have been a lot of modifications made to this, but as of early 1/16 this quiz is PERFECT. I had read 10 of the books, could ID 23 of the movies, and got 17 correct answers. Brilliant effing quiz.

	juviejay:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 09:07 GMT		-2 points
	Truman Capote wrote Breakfeast at Tiffany's? Never would have guessed that.

	triviapaul:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 09:08 GMT		1 point
	Nice quiz, good selection. Surprising results too!

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	beatrixkiddo:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 09:39 GMT		7 points
	nice quiz - but the name of the author of fight club is my kyrgyzstan on this quiz.

	Chris156:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 10:02 GMT		0 points
	You learn something new every day...I never knew that Jaws was based on a book!

	y2jdilemma:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 11:36 GMT		3 points
	I typed JR (starting Tolkein) and it gave me Tom Clancy?

	LoopyBrit:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 12:02 GMT		1 point
	^ Yeah, same thing happened to me. Not sure why? I knew Clancy anyway, as it happened, but I wasn't expecting it to come up by accident.

	lwfc:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 13:46 GMT		0 points
	same thing happened to me, which kinda skews the results cause i was never going to get that one otherwise. couldnt spell palahniuk

	Havok3595:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 13:49 GMT		2 points
	I'd almost argue that it should accept Ibsen for Jaws, since Benchley's novel is pretty unabashedly based on his An Enemy of the People, but then I'd just be pretentious. Great quiz.

	TheHeat:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 13:55 GMT		0 points
	I just spent at least 2 minutes wondering why the Johnny Depp picture wasn't accepting the author of Willy Wonka....

	DougButcher:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 14:16 GMT		6 points
	Is it sad that I typed Robert Pirsig for The Great Escape?

	LTH:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 14:55 GMT		-2 points
	I'm surprised this quiz included a movie that hasn't been released yet (Alice in Wonderland). Isn't that against Sporcle policy?

	Skydog:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 15:14 GMT		-4 points
	@LTH I agree, not really fair.. I forgot what upcoming movie that was from.

	anthraxjohnson:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 15:57 GMT		-1 points
	I second 'Apocalypse Now' being something of a stretch for this quiz. Especially because the image provided, American soldiers, is an element of the story that cannot be credited to Conrad. Good quiz otherwise.

	Gravey:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 16:56 GMT		2 points
	I started typing "Anderson" for no apparent reason and it gave me "Paul Brickhill". Whassup?

	wilsonhubbell:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 17:42 GMT		1 point
	i wish it accepted "chuck p"

	Scout_Number_4:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 17:49 GMT		3 points
	Wonderful quiz, great content. Begging for a sequel.

	Mutford:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 18:41 GMT		1 point
	I too got Brickhill without typing it-- no way I would have guess him.

	ChemicalToilet:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 19:22 GMT		-4 points
	Lovely Bones hasn't come out yet, that just looks like a picture of some girl.