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THIS 2009 FILM WAS BASED ON A BOOK SUBTITLED, "AMERICA'S GREATEST CRIME WAVE AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI, 1933-34"
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"WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT?"
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BOOKS INTO MOVIES
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| THIS 2009 FILM WAS BASED ON A BOOK SUBTITLED, "AMERICA'S GREATEST CRIME WAVE AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI, 1933-34" | PUBLIC ENEMIES |
| "WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT?" | WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? |
| "VENGEANCE: THE TRUE STORY OF AN ISRAELI COUNTER-TERRORIST TEAM" | MUNICH |
| "WISEGUY" | GOODFELLAS |
| "THE MURDER OF BOB CRANE" | AUTO FOCUS |
| "Q & A" | SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE |
| ANNE BANCROFT HAS A LETTER-WRITING FRIENDSHIP WITH LONDON BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE ANTHONY HOPKINS IN THIS BOOK-TURNED-FILM | 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD |
| THIS BOOK THAT TACKLED THE TOPIC OF FOOTBALL IN A TEXAS TOWN INSPIRED A FILM & A TV SERIES | FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS |
| A 1954 JAMES MICHENER BOOK, OR A 1957 FILM WITH RICARDO MONTALBAN AS NAKAMURA | SAYONARA |
| NATHANIEL WEST WROTE THIS 1939 BOOK CALLED THE GREATEST OF HOLLYWOOD NOVELS | THE DAY OF THE LOCUST |
| "SHOELESS JOE" | FIELD OF DREAMS |
| "MONKEY PLANET" | PLANET OF THE APES |
| "WISEGUY: LIFE IN A MAFIA FAMILY" | GOODFELLAS |
| "DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?" | BLADE RUNNER |
| "I, TINA: MY LIFE STORY" | WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? |
| THIS WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD BECAME A FILM STARRING GLENN AS SHEPARD, SHEPARD AS YEAGER, AND HARRIS AS GLENN | THE RIGHT STUFF |
| "ZATHURA" IS FROM A BOOK BY CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG, AUTHOR OF THIS "COOL" STORY, LATER A TOM HANKS ANIMATED FILM | THE POLAR EXPRESS |
| THIS WEEPIE BY NICHOLAS SPARKS WAS MADE INTO A FILM STARRING RYAN GOSLING & RACHEL MCADAMS | THE NOTEBOOK |
| IN 1956 AUDREY HEPBURN PLAYED NATASHA ROSTOV IN A NEARLY 3 1/2 HOUR FILM VERSION OF THIS BOOK | WAR AND PEACE |
| 2 REPORTERS UNEARTH A POLITICAL SCANDAL THAT GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP IN THIS 1979 FILM BASED ON A BOOK | ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN |
| PATRICK O'BRIAN WROTE 20 BOOKS ABOUT THIS BRITISH CAPTAIN PLAYED BY RUSSELL CROWE IN A 2003 FILM | JACK AUBREY |
| ALAN ALDA STARRED AS GEORGE PLIMPTON PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR DETROIT IN THIS FILM BASED ON PLIMPTON'S BOOK | PAPER LION |
| THIS BOOK BY JOURNALIST MARK BOWDEN ABOUT A 1993 MILITARY OPERATION IN MOGADISHU BECAME A 2001 FILM | BLACK HAWK DOWN |
| IT'S THE JAPANESE TERM FOR ANIMATED FILMS, MANY BASED ON MANGA, OR COMIC BOOKS | ANIME |
| ALEXIS BLEDEL PLAYS WINNIE IN THE FILM VERSION OF THIS BOOK ABOUT A FAMILY THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER | TUCK EVERLASTING |
| HER BOOK, "THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT", CONTAINS NOTES ON FILMING "THE COLOR PURPLE" | ALICE WALKER |
| ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER'S FILM CAREER TOOK OFF AFTER HE PLAYED THIS SWORD-WIELDING COMIC BOOK HERO IN 1982 | CONAN THE BARBARIAN |
| NATALIE PORTMAN STARRED IN THE FILM VERSION OF THIS BOOK IN WHICH A PREGNANT GIRL TAKES UP RESIDENCE IN A WAL-MART | WHERE THE HEART IS |
| THIS 1921 BOOK BY EDITH HULL INSPIRED THE RUDOLPH VALENTINO FILM OF THE SAME NAME | THE SHEIK |
| NATHAN LANE WAS THE VOICE OF SNOWBALL THE CAT IN THIS 1999 FILM BASED ON AN E.B. WHITE BOOK | STUART LITTLE |
| HIS BOOK "THE SIXTEENTH ROUND: FROM NUMBER 1 CONTENDER TO NO. 45472", LED THE WAY TO HIS RELEASE AND A 1999 FILM | RUBIN "HURRICANE" CARTER |
| "LOOK TO THE LILIES", BASED ON THIS BOOK, STARRED AL FREEMAN, JR. IN THE ROLE SIDNEY POITIER PLAYED ON FILM | LILIE OF THE FIELD |
| THE 1936 BOOK "THE WHEEL SPINS", ABOUT A WOMAN WHO DISAPPEARS ON A NONSTOP TRAIN, BECAME THIS HITCHCOCK FILM | THE LADY VANISHES |
| THIS 1995 FILM IS BASED ON THE BOOK "THE SHEEP-PIG" | BABE |
| KATHARINE HEPBURN WROTE A BOOK ON "THE MAKING OF ..." THIS FILM IN WHICH SHE AND BOGIE RUN THE ULANGA RIVER | THE AFRICAN QUEEN |
| SHE DEDICATED HER BOOK, "THE MIRROR CRACK'D" TO MARGARET RUTHERFORD, WHO PLAYED MISS MARPLE IN SEVERAL FILMS | AGATHA CHRISTIE |
| STORE DETECTIVE WOLF J. FLYWHEEL IN THE FILM, "THE BIG STORE", RON GOULART MADE HIM A MASTER DETECTIVE IN A 1998 BOOK | GROUCHO MARX |
| CHICKEN-SIZE DINOSAURS CALLED COMPYS DIDN'T MAKE IT FROM THIS 1990 MICHAEL CRICHTON NOVEL TO THE 1993 FILM | JURASSIC PARK |
| TALKING GARGOYLES NAMED VICTOR & HUGO WERE IN A 1996 ADAPTATION OF THIS (THEY WEREN'T IN THE BOOK" | THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME |
| ELIA KAZAN DIRECTED THIS AUTHOR'S SCRIPT OF "VIVA ZAPATA!" BUT HAD SOMEONE ELSE ADAPT HIS "EAST OF EDEN" | JOHN STEINBECK |
| FOR BOGIE'S SCREEN ROLE, THIS BOOK'S CHARLIE ALLNUTT WAS CHANGED FROM A COCKNEY TO A CANADIAN | THE AFRICAN QUEEN |
| JACK BURDEN IS THIS BOOK'S CENTRAL CHARACTER; THE 1949 MOVIE SWITCHED IT TO WILLIE STARK | ALL THE KING'S MEN |
| MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG PLAYS THE TITLE SNOOP IN THIS 1996 FILM BASED ON LOUISE FITZHUGH'S BOOK | HARRIET THE SPY |
| BEFORE 1997'S "TITANIC", THERE WAS THIS 1958 FILM ABOUT THE SHIP, BASED ON A WALTER LORD BOOK | A NIGHT TO REMEMBER |
| HE DISCUSSED ALI VS FOREMAN IN HIS BOOK, "THE FIGHT" AND IN THE 1996 FILM "WHEN WE WERE KINGS" | NORMAN MAILER |
| TITLE OF SISTER HELEN PREJEAN'S BOOK ABOUT DEATH ROW AND THE SUSAN SARANDON FILM BASED ON IT | DEAD MAN WALKING |
| WITH THE SUCCESS OF THIS BOOK ABOUT CHILI PALMER AND THE JOHN TRAVOLTA FILM, ELMORE LEONARD'S THINKING ABOUT A SEQUEL | GET SHORTY |
| BASED ON ERICH VON DANIKEN'S BOOK, THIS 1970S FILM PROPOSED THAT EARTH WAS VISITED BY ALIENS | CHARIOTS OF THE GODS |
| JOHN GRISHAM'S FIRST BOOK TO MAKE IT TO THE SCREEN, IT "CRUISED" ITS WAY TO THE TOP 10 FILMS OF 1993 | THE FIRM |
| A 1925 DINOSAUR FILM BASED ON A CONAN DOYLE TALE OR A 1997 DINOSAUR FILM BASED ON A CRICHTON BOOK | THE LOST WORLD |
| ISAK DINESEN REFLECTED ON HER YEARS IN KENYA IN THIS BOOK, LATER THE TITLE OF A FILM ABOUT HER | OUT OF AFRICA |
| FUTURISTIC STALLONE FILM BASED ON A COMIC BOOK | JUDGE DREDD |
| THE TITLE OF THIS FIRST BEATLE'S FILM MAY HAVE COME FROM A LINE IN JOHN LENNON'S BOOK "IN HIS OWN WRITE" | A HARD DAY'S NIGHT |
| 1982 SEAN PENN FILM COMEDY BASED ON A CAMERON CROWE BOOK | FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH |
| THE 1995 HBO FILM "TRUMAN" WAS BASED ON THIS MAN'S 1993 PULITZER PRIZE WINNING BOOK | DAVID MCCULLOUGH |
| SUSAN SARANDON PROVIDED THE VOICE OF A SPIDER IN THIS 1996 ANIMATED FILM BASED ON A ROALD DAHL BOOK | JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH |
| SUSAN SARANDON PLAYED SOUTHERN ATTORNEY REGGIE LOVE IN THIS 1994 FILM BASED ON A JOHN GRISHAM BOOK | THE CLIENT |
| "REVERSAL OF FORTUNE", THIS ATTORNEY'S BOOK ABOUT THE VON BULOW CASE, WAS THE BASIS FOR A 1990 FILM | ALAN DERSHOWITZ |
| ROD TAYLER TRAVELED FROM THE YEAR 1899 TO 802,701 A.D. IN THIS FILM BASED ON AN H.G. WELLS BOOK | THE TIME MACHINE |
| THIS HIT FILM WAS BASED ON THE BOOK "GESUNDHEIT: GOOD HEALTH IS A LAUGHING MATTER" | PATCH ADAMS |
| CREATED BY CLARENCE E. MULFORD, IN BOOKS HE WAS A CRUSTY GUY WITH A BAD LEG; IN FILMS, A ROMANTIC LEAD | HOPALONG CASSIDY |
| THE DISNEY FILM "OLIVER AND COMPANY" WAS BASED ON A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR | CHARLES DICKENS |
| THE DISNEY FILM "MARY POPPINS" WAS BASED ON A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR | P.L. TRAVERS |
| THE DISNEY FILM "THE SWORD IN THE STONE" WAS BASED ON A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR | T.H. WHITE |
| THE DISNEY FILM "ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS" WAS BASED ON A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR | DODIE SMITH |
| THE DISNEY FILM "SONG OF THE SOUTH" WAS BASED ON A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR | JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS |
| THE DISNEY FILM "BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS" WAS BASED ON A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR | MARY NORTON |
| THE DISNEY FILM "THE ADVENTURES OF MR. ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD" WAS BASED ON BOOKS BY THESE 2 AUTHORS | WASHINGTON IRVING & KENNETH GRAHAME |
| "OIL!" BECAME THIS MOVIE | THERE WILL BE BLOOD |
| STEPHEN KING'S BOOK "THE BODY" WAS MADE INTO THIS FILM | STAND BY ME |
| "THE WISDOM OF EVE" WAS MADE INTO THIS MOVIE | ALL ABOUT EVE |
| "QUEEN BEES AND WANNABES" BECAME THIS MOVIE | MEAN GIRLS |
| "RUM PUNCH" BECAME THIS QUINTON TARANTINO MOVIE | JACKIE BROWN |
| "EVERYBODY COMES TO RICKS" | CASABLANCA |
| "TRAUMNOVELLE" (DREAM STORY) | EYES WIDE SHUT |
| "BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE" | 21 |
| "THE EXECUTIONERS" | CAPE FEAR |
| "NOTHING LASTS FOREVER" | DIE HARD |
| "THE TIN STAR" | HIGH NOON |
| "THE SHORT-TIMERS" | FULL METAL JACKET |
| "IT HAD TO BE MURDER" BECAME THIS HITCHCOCK FILM | REAR WINDOW |
| "FATHER OF FRANKENSTEIN" | GODS AND MONSTERS |
| "THE HUNTER" | POINT BLANK (1967)PAYBACK (1999) |
| THE ORCHID THIEF | ADAPTATION |
| "HEART OF DARKNESS" | APOCALYPSE NOW |
| "RED ALERT" | DR. STRANGELOVE |
| HIS NOVEL "ANGELS AND DEMONS" WAS FODDER FOR THE BIG SCREEN IN 2009 | DAN BROWN |
| THIS 2009 FILM IS BASED IN PART ON THE MEMOIR, "MY LIFE IN FRANCE", IN WHICH THE AUTHOR MASTERS THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING | JULIE AND JULIA |
| A JODI PICOULT NOVEL WAS THE BASIS FOR THIS 2009 WEEPIE IN WHICH ABIGAIL BRESLIN HAS A SIBLING DYING FROM CANCER | MY SISTER'S KEEPER |
| RACHEL MCADAMS IS THE TITULAR SPOUSE IN THE 2009 FILM BASED ON THIS NOVEL BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER | THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE |
| "LOST MOON" BY ASTRONAUT JIM LOVELL LAUNCHED THIS 1995 FILM | APOLLO 13 |
| GUSTAV HASFORD'S VIETNAM WAR NOVEL, "THE SHORT TIMERS", WAS RECRUITED AS THE BASIS FOR THIS KUBRICK FILM | FULL METAL JACKET |
| ISAAC ASIMOV'S "THE POSITRONIC MAN" BECAME THIS ROBIN WILLIAMS FILM, ALSO WITH "MAN" IN THE TITLE | BICENTENNIAL MAN |
| THE COMIC BOOK "HELLBLAZER" CROSSED OVER TO THE BIG SCREEN AS THIS 2005 KEANU REEVES FLICK | CONSTANTINE |
| BARI WOODS NOVEL "TWINS" BECAME THIS 1988 FILM STARRING JEREMY IRONS IN A DUAL ROLE | DEAD RINGERS |
| OH, ROCHESTER! WILLIAM HURT WAS IN THE 1996 VERSION OF THIS OFT-FILMED BRONTE CLASSIC | JANE EYRE |
| 69 YEARS APART, LILLIAN GISH & DEMI MOORE GOT AN "A" FOR EFFORT FOR STARRING IN FILMS BASED ON THIS CLASSIC NOVEL | THE SCARLETT LETTER |
| FITZGERALD DIDN'T FINISH THIS NOVEL, SO SCREENWRITER HAROLD PINTER HAD TO COME UP WITH AN ENDING FOR THE 1976 FILM | THE LAST TYCOON |
| MARILYN MONROE LONGED TO PLAY GRUSHENKA IN THE 1958 FILM OF THIS DOSTOEVSKY SAGA, BUT MARIA SCHELL GOT THE PART | THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV |
| JAMES BRADLEY & RON POWERS' BOOK WAS THE BASIS FOR THIS 2006 FILM ABOUT THE 6 MEN WHO RAISED THE FLAG ON IWO JIMA | FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS |
| SHE STARRED AS AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS' UNSTABLE MOM IN "RUNNING WITH SCISSORS" | ANNETTE BENNING |
| IN 2005 JAKE GYLLENHAAL STARRED IN THIS FILM, BASED ON A MEMOIR | JARHEAD |
| 2 FILMS WITH THIS TITLE GOT OSCAR NOMINATIONS, ONE BASED ON A DREISER NOVEL, THE OTHER ON A STEPHEN KING BOOK | CARRIE |
| HE'S THE FUNNY MAN WHO PLAYED THE TITLE ROLE IN THE MOVIE VERSION OF "THE CAT IN THE HAT" | MIKE MYERS |
| THIS INNOVATIVE POLISH DIRECTOR BROUGHT CHARLES DICKENS' "OLIVER TWIST" TO LIFE IN 2005 | ROMAN POLANSKI |
| IN 2004 REESE WITHERSPOON STARRED IN THE BIG SCREEN VERSION OF THIS THACKERAY WORK | VANITY FAIR |
| THIS AMY TAN NOVEL BECAME A MOVIE WITH MING-NA AND TAMLYN TOMITA | THE JOY LUCK CLUB |
| CCH POUNDER STARRED IN A TV MOVIE OF "GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN" BASED ON A NOVEL BY THIS AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHOR | JAMES BALDWIN |
| THE LADY CHABLIS, A SAVANNAH DRAG QUEEN, PLAYED HERSELF IN THIS JOHN CUSACK FILM BASED ON A BESTSELLER | MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL |
| A.E.W. MASON'S NOVEL "THE FOUR FEATHERS" MADE IT TO THE SCREEN IN 2002 WITH THIS AUSTRALIAN HUNK AS HARRY FEVERSHAM | HEATH LEDGER |
| IN THE 1999 MOVIE VERSION OF THIS SHAKESPEARE PLAY, RUPERT EVERETT & MICHELLE PFEIFFER ARE THE KING & QUEEN OF FAIRIES | A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM |
| WINSTON GROOM'S NOVEL WAS THE BASIS FOR THIS 1994 FILM ABOUT A MAN WITH AN IQ OF 75 | FORREST GUMP |
| DAVID GUTERSON'S BOOK ABOUT RACISM IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BECAME THIS 1999 FILM THAT STARS A BROODING ETHAN HAWKE | SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS |
| JOHN IRVING ADAPTED HIS OWN NOVEL INTO THIS 1999 FILM IN WHICH ORPHAN TOBEY MAGUIRE WORKS IN AN APPLE ORCHARD | THE CIDER HOUSE RULES |
| A 13-PAGE DOCUMENT TYPED ON APRIL 18, 1945 WITH THE NAMES OF 801 MEN INSPIRED A 1982 BOOK AND THIS 1993 FILM | SCHINDLER'S LIST |
| TAMMY BLANCHARD & JUDY DAVIS BOTH WON EMMYS FOR PLAYING THIS STAR IN A TV MOVIE BASED ON LORNA LUFT'S BOOK | JUDY GARLAND |
| THIS 1970S BOOK, LATER A MOVIE, TOLD THE TRUE & GRIPPING TALE OF SURVIVAL IN THE ANDES AFTER A 1972 PLANE CRASH | ALIVE |
| HIS BOOK "BAMBI" FIRST APPEARED IN PRINT IN 1923; A DISNEY MOVIE MADE IT WORLD FAMOUS | FELIX SALTEN |
| 1905'S "THE CLANSMAN" BY THOMAS DIXON, BECAME THIS SILENT D.W. GRIFFITH CLASSIC | BIRTH OF A NATION |
| "FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON" BECAME THIS CLIFF ROBERTSON MOVIE | CHARLY |
| LARRY MCMURTRY'S "HORSEMAN, PASS BY" INSPIRED THIS 1963 PAUL NEWMAN FILM | HUD |
| KUBRICK FILMED "DREAM STORY" BY ARTHUR SCHNITZLER UNDER THIS TITLE | EYES WIDE SHUT |
| BOOKS OF WONDER, AN INDEPENDENT STORE, WAS THE MODEL FOR MEG RYAN'S SHOP IN THIS 1998 MOVIE | YOU'VE GOT MAIL |
| JOHN TRAVOLTA WAS THE PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR THIS 1998 MOVIE BASED ON A BOOK BY "ANONYMOUS" | PRIMARY COLORS |
| "POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL" WAS A BOOK AND A TV MOVIE BASED ON THE LIFE OF THIS HEIRESS | BARBARA HUTTON |
| THIS 1977 MOVIE ABOUT A SCHIZOPHRENIC GIRL WAS ADAPTED FROM JOANNE GREENBERG'S BOOK OF THE SAME NAME | I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN |
| THIS 1997 MOVIE STARRING JODIE FOSTER WAS BASED ON CARL SAGAN'S BESTSELLING 1985 BOOK | CONTACT |
| OPRAH MADE THIS TONI MORRISON BOOK INTO A MOVIE | BELOVED |
| OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB'S FIRST SELECTION WAS THIS BOOK ABOUT THE LOSS OF A CHILD; IT BECAME A MICHELLE PFEIFFER MOVIE IN 1999 | DEEP END OF THE OCEAN |
| JOHNNY DEPP & BENICIO DEL TORO STARRED IN THE MOVIE ADAPTATION OF HIS BOOK, "FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS" | HUNTER S. THOMPSON |
| "THE BIBLE", WITH GEORGE C. SCOTT AS ABRAHAM, RESTRICTS ITSELF TO THIS BIBLICAL BOOK | GENESIS |
| BOOK 9, CHAPTER 5, OF THIS FIELDING NOVEL BECAME A FAMOUS EROTIC EATING SCENE IN THE MOVIE | TOM JONES |
| THIS LORENZO CARCATERRA BOOK THAT BECAME A 1996 MOVIE WAS PUBLISHED AS A TRUE STORY, SOME DOUBTED IT | SLEEPERS |
| THIS CARRIE FISHER BOOK ABOUT MOVIE ACTRESSES WAS MADE INTO A MOVIE IN 1990 | POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE |
| THIS KIDS MOVIE WAS BASED ON AN IAN FLEMING BOOK | CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG |
| THE MOVIE "GET SHORTY" WAS BASED ON A 1990 BOOK BY THIS CRIME NOVELIST | ELMORE LEONARD |
| "HIT MEN" IS FREDERICK DANNON'S 1990 BOOK ABOUT POWERBROKERS AND FAST MONEY INSIDE THIS BUSINESS | MUSIC BUSINESS |
| IN 2008, MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE IN VERMONT WON ITS 2ND STRAIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP IN THIS SPORT INTRODUCED IN A 1997 NOVEL | QUIDDITCH |
| IN 1890 HE WITNESSES A MILD CYCLONE IN ABERDEEN, SD, FODDER FOR HIS MOST FAMOUS NOVEL, LATER A MOVIE | L.FRANK BAUM |
| THE 2 ADJECTIVES THAT DESCRIBE MISS WHEATON IN THE TITLE OF AN AWARD-WINNING BOOK AND TV MOVIE SET IN THE MIDWEST | PLAIN & TALL |
| THIS 1973 BOOK & SUBSEQUENT TV MOVIE POPULARIZED THE STUDY OF MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER | SYBIL |
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