Classic Literature Rehashed in Films

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1. Which teen flick about a matchmaking high school student was based on Jane Austen's 'Emma'? Raise Your Voice Hairspray Mean Girls Clueless

2. 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou?', a comedy about three escaped convicts on the run in 1930s Mississippi, was loosely based on which classic poem from ancient times? Metamorphoses The Aeneid The Odyssey The Iliad

3. Which film about the only black player in a school basketball team was based on Shakespeare's 'Othello'? O Bring It On Coach Carter White Men Can't Jump

4. The Japanese classic film, 'Throne of Blood', a story of ruthless ambition and the corruption of power, was based on which play by Shakespeare? Hamlet Macbeth Richard III Julius Caesar

5. Which musical takes the plot of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', and puts it in New York City? West Side Story Kiss Me, Kate! Grease Saturday Night Fever

6. 'Edipo Alcalde' is a Colombian film that is a modern re-telling of 'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles. True False

7. 'Ten Things I Hate About You' was a re-telling of which Shakespeare comedy about a man-hating woman whose heart is won by a man paid to do it by her sister's would-be suitor? Two Gentlemen of Verona All's Well that Ends Well A Comedy of Errors The Taming of the Shrew

8. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', the story of a prince who is usurped by his treacherous uncle, is the basic premise behind which Disney cartoon? Bambi The Aristocats Dumbo The Lion King

9. Feminist Swedish director Mai Zitterling's 1968 film 'The Girls' has a basic plot about a group of women who combine to gain power over their men. Its plot had at its core, which comedy from Ancient Greece? The Birds Lysistrata The Wasps The Frogs

10. Which classic Jane Austen novel gets the Bollywood musical treatment in 'Bride and Prejudice'? Answer: (Three Words)

11. Any tale of gender disguise could have Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' at the heart of its plot. Which film is a re-telling of the famous comedy, basing its story around a school soccer team and a girl who takes on her brother's identity? Bring it On She's the Man Remember the Titans Tootsie

12. An act of betrayal and a woman's obsessive desire for revenge is at the heart of the 2007 French film, 'Médée Miracle'. On which Ancient Greek tragedy is it based? Electra The Bacchae Medea Antigone

13. The 1956 film, 'The Forbidden Planet', is about a secretive scientist and his daughter who are the only survivors on the Planet Altair when an expedition arrives from Earth. This science fiction movie borrows its plot from which Shakespeare play? Hamlet The Tempest Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice

14. Geoffrey Chaucer could have sued producers Powell and Pressburger for copyright if he'd been around in 1944 to see which of their films? The Legend of a Good Woman The Troubles of Troilus A Canterbury Tale Cressida's Crisis

15. 'Ellie' is the story of a girl's revenge for her father's murder at the hands of his wife and her sons. This 1984 film transfers the plot of which Ancient Greek tragedy to the Deep South of the USA? The Eumenides The Libation Bearers Electra Agamemnon