In Their Own Write Trivia Quiz

Answer: You've Got Mail

Meg Ryan's Kathleen Kelly was the owner of a children's bookstore, which was the victim of a competing book superstore that opened nearby. Tom Hanks' Joe Fox owned the superstore, and while they were battling each other on a professional level, they were unaware that they were anonymously corresponding with each other via e-mail, after meeting in a chat room.

After she closed her shop, Kelly began writing a children's book, something she credited her secret correspondent with inspiring her to do.

The movie was a digital-age remake of the 1940 film "The Shop Around the Corner", the title of which was used for the name of Kelly's bookstore. In the original film, the secret admirers were pen-pals.

Answer: Romancing the Stone

Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) went to Colombia to rescue her sister who was being held in exchange for the map. While there, she met Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) who convinced her to look for the treasure, which turned out to be a large emerald called El Corazon, before handing over the map. Danny DeVito also appeared in the film as one of the kidnappers. Turner, Douglas and DeVito reunited for the sequel "The Jewel of the Nile" in 1985 and also for DeVito's own film, 1989's "The War of the Roses".

Answer: Misery

Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes rescued James Caan's Paul Sheldon after he was in a car crash, and she cared for him while he recovered at her home. But when she read his latest novel and discovered that he killed off Misery Chastain, she decided to hold him captive until he wrote another book, bringing her back to life.

The Rob Reiner film was based on Stephen King's novel of the same name and won Kathy Bates a Best Actress Oscar.

Answer: She-Devil

Best-selling romance novelist Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep) romanced Bob Patchett (Ed Begley, Jr.) away from his subservient wife Ruth (Roseanne Barr), but Ruth decided to get the last laugh. She destroyed Mary's perfectly-ordered world, and set Bob up and had him arrested for embezzling.

The film was a lighter version of the 1986 BBC mini-series "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil", based on the 1983 novel of the same title. Meryl Streep received a Golden Globe nomination for her role.

Answer: Little Women

Written by Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women" first appeared on the silent screen in 1917. The 1933 version with Katharine Hepburn in the role of Jo March is perhaps the best known, but other popular versions include one released in 1949 with June Allyson as Jo, and the 1994 version with Winona Ryder.

In the story, Jo wanted to be a writer and was able to sell "sensational" stories to pulp magazines. But after she met Fritz Bhaer, a professor who critiqued her writing, she decided to write about what she knew best, her family.

Answer: Stranger than Fiction

Will Ferrell's Harold Crick was hearing a voice that was narrating his life, and after seeing an interview with author Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson), he realized hers was the voice he was hearing. By the time he contacted her, she had already finished the draft of the novel in which he dies, but hadn't typed it up.

After getting the opinion of a literary professor (Dustin Hoffman) who told him that the novel would be a masterpiece, Crick decided to let Eiffel finish the novel even though it would lead to his death.

The quirky film was a dramatic turn for Will Ferrell, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award.

Answer: The Third Man

In the story, Holly Martins came to post World War II Vienna on the invitation of Harry Lime, only to find that Lime had been killed while crossing a street. Martins planned to leave after the funeral, but he was asked to give a presentation to a book club, which turned out to be an awkward event as the audience was expecting a philosophical discussion of a novel, something out of his league. During his stay, Martins became convinced that Lime's death wasn't an accident, particularly when he heard that there was a third man at the scene of the accident who wasn't mentioned in the official report.

The 1949 Carol Reed film starred Joseph Cotton as Holly Martins and Orson Welles as Harry Lime, and Welles' influence could be seen throughout the film, particularly in the cinematography.

Answer: As Good as It Gets

Jack Nicholson's Melvin Udall was a best-selling author of romance novels who had a bit of a personality problem. When asked how he wrote women so well, he responded "I think of a man, and I take away reason and responsibility". Helen Hunt's Carol Connelly worked at the restaurant in which he ate breakfast and was the only one there who could tolerate him.

They gradually and awkwardly developed a relationship, with Melvin telling her "You make me want to be a better man". He also developed a relationship with his neighbor's dog, Verdell, after previously tossing the dog down a trash chute.

The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, and Nicholson and Hunt won the Best Actor/Best Actress awards for the film.

Answer: Seems Like Old Times

This was the second film in which Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn appeared together, the first being 1978's "Foul Play". In "Seems Like Old Times", Chase's Nick Gardenia was trying to work through his writer's block in a remote cabin when he was kidnapped and forced to rob a bank.

While the police were looking for him, he contacted his ex-wife, Hawn's Glenda Parks for help, much to the chagrin of her current husband, Charles Grodin's Ira, who was running for office and worried about the impact on his campaign.

Answer: The Shining

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) took a job as the caretaker at the hotel while it was closed for the winter and brought his family with him. He planned to work on his writing, but writer's block set in, and then madness. Stephen King apparently was not pleased with the Stanley Kubrick version of his novel and in 1997, was involved in a TV miniseries adaption of the story.

Interestingly, Kubrick received both a Saturn (Sci Fi, Fantasy and Horror) Award nomination for Best Director and a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Director for the film.