Q 01/05

In L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, what color are Dorothy's shoes, ruby on film?

A) Gold

B) Silver

C) Emerald

D) White

Answer · why

B) Silver

Silver was Baum's choice, and the shoes do the same job in both versions. Screenwriter Noel Langley changed them to red for the 1939 film.

Q 02/05

Jack Torrance swings an axe in Kubrick's The Shining; what does he wield in Stephen King's novel?

A) A fire poker

B) A baseball bat

C) A roque mallet

D) A hunting knife

Answer · why

C) A roque mallet

A roque mallet from the hotel's own lawn-game set is the weapon in the novel. Wendy fights back there with a razor, not the bat she swings on screen.

Q 03/05

Which job does Forrest Gump hold in Winston Groom's novel that the Tom Hanks film left out entirely?

A) Astronaut

B) Firefighter

C) Park ranger

D) Taxi driver

Answer · why

A) Astronaut

Astronaut is the missing career: NASA recruits Forrest for his gift for mental math. The flight ends in a crash landing in New Guinea with an oranguta...

Q 04/05

Which Christmas-set action film is based on Roderick Thorp's novel Nothing Lasts Forever?

A) Lethal Weapon

B) Under Siege

C) Cliffhanger

D) Die Hard

Answer · why

D) Die Hard

Die Hard swapped the novel's retired detective Joe Leland and his daughter for John McClane and his estranged wife, Holly.

Q 05/05

Disney's Ariel weds her prince; what does Hans Christian Andersen's little mermaid dissolve into?

A) Coral

B) Sea foam

C) Salt water

D) Pearls

Answer · why

B) Sea foam

Sea foam is what every mermaid in the tale becomes at death, because they have no immortal soul. The heroine then rises as a spirit, a daughter of the...