Q 01/05

Which actor played young lawyer Mitch McDeere in the 1993 film of John Grisham's The Firm?

A) Tom Cruise

B) Brad Pitt

C) Kevin Costner

D) Keanu Reeves

Answer · why

A) Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise signed on after the producers pitched him on the set of A Few Good Men. The Firm became the highest-grossing film made from a Grisham novel...

Q 02/05

In John Grisham's The Pelican Brief, Darby Shaw's theory explains the assassination of two people holding which job?

A) Federal prosecutors

B) Supreme Court justices

C) Investigative news reporters

D) Presidential advisers

Answer · why

B) Supreme Court justices

Supreme Court justices Rosenberg and Jensen are the victims, and Shaw's brief blames an oil tycoon who wants to drill on marshland that shelters an en...

Q 03/05

Before law and bestselling novels, John Grisham dreamed as a boy of a professional career in which sport?

A) Basketball

B) Boxing

C) Baseball

D) Ice hockey

Answer · why

C) Baseball

Baseball was his dream until he was 18, when a pitcher's beanball narrowly missed him and he quit. He later built a youth ballpark complex.

Q 04/05

In John Grisham's Skipping Christmas, Luther and Nora Krank boycott the holidays after Blair Krank leaves to join what?

A) The Marine Corps

B) Doctors Without Borders

C) A Broadway tour

D) The Peace Corps

Answer · why

D) The Peace Corps

The Peace Corps sends Blair to Peru for a year, so Luther proposes swapping the holiday for ten days in the Caribbean. Tim Allen played him in Christm...

Q 05/05

Which actor played lawyer Jake Brigance in the 1996 film of John Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill?

A) Woody Harrelson

B) Matthew McConaughey

C) Lou Diamond Phillips

D) Val Kilmer

Answer · why

B) Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey was Grisham's pick: the author had casting approval and vetoed the director's first choice, Woody Harrelson. The role won an MTV b...