Q 01/05

Who directed Shutter Island?

A) David Fincher

B) Martin Scorsese

C) Christopher Nolan

D) Darren Aronofsky

Answer · why

B) Martin Scorsese

It gave him his biggest opening weekend ever, $41 million, and became his second highest-grossing film worldwide at the time.

Q 02/05

The film is based on a 2003 novel by which author of Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone?

A) Harlan Coben

B) Dennis Lehane

C) James Ellroy

D) Michael Connelly

Answer · why

B) Dennis Lehane

He described the book as a hybrid of the Brontë sisters and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, deliberately stripping his heroes of modern tools like rad...

Q 03/05

In what year is the story set?

A) 1947

B) 1954

C) 1961

D) 1968

Answer · why

B) 1954

The book's storm is a real one that hit New England in August of that year.

Q 04/05

What is the name of the hospital for the criminally insane on the island?

A) Ashecliffe

B) Harrowfield

C) Ravensgate

D) Blackmoor

Answer · why

A) Ashecliffe

HBO and Paramount Television were reported in 2014 to be developing a prequel series named after it.

Q 05/05

The island sits in the harbor of which city?

A) Portland, Maine

B) Providence

C) Boston

D) New York

Answer · why

C) Boston

Lehane modelled the setting on Long Island in that harbor, which he visited as a boy during the blizzard of 1978.