Q 01/05

Which future Sex and the City star played the little girl in a 1976 Broadway version of The Turn of the Screw?

A) Cynthia Nixon

B) Sarah Jessica Parker

C) Kim Cattrall

D) Kristin Davis

Answer · why

B) Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker played the haunted girl opposite Claire Bloom's governess in a revival directed by Harold Pinter, which closed after only 12 perf...

Q 02/05

Which Hollywood legend played the sinister servant in The Nightcomers, a 1971 prequel to The Turn of the Screw?

A) Richard Burton

B) Oliver Reed

C) Marlon Brando

D) Michael Caine

Answer · why

C) Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando played him as a groundskeeper with an Irish accent, and the film ends as a new governess arrives, the point where Henry James's story be...

Q 03/05

Which bestselling author named The Turn of the Screw one of only two great supernatural horror tales in a century?

A) Stephen King

B) Anne Rice

C) Dean Koontz

D) Clive Barker

Answer · why

A) Stephen King

Stephen King made the claim in Danse Macabre, his survey of the genre, and gave the other place to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.

Q 04/05

Which Stranger Things actor played the troubled schoolboy in The Turning, a 2020 film of The Turn of the Screw?

A) Noah Schnapp

B) Gaten Matarazzo

C) Caleb McLaughlin

D) Finn Wolfhard

Answer · why

D) Finn Wolfhard

Finn Wolfhard played the boy in a version that moves the story to 1994 and was filmed at Killruddery House in Ireland.

Q 05/05

Which 1847 novel about a governess does The Turn of the Screw echo when its heroine imagines a mad relative locked away?

A) Agnes Grey

B) Vanity Fair

C) Jane Eyre

D) Wuthering Heights

Answer · why

C) Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's novel, keeps Mr Rochester's wife hidden in the attic; James's governess wonders whether her own new home holds a secret ...