Classic Quiz Classic Quiz Quiz How Well Do You Know The Books That This Year's Oscar-Nominated Films Are Based On? by Sara.deeter Sara.deeter 3 played - 7 yrs ago QUIZ 10 QUESTIONS expert Question 1 / 10 Badass ladies! The film doesn't go deep into the backstory, but according to the "Hidden Figures" novel, there were actually : 25 black women computors and three black shift supervisors in 1945100 black women computors and engineers working at NASAMany black NASA employees who were fired under suspicion of being Russian spiresMany black women in The West Area Computers Unit even after 1962 Question 2 / 10 "Lion," nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography, is based on : A work of historical fictionA memoirA playA children's book Question 3 / 10 "Moonlight," which has been nominated for an astounding eight Oscars, is based on a play called : In Moonlight Black Boys Look BlueMoonlight BluesMoonlightBlack Boys in the Moonlight Question 4 / 10 In the foreign film category : "A Man Called Ove" is about : An amnesiac man who is called Ove because he can't remember his real nameAn old man's adventures with his catAn extremely grumpy old man who gets to know his new neighbors when they flatten his mailboxA Swedish writer struggling to write his next novel Question 5 / 10 "Fences" is nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It's based on a play by August Wilson that : Won a Tony in 1996Was produced on Broadway for a brief period in the 90sWas nominated for a Drama League AwardWon a Pulitzer in 1987 Question 6 / 10 The aliens are coming, the aliens are coming! "Arrival" is based on : A sci-fi novel called 'Arrival Stories'A novella called 'Story of Your Life'A short story about an alien and human falling in loveA novel called 'Alien Tongues' Question 7 / 10 The first line of "A Long Way Home," the book from which "Lion" was adapted, reads : 'It's empty.''Where are they?''They've gone.''The last time I stood here I was five years old.' Question 8 / 10 In her "Hidden Figures" novel, Margot Lee Shetterly did not write : 'Katherine Johnson knew : once you took the first step, anything was possible.''Here at NASA, we all pee the same color.''There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.''Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe' Question 9 / 10 The play that provided the inspiration for "Moonlight" was originally : A drama school project based on Tarell McCraney's own experiencesA one-man showA musicalNot based on the struggles of queer youth Question 10 / 10 The "Fences" play was : Despised by James Earl JonesAugust Wilson's first and only playOriginally set in the 1930sJust the sixth installment in August Wilson's ten-part 'Pittsburgh Cycle' A mistake in this Quiz ? Contact the author This private Quiz has been created by Sara.deeter who is fully responsible of its content !
