Books & TV by CoenM

Champion(s):

UllspergerA


Runner(s)-Up:

Tablesaw
It's the Saw of the Table!


Quiz Description

A quiz about books adapted for television, books inspired by television, and fictional books and authors from television.

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1 UllspergerA 400 98 15
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2 Tablesaw 388 94 00
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3 MarcotteM 381 90 00
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4 BoyleJ 369 86 15
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5 ChenLL 359 82 15
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6 BoyerA 357 78 00
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7 elfm 347 75 00
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8 AdelmanM 338 71 00
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9 SegalP 332 67 15
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10 SorensonG 326 63 00
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11 CunninghamJ 316 59 15
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12 WeikleB 304 55 00
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14 ChrisRosenberg 274 48 00
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15 BanksL 262 44 15
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16 BurgerM 258 40 00
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17 Vicun-YAH 239 36 00
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18 MercureT 220 32 15
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19 HoH 216 28 00
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20 HightB 150 25 00
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21 MoyseyC 130 21 00
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22 CooperJ 124 17 00
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23 JordanG 108 13 00
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24 HallW 100 9 00
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Questions:

What memoir written by John Slattery's character on Mad Men couldn't find a publisher, and was eventually sent to a vanity press by his wife, Jane?

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Sterling's Gold

The Returned by Jason Mott was the basis for what recently cancelled ABC drama?

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Resurrection

What current drama has seen the real-life publication of a series of detective novels starring the character Nikki Heat?

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Castle

The novel Bad Twin by Gary Troup was a tie in to what TV show, in which Troup died in a highly graphic manner during the pilot?

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Lost

What book about the conflict between Jay Leno and David Letterman over succeeding Johnny Carson became a HBO movie?

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The Late Shift

The adventures of crime-solving vicar Sidney Chambers, as written by James Runcie, became what TV series named for a village near Cambridge?

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Grantchester

Name one of the three TV series - two of which aired on ABC, and one on FX - which were based on books or characters from novels by Elmore Leonard.

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Maximum Bob, Karen Sisco, Justified

The infamous Red Wedding that shocked many Game of Thrones viewers occurred in what book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series?

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A Storm of Swords

Of the canonical Sherlock Holmes novels, which is the only one not referenced in the title of an episode of the BBC/PBS show Sherlock?

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The Valley of Fear

Name any two of the three actors who originally starred as the title characters in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.

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Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin

Stephen King's 2005 novel The Colorado Kid was loosely adapted into what SyFy series?

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Haven

Spencer's Mountain, a novel by Earl Hamner, Jr. based on his rural upbringing, was the basis for what long-running CBS drama?

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The Waltons