As part of the Book Week Scotland events the Scottish Book Trust is inviting the public to vote for their favourite Scottish book to screen adaptation from a shortlist of 20. You can do this either in your library or online at www.scottishbooktrust.com

Here’s a quiz which has 2 questions related to each of the books or their adaptations. After you’ve finished it please return it to your library. This quiz is also available on the Library pages of the Council website. The competition closes on Sunday 27th November. The first 5 all-correct entrants pulled out of the hat will each receive the book and DVD adaptation of their choice from the list.

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Scottish Book to Screen Quiz

1. What is the Gruffalo scared of?

2. Who is ‘The Prisoner of Azkaban’?

3. Which Scottish actor played the brother of the main character (Prentice McHoan) in the TV adaptation of ‘The Crow Road’?

4. In which Scottish town is the film Morvern Callar based?

5. Dame Maggie Smith famously played the part of Miss Jean Brodie in the movie ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’. What is the name of the character that she played in the Harry Potter movies?

6. Where in Argyll was ‘Ring of Bright Water’ filmed?

7. What is the title of the Disney movie version of Sherlock Holmes and which actor voiced the main character?

8. On which fictional Scottish island does Katie Morag live?

9. In the film ‘Whisky Galore’, how many cases of whisky were contained in the ‘SS Cabinet Minister’?

10. On what date was the first movie version of ‘Treasure Island’ released?

11. What is the origin of the title of the John Buchan novel ‘The thirty-nine steps’?

12. Who are the lead male and female characters in the 1952 film version of ‘Ivanhoe’?

13. What is the British title of the first book in Diana Gabaldon’s ‘Outlander’ series?

14. Finlay J MacDonald wrote ‘Crowdie and cream’ about his early life on which Hebridean island and in which decade?

15. Sir Walter Scott wrote Rob Roy in which year?

16. Which two real life poets appear as characters in both the movie and novel, Regeneration?

17. What is the name of the puffer featured in ‘The Para Handy Stories’ and what was the name of the engineer?

18. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written as a novella and there have been many film versions produced, however in which year was the first stage adaptation produced and where?

19. What is the name of the trilogy of which Sunset Song is the first book and can you name books two and three?

20. What is the name of the first novel in which the fictional characters Tony Hill and Carol Jordan feature?

21. Which Scottish actor plays a starring role in the ‘Star Wars’ Episode 1, 2 and 3 and in the movie ‘Trainspotting’?

22. What breed of dog is’ Greyfriars Bobby’?

23. In which famous London garden does Peter Pan first appear?

24. In which famous/infamous jail were the prison scenes filmed for the movie ‘A Sense of Freedom’?

25. In which Scottish Regiment did the author James Kennaway serve?

26. How many books are currently available in the Jackson Brodie series?

27. Muriel Spark described her novella ‘The Driver’s Seat’ not as a ’Whodidit’ but as a ……..?

28. In which year was Young Adam first published and which year was it adapted to film?

29. Filth is a novel written by Irvine Welsh, to what does the title ‘Filth’ refer?

30. Which famous ‘Dame’ received the Best Actress award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of the lead female character in the film ‘Cal’?

31. Scarlett Johansson plays the lead part of the 2013 movie version of Michel Faber’s novel ‘Under the Skin’, but which Marvel character does she play in The Avengers movies?

32. Which club features in the novella ‘The Girls of Slender Means’?

33. Name the two actors who have played ‘Rebus’ in the TV adaptations.

34. In which Olympics does the title character ‘Geordie’ participate in and in which year?

35. What is the nationality of the three prisoners of war who feature in the novel ‘Another Time Another Place’?

36. What is the English translation of the fictional town, ‘Lochdubh’, as featured in the Hamish MacBeth series?

37. What sweet substance is also the name of one of the main characters in the novel and TV series ‘The Crimson Petal and the White’?

38. What is the name of the teenager whose alter ego/superhero is ‘Kickass’?

39. AJ Cronin author of ‘Country Doctor’, on which the TV show ‘Doctor Finlay’s Casebook’ is based, was born in which Argyll village?

40. Where is the ‘No 1 Ladies Detective Agency’ located?

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