The Oscar Night 2025 Book Quiz

This book documents the moment that music icon (and Nobel lit laureate!), Bob Dylan, shifted from accoustic to electric guitar, and inspired the screenplay for A Complete Unknown.

The musical adaptation of Wicked is the fourth-longest-running Broadway show in history. The film adaptation has 10 nominations!

Dracula was famously adapted as "Nosferatu" in the 1920s without permission from the author. Eventually it was the subject of a copyright lawsuit brought by Bram Stoker's widow. We're betting on the latest adaptation to win tonight's Oscar for best Makeup and Hairstyling.

The name of the protagonist in this film, and the book that inspired it, is a nod to a 1920 Czech play which was the first to introduce the word 'robot' to describe a mechanical humanoid.

Adapted into a movie nominated for Best Picture, The Nickel Boys is set in Jim Crow-era Florida and won the Pulitzer, Kirkus and Orwell Prizes.

Many elements of Dune are said to have inspired George Lucas's Star Wars, including the desert setting and the monstrous worm-like creatures. The film adaptation was the highest grossing movie at the box last year!

Conclave plays out in the aftermath of the pope's death, and its film adaptation was nominated for 8 Oscars.

This book, a critic's darling in 2023, is about the CIA plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo during the Cold War. This same subject is depicted in the Oscar nominated documentary "Soundtrack to a Coup D'État."

A dishy Hollywood novel that follows five actresses—an aging icon, a rising star, a former child prodigy, a struggling outsider, and an underdog with something to prove—as they battle for career survival, public approval, and the ultimate industry honor.