LITERATURE IN FILM
This modern adaptation of a famous F. Scott Fitzgerald novel starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Tobey Maguire just had its 10-year anniversary in 2023
What is "The Great Gatsby"?
The US music industry reported that for the first time since 1987, sales of this media format exceeded CD sales
What are vinyl (records)?
National Trivia Day was on this day in 2024
What is January 4th?
This classic John Steinbeck novel about George & Lennie trying to earn enough money to buy their own farm/ranch was made into a movie three times
What is "Of Mice and Men"?
This Hillary Duff-starring sequel to a 9-year-running sitcom that went off the air in 2014 lasted just two seasons after lukewarm reception
What is "How I Met Your Father"?
This single contestant game show named after an easy-to-answer question was originally hosted by Regis Philbin
What is "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"?
This author of "The Catcher in the Rye" was approached for a movie adaptation multiple times, but he denied every time
Who is J. D. Salinger?
This computer & gaming giant purchased World of Warcraft developer Activision-Blizzard in a record-breaking $69,000,000 takeover
What is Microsoft?
This creator of Jeopardy also created Wheel of Fortune and had his own talk show in 1962-1963
Who is Merv Griffin?
This 80s movie based on a German novel mixes fantasy into reality, starting with being read as a storybook in the real world and ending with the reader influencing the fictional world (and vice-versa)
What is "The NeverEnding Story?"
In 2023, for the first time on record, 1 in 10 out of over 125 million people in this country are over the age of 80, making it the country with the oldest overall population
What is Japan?
Trivia comes from the Latin word "triviae", which was used by these ancient people to describe where one road split or forked into two roads
Who are the Romans?
This 2001 animated movie that most people probably didn't know was based on a book was so significant that it led to creation of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars
What is "Shrek"?
2023 is this type of number, which is a number that can be evenly divided by the sum of its digits
What is a Harshad (or Niven)?
One of the two longest continuous trivia contests in the world, which both debuted in the Spring of 1966
What is the Great Midwest Trivia Contest at Lawrence University or the Williams Trivia Contest at Williams College?