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As the film awards season gets underway, find out if you know your muppets from your Merchant Ivory in our quiz about classics in the cinema.

1) Who played Estella in the 1998 film version of 'Great Expectations', which also starred Ethan Hawke and Robert De Niro?

Gwyneth Paltrow

Reese Witherspoon

Nicole Kidman

Winona Ryder

2) Which book by Virginia Woolf plays an important part in the film 'The Hours'?

To the Lighthouse

Mrs Dalloway

Orlando

The Waves

3) The recent Stephen Fry film 'Bright Young Things' was an adaptation of which Evelyn Waugh novel?

Scoop

Decline and Fall

A Handful of Dust

Vile Bodies

4) Who directed the 1996 film version of Henry James' 'Portrait of a Lady', which starred Nicole Kidman?

Jane Campion

James Ivory

Iain Softley

Richard Curtis

5) The musical West Side Story takes which Shakespeare play as its inspiration?

Anthony and Cleopatra

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

All's Well that Ends Well

6) Which 1980s pop group had a hit single with the song 'Sex Crime' - the soundtrack for the 1984 film version of '1984'?

The Human League

Depeche Mode

The Eurythmics

Heaven 17

7) Which novel by Emile Zola was made into a 1993 film starring Gerard Depardieu?

Germinal

La Bete Humaine

L'Assomoir

Nana

8) In 'The Muppet Christmas Carol', which muppet takes on the role of Bob Cratchit?

Kermit the Frog

Fozzie Bear

Rizzo the Rat

Big Bird

9) Which novel has not been made into a film by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory?

Howard's End

A Room With a View

A Passage to India

The Remains of the Day

10) Which actor plays the lead role of Tom Joad in John Ford's 1940 film of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'?

Humphrey Bogart

Henry Fonda

Gregory Peck

Marlon Brando

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