QUESTIONS:
1) What Jane Austen connection do actresses Kate Beckinsale and Gwyneth Paltrow share?
2) “Bridget Jones’s Diary” was loosely inspired by which Jane Austen novel?
3) Alicia Silverstone, like, totally became a big star playing Cher Horowitz in what hit movie comedy based on Austen’s novel “Emma”?
4) What handsome British actor played the role of Mr. Darcy in the critically acclaimed 1995 A&E adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice”?
5) Emma Thompson won an Academy Award for writing the screenplay adaptation of what Austen novel?
6) What handsome British actor played the role of Mark Darcy in “Bridget Jones’s Diary”?
7) She may be better known for her work in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, but this actress also starred as Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 feature film “Pride & Prejudice.” Can you name her?
8) In 1996, a TV sitcom adaptation of “Clueless” premiered on what network?
9) Frances O’Connor, who starred in a 1999 film adaptation of Austen’s “Mansfield Park,” plays Zoe, an investment banker, in what new ABC series?
10) Eight years after getting her first big break in the 1999 Fox dramedy series “Get Real,” what actress starred as Jane Austen in the 2007 feature film “Becoming Jane”?
ANSWERS:
1) Both actresses have played the title character in “Emma,” Paltrow for a 1996 feature film, and Beckinsale for a British TV adaptation.
2) “Pride and Prejudice”
3) “Clueless”
4) Colin Firth
5) “Sense and Sensibility”
6) Colin Firth
7) Keira Knightley
8) ABC
9) “Cashmere Mafia”
10) Anne Hathaway
