Stephen King Quiz

1. What terrifying clown preys on the children of Derry, Maine in Stephen King's IT?

1. Bozo
2. Mr Jingles
3. Pennywise the Dancing Clown
4. Slappy

2. Stephen King's novel The Shining is set at which isolated hotel?

1. The Bates Motel
2. The Grand Pacific Hotel
3. The Overlook Hotel
4. The Stanley Hotel

3. In The Shining, which disturbing phrase does Jack Torrance type obsessively on his typewriter?

1. 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'
2. 'Come play with us'
3. 'Here's Johnny!'
4. 'Redrum, Redrum'

4. Stephen King published many early novels under which pseudonym?

1. Jack Torrance
2. R.L. Stine
3. Red Ryan
4. Richard Bachman

5. Which Stephen King novel features a teenager named Carrie who develops telekinetic powers?

1. Carrie
2. Christine
3. Firestarter
4. Pet Sematary

6. In Misery, what is the name of the author's 'number one fan' who holds him captive?

1. Annie Wilkes
2. Dolores Claiborne
3. Rachel Creed
4. Wendy Torrance

7. King's novella 'The Body' — about boys going to find a dead body in the woods — was adapted into which beloved film?

1. IT
2. Stand by Me
3. The Green Mile
4. The Shawshank Redemption

8. In Pet Sematary, what is the terrifying property of the burial ground beyond the children's pet cemetery?

1. It curses the surrounding land
2. It grants visions of the future
3. It summons ghosts
4. The dead return to life, but evil and wrong

9. Stephen King was born in which US state, where many of his novels are also set?

1. Maine
2. Massachusetts
3. New Hampshire
4. Vermont

10. The fictional Maine town where Pennywise the clown terrorises children is called:

1. Castle Rock
2. Derry
3. Haven
4. Jerusalem's Lot

11. Which Stephen King novel follows a rabid St Bernard dog that traps a woman and her son in a broken-down car?

1. Christine
2. Cujo
3. Pet Sematary
4. The Dead Zone

12. Christine (1983) is the story of a killer:

1. 1958 Plymouth Fury car
2. House
3. Train
4. Truck

13. The Stand features a pandemic called 'Captain Tripps' that kills most of humanity. What type of pathogen causes it?

1. A bacterium
2. A bioengineered plague
3. A mutant virus (weaponised flu strain)
4. A prion disease

14. Randall Flagg — the recurring villain who appears in The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, and other King novels — represents:

1. A human serial killer
2. A primordial force of chaos and evil
3. A vampire lord
4. An alien entity

15. King's novella 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption' was adapted into the acclaimed 1994 film starring:

1. Kevin Bacon and Gary Oldman
2. Kevin Spacey and Brad Pitt
3. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman
4. Tom Hanks and Tom Sizemore

16. In Firestarter, a young girl named Charlie McGee has which terrifying ability?

1. Invisibility
2. Mind control
3. Pyrokinesis (the ability to start fires with her mind)
4. Telekinesis

17. In which King work does the character Danny Torrance — the boy from The Shining — return as an adult?

1. Doctor Sleep
2. It
3. Revival
4. The Shining (sequel)

18. Stephen King published a widely praised memoir about writing. What is it called?

1. From Darkness to the Page
2. How I Write
3. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
4. The King's Craft

19. The two King novels Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game are connected by which unusual plot device?

1. Both are set in the same Maine town
2. Both protagonists experience a shared vision during a solar eclipse
3. The same detective investigates both cases
4. The same murderer appears in both

20. Stephen King's Dark Tower series follows a gunslinger named Roland Deschain on a quest for a mysterious tower. How many main novels are in the series?

1. 5
2. 6
3. 7
4. 8