 - 1. What is Stephen King's middle name?
A) Edwin
B) Andrew
C) Michael
D) Thomas
- 2. In which state was Stephen King born?
A) New York
B) California
C) Maine
D) Florida
- 3. Which novel of Stephen King inspired the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'?
A) Pet Sematary
B) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
C) Carrie
D) It
- 4. What is the title of Stephen King's first published novel?
A) The Shining
B) The Stand
C) Misery
D) Carrie
- 5. What is the name of Stephen King's sons who is also a successful author?
A) Owen King
B) Jack King
C) Jonah King
D) Joe Hill
- 6. Which of the following novels by Stephen King features a haunted hotel?
A) Cujo
B) The Shining
C) Pet Sematary
D) Salem's Lot
- 7. Which short story by Stephen King was turned into a movie about a shape-shifting creature that takes the form of a clown?
A) The Langoliers
B) It
C) The Mist
D) 1408
- 8. What is the title of the first book in Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' series?
A) The Waste Lands
B) The Drawing of the Three
C) Wizard and Glass
D) The Gunslinger
- 9. What is the name of the main character in Stephen King's 'Misery'?
A) Jack Torrance
B) Annie Wilkes
C) Paul Sheldon
D) Carrie White
- 10. What is the name of the cursed car in Stephen King's novel 'Christine'?
A) Ford Mustang
B) Plymouth Fury
C) Buick Regal
D) Chevy Camaro
- 11. Which of the following films based on Stephen King's work was adapted into a TV series in 2017?
A) The Mist
B) Carrie
C) Misery
D) The Shining
- 12. Which of the following is a pen name used by Stephen King for publishing novels?
A) John Doe
B) David Smith
C) Mike Johnson
D) Richard Bachman
- 13. What is the title of Stephen King's epic fantasy series?
A) It
B) The Dark Tower
C) The Stand
D) Pet Sematary
- 14. Who directed the film adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Green Mile'?
A) M. Night Shyamalan
B) Tim Burton
C) Stanley Kubrick
D) Frank Darabont
- 15. What nickname has been given to Stephen King due to his contributions to horror fiction?
A) "Horror Maestro"
B) "King of Horror"
C) "Master of Suspense"
D) "Gothic Genius"
- 16. What is the name of the collection that marked Stephen King's first major departure from the horror genre?
A) Different Seasons
B) Carrie
C) Danse Macabre
D) The Shining
- 17. Which award did Stephen King win for 'The Man in the Black Suit'?
A) O. Henry Award
B) Hugo Award
C) National Book Award
D) Pulitzer Prize
- 18. For which book did Stephen King win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller?
A) Misery
B) 11/22/63
C) It
D) The Shining
- 19. What honor did Stephen King receive in 2003 for his contributions to American letters?
A) National Book Award
B) Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
C) Hugo Award
D) Pulitzer Prize
- 20. In which year did Stephen King graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in English?
A) 1966
B) 1971
C) 1968
D) 1970
- 21. What was the first book that inspired Stephen King to write, as given by a bookmobile driver?
A) Carrie
B) The Shining
C) Misery
D) Lord of the Flies
- 22. What was the title of Stephen King's first independently published story?
A) I Was a Teenage Grave Robber
B) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
C) The Body
D) The Mist
- 23. Who was the professor that showed Stephen King 'the way to the pool'?
A) John Grisham
B) Stephen Hawking
C) Burton Hatlen
D) Edward Holmes
- 24. What is the name of Stephen King's wife, whom he met through a writing workshop?
A) Carrie White
B) Joyce Carol Oates
C) Nellie Ruth King
D) Tabitha Spruce
- 25. What was the name of Stephen King's daughter born in 1970?
A) Josephine Hill
B) Tabitha King
C) Naomi Rachel
D) Owen King
- 26. What was Stephen King's first professional short story?
A) "The Shining"
B) "Carrie"
C) "Salem's Lot"
D) "The Glass Floor"
- 27. Which magazine published Stephen King's first professional short story?
A) The Guardian
B) Cavalier
C) Startling Mystery Stories
D) The New York Times
- 28. What is a central theme in Stephen King's debut novel, Carrie?
A) Apocalyptic pandemic
B) Second sight
C) Old World vampires
D) Telekinetic powers
- 29. 'Salem's Lot' is described as a combination of which two elements?
A) "Peyton Place meets Dracula"
B) "The Shining meets alcoholism"
C) "Carrie White meets telekinesis"
D) "Castle Rock meets second sight"
- 30. What event in Stephen King's life coincided with the publication of 'Salem's Lot'?
A) He published The Stand
B) He started teaching at Hampden Academy
C) His mother died from uterine cancer
D) He moved to Boulder, Colorado
- 31. Which hotel inspired Stephen King's novel The Shining?
A) Boulder Hotel
B) Castle Rock Inn
C) Stanley Hotel in Estes Park
D) Hampden Academy
- 32. Where did Stephen King's family move after his mother's death?
A) Estes Park
B) Boulder, Colorado
C) Auburn, Maine
D) Hampden, Maine
- 33. Which novel did Stephen King complete in 1975 that was set during a pandemic?
A) The Stand
B) 'Salem's Lot
C) Carrie
D) The Shining
- 34. What nonfiction book did Stephen King publish based on his horror courses?
A) Salem's Lot
B) Danse Macabre
C) Carrie
D) The Stand
- 35. Which novella from Different Seasons was adapted into the film 'Stand by Me'?
A) The Body
B) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
C) The Breathing Method
D) Apt Pupil
- 36. Which novella from Different Seasons won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction?
A) The Body
B) Apt Pupil
C) The Breathing Method
D) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
- 37. In which year did Stephen King publish the novel 'Christine'?
A) 1983
B) 1981
C) 1985
D) 1987
- 38. What is the central theme of the novel 'Misery' by Stephen King?
A) High fantasy
B) Horror
C) Science fiction
D) Addiction
- 39. Which novel by Stephen King is filled with metaphors for addiction and features a science fiction theme?
A) Christine
B) Cujo
C) Pet Sematary
D) The Tommyknockers
- 40. In which year did Stephen King publish 'Skeleton Crew', a collection of short fiction?
A) 1985
B) 1983
C) 1987
D) 1989
- 41. Who narrates the novel 'Dolores Claiborne'?
A) An omniscient narrator
B) A third-person narrator
C) The title character, Dolores Claiborne
D) Stephen King
- 42. Which author recalled Stephen King's influence in an interview by mentioning his focus on underdogs and bullied kids?
A) Sherman Alexie
B) Junot Díaz
C) Colson Whitehead
D) Lauren Groff
- 43. Which story by Stephen King was included in the second edition of The Oxford Book of American Short Stories?
A) 'The Reach'
B) 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French'
C) 'Carrie'
D) 'Salem's Lot'
- 44. Who praised Stephen King for his ear for dialogue, describing it as capturing 'real American dialogue in all its, like, foulmouthed grandeur'?
A) David Foster Wallace
B) Joyce Carol Oates
C) Cynthia Ozick
D) Peter Straub
- 45. What type of book is 'Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques'?
A) A novel
B) An anthology
C) A coffee table book
D) A graphic novel
- 46. 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon' is about a girl who gets lost in what?
A) The woods
B) A desert
C) An ocean
D) A city
- 47. 'The Institute', released by Stephen King in 2019, is a novel or a collection?
A) Short story
B) Play
C) Collection
D) Novel
- 48. 'Bag of Bones' was published by which publisher?
A) Simon & Schuster
B) Penguin Random House
C) HarperCollins
D) Scribner
- 49. How many downloads did 'Riding the Bullet' achieve?
A) Over 1 million
B) Approximately 250,000
C) More than 500,000
D) Less than 100,000
- 50. In which music video did Stephen King collaborate with Stan Winston and Mick Garris?
A) Thriller (1982)
B) Bad (1987)
C) Black or White (1991)
D) Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1996)
- 51. What was the debut position of 'Under the Dome' on The New York Times Bestseller List?
A) No. 10
B) No. 5
C) No. 1
D) It did not make it to the list
- 52. '11/22/63', a novel by Stephen King, involves time travel to which year?
A) 1945
B) 1977
C) 1958
D) 1963
- 53. Which character's backstory did Stephen King write in 'American Vampire'?
A) Bruce Wayne
B) Clark Kent
C) Magneto
D) Skinner Sweet
- 54. In 'The Body', what does the narrator compare a childhood clubhouse to during rain?
A) Being inside a Jamaican steel drum
B) A cave with stalactites and stalagmites
C) An abandoned lighthouse
D) A cozy cabin in the woods
- 55. Which fellow author could correctly identify the passages written by Stephen King and Peter Straub?
A) George R.R. Martin
B) Haruki Murakami
C) Neil Gaiman
D) J.K. Rowling
- 56. 'Blaze', a novel published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was discovered in which year?
A) 2006
B) 1985
C) 2014
D) 1996
- 57. Which film marked Stephen King's screenwriting debut?
A) Misery
B) The Shawshank Redemption
C) Maximum Overdrive
D) Creepshow
- 58. Which author co-wrote three novels with Stephen King, including 'The Talisman' and 'Black House'?
A) Joe Hill
B) Benjamin Percy
C) Richard Chizmar
D) Peter Straub
- 59. 'Needful Things' was billed as what type of story?
A) "A Ghostly Encounter"
B) "An Epic Journey"
C) "The Last Castle Rock Story"
D) "A Tale of Two Cities"
- 60. Which imprint published 'The Colorado Kid'?
A) Scribner
B) Hard Case Crime
C) Viking Press
D) Doubleday
- 61. Which book did Stephen King find at the Jolly White Elephant for $2.25?
A) A collection of Ray Bradbury's stories.
B) Works by Cather and Hemingway.
C) An anthology by Joseph Payne Brennan.
D) The Golden Argosy
- 62. 'The Green Mile' was published as a serial novel in how many parts?
A) Eight
B) Ten
C) Four
D) Six
- 63. Who illustrated Stephen King's retelling of the fairy tale 'Hansel and Gretel'?
A) Barbara Kruger
B) F-Stop Fitzgerald
C) Maurice Sendak
D) Ridley Pearson
- 64. Who praised Stephen King's sense of place, particularly the atmosphere of Maine?
A) Joyce Carol Oates
B) Cynthia Ozick
C) David Foster Wallace
D) Peter Straub
- 65. What happens to users in Stephen King's novel 'Cell'?
A) They travel through time
B) They gain superpowers
C) They become invisible
D) A mysterious signal turns them into mindless killers
- 66. Which Stephen King novel was originally written in the late 1970s but published in 1983?
A) Cujo
B) Christine
C) Pet Sematary
D) The Tommyknockers
- 67. What is the common theme of the novellas in 'Four Past Midnight'?
A) Fear
B) Death
C) Love
D) Time
- 68. Which character, appearing in both 'The Outsider' and 'Holly', was created by Stephen King?
A) Laurie Strode
B) Danny Torrance
C) Jack Torrance
D) Holly Gibney
- 69. 'The Man in the Black Suit' was published in which magazine's Halloween issue?
A) The New Yorker
B) Rolling Stone
C) Time
D) Esquire
- 70. What is the working title Stephen King mentioned for his crime novel about a retired policeman during his 2012 talk?
A) Mr. Mercedes
B) End of Watch
C) Finders Keepers
D) The Outsider
- 71. Which critic described Stephen King's work as 'non-literature'?
A) Daniel Mendelsohn
B) Richard E. Snyder
C) S. T. Joshi
D) Harold Bloom
- 72. 'You Like It Darker', a collection of short stories by Stephen King, was published in which year?
A) 2025
B) 2024
C) 2022
D) 2023
- 73. Which publication called 'On Writing' a 'one-of-a-kind classic'?
A) The New York Times
B) The Wall Street Journal
C) Time Magazine
D) Rolling Stone
- 74. Where is Stephen King's novel 'Duma Key' set?
A) Florida
B) Maine
C) California
D) Colorado
- 75. 'Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the World of The Dark Tower' was published under which pseudonym?
A) Beryl Evans
B) John Swithen
C) Clive Barcus
D) Richard Bachman
- 76. What was the title of Stephen King's first mass e-book?
A) Cell
B) The Plant
C) From a Buick 8
D) Riding the Bullet
- 77. 'Fairy Tale', released in 2022, is what type of work by Stephen King?
A) A short story collection
B) A novella
C) An autobiography
D) A novel
- 78. Who commented on 'Under the Dome' saying, 'Hard as this thing is to hoist, it's even harder to put down.'?
A) Stephen King
B) The New York Times reviewer
C) A Fangoria critic
D) Janet Maslin
- 79. Who was the editor under whom 'The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger' first appeared?
A) Jonathan Strahan
B) Ellen Datlow
C) Edward L. Ferman
D) Gardner Dozois
- 80. Which Danish film was Stephen King's 'Kingdom Hospital' based on?
A) Breaking the Waves
B) Dogville
C) Dancer in the Dark
D) The Kingdom by Lars von Trier
- 81. Which Stephen King novel is about a love triangle involving a haunted car?
A) Christine
B) Pet Sematary
C) Misery
D) The Tommyknockers
- 82. What was the suggested payment per installment for 'The Plant'?
A) $5
B) $10
C) $1
D) No charge, it was free
- 83. Who collaborated with Stephen King on the artist's book 'My Pretty Pony'?
A) Maurice Sendak
B) Barbara Kruger
C) Ridley Pearson
D) F-Stop Fitzgerald
- 84. In what year was Stephen King honored with a lifetime achievement award by the National Book Awards?
A) 2005
B) 2003
C) 2010
D) 1999
- 85. 'The Long Walk', published under a pseudonym, was released in what year?
A) 1984
B) 1979
C) 1982
D) 1977
- 86. Which film did Stephen King direct that was based on his story 'Trucks'?
A) The Body
B) Creepshow
C) Cat's Eye
D) Maximum Overdrive
- 87. In which presidential election did Stephen King endorse Barack Obama?
A) 2012
B) 2008
C) 2016
D) 2020
- 88. How many volumes make up the complete 'The Dark Tower' series?
A) Eight
B) Six
C) Ten
D) Five
- 89. Which Stephen King novel features a popular writer held captive by his number-one fan?
A) Cujo
B) The Tommyknockers
C) Misery
D) It
- 90. In which year was the collection 'Four Past Midnight' published?
A) 1991
B) 1990
C) 1992
D) 1989
- 91. What common theme connects the novellas in Stephen King's 'Full Dark, No Stars' collection?
A) Adventure
B) Love
C) Retribution
D) Friendship
- 92. Which author mentioned wanting to write 'the black Shining' or 'the black Salem's Lot' as a college student?
A) Sherman Alexie
B) Lauren Groff
C) Junot Díaz
D) Colson Whitehead
- 93. What is the title of Stephen King's sequel to 'The Shining'?
A) Dreamcatcher
B) Doctor Sleep
C) Shattered Glass
D) Night Shift
- 94. 'Hearts in Atlantis' is set during which decade?
A) 1970s
B) 1950s
C) 1980s
D) 1960s
- 95. What is the first element King considers when starting a story?
A) The situation
B) The ending
C) The setting
D) The characters
- 96. Which novella did Stephen King co-write with his son Joe Hill as an homage to Richard Matheson's 'Duel'?
A) In the Tall Grass
B) The End Times
C) Throttle
D) Gwendy's Button Box
- 97. Which author described Stephen King as having 'a literary focus' and being filled with 'literary history'?
A) Peter Straub
B) David Foster Wallace
C) Cynthia Ozick
D) Joyce Carol Oates
- 98. Who directed the film adaptation of Stephen King's novella 'The Body', titled 'Stand by Me'?
A) Rob Reiner
B) George A. Romero
C) Frank Darabont
D) Stephen King
- 99. What was the inspiration behind Stephen King's novel 'Pet Sematary'?
A) A haunted car
B) A high fantasy setting
C) A burial ground that could raise the dead
D) A science fiction theme
- 100. What is the setting for Stephen King and his son Owen's collaboration 'Sleeping Beauties'?
A) A haunted hotel
B) A small town in Maine
C) A West Virginia women's prison
D) An abandoned asylum
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