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