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