 - 1. What is Stephen King's middle name?
A) Michael
B) Edwin
C) Thomas
D) Andrew
- 2. In which state was Stephen King born?
A) Maine
B) California
C) Florida
D) New York
- 3. Which novel of Stephen King inspired the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'?
A) Pet Sematary
B) It
C) Carrie
D) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
- 4. What is the title of Stephen King's first published novel?
A) Carrie
B) Misery
C) The Stand
D) The Shining
- 5. What is the name of Stephen King's sons who is also a successful author?
A) Jack King
B) Joe Hill
C) Owen King
D) Jonah King
- 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) 1408
B) The Langoliers
C) The Mist
D) It
- 8. What is the title of the first book in Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' series?
A) The Drawing of the Three
B) The Waste Lands
C) Wizard and Glass
D) The Gunslinger
- 9. What is the name of the main character in Stephen King's 'Misery'?
A) Paul Sheldon
B) Jack Torrance
C) Annie Wilkes
D) Carrie White
- 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) Carrie
B) The Shining
C) The Mist
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) John Doe
D) Mike Johnson
- 13. What is the title of Stephen King's epic fantasy series?
A) The Stand
B) The Dark Tower
C) It
D) Pet Sematary
- 14. Who directed the film adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Green Mile'?
A) Frank Darabont
B) M. Night Shyamalan
C) Tim Burton
D) Stanley Kubrick
- 15. What nickname has been given to Stephen King due to his contributions to horror fiction?
A) "Horror Maestro"
B) "Gothic Genius"
C) "King of Horror"
D) "Master of Suspense"
- 16. What is the name of the collection that marked Stephen King's first major departure from the horror genre?
A) Carrie
B) The Shining
C) Danse Macabre
D) Different Seasons
- 17. Which award did Stephen King win for 'The Man in the Black Suit'?
A) National Book Award
B) Hugo 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) It
C) The Shining
D) Misery
- 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) 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) The Shining
B) Lord of the Flies
C) Misery
D) Carrie
- 22. What was the title of Stephen King's first independently published story?
A) The Body
B) The Mist
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) Edward Holmes
B) Stephen Hawking
C) John Grisham
D) Burton Hatlen
- 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) Tabitha Spruce
D) Nellie Ruth King
- 25. What was the name of Stephen King's daughter born in 1970?
A) Tabitha King
B) Josephine Hill
C) Naomi Rachel
D) Owen King
- 26. What was Stephen King's first professional short story?
A) "Carrie"
B) "The Shining"
C) "The Glass Floor"
D) "Salem's Lot"
- 27. Which magazine published Stephen King's first professional short story?
A) Startling Mystery Stories
B) The New York Times
C) The Guardian
D) Cavalier
- 28. What is a central theme in Stephen King's debut novel, Carrie?
A) Second sight
B) Old World vampires
C) Apocalyptic pandemic
D) Telekinetic powers
- 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 moved to Boulder, Colorado
C) His mother died from uterine cancer
D) He started teaching at Hampden Academy
- 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) Hampden, Maine
C) Estes Park
D) Auburn, Maine
- 33. Which novel did Stephen King complete in 1975 that was set during a pandemic?
A) The Stand
B) The Shining
C) Carrie
D) 'Salem's Lot
- 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) Apt Pupil
B) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
C) The Body
D) The Breathing Method
- 36. Which novella from Different Seasons won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction?
A) The Breathing Method
B) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
C) Apt Pupil
D) The Body
- 37. In which year did Stephen King publish the novel 'Christine'?
A) 1985
B) 1981
C) 1987
D) 1983
- 38. What is the central theme of the novel 'Misery' by Stephen King?
A) Horror
B) Science fiction
C) High fantasy
D) Addiction
- 39. Which novel by Stephen King is filled with metaphors for addiction and features a science fiction theme?
A) The Tommyknockers
B) Cujo
C) Pet Sematary
D) Christine
- 40. In which year did Stephen King publish 'Skeleton Crew', a collection of short fiction?
A) 1989
B) 1983
C) 1985
D) 1987
- 41. Who narrates the novel 'Dolores Claiborne'?
A) An omniscient narrator
B) Stephen King
C) A third-person narrator
D) The title character, Dolores Claiborne
- 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) 'Carrie'
B) 'The Reach'
C) 'Salem's Lot'
D) 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French'
- 44. Who praised Stephen King for his ear for dialogue, describing it as capturing 'real American dialogue in all its, like, foulmouthed grandeur'?
A) Joyce Carol Oates
B) David Foster Wallace
C) Peter Straub
D) Cynthia Ozick
- 45. What type of book is 'Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques'?
A) A graphic novel
B) A novel
C) A coffee table book
D) An anthology
- 46. 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon' is about a girl who gets lost in what?
A) The woods
B) An ocean
C) A desert
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) Simon & Schuster
B) Penguin Random House
C) Scribner
D) HarperCollins
- 49. How many downloads did 'Riding the Bullet' achieve?
A) Approximately 250,000
B) Less than 100,000
C) Over 1 million
D) More than 500,000
- 50. In which music video did Stephen King collaborate with Stan Winston and Mick Garris?
A) Thriller (1982)
B) Black or White (1991)
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. 10
B) No. 5
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) 1963
B) 1945
C) 1958
D) 1977
- 53. Which character's backstory did Stephen King write in 'American Vampire'?
A) Clark Kent
B) Magneto
C) Bruce Wayne
D) Skinner Sweet
- 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) Being inside a Jamaican steel drum
D) An abandoned lighthouse
- 55. Which fellow author could correctly identify the passages written by Stephen King and Peter Straub?
A) George R.R. Martin
B) Neil Gaiman
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Haruki Murakami
- 56. 'Blaze', a novel published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was discovered in which year?
A) 2014
B) 1996
C) 2006
D) 1985
- 57. Which film marked Stephen King's screenwriting debut?
A) Misery
B) Maximum Overdrive
C) Creepshow
D) The Shawshank Redemption
- 58. Which author co-wrote three novels with Stephen King, including 'The Talisman' and 'Black House'?
A) Benjamin Percy
B) Peter Straub
C) Joe Hill
D) Richard Chizmar
- 59. 'Needful Things' was billed as what type of story?
A) "A Ghostly Encounter"
B) "The Last Castle Rock Story"
C) "A Tale of Two Cities"
D) "An Epic Journey"
- 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) Eight
B) Six
C) Ten
D) Four
- 63. Who illustrated Stephen King's retelling of the fairy tale 'Hansel and Gretel'?
A) F-Stop Fitzgerald
B) Ridley Pearson
C) Maurice Sendak
D) Barbara Kruger
- 64. Who praised Stephen King's sense of place, particularly the atmosphere of Maine?
A) Joyce Carol Oates
B) Cynthia Ozick
C) Peter Straub
D) David Foster Wallace
- 65. What happens to users in Stephen King's novel 'Cell'?
A) They gain superpowers
B) They travel through time
C) A mysterious signal turns them into mindless killers
D) They become invisible
- 66. Which Stephen King novel was originally written in the late 1970s but published in 1983?
A) The Tommyknockers
B) Pet Sematary
C) Christine
D) Cujo
- 67. What is the common theme of the novellas in 'Four Past Midnight'?
A) Fear
B) Time
C) Love
D) Death
- 68. Which character, appearing in both 'The Outsider' and 'Holly', was created by Stephen King?
A) Jack Torrance
B) Danny Torrance
C) Holly Gibney
D) Laurie Strode
- 69. 'The Man in the Black Suit' was published in which magazine's Halloween issue?
A) Esquire
B) Time
C) Rolling Stone
D) The New Yorker
- 70. What is the working title Stephen King mentioned for his crime novel about a retired policeman during his 2012 talk?
A) The Outsider
B) Mr. Mercedes
C) End of Watch
D) Finders Keepers
- 71. Which critic described Stephen King's work as 'non-literature'?
A) S. T. Joshi
B) Harold Bloom
C) Richard E. Snyder
D) Daniel Mendelsohn
- 72. 'You Like It Darker', a collection of short stories by Stephen King, was published in which year?
A) 2022
B) 2025
C) 2023
D) 2024
- 73. Which publication called 'On Writing' a 'one-of-a-kind classic'?
A) Rolling Stone
B) The Wall Street Journal
C) The New York Times
D) Time Magazine
- 74. Where is Stephen King's novel 'Duma Key' set?
A) California
B) Maine
C) Colorado
D) Florida
- 75. 'Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the World of The Dark Tower' was published under which pseudonym?
A) Beryl Evans
B) Clive Barcus
C) Richard Bachman
D) John Swithen
- 76. What was the title of Stephen King's first mass e-book?
A) From a Buick 8
B) Cell
C) Riding the Bullet
D) The Plant
- 77. 'Fairy Tale', released in 2022, is what type of work by Stephen King?
A) A novella
B) A short story collection
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) The New York Times reviewer
B) Janet Maslin
C) Stephen King
D) A Fangoria critic
- 79. Who was the editor under whom 'The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger' first appeared?
A) Gardner Dozois
B) Jonathan Strahan
C) Edward L. Ferman
D) Ellen Datlow
- 80. Which Danish film was Stephen King's 'Kingdom Hospital' based on?
A) Breaking the Waves
B) Dancer in the Dark
C) The Kingdom by Lars von Trier
D) Dogville
- 81. Which Stephen King novel is about a love triangle involving a haunted car?
A) Christine
B) The Tommyknockers
C) Pet Sematary
D) Misery
- 82. What was the suggested payment per installment for 'The Plant'?
A) $10
B) No charge, it was free
C) $1
D) $5
- 83. Who collaborated with Stephen King on the artist's book 'My Pretty Pony'?
A) Ridley Pearson
B) Barbara Kruger
C) Maurice Sendak
D) F-Stop Fitzgerald
- 84. In what year was Stephen King honored with a lifetime achievement award by the National Book Awards?
A) 2010
B) 2003
C) 1999
D) 2005
- 85. 'The Long Walk', published under a pseudonym, was released in what year?
A) 1984
B) 1977
C) 1982
D) 1979
- 86. Which film did Stephen King direct that was based on his story 'Trucks'?
A) Cat's Eye
B) Maximum Overdrive
C) Creepshow
D) The Body
- 87. In which presidential election did Stephen King endorse Barack Obama?
A) 2008
B) 2020
C) 2016
D) 2012
- 88. How many volumes make up the complete 'The Dark Tower' series?
A) Six
B) Five
C) Eight
D) Ten
- 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) 1989
B) 1992
C) 1990
D) 1991
- 91. What common theme connects the novellas in Stephen King's 'Full Dark, No Stars' collection?
A) Love
B) Adventure
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) Junot Díaz
B) Sherman Alexie
C) Lauren Groff
D) Colson Whitehead
- 93. What is the title of Stephen King's sequel to 'The Shining'?
A) Shattered Glass
B) Dreamcatcher
C) Doctor Sleep
D) Night Shift
- 94. 'Hearts in Atlantis' is set during which decade?
A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1950s
D) 1980s
- 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) Gwendy's Button Box
B) The End Times
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) Peter Straub
C) David Foster Wallace
D) Cynthia Ozick
- 98. Who directed the film adaptation of Stephen King's novella 'The Body', titled 'Stand by Me'?
A) Frank Darabont
B) Rob Reiner
C) George A. Romero
D) Stephen King
- 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) An abandoned asylum
B) A West Virginia women's prison
C) A small town in Maine
D) A haunted hotel
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