- 1. What is Stephen King's middle name?
A) Andrew
B) Thomas
C) Michael
D) Edwin
- 2. In which state was Stephen King born?
A) California
B) Florida
C) New York
D) Maine
- 3. Which novel of Stephen King inspired the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'?
A) Carrie
B) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
C) Pet Sematary
D) It
- 4. What is the title of Stephen King's first published novel?
A) Carrie
B) The Stand
C) The Shining
D) Misery
- 5. What is the name of Stephen King's sons who is also a successful author?
A) Jack King
B) Joe Hill
C) Jonah King
D) Owen King
- 6. Which of the following novels by Stephen King features a haunted hotel?
A) The Shining
B) Salem's Lot
C) Cujo
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) 1408
C) The Langoliers
D) It
- 8. What is the title of the first book in Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' series?
A) The Gunslinger
B) Wizard and Glass
C) The Waste Lands
D) The Drawing of the Three
- 9. What is the name of the main character in Stephen King's 'Misery'?
A) Annie Wilkes
B) Jack Torrance
C) Paul Sheldon
D) Carrie White
- 10. What is the name of the cursed car in Stephen King's novel 'Christine'?
A) Buick Regal
B) Ford Mustang
C) Plymouth Fury
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 Shining
B) Carrie
C) Misery
D) The Mist
- 12. Which of the following is a pen name used by Stephen King for publishing novels?
A) Mike Johnson
B) David Smith
C) Richard Bachman
D) John Doe
- 13. What is the title of Stephen King's epic fantasy series?
A) The Dark Tower
B) The Stand
C) Pet Sematary
D) It
- 14. Who directed the film adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Green Mile'?
A) Tim Burton
B) Stanley Kubrick
C) M. Night Shyamalan
D) Frank Darabont
- 15. What nickname has been given to Stephen King due to his contributions to horror fiction?
A) "King of Horror"
B) "Horror Maestro"
C) "Gothic Genius"
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) Different Seasons
D) Danse Macabre
- 17. Which award did Stephen King win for 'The Man in the Black Suit'?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) O. Henry Award
C) Hugo Award
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) 11/22/63
C) It
D) Misery
- 19. What honor did Stephen King receive in 2003 for his contributions to American letters?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) National Book Award
C) Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
D) Hugo Award
- 20. In which year did Stephen King graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in English?
A) 1970
B) 1971
C) 1966
D) 1968
- 21. What was the first book that inspired Stephen King to write, as given by a bookmobile driver?
A) Carrie
B) Lord of the Flies
C) Misery
D) The Shining
- 22. What was the title of Stephen King's first independently published story?
A) The Mist
B) I Was a Teenage Grave Robber
C) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
D) The Body
- 23. Who was the professor that showed Stephen King 'the way to the pool'?
A) John Grisham
B) Stephen Hawking
C) Edward Holmes
D) Burton Hatlen
- 24. What is the name of Stephen King's wife, whom he met through a writing workshop?
A) Carrie White
B) Nellie Ruth King
C) Tabitha Spruce
D) Joyce Carol Oates
- 25. What was the name of Stephen King's daughter born in 1970?
A) Tabitha King
B) Naomi Rachel
C) Owen King
D) Josephine Hill
- 26. What was Stephen King's first professional short story?
A) "The Glass Floor"
B) "The Shining"
C) "Salem's Lot"
D) "Carrie"
- 27. Which magazine published Stephen King's first professional short story?
A) The New York Times
B) Startling Mystery Stories
C) Cavalier
D) The Guardian
- 28. What is a central theme in Stephen King's debut novel, Carrie?
A) Old World vampires
B) Telekinetic powers
C) Apocalyptic pandemic
D) Second sight
- 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) His mother died from uterine cancer
B) He started teaching at Hampden Academy
C) He published The Stand
D) He moved to Boulder, Colorado
- 31. Which hotel inspired Stephen King's novel The Shining?
A) Castle Rock Inn
B) Hampden Academy
C) Stanley Hotel in Estes Park
D) Boulder Hotel
- 32. Where did Stephen King's family move after his mother's death?
A) Auburn, Maine
B) Hampden, Maine
C) Estes Park
D) Boulder, Colorado
- 33. Which novel did Stephen King complete in 1975 that was set during a pandemic?
A) 'Salem's Lot
B) Carrie
C) The Shining
D) The Stand
- 34. What nonfiction book did Stephen King publish based on his horror courses?
A) The Stand
B) Salem's Lot
C) Danse Macabre
D) Carrie
- 35. Which novella from Different Seasons was adapted into the film 'Stand by Me'?
A) The Body
B) The Breathing Method
C) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
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) 1987
D) 1985
- 38. What is the central theme of the novel 'Misery' by Stephen King?
A) Addiction
B) Science fiction
C) High fantasy
D) Horror
- 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) 1983
B) 1987
C) 1985
D) 1989
- 41. Who narrates the novel 'Dolores Claiborne'?
A) A third-person narrator
B) Stephen King
C) The title character, Dolores Claiborne
D) An omniscient narrator
- 42. Which author recalled Stephen King's influence in an interview by mentioning his focus on underdogs and bullied kids?
A) Colson Whitehead
B) Junot Díaz
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) '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) Joyce Carol Oates
B) Cynthia Ozick
C) David Foster Wallace
D) Peter Straub
- 45. What type of book is 'Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques'?
A) A novel
B) A coffee table book
C) An anthology
D) A graphic novel
- 46. 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon' is about a girl who gets lost in what?
A) A city
B) A desert
C) The woods
D) An ocean
- 47. 'The Institute', released by Stephen King in 2019, is a novel or a collection?
A) Short story
B) Play
C) Novel
D) Collection
- 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) 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) 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. 1
C) It did not make it to the list
D) No. 5
- 52. '11/22/63', a novel by Stephen King, involves time travel to which year?
A) 1963
B) 1977
C) 1945
D) 1958
- 53. Which character's backstory did Stephen King write in 'American Vampire'?
A) Bruce Wayne
B) Skinner Sweet
C) Clark Kent
D) Magneto
- 54. In 'The Body', what does the narrator compare a childhood clubhouse to during rain?
A) An abandoned lighthouse
B) A cozy cabin in the woods
C) A cave with stalactites and stalagmites
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) Neil Gaiman
C) Haruki Murakami
D) J.K. Rowling
- 56. 'Blaze', a novel published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was discovered in which year?
A) 2014
B) 2006
C) 1996
D) 1985
- 57. Which film marked Stephen King's screenwriting debut?
A) Maximum Overdrive
B) Creepshow
C) The Shawshank Redemption
D) Misery
- 58. Which author co-wrote three novels with Stephen King, including 'The Talisman' and 'Black House'?
A) Richard Chizmar
B) Peter Straub
C) Joe Hill
D) Benjamin Percy
- 59. 'Needful Things' was billed as what type of story?
A) "A Tale of Two Cities"
B) "A Ghostly Encounter"
C) "An Epic Journey"
D) "The Last Castle Rock Story"
- 60. Which imprint published 'The Colorado Kid'?
A) Doubleday
B) Scribner
C) Viking Press
D) Hard Case Crime
- 61. Which book did Stephen King find at the Jolly White Elephant for $2.25?
A) A collection of Ray Bradbury's stories.
B) An anthology by Joseph Payne Brennan.
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) Four
B) Six
C) Eight
D) Ten
- 63. Who illustrated Stephen King's retelling of the fairy tale 'Hansel and Gretel'?
A) Ridley Pearson
B) Maurice Sendak
C) Barbara Kruger
D) F-Stop Fitzgerald
- 64. Who praised Stephen King's sense of place, particularly the atmosphere of Maine?
A) Joyce Carol Oates
B) Peter Straub
C) Cynthia Ozick
D) David Foster Wallace
- 65. What happens to users in Stephen King's novel 'Cell'?
A) They become invisible
B) A mysterious signal turns them into mindless killers
C) They travel through time
D) They gain superpowers
- 66. Which Stephen King novel was originally written in the late 1970s but published in 1983?
A) Pet Sematary
B) Christine
C) Cujo
D) The Tommyknockers
- 67. What is the common theme of the novellas in 'Four Past Midnight'?
A) Fear
B) Time
C) Death
D) Love
- 68. Which character, appearing in both 'The Outsider' and 'Holly', was created by Stephen King?
A) Holly Gibney
B) Danny Torrance
C) Jack Torrance
D) Laurie Strode
- 69. 'The Man in the Black Suit' was published in which magazine's Halloween issue?
A) The New Yorker
B) Rolling Stone
C) Esquire
D) Time
- 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) End of Watch
D) Finders Keepers
- 71. Which critic described Stephen King's work as 'non-literature'?
A) Harold Bloom
B) S. T. Joshi
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) 2024
C) 2023
D) 2025
- 73. Which publication called 'On Writing' a 'one-of-a-kind classic'?
A) Time Magazine
B) The New York Times
C) The Wall Street Journal
D) Rolling Stone
- 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) Clive Barcus
C) Beryl Evans
D) John Swithen
- 76. What was the title of Stephen King's first mass e-book?
A) Cell
B) From a Buick 8
C) Riding the Bullet
D) The Plant
- 77. 'Fairy Tale', released in 2022, is what type of work by Stephen King?
A) A novel
B) An autobiography
C) A novella
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) Janet Maslin
C) A Fangoria critic
D) Stephen King
- 79. Who was the editor under whom 'The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger' first appeared?
A) Gardner Dozois
B) Edward L. Ferman
C) Ellen Datlow
D) Jonathan Strahan
- 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) Christine
B) The Tommyknockers
C) Pet Sematary
D) Misery
- 82. What was the suggested payment per installment for 'The Plant'?
A) $10
B) $1
C) $5
D) No charge, it was free
- 83. Who collaborated with Stephen King on the artist's book 'My Pretty Pony'?
A) Barbara Kruger
B) Ridley Pearson
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) 1999
C) 2005
D) 2003
- 85. 'The Long Walk', published under a pseudonym, was released in what year?
A) 1982
B) 1977
C) 1979
D) 1984
- 86. Which film did Stephen King direct that was based on his story 'Trucks'?
A) Creepshow
B) The Body
C) Maximum Overdrive
D) Cat's Eye
- 87. In which presidential election did Stephen King endorse Barack Obama?
A) 2008
B) 2016
C) 2012
D) 2020
- 88. How many volumes make up the complete 'The Dark Tower' series?
A) Eight
B) Five
C) Six
D) Ten
- 89. Which Stephen King novel features a popular writer held captive by his number-one fan?
A) Misery
B) The Tommyknockers
C) It
D) Cujo
- 90. In which year was the collection 'Four Past Midnight' published?
A) 1990
B) 1992
C) 1991
D) 1989
- 91. What common theme connects the novellas in Stephen King's 'Full Dark, No Stars' collection?
A) Adventure
B) Friendship
C) Retribution
D) Love
- 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) Shattered Glass
C) Night Shift
D) Doctor Sleep
- 94. 'Hearts in Atlantis' is set during which decade?
A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1950s
- 95. What is the first element King considers when starting a story?
A) The situation
B) The characters
C) The ending
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) Gwendy's Button Box
B) In the Tall Grass
C) The End Times
D) Throttle
- 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) Frank Darabont
B) George A. Romero
C) Stephen King
D) Rob Reiner
- 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 science fiction theme
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 small town in Maine
C) A West Virginia women's prison
D) A haunted hotel
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