- 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) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
B) Pet Sematary
C) It
D) Carrie
- 4. What is the title of Stephen King's first published novel?
A) The Shining
B) Misery
C) Carrie
D) The Stand
- 5. What is the name of Stephen King's sons who is also a successful author?
A) Jack King
B) Jonah King
C) Owen King
D) Joe Hill
- 6. Which of the following novels by Stephen King features a haunted hotel?
A) Cujo
B) Pet Sematary
C) The Shining
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) 1408
B) It
C) The Langoliers
D) The Mist
- 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 Gunslinger
C) Wizard and Glass
D) The Waste Lands
- 9. What is the name of the main character in Stephen King's 'Misery'?
A) Carrie White
B) Annie Wilkes
C) Paul Sheldon
D) Jack Torrance
- 10. What is the name of the cursed car in Stephen King's novel 'Christine'?
A) Plymouth Fury
B) Buick Regal
C) Chevy Camaro
D) Ford Mustang
- 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) The Mist
D) Misery
- 12. Which of the following is a pen name used by Stephen King for publishing novels?
A) John Doe
B) Mike Johnson
C) David Smith
D) Richard Bachman
- 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) "Gothic Genius"
B) "Horror Maestro"
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) The Shining
B) Carrie
C) Different Seasons
D) Danse Macabre
- 17. Which award did Stephen King win for 'The Man in the Black Suit'?
A) O. Henry Award
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) National Book Award
D) Hugo 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) National Book Award
B) Pulitzer Prize
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) 1971
B) 1970
C) 1966
D) 1968
- 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) I Was a Teenage Grave Robber
B) The Body
C) The Mist
D) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
- 23. Who was the professor that showed Stephen King 'the way to the pool'?
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Edward Holmes
C) John Grisham
D) Burton Hatlen
- 24. What is the name of Stephen King's wife, whom he met through a writing workshop?
A) Tabitha Spruce
B) Carrie White
C) Nellie Ruth King
D) Joyce Carol Oates
- 25. What was the name of Stephen King's daughter born in 1970?
A) Josephine Hill
B) Naomi Rachel
C) Owen King
D) Tabitha King
- 26. What was Stephen King's first professional short story?
A) "The Glass Floor"
B) "Carrie"
C) "Salem's Lot"
D) "The Shining"
- 27. Which magazine published Stephen King's first professional short story?
A) The Guardian
B) Startling Mystery Stories
C) The New York Times
D) Cavalier
- 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) "Castle Rock meets second sight"
C) "Carrie White meets telekinesis"
D) "The Shining meets alcoholism"
- 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) Stanley Hotel in Estes Park
B) Boulder Hotel
C) Hampden Academy
D) Castle Rock Inn
- 32. Where did Stephen King's family move after his mother's death?
A) Estes Park
B) Auburn, Maine
C) Hampden, 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 Stand
C) Carrie
D) The Shining
- 34. What nonfiction book did Stephen King publish based on his horror courses?
A) Carrie
B) Danse Macabre
C) The Stand
D) Salem's Lot
- 35. Which novella from Different Seasons was adapted into the film 'Stand by Me'?
A) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
B) The Breathing Method
C) The Body
D) Apt Pupil
- 36. Which novella from Different Seasons won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction?
A) The Breathing Method
B) The Body
C) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
D) Apt Pupil
- 37. In which year did Stephen King publish the novel 'Christine'?
A) 1985
B) 1981
C) 1983
D) 1987
- 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) The Tommyknockers
B) Pet Sematary
C) Christine
D) Cujo
- 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) Stephen King
B) An omniscient narrator
C) The title character, Dolores Claiborne
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) 'Carrie'
B) 'Salem's Lot'
C) 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French'
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) Cynthia Ozick
B) Peter Straub
C) David Foster Wallace
D) Joyce Carol Oates
- 45. What type of book is 'Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques'?
A) An anthology
B) A coffee table book
C) A novel
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) A city
D) An ocean
- 47. 'The Institute', released by Stephen King in 2019, is a novel or a collection?
A) Novel
B) Short story
C) Play
D) Collection
- 48. 'Bag of Bones' was published by which publisher?
A) Penguin Random House
B) Scribner
C) Simon & Schuster
D) HarperCollins
- 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) Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1996)
C) Black or White (1991)
D) Thriller (1982)
- 51. What was the debut position of 'Under the Dome' on The New York Times Bestseller List?
A) It did not make it to the list
B) No. 10
C) No. 5
D) No. 1
- 52. '11/22/63', a novel by Stephen King, involves time travel to which year?
A) 1977
B) 1963
C) 1958
D) 1945
- 53. Which character's backstory did Stephen King write in 'American Vampire'?
A) Skinner Sweet
B) Clark Kent
C) Magneto
D) Bruce Wayne
- 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) 2006
C) 1985
D) 1996
- 57. Which film marked Stephen King's screenwriting debut?
A) The Shawshank Redemption
B) Misery
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) Richard Chizmar
C) Benjamin Percy
D) Peter Straub
- 59. 'Needful Things' was billed as what type of story?
A) "The Last Castle Rock Story"
B) "An Epic Journey"
C) "A Ghostly Encounter"
D) "A Tale of Two Cities"
- 60. Which imprint published 'The Colorado Kid'?
A) Doubleday
B) Scribner
C) Hard Case Crime
D) Viking Press
- 61. Which book did Stephen King find at the Jolly White Elephant for $2.25?
A) The Golden Argosy
B) An anthology by Joseph Payne Brennan.
C) A collection of Ray Bradbury's stories.
D) Works by Cather and Hemingway.
- 62. 'The Green Mile' was published as a serial novel in how many parts?
A) Eight
B) Four
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) David Foster Wallace
C) Cynthia Ozick
D) Peter Straub
- 65. What happens to users in Stephen King's novel 'Cell'?
A) They travel through time
B) A mysterious signal turns them into mindless killers
C) They gain superpowers
D) They become invisible
- 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) Love
B) Time
C) Death
D) Fear
- 68. Which character, appearing in both 'The Outsider' and 'Holly', was created by Stephen King?
A) Holly Gibney
B) Jack Torrance
C) Danny Torrance
D) Laurie Strode
- 69. 'The Man in the Black Suit' was published in which magazine's Halloween issue?
A) Time
B) Esquire
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) Finders Keepers
B) The Outsider
C) Mr. Mercedes
D) End of Watch
- 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) 2022
B) 2023
C) 2025
D) 2024
- 73. Which publication called 'On Writing' a 'one-of-a-kind classic'?
A) Time Magazine
B) Rolling Stone
C) The New York Times
D) The Wall Street Journal
- 74. Where is Stephen King's novel 'Duma Key' set?
A) Maine
B) California
C) Florida
D) Colorado
- 75. 'Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the World of The Dark Tower' was published under which pseudonym?
A) John Swithen
B) Beryl Evans
C) Clive Barcus
D) Richard Bachman
- 76. What was the title of Stephen King's first mass e-book?
A) The Plant
B) From a Buick 8
C) Riding the Bullet
D) Cell
- 77. 'Fairy Tale', released in 2022, is what type of work by Stephen King?
A) A novel
B) A short story collection
C) A novella
D) An autobiography
- 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) Jonathan Strahan
B) Gardner Dozois
C) Ellen Datlow
D) Edward L. Ferman
- 80. Which Danish film was Stephen King's 'Kingdom Hospital' based on?
A) The Kingdom by Lars von Trier
B) Breaking the Waves
C) Dancer in the Dark
D) Dogville
- 81. Which Stephen King novel is about a love triangle involving a haunted car?
A) Misery
B) The Tommyknockers
C) Pet Sematary
D) Christine
- 82. What was the suggested payment per installment for 'The Plant'?
A) $10
B) No charge, it was free
C) $5
D) $1
- 83. Who collaborated with Stephen King on the artist's book 'My Pretty Pony'?
A) Barbara Kruger
B) F-Stop Fitzgerald
C) Maurice Sendak
D) Ridley Pearson
- 84. In what year was Stephen King honored with a lifetime achievement award by the National Book Awards?
A) 1999
B) 2005
C) 2003
D) 2010
- 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) 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) 2016
C) 2020
D) 2012
- 88. How many volumes make up the complete 'The Dark Tower' series?
A) Five
B) Six
C) Eight
D) Ten
- 89. Which Stephen King novel features a popular writer held captive by his number-one fan?
A) The Tommyknockers
B) Misery
C) Cujo
D) It
- 90. In which year was the collection 'Four Past Midnight' published?
A) 1990
B) 1992
C) 1989
D) 1991
- 91. What common theme connects the novellas in Stephen King's 'Full Dark, No Stars' collection?
A) Adventure
B) Retribution
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) Lauren Groff
B) Colson Whitehead
C) Junot Díaz
D) Sherman Alexie
- 93. What is the title of Stephen King's sequel to 'The Shining'?
A) Shattered Glass
B) Night Shift
C) Doctor Sleep
D) Dreamcatcher
- 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 ending
B) The situation
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) Throttle
C) The End Times
D) Gwendy's Button Box
- 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) 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 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) A West Virginia women's prison
B) A haunted hotel
C) A small town in Maine
D) An abandoned asylum
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