 - 1. What is Stephen King's middle name?
A) Thomas
B) Andrew
C) Edwin
D) Michael
- 2. In which state was Stephen King born?
A) New York
B) Maine
C) Florida
D) California
- 3. Which novel of Stephen King inspired the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'?
A) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
B) Carrie
C) It
D) Pet Sematary
- 4. What is the title of Stephen King's first published novel?
A) The Stand
B) Misery
C) Carrie
D) The Shining
- 5. What is the name of Stephen King's sons who is also a successful author?
A) Joe Hill
B) Jonah King
C) Owen King
D) Jack King
- 6. Which of the following novels by Stephen King features a haunted hotel?
A) Pet Sematary
B) The Shining
C) Salem's Lot
D) Cujo
- 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) 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) Carrie White
B) Annie Wilkes
C) Jack Torrance
D) Paul Sheldon
- 10. What is the name of the cursed car in Stephen King's novel 'Christine'?
A) Chevy Camaro
B) Plymouth Fury
C) Ford Mustang
D) Buick Regal
- 11. Which of the following films based on Stephen King's work was adapted into a TV series in 2017?
A) The Shining
B) The Mist
C) Misery
D) Carrie
- 12. Which of the following is a pen name used by Stephen King for publishing novels?
A) Mike Johnson
B) Richard Bachman
C) David Smith
D) John Doe
- 13. What is the title of Stephen King's epic fantasy series?
A) It
B) The Stand
C) The Dark Tower
D) Pet Sematary
- 14. Who directed the film adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Green Mile'?
A) Tim Burton
B) Stanley Kubrick
C) Frank Darabont
D) M. Night Shyamalan
- 15. What nickname has been given to Stephen King due to his contributions to horror fiction?
A) "Gothic Genius"
B) "Master of Suspense"
C) "King of Horror"
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) Carrie
C) Danse Macabre
D) Different Seasons
- 17. Which award did Stephen King win for 'The Man in the Black Suit'?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) National Book Award
C) Hugo Award
D) O. Henry Award
- 18. For which book did Stephen King win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller?
A) It
B) Misery
C) 11/22/63
D) The Shining
- 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) 1971
B) 1968
C) 1970
D) 1966
- 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) Carrie
D) Misery
- 22. What was the title of Stephen King's first independently published story?
A) The Mist
B) I Was a Teenage Grave Robber
C) The Body
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) 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) Owen King
B) Josephine Hill
C) Tabitha King
D) Naomi Rachel
- 26. What was Stephen King's first professional short story?
A) "Salem's Lot"
B) "Carrie"
C) "The Shining"
D) "The Glass Floor"
- 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) Apocalyptic pandemic
C) Second sight
D) Telekinetic powers
- 29. 'Salem's Lot' is described as a combination of which two elements?
A) "The Shining meets alcoholism"
B) "Carrie White meets telekinesis"
C) "Peyton Place meets Dracula"
D) "Castle Rock meets second sight"
- 30. What event in Stephen King's life coincided with the publication of 'Salem's Lot'?
A) He moved to Boulder, Colorado
B) His mother died from uterine cancer
C) He published The Stand
D) He started teaching at Hampden Academy
- 31. Which hotel inspired Stephen King's novel The Shining?
A) Boulder Hotel
B) Hampden Academy
C) Stanley Hotel in Estes Park
D) Castle Rock Inn
- 32. Where did Stephen King's family move after his mother's death?
A) Auburn, Maine
B) Boulder, Colorado
C) Hampden, Maine
D) Estes Park
- 33. Which novel did Stephen King complete in 1975 that was set during a pandemic?
A) 'Salem's Lot
B) The Stand
C) The Shining
D) Carrie
- 34. What nonfiction book did Stephen King publish based on his horror courses?
A) Danse Macabre
B) Carrie
C) Salem's Lot
D) The Stand
- 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 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) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
D) Apt Pupil
- 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) High fantasy
B) Horror
C) Addiction
D) Science fiction
- 39. Which novel by Stephen King is filled with metaphors for addiction and features a science fiction theme?
A) Christine
B) Pet Sematary
C) Cujo
D) The Tommyknockers
- 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) A third-person narrator
C) Stephen King
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) Lauren Groff
B) Colson Whitehead
C) Sherman Alexie
D) Junot Díaz
- 43. Which story by Stephen King was included in the second edition of The Oxford Book of American Short Stories?
A) 'Carrie'
B) 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French'
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) 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 graphic novel
B) A novel
C) An anthology
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) A city
D) An ocean
- 47. 'The Institute', released by Stephen King in 2019, is a novel or a collection?
A) Collection
B) Novel
C) Play
D) Short story
- 48. 'Bag of Bones' was published by which publisher?
A) Scribner
B) Simon & Schuster
C) HarperCollins
D) Penguin Random House
- 49. How many downloads did 'Riding the Bullet' achieve?
A) Over 1 million
B) Less than 100,000
C) Approximately 250,000
D) More than 500,000
- 50. In which music video did Stephen King collaborate with Stan Winston and Mick Garris?
A) Thriller (1982)
B) Bad (1987)
C) Black or White (1991)
D) Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1996)
- 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. 5
C) No. 1
D) No. 10
- 52. '11/22/63', a novel by Stephen King, involves time travel to which year?
A) 1963
B) 1958
C) 1945
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) Being inside a Jamaican steel drum
C) An abandoned lighthouse
D) A cave with stalactites and stalagmites
- 55. Which fellow author could correctly identify the passages written by Stephen King and Peter Straub?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) George R.R. Martin
C) Haruki Murakami
D) Neil Gaiman
- 56. 'Blaze', a novel published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was discovered in which year?
A) 1985
B) 2006
C) 1996
D) 2014
- 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) Peter Straub
D) Benjamin Percy
- 59. 'Needful Things' was billed as what type of story?
A) "An Epic Journey"
B) "A Ghostly Encounter"
C) "The Last Castle Rock Story"
D) "A Tale of Two Cities"
- 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) The Golden Argosy
B) An anthology by Joseph Payne Brennan.
C) Works by Cather and Hemingway.
D) A collection of Ray Bradbury's stories.
- 62. 'The Green Mile' was published as a serial novel in how many parts?
A) Six
B) Eight
C) Four
D) Ten
- 63. Who illustrated Stephen King's retelling of the fairy tale 'Hansel and Gretel'?
A) Maurice Sendak
B) Barbara Kruger
C) F-Stop Fitzgerald
D) Ridley Pearson
- 64. Who praised Stephen King's sense of place, particularly the atmosphere of Maine?
A) Peter Straub
B) Cynthia Ozick
C) Joyce Carol Oates
D) David Foster Wallace
- 65. What happens to users in Stephen King's novel 'Cell'?
A) They gain superpowers
B) They become invisible
C) A mysterious signal turns them into mindless killers
D) They travel through time
- 66. Which Stephen King novel was originally written in the late 1970s but published in 1983?
A) Christine
B) Cujo
C) Pet Sematary
D) The Tommyknockers
- 67. What is the common theme of the novellas in 'Four Past Midnight'?
A) Death
B) Time
C) Love
D) Fear
- 68. Which character, appearing in both 'The Outsider' and 'Holly', was created by Stephen King?
A) Laurie Strode
B) Jack Torrance
C) Danny Torrance
D) Holly Gibney
- 69. 'The Man in the Black Suit' was published in which magazine's Halloween issue?
A) Rolling Stone
B) Time
C) The New Yorker
D) Esquire
- 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) Daniel Mendelsohn
B) Harold Bloom
C) S. T. Joshi
D) Richard E. Snyder
- 72. 'You Like It Darker', a collection of short stories by Stephen King, was published in which year?
A) 2025
B) 2024
C) 2022
D) 2023
- 73. Which publication called 'On Writing' a 'one-of-a-kind classic'?
A) The New York Times
B) The Wall Street Journal
C) Rolling Stone
D) Time Magazine
- 74. Where is Stephen King's novel 'Duma Key' set?
A) Colorado
B) Florida
C) Maine
D) California
- 75. 'Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the World of The Dark Tower' was published under which pseudonym?
A) John Swithen
B) Clive Barcus
C) Beryl Evans
D) Richard Bachman
- 76. What was the title of Stephen King's first mass e-book?
A) Cell
B) The Plant
C) Riding the Bullet
D) From a Buick 8
- 77. 'Fairy Tale', released in 2022, is what type of work by Stephen King?
A) A short story collection
B) An autobiography
C) A novella
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) Janet Maslin
B) The New York Times reviewer
C) Stephen King
D) A Fangoria critic
- 79. Who was the editor under whom 'The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger' first appeared?
A) Jonathan Strahan
B) Edward L. Ferman
C) Ellen Datlow
D) Gardner Dozois
- 80. Which Danish film was Stephen King's 'Kingdom Hospital' based on?
A) Dogville
B) Dancer in the Dark
C) Breaking the Waves
D) The Kingdom by Lars von Trier
- 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) $1
B) $10
C) No charge, it was free
D) $5
- 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) 2010
B) 1999
C) 2003
D) 2005
- 85. 'The Long Walk', published under a pseudonym, was released in what year?
A) 1984
B) 1979
C) 1982
D) 1977
- 86. Which film did Stephen King direct that was based on his story 'Trucks'?
A) Maximum Overdrive
B) Cat's Eye
C) The Body
D) Creepshow
- 87. In which presidential election did Stephen King endorse Barack Obama?
A) 2008
B) 2012
C) 2016
D) 2020
- 88. How many volumes make up the complete 'The Dark Tower' series?
A) Six
B) Ten
C) Five
D) Eight
- 89. Which Stephen King novel features a popular writer held captive by his number-one fan?
A) The Tommyknockers
B) Cujo
C) It
D) Misery
- 90. In which year was the collection 'Four Past Midnight' published?
A) 1989
B) 1990
C) 1991
D) 1992
- 91. What common theme connects the novellas in Stephen King's 'Full Dark, No Stars' collection?
A) Adventure
B) Retribution
C) Love
D) Friendship
- 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) Doctor Sleep
B) Night Shift
C) Shattered Glass
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 situation
B) The setting
C) The ending
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) The End Times
B) Gwendy's Button Box
C) Throttle
D) In the Tall Grass
- 97. Which author described Stephen King as having 'a literary focus' and being filled with 'literary history'?
A) David Foster Wallace
B) Peter Straub
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) Rob Reiner
B) George A. Romero
C) Frank Darabont
D) Stephen King
- 99. What was the inspiration behind Stephen King's novel 'Pet Sematary'?
A) A high fantasy setting
B) A science fiction theme
C) A haunted car
D) A burial ground that could raise the dead
- 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 haunted hotel
D) A small town in Maine
|