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70 Stephen King Trivia Questions To Help You Float

Step foot in the Overlook Hotel and put your knowledge to the test. You might do well with these Stephen King trivia questions and answers. There’s more to the King’s collection than the story of an alcoholic writer and a haunted hotel, but that’s where the fun begins, right?

Stephen King is a master of horror who delivers memorable characters plunged into deep waters, often with a mystical twist. Stand with Mother Abigail against the Walking Dude or escape a maniacal nurse obsessed with your character in Misery. Don’t forget his less-horror, more dramatic tales that became fast favorites, like The Green Mile and the novella that inspired the movie, The Shawshank Redemption.

Fans who can pass this Stephen King quiz might avoid self-driving cars after reading Christine or sidestep every Saint Bernard they pass. Red balloons and clowns might make you a little queasy, and you might back away from creepy, overgrown pet cemeteries. 

Looking for more trivia? Check out our Roald Dahl, Sherlock Holmes, and Marvel trivia. If you want to try more categories, try some general book trivia questions.

How many books, as of 1999, make up Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ series?

2

3

5

4

In which Stephen King novel will you find an abused woman who escapes into a supernatural painting?

Geralds Game

Rose Madder

Desperation

Dolores Claiborne

What name does Delacroix give the mouse in Stephen King’s ‘The Green Mile’?

Mr. Mojo

Mr. Mister

Mr. Jingles

Mr. Whiskers

What is the name of Stephen King’s wife?

Kelly

Tabitha

Katie

Naomi

Stephen King’s novel ‘Cujo’ is about what breed of dog?

German Shepherd

Terrier

Labrador

St. Bernard

What is the cat called in Stephen King’s ‘Pet Sematary’?

Jake

Fluffy

Scud

Church

Who played the role of Jack Torrance in the film adaptation of ‘The Shining’?

Morgan Freeman

Robert De Niro

Jack Nicholson

Anthony Hopkins

What town is setting for the Stephen King novel ‘It’?

Castle Rock

Salem’s Lot

Derry

Orberg

Whose brother is the first murder victim in Stephen King’s ‘It’?

Richard

Bill

Ben

Beverly

What breed of dog is Stephen King’s ‘Cujo’?

German Shepherd

Rotweiler

Malamute

Saint Bernard

What type of car is Stephen King’s ‘Christine’?

Delorean

Oldsmobile

Plymouth Fury

1956 Ford

Which Stephen King book was originally titled ‘Second Coming’

Salem’s Lot

The Shining

The Stand

Carrie

In which TV series did Stephen King have a cameo as a cleaner in 2010?

American Horror Story

Fringe

Dexter

Sons of Anarchy

What is Stephen King’s wife’s name?

Samantha

Tamara

Tabitha

Anna

Pennywise, from the Stephen King novel ‘It’, never appears as a what?

Werewolf

Spider

Clown

Rat

What is the Gunslinger’s name in Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ series?

Edmund

Roland

Ronald

Edward

What did Annie Wilkes use to hobble Paul Sheldon in the Stephen King novel ‘Misery’?

Sledgehammer

Axe

Hammer

Pick

Which of Stephen King’s books has a semi-autobiographical relation to his pen name?

The Dark Half

Rage

Desperation

The Gunslinger

What creatures were the antagonists in Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’?

Vampires

Werewolves

Zombies

Genetic Mutants

What Stephen King character has Laura San Giacomo (Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Just Shoot Me) played in film?

Beverly Marsh In ‘It’

Nadine Cross In ‘The Stand’

Dolores Claiborne In ‘Dolores Claiborne’

Bobbi In ‘The Tommyknockers’

According to Stephen King, what agency will ‘help you quit smoking….no matter what’?

Quitco

Quitters For Life

Quitters Incorporated

Quitters Anonymous

In the Stephen King novel ‘It’, what was the name of the clown that made us think twice about going to the circus?

Pennywise

Shakes

Koko

Wrinkles

Who is the shape changer in Stephen King’s ‘The Cycle of the Werewolf’?

Jim Gardner

Lester Lowe

Bobby Drayson

Leland Gaunt

In ‘Pet Sematary’, what is name of the spirit in the woods near the burial site?

Sasquatch

Wendigo

Spectre

Banshee

Which Stephen King character refers to himself as ‘like the drink, only not spelled the same way’?

John Coffey

Sam T. Keyla

Dirk Rumm

Cecil B. Thee

In the movie version of Stephen King’s, ‘Maximom Overdrive’, what famous cartoon characters face adorns the leading ‘killer truck’?

The Green Goblin

Kermit The Frog

The Hobgoblin

The Gremlin

In Stephen King’s ‘The Green Mile’, what does John Coffey get to do as his last wish?

Play With A Kitten

Watch A Movie

Call His Mother

Be With A Woman

Which university did Stephen King attend?

University of Vermont

University of Maine

University of New Hampshire

Husson University

In which Stephen King series do you find the hero known as The Gunslinger?

The Castle Rock Series

The World Series

The Dark Tower

The Green Mile

The town of Castle Rock, a regular setting for King’s stories, is named after a chapter in which classic novel?

Of Mice and Men

Lord of the Flies

To Kill a Mockingbird

A Clockwork Orange

In Stephen King’s ‘The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’, who is Tom Gordon?

He Was Imaginary

A Baseball Pitcher

An Actor

A Boy From School

In Stephen King’s ‘Hearts in Atlantis’, what was the symbol on the back of a coat that was significant to the story?

A Peace Symbol

A Clover Leaf

A Pitchfork

A Nazi Symbol

In ‘Firestarter,’ what is the name of the government agency pursuing Andy and Charlie?

The CIA

The FBI

The Collective

The Shop

Which one of the following has never been the creepy villain in any Stephen King story?

Aliens

Vampires

Girl Scouts

Cockroaches

Which US commentator did King call ‘Satan’s mentally challenged younger brother’?

Rush Limbaugh

Jon Stewart

Bill O’Reilly

Glenn Beck

What sport does Stephen King write a non-fiction story about in ‘Nightmares and Dreamscapes’?

Baseball

Football

Golf

Drag Racing

In which Stephen King short story will you find a group of people trapped in a grocery store?

The Sun Dog

Quitters, Inc

The Mist

The Body

What was the first item ‘bought’ at Stephen King’s ‘Needful Things’?

Victorian Lampshade

Lalique Vase

Charmed Necklace

Baseball Card

How many of the seven friends are still alive at the end of Stephen King’s ‘It’?

Five

Three

Seven

Two

Which of the following Stephen King novels is not set in Maine?

The Green Mile

Storm Of The Century

Cujo

Pet Semetary

What is Stephen King’s other pen-name?

Remy Cannon

Richard Bachman

Ben Hanscom

Larry Brachman

Stephen King co-wrote an episode of which TV series?

The X-Files

Lost

CSI

ER

What was the name of the student killed on Louis Creed’s first day of work in Stephen King’s ‘Pet Sematary’?

Jud Crandall

Joan Charlton

Victor Pascow

Stephen Masterton

What does the Gunslinger lose on the beach in Stephen King’s ‘The Drawing of the Three’?

His Gun

Two Fingers And One Toe

His Watch

His Watersack

According to the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Cycle of the Werewolf’, The ‘Silver Bullet’ is what?

A Wheelchair

A Bike

A Nickname

A Weapon

The novel ‘The Doctor’s Case’ by Stephen King features what famous literary character?

Tom Sawyer

Sherlock Holmes

Randall Flagg

Miss Marple

In which US state are many of Stephen King’s novels set?

Washington

Florida

Iowa

Maine

According to Stephen King, what is the one word you need to curse anyone to lose weight?

Shrink

Thinner

Slimmer

Die-It

With which singer did King recently co-write a musical called ‘Ghost Brothers of Darkland County’?

Jon Bon Jovi

Bruce Springsteen

Tom Petty

John Mellencamp

What was the name of Roberta’s pet beagle in Stephen King’s ‘The Tommyknockers’?

Peter

Joe

Gard

Bobby

In Stephen King’s ‘Pet Sematary’, why is cemetery spelled incorrectly?

The Cemetery Was Named By Kids

It’s A Misprint

It’s Actually A Native American Word

It’s Not, That’s How People In Maine Spell It

In ‘Misery,’ what is the name of the protagonist of writer Paul Sheldon’s romance series?

Misery Chastain

Victoria Swanson

Felicity Noble

Aurora Weatherley

Who is not executed in the electric chair in Stephen King’s ‘The Green Mile’?

Bill

John

The Chief

Del

Which baseball team does King support and often mention in his work?

Cleveland Indians

New York Yankees

Chicago White Sox

Boston Red Sox

The film adaptation of ‘The Green Mile’ starred whom as Paul Edgecomb?

Sean Connery

James Caan

Tom Hanks

Alec Baldwin

Which of these is a pen name used by Stephen King?

Howard Phillips

Dean Koontz

Joe Hill

Richard Bachman

What’s Stephen King’s middle name?

Edward

Edwin

Edgar

Edson

Which Stephen King novel often gets compared to BBC sci-fi series ‘Quatermass & the Pit’?

Needful Things

The Stand

The Tommyknockers

It

In Stephen King’s ‘The Stand”, who get’s hypnotized so that he can infiltrate the enemy lines?

Stu

Tom

Fran

Harold

In Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ series, what word does the main character use that roughly means ‘destiny’?

Karma

Mana

Ka

Mojo

What do the main characters of the movie ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and the main character of ‘The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’, have in common?

They All Were Murdered

They All Smoked The Same Brand Of Cigerettes

They All Got Lost In The Woods

They All Are The Same Age

In which Stephen King novel will you find vampires invading a small Maine town?

Salems Lot

Insomnia

The Tommyknockers

Regulators

Who was the proprietor of Stephen King’s ‘Needful Things’?

Richard Straker

Leland Gaunt

Kurt Barlow

Paul Sheldon

What Stephen King movie won actress Kathy Bates an Oscar?

The Stand

The Shining

Storm Of The Century

Misery

What type of music does Stephen King’s Christine always plays on her radio?

Gangster Rap

Black Sabbath

Death Metal

50s oldies

What kind of games does Gerald like to play in Stephen King’s ‘Gerald’s Game’?

M And M

Spin The Bottle

Monopoly

S&M

In ”Salem’s Lot’, young vampire Ralphie Glick scratches at the window asking what?

To come in

His mother

His father

For help

What is the fictional name that some of Stephen King’s work has been published under?

Pop Merril

Henry King

Richard Bachman

Richard King

Which Stephen King story is about a high school kid who holds his fellow classmates hostage after killing his teacher?

The Running Man

Anger

Rage

Death To Teacher

In Stephen King’s ‘Cujo’, what kind of car do Tad and his mother get stranded in at the farm?

Pinto

Beetle

Mustang

Vega

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My passion for travel seamlessly integrates with my love for trivia, as I spend a lot of time on the road. I create engaging trivia quizzes based on the information I gather about new locations, food, music, customs, and people.

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