Scary Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A mother and son become trapped in their car by Cujo. What has turned Cujo into a deadly threat?
He returned from a supernatural burial ground
He contracted rabies
He was trained to attack strangers
He became possessed by a hotel spirit
2. A shopkeeper offers residents exactly what they desire, then demands small favors that fuel suspicion and violence. Which novel uses this premise?
Needful Things
The Dark Half
The Tommyknockers
Revival
3. In Pet Sematary, what makes the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery especially dangerous?
It traps visitors in repeating dreams
It causes animals to grow unnaturally large
It erases memories of anyone buried there
It returns the dead in a disturbingly altered state
4. A traveling couple reaches Gatlin, where a children’s cult has eliminated the adults. What kind of setting defines “Children of the Corn”?
A coastal Maine fishing town
A rural Nebraska farming community
A secluded Florida island
An abandoned Colorado mining camp
5. Jack Torrance accepts a winter caretaker job at which isolated location in The Shining?
The Overlook Hotel
The Black Hotel
The Dolphin Hotel
The Marsten House
6. What catastrophe causes civilization to collapse near the beginning of The Stand?
A nationwide industrial chemical leak
The release of a weaponized influenza virus
Radiation from a failed reactor network
A fungus that destroys the food supply
7. Which title centers on a 1958 Plymouth Fury that develops a possessive and murderous hold over its teenage owner?
Christine
Maximum Overdrive
Trucks
From a Buick 8
8. After a strange fog envelops a town, survivors shelter from deadly creatures in which everyday location in The Mist?
A public library
A supermarket
A police station
A school gymnasium
9. A gunslinger pursues the Man in Black and travels between worlds toward a mysterious tower. Which protagonist fits this description?
Louis Creed
Ben Mears
Roland Deschain
Bill Hodges
10. A novelist wakes after a crash and discovers that his rescuer is holding him captive until he rewrites a book. Who is the captor?
Dolores Claiborne
Margaret White
Rose the Hat
Annie Wilkes
11. During a remote getaway, Jessie Burlingame is left alone and physically restrained after her husband dies. Which novel follows her struggle to survive?
Rose Madder
Bag of Bones
Lisey’s Story
Gerald’s Game
12. In Doctor Sleep, which group hunts people who possess psychic abilities like the shining?
The Regulators
The Low Men
The True Knot
The Breakers
13. A skeptical writer investigates a supposedly haunted space and experiences escalating distortions of time and reality. Where does most of “1408” take place?
Inside a train carriage
Inside a vacant apartment
Inside a hotel room
Inside a cruise-ship cabin
14. Which Stephen King villain most often appears as Pennywise the Dancing Clown?
It
Randall Flagg
Kurt Barlow
Leland Gaunt
15. Residents of Jerusalem’s Lot face what central supernatural threat in 'Salem’s Lot?
Werewolves spreading through the woods
Aliens replacing the townspeople
Ghosts possessing household objects
Vampires taking over the town
16. What supernatural ability does Carrie White primarily possess in Carrie?
Precognition
Pyrokinesis
Telekinesis
Shape-shifting