Christine Trivia (Stephen King's Killer Car)
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47 free Christine Trivia (Stephen King's Killer Car) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Christine is the car that fixes herself. Stephen King's novel came out in April 1983 and John Carpenter's film followed that December, and between them they gave horror one of its most recognisable monsters: a red-and-white 1958 Plymouth Fury with a backwards-running odometer and a jealous streak. This Christine trivia quiz covers both versions of the story: Arnie Cunningham's transformation from bullied nerd to greaser, his friend Dennis, his girlfriend Leigh, the bitter old owner Roland LeBay, Will Darnell's garage, Buddy Repperton's gang and the detective who never quite proves anything. It also digs into the making of the film: how many cars were bought and destroyed, why the studio wanted Brooke Shields and Scott Baio, who turned the lead down for Footloose, the twin-sister prank the director never noticed, how the regeneration scenes were shot, the George Thorogood and Johnny Ace songs on the radio, what King himself thought of the movie, and the differences between the book and the screen (a septic truck versus a bulldozer, Pennsylvania versus California). Easy questions for anyone who has seen the film, harder ones for readers of the novel. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the novel, the film, the car and the cast, and each question quotes its source.
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Q 01Christine is what make and model of car?
1958 Plymouth Fury
The 1958 Plymouth Fury was rare from the start, with only 5,303 built, so the film's crew dressed up cheaper sister models to fill out Christine's fleet.
Q 02Stephen King says the idea for Christine struck when he saw what on his own car?
The odometer rolling to 10,000
The odometer rolling to 10,000 as he turned into his driveway made King imagine one that ran backward, so a car grew younger; he began writing the next day, expecting a funny short story.
Q 03Arnie, the bullied teenager who buys Christine, has what surname?
Cunningham
Cunningham changes as he rebuilds the car: his skin clears up, he stands up to his parents and wins the new girl, and a colder, crueller streak arrives with it.
Q 04Each chapter of Stephen King's novel Christine opens with what?
A rock and roll lyric
A rock and roll lyric opens every chapter, and the car shares the taste: Christine's own radio keeps playing the songs of the 1950s.
Q 05Stephen King's novel Christine is set in Libertyville, a fictional suburb of which city?
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh was a rare trip outside Maine for King, who dedicated the novel to the city's own George Romero, the director who had just shot their film Creepshow there.
Q 06What is the name of Christine's bitter original owner, whose spirit possesses the car in the novel?
Roland LeBay
Roland LeBay sells the car and dies soon after, but his spirit stays with it and slowly takes Arnie over; the film has his brother George do the selling instead.
Q 07In the novel Christine, how did LeBay's young daughter die?
She choked to death in the car
She choked to death in the car, and her mother later killed herself in its front seat, yet the old man kept Christine until the day he sold her to Arnie.
Q 08Arnie restores Christine at a do-it-yourself garage run by which small-time crook?
Will Darnell
Will Darnell runs the garage as a front for his real trade, and in the novel he draws Arnie in as a courier on his cigarette-smuggling runs.
Q 09Arnie's girlfriend Leigh, the pretty new student who comes to see Christine as a rival, has what surname?
Cabot
Cabot is a name she gives up: after the car nearly kills her on a date, Leigh ends up with neither boy and is married to a man called Ackerman by the book's end.
Q 10Which bully, expelled from school and blaming Arnie, leads the gang that vandalises Christine?
Buddy Repperton
Buddy Repperton is thrown out of school for pulling a knife on Arnie, wrecks the car in revenge with his gang, and then Christine comes after every one of them.
Q 11In the film Christine, what order does Arnie give the wrecked car just before she repairs herself?
Show me
'Show me' is all he says, and the wrecked car pulls herself straight while he watches; the famous effect was a late addition, finished only after the main shoot had wrapped.
Q 12In the novel Christine, what do Dennis and Leigh use to batter the car to pieces?
A septic tanker truck
A septic tanker truck does the job: Dennis rents a huge pink one named Petunia and rams Christine to pieces with it inside the garage where she was rebuilt.
Q 13In the novel Christine, how does Arnie die?
In a highway crash with his mother
Q 21John Stockwell, who plays Dennis in Christine, later appeared as which pilot in Top Gun?
Cougar
Cougar is the pilot who loses his nerve after the opening dogfight and hands in his wings, which is the only reason Maverick and Goose are sent to Top Gun at all.
Q 22Which veteran character actor plays the state police detective in the film Christine?
Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton's detective is run off the road and killed in the novel, but the film lets him live to watch Christine's wreck compacted into a cube.
Q 23Roberts Blossom, who sells Arnie the car in Christine, later played the neighbour children fear in which comedy?
Home Alone
In a highway crash with his mother, after Christine has already killed his father; the film instead hurls Arnie through her windshield onto a shard of glass.
Q 14Which director made the 1983 film of Christine?
John Carpenter
John Carpenter took it as a job he needed after The Thing flopped, and later admitted he had never found the book very frightening.
Q 15Producer Richard Kobritz got Christine after making which earlier Stephen King miniseries?
Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot got Kobritz onto King's list for unpublished manuscripts: he passed on Cujo, then snapped up Christine before the novel was even in print.
Q 16Who plays Arnie in the 1983 film of Christine?
Keith Gordon
Keith Gordon had been a teenager in Jaws 2 and Dressed to Kill, and later moved behind the camera to direct episodes of Dexter, Homeland and Fargo.
Q 17Which actor passed on playing Arnie in Christine for the 1984 film that made him a star?
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon was an early contender for Arnie but chose to make Footloose instead, and the part went to a relative unknown.
Q 18Which teen star did Columbia suggest for Leigh in Christine?
Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields, then famous for The Blue Lagoon, was the studio's idea, but the filmmakers never considered her and cast the unknown Alexandra Paul, who was 19.
Q 19Alexandra Paul, who plays Leigh in Christine, later spent five seasons on which TV series?
Baywatch
Baywatch cast her as lifeguard lieutenant Stephanie Holden from 1992, while her identical twin Caroline was doing rescue work for real with the San Francisco Fire Department.
Q 20Alexandra Paul's twin sister Caroline did what during the filming of Christine?
Secretly took her place in a scene
She secretly took her place in a scene as a prank, pushing a clutch on cue, and the director found out only when the real Alexandra walked up after he called cut.
Home Alone cast him as Old Man Marley, the shovel-carrying neighbour the boy dreads until the two talk in church, and who ends up rescuing him from the burglars.
Q 24Who plays the gruff garage owner in the film Christine?
Robert Prosky
Robert Prosky was a stage actor first, a mainstay of Washington's Arena Stage who became a film regular only in his fifties and then the desk sergeant of Hill Street Blues.
Q 25The film Christine opens with the car claiming her first victims where?
On the factory assembly line
On the factory assembly line in 1957 Detroit, she mangles one worker's hand and another is found dead inside her, so the film's car is born bad; the novel blames her dead owner instead.
Q 26In the film Christine, where is Leigh when the car nearly kills her?
At a drive-in theater
At a drive-in theater, Christine locks her doors to keep Arnie out while Leigh fights for breath, and a nearby moviegoer has to save her with the Heimlich manoeuvre.
Q 27Which song plays on Christine's radio as Arnie dies in the film?
Pledging My Love
Pledging My Love was a hit from beyond the grave: Johnny Ace accidentally shot himself backstage in Houston on Christmas Day 1954, and the ballad topped the R&B chart after his death.
Q 28Which George Thorogood song plays over the opening of the 1983 film Christine?
Bad to the Bone
Bad to the Bone was offered to Muddy Waters first, but the bluesman's camp turned it down, and Thorogood ended up cutting it himself; a year later it was introducing Christine on screen.
Q 29Who co-wrote the electronic score of Christine with the film's director?
Alan Howarth
Alan Howarth was a synth player and sound designer who broke into films through a Star Trek trailer, then became the director's regular partner, scoring a run of his films through the 1980s.
Q 30With the real car so rare, the film dressed up which two cheaper models from the same maker as Christine?
Belvederes and Savoys
Belvederes and Savoys shared the rare car's body, so the crew bought up a fleet of them, dressed them in her red and white, and destroyed most of them on camera.