Q 01/05

What do the initials R.L. stand for in R.L. Stine's name?

A) Robert Lawrence

B) Robert Leonard

C) Richard Lee

D) Ronald Louis

Answer · why

A) Robert Lawrence

Robert Lawrence. Stine says nobody in his family ever called him R.L., though: to them he has always been Bob.

Q 02/05

Stine has been nicknamed the 'Stephen King of' what?

A) Young adult romance

B) Comic books

C) Children's literature

D) Science fiction

Answer · why

C) Children's literature

Children's literature. He matched King for output as well as scares: at his peak Stine turned out a new Goosebumps book every month, each written in a...

Q 03/05

Stine's Fear Street novels are set in which fictional town?

A) Derry

B) Woodsboro

C) Shadyside

D) Haddonfield

Answer · why

C) Shadyside

Shadyside. In Netflix's 2021 film trilogy it is the murder-plagued neighbour of spotless Sunnyvale, a gap its young heroes trace to a witch's curse.

Q 04/05

Under what alias did Stine write humor books for children?

A) Funny Bob

B) Jolly Bob

C) Laughing Bob

D) Jovial Bob

Answer · why

D) Jovial Bob

Jovial Bob. Stine started out with jokes, not scares, writing dozens of joke books under the name, among them The Absurdly Silly Encyclopedia & Fly Sw...

Q 05/05

Which author does R.L. Stine call his all-time hero and the first writer to inspire him?

A) Edgar Allan Poe

B) H.P. Lovecraft

C) Ray Bradbury

D) Roald Dahl

Answer · why

C) Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury. His surprise endings shaped Stine's own plots, and Stine still calls Something Wicked This Way Comes the scariest book he has ever read.