Q 01/05
A) Steven Spielberg
B) Richard Donner
C) John Hughes
D) Rob Reiner
Answer · why
He had made only This Is Spinal Tap and The Sure Thing before it.
Q 02/05
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Stephen King
C) S. E. Hinton
D) John Irving
Answer · why
The 1982 novella The Body appeared in the collection Different Seasons.
Q 03/05
A) The Breathing Method
B) The Long Walk
C) The Body
D) Apt Pupil
Answer · why
Columbia changed the title in March 1986 because The Body sounded like a sex film, a bodybuilding film or another King horror.
Q 04/05
A) Jerusalem's Lot
B) Derry
C) Haven
D) Castle Rock
Answer · why
King's novella placed the town in Maine; the film moved it to Oregon.
Q 05/05
A) 1959
B) 1962
C) 1965
D) 1969
Answer · why
The framing story takes place in 1985, with the adult Gordie writing his memoir.
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