Q 01/05

What do the children who battle Pennywise in It call their group?

A) The Losers' Club

B) The Outcasts

C) The Misfits

D) The Derry Seven

Answer · why

A) The Losers' Club

The Losers' Club is the band of seven Derry children—Bill, Ben, Beverly, Richie, Eddie, Mike and Stan—who fight Pennywise in 1958 and again as adults ...

Q 02/05

What was Stephen King's debut novel, published in 1974?

A) Salem's Lot

B) Carrie

C) The Shining

D) Rage

Answer · why

B) Carrie

Carrie, about a bullied telekinetic teenager, was published by Doubleday in April 1974; Brian De Palma's film followed in 1976.

Q 03/05

Who rescued the first pages of King's debut novel from the wastebasket?

A) His wife Tabitha

B) His editor Bill Thompson

C) His mother

D) His brother David

Answer · why

A) His wife Tabitha

His wife Tabitha pulled the crumpled pages of Carrie from the wastebasket and urged him to finish it, saying she wanted to know what happened next.

Q 04/05

Where was King living, and what was his day job, when he wrote his debut novel?

A) A Bangor mansion, writing full time

B) A Portland flat, working as a janitor

C) A university dorm, studying journalism

D) A trailer in Hermon, teaching English at Hampden Academy

Answer · why

D) A trailer in Hermon, teaching English at Hampden Academy

King wrote Carrie in a rented trailer in Hermon, Maine, while teaching English at Hampden Academy for about $6,400 a year; Doubleday's Bill Thompson b...

Q 05/05

What was the hardcover print run of King's debut in April 1974?

A) 30,000

B) 60,000

C) 100,000

D) 250,000

Answer · why

A) 30,000

Doubleday printed 30,000 hardcovers of Carrie in April 1974 and sold about 13,000; the 1975 Signet paperback sold over a million copies in its first y...