# Stephen King trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590 "2012-01-15T12:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/21 "2012-01-15T19:29:32Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > But it is in the Graveyward Shift collection, you almost got it **HotDogWater** … Shit, I screwed this up, never mind… ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/22 "2012-01-15T19:34:12Z")
The Oregon question is awesome, thanks! just what I was looking for to get me through 12 hours at my desk on a sunday. I was able to answer all questions so far without the internet, but quickly bailed on this one. I found the table of contents from _Night Shift_, (thanks for the hint!) but damn I remember all those stories an oregon does not ring a bell in any of them. I want to guess _Trucks_, but don’t think that’s right. _I am the dooway_ is set in Florida’s space coast, and most of the others are in Maine. So my guess if _The Boogyman_, if only because it’s a rather generic setting and might have been the Pacific Northwest. ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/23 "2012-01-15T19:36:57Z")
I believe out of season hurricanes are “Alices” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/24 "2012-01-15T19:38:43Z")
> [@HotDogWater](#): > > I believe out of season hurricanes are “Alices” You are correct sir! FYI, have you ever heard that term besides in the novel? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/25 "2012-01-15T19:42:05Z")
Name the brand of soda the Ka-Tet finds. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/26 "2012-01-15T19:44:16Z")
What was the the name of the operation the father was headed to on Mars in _The Jaunt?_ ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/27 "2012-01-15T19:45:16Z")
I cheated, but here’s the story set in Oregon. It’s not in the Night Shift collection, btw. You Know They Got a Hell of a Band I thought it was in California or some such, but apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/28 "2012-01-15T19:48:52Z")
Nozz-ola “longer than you think, Dad!”…the father worked for Texaco Water and was being transferred to the mars facility ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/29 "2012-01-15T19:53:42Z")
I couldda sworn California for that story too! let’s see if it’s available to read… found it! yup, Rock and Roll Heaven is in Oregon. Nice one! ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/30 "2012-01-15T19:55:34Z")
No, **Revtim** , I have never heard the term “alice” in that context before. I assume it’s fictional, but I’ve never been in an out of season hurricane. here in wormtown we see very few in season ones too ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/31 "2012-01-15T20:04:04Z")
> [@HotDogWater](#): > > Nozz-ola Yupp! (I actually CG modeled a can of Nozz-ola a while back, I’ll see if I can find it) > [@HotDogWater](#): > > “longer than you think, Dad!”…the father worked for Texaco Water and was being transferred to the mars facility Yupp! . . . but, Texaco Water had a name for the _Operation_ Mark Oates was going to be working on. The name of that Operation was what I was looking for. **More:** In _The Eyes of the Dragon,_ what does Peter use to escape his imprisonment? “Derry is [blank] and [blank] is Derry.” In _On Writing,_ what does King compare adverbs to? ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/32 "2012-01-15T20:20:57Z")
In The Eyes of the Dragon, Peter made a rope out of something…I remember a dollhouse…was it a rug? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/33 "2012-01-15T20:21:06Z")
For fun, here’s some [concept art](http://www.flickr.com/photos/7604613@N04/6703170355/in/set-72157601370376658/lightbox/) I did for an adaptation of **The Jaunt** I was hoping to one day take on. Can’t do it now, as it was pulled from his “Dollar Baby” program. Ahh well. Couldn’t find the Nozz-ola art. Must be on my old machine. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/34 "2012-01-15T20:22:16Z")
> [@HotDogWater](#): > > In The Eyes of the Dragon, Peter made a rope out of something…I remember a dollhouse…was it a rug? Ohhh. Close. You remembered the dollhouse correctly. Not a rug, but something he’d receive over and over for countless days. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/35 "2012-01-15T20:26:35Z")
Dinner napkin 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/36 "2012-01-15T20:28:50Z")
oooohh **cmyk** these are getting hard…I’m cheating now by skimming the jaunt online… Operation Straw! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/37 "2012-01-15T20:30:15Z")
> [@HotDogWater](#): > > Al Kooper is involved (plays an instrument? sings?)with the Rock Bottom Remainders, Kings band of literary folks. Is Kooper an author? I thought his claim to fame was music… Yep, Kooper was the “musical director”–charged with with the task of whipping the Remainders into some kind of shape. King dedicated \*\*Insomnia \*\*to Kooper, saying _“For Tabby and for Al Kooper, who knows the playing-field. No fault of mine.”_ Also, Kooper is an author; he wrote [Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards](http://www.amazon.com/Backstage-Passes-Backstabbing-Bastards-Kooper/dp/0879309229/). ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/38 "2012-01-15T20:37:04Z")
well, I remember he doesn’t like adverbs. use them sparingly, he tells us, and get rid of them when editing. but what did he compare them to? and I don’t like this answer, but “Derry is Bangor?” nah, that aint it ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/39 "2012-01-15T20:39:56Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Yupp! . . . but, Texaco Water had a name for the _Operation_ Mark Oates was going to be working on. The name of that Operation was what I was looking for. They were heading to Whitehead City, but I don’t remember an operational name. The first water-harvesting trip to Mars was called “Operation Straw”, but that was mentioned in a historical context and I don’t think the same name was given to the one Oates and his family were heading to. Toughy. > [@](#): > > **More:** > In _The Eyes of the Dragon,_ what does Peter use to escape his imprisonment? Single strands plucked from his napkins, woven on the tiny loom in his mother’s dollhouse into a slender rope. > [@](#): > > “Derry is [blank] and [blank] is Derry.” It. > [@](#): > > In _On Writing,_ what does King compare adverbs to? Haven’t read this one yet, shamefully. My turn… \*\*Q: \*\*What was the name of the baby killed by his 5-year-old brother, who was in turn killed by a swarm of flying leeches? **Q:** What did Gertie do to Norman, as a ‘message’ from Rose, in “Rose Madder” that so enraged him? ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/40 "2012-01-15T20:51:31Z")
Welcome to the party **belladonna**. Ya you got the Derry line. I’m so stooopid that should have been an easy one. But you did throw a gimme my way! Dirty Gertie pissed all over Normans face! :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590.md?page=3)