# 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:** 3
**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, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/41 "2012-01-15T20:54:36Z")
> [@HotDogWater](#): > > 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? You remember well. I’ll admit, that’s a very obscure one, but he compared them to dandelions. One or two on you lawn isn’t so bad, but to many and they become the weeds of your story. [paraphrasing here] > [@HotDogWater](#): > > and I don’t like this answer, but “Derry is Bangor?” nah, that aint it It’s from his latest, _11/22/63:_ Derry is Dallas, Dallas is Derry > [@HotDogWater](#): > > oooohh **cmyk** these are getting hard…I’m cheating now by skimming the jaunt online… > > Operation Straw! Yep, that’s what I was thinking of… but… > [@belladonna](#): > > 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. …damn, you’re right. I was remembering incorrectly. Operation Straw was the first mission to Mars to bring back water in 2045. > [@belladonna](#): > > Single strands plucked from his napkins, woven on the tiny loom in his mother’s dollhouse into a slender rope. Bingo. ---
**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, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/42 "2012-01-15T20:57:03Z")
Patrick Hocksetter in _It_, right? he was the big brother that killed his baby brother and then got attacked by flying leeches in…an old refridgerator. you want the baby’s name? man… ---
**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, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/43 "2012-01-15T20:57:43Z")
In which part of his house, at the time, did King write _Carrie?_ ---
**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, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/44 "2012-01-15T20:59:05Z")
Good one! I just read 11/22/63, I should have remembered. he spent some space on the actual build of the two words: both 2 syllables, both with double consonants in the middle, both evil feeling cities. ---
**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, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/45 "2012-01-15T21:00:44Z")
I think he wrote \*Carrie \*while he and Tabby were living in a trailer. ---
**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, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/46 "2012-01-15T21:14:46Z")
Avery! ---
**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, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/47 "2012-01-15T21:26:17Z")
> [@HotDogWater](#): > > Avery! I was thinking Andrew, but Avery sounds right. ---
**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, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/48 "2012-01-15T21:33:04Z")
YES! this is fun. 2- 1/2 more hours to go… ---
**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, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/49 "2012-01-15T21:51:39Z")
> [@HotDogWater](#): > > I think he wrote \*Carrie \*while he and Tabby were living in a trailer. Ahh, you’re right, it was the trailer, as him and Tabitha were living on nickels and dimes at the time. He wrote it on a portable typewriter in the utility room, IIRC, crammed in a small space next to the water heater. He tossed the first few pages, thinking it was crap, but she fished them out of the trash, and urged him to continue and it became his first big success. ---
**Author:** ![AmsterdamReprobate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/amsterdamreprobate/32/17540_2.png) [@AmsterdamReprobate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmsterdamReprobate)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/50 "2012-01-15T21:57:43Z")
Patrick Hockstetter is not only featured in It, but also in another story. Which one? ---
**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, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/51 "2012-01-15T21:58:57Z")
In _The Langoliers,_ what did the character Craig Toomey do to sooth himself and relive stress? ---
**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, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/52 "2012-01-15T22:04:24Z")
tore sheets of paper into strips. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/53 "2012-01-15T22:04:31Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > 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. That is really cool looking. Nice work! ---
**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, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/54 "2012-01-15T22:13:43Z")
> [@HotDogWater](#): > > tore sheets of paper into strips. Yessss. > [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > That is really cool looking. Nice work! Thanks! It’s one of my favorite stories from him. I have more stuff I did for it, and hope to return fleshing the look out a bit more (along with my screenplay). I’ll have to contact his people who manage his [Dollar Baby](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_Baby) program, as I’d really like to make this an independent short film. Alas, it seems it’s not up for grabs anymore (perhaps it’s been optioned?), and I’m busy anyway on another short I’m doing. Someday… _sigh_ (and yes, I know Carune’s portals were described as rectangular, I did some concepting on that as well, but knowing a bit of physics, I came up with some technobabble reasoning in my head on how it works and why it should be circular. :p) ---
**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, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/55 "2012-01-15T22:15:30Z")
That dollar baby program is really cool. I had no idea it existed. Good Luck! ---
**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, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/56 "2012-01-15T22:17:41Z")
> [@HotDogWater](#): > > That dollar baby program is really cool. I had no idea it existed. Good Luck! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/57 "2012-01-15T22:22:20Z")
What are the names of Dolores Claiborne’s sons (neither of whom was in the movie)? ---
**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, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/58 "2012-01-15T22:48:39Z")
EZ one Pete and Joe jr. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/59 "2012-01-15T23:08:38Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#): > > 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. **HotDogWater** > [@](#): > > 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 Congratulations gentlemen, well played! And a fine, spine-tingling story it is too. My ex-wife read it, and forever after refused to ride with me when I went out exploring back roads around Klamath Falls… SS ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590/60 "2012-01-15T23:38:51Z")
> [@AmsterdamReprobate](#): > > Patrick Hockstetter is not only featured in It, but also in another story. Which one? Firestarter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-trivia/609590.md?page=4)