STEPHEN KING NOVELS
BOARD AND VIDEO GAMES
WORLD HISTORY
*FAMOUS AMERICANS*
RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
100
THIS LAUGHING AND DANCING HELLSPAWN MANAGED TO SCARE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN FROM EVER VENTURING INTO THE SEWERS IN THE 1980'S
What is Pennywise the clown?
100
THIS BOARD GAME, CREATED IN 1903, WAS USED TO DEMONSTRATE THE ECONOMIC THEORIES OF HENRY GEORGE AND HIS IDEAS ON TAXATION
What is Monopoly?
100
JUNE 6th 1944 WILL FOREVER BE REMEMBERED FOR THE NORMANDY LANDINGS, BUT NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE 'D' IN D-DAY STANDS FOR THIS
What is Day?
100
BASEBALL SULTAN CANDYBAR
Who is Babe Ruth?
100
THE ETHICAL CODE OF THIS RELIGION IS ALSO KNOW AS "JYOU MEI SEI CHOKU": WHICH TRANSLATES TO "CLEAN, BRIGHT, HONEST AND CORRECT PATH"
What is Shinto/Shintoism?
200
THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THIS CLASSIC KING NOVEL IS WIDELY CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST NOVEL OPENING LINES OF ALL TIME.
What is The Gunslinger?
200
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO HELPED NINTENDO BEGIN ITS FORAY INTO VIDEO GAMES BY CREATING SOME OF THE MOST MEMORABLE GAMEA AND CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME. THIS CAUSED NINTENDO TO ABANDON MAKING THESE, WHICH THEY HAD MADE SINCE 1889
What are playing cards?
200
ASIDE FROM HIS HEDONISTIC AND BRUTAL TENDENCIES, THIS ROMAN EMPEROR WAS ALSO FAMOUS FOR "MAKING HIS HORSE, INCITATUS, A SENATOR"
Who is Caligula?
200
AVIATOR SPIRIT LUCKY LINDY
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
200
THIS GREEK GODDESS WAS BORN IN A RATHER UNUSUAL WAY, ONE THAT WAS SURE TO GIVE HER FATHER ZEUS A "SPLITTING" HEADACHE
Who is Athena?
300
ALTHOUGH IT ENJOYED SUCCESS AND A TV MOVIE ADAPTATION, THIS NOVEL IS ONE THAT KING HAS NOTED IN SEVERAL INTERVIEWS THAT HE DESPISES, AND WISHES HE NEVER WROTE.
What is The Tommyknockers?
300
THIS BOARD GAME, ORIGINALLY DESIGNED AS A TIME WASTER DURING AIR RAIDS IN WORLD WAR II, CLEVERLY DERIVED ITS NAME FROM THE LATIN WORD LUDO, WHICH MEANS "I PLAY"
What is Clue?
300
THE WORLD WAS THROWN INTO WAR WHEN ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND WAS ASSASSINATED ON JUNE 28th, 1914 IN THIS CITY: THE CAPITAL OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
What is Sarajevo?
300
GAMBLER MARSHAL IMMORTAL(?)
Who is Wyatt Earp?
300
ALTHOUGH SPOKEN IN NUMEROUS LANGUAGES, THE WORD RELIGION ITSELF COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD __________, WHICH MEANS "RESTRAINT"
What is Religio?
400
TO THE CONSTERNATION OF MANY, THE ENDING OF THIS KING NOVEL TURNED FILM WAS DRASTICALLY CHANGED FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT: ONE OF THE FEW TIMES KING HAS APPROVED OF THE CHANGE OF HIS WRITING STYLE.
What is The Mist?
400
THIS COMPANY CREATED THE WORLDS FIRST VIDEO GAME: AUTO RACE, IN 1976
Who is Mattel?
400
ALONG WITH TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI AND TOKUGAWA IEYASU, THIS DAIMYO ATTEMPTED TO UNIFY JAPAN AT THE END OF THE SENGOKU PERIOD WHEN HE WAS BETRAYED AND FORCED TO COMMIT SEPPUKU
Who is Oda Nobunaga?
400
THIS TOP-BILLED ACTRESS' MOVIES WENT ON TO MAKE OVER 200 MILLION DOLLARS IN TEN YEARS, AND WAS CELEBRATED FOR HER PROGRESSIVE ATTITUDE ON WOMEN'S SEXUALITY IN THE 1950's SHE LATER WENT ON TO MARRY PLAYWRIGHT ARTHUR MILLER
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
400
THIS ROMAN GOD WAS KNOWN FOR HIS GENIUS, TEMPER AND JEALOUSY... SO DON'T GO TRYING TO 'SALUTE' HIM.
Who is Vulcan?
500
THE CHARISMATIC MAN IN BLACK, THIS VILLAIN HAS APPEARED IN OVER FIVE KING NOVELS AS VARIOUS INCARNATIONS, BUT HIS FIRST APPEARANCE WAS IN 1978's THE STAND, WHERE HE IS ALSO REFERRED TO AS "THE WALKIN' DUDE"
Who is Randall Flagg?
500
OTHERWISE KNOW AS THE "KILL LEVEL" THE ONLY WAY TO REACH PAC-MAN'S ELUSIVE MAP 256 IS WITH A PERFECT GAME SCORE OF ______________
What is 3,333,360?
500
BORN IN HALICARNASSUS IN THE PERSIAN EMPIRE, THIS GREEK WRITER AND GEOGRAPHER WENT ON TO BE RECOGNIZED AS THE WORLD'S FIRST WORLD HISTORIAN IN 425 B.C.
Who is Herodotus?
500
THIS AUTHOR WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO RECEIVE BOTH A PULITZER PRIZE AND A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR THEIR NOVEL "THE COLOR PURPLE"
Who is Alice Walker?
500
ALTHOUGH ALL THE CREDIT GOES TO DARWIN THESE DAYS, THE FIRST THEORY ON EVOLUTION ACTUALLY CAME FROM A SCIENTIST AND DEVOUT OF THIS RELIGION IN THE 9TH CENTURY
What is Islam?
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