He is the author of gazillions of scary books, including The Shining, Under the Dome, and 11/22/63.
Who is Stephen King?
100
He wrote the story of two young friends who traveled the Mississippi in the 1900s, with an escaped slave named Jim.
Who is Mark Twain? (Extra credit for real name).
100
This northeast town and state are the home of a horror writer. The house is surrounded by black wrought-iron fencing, and he likes to ride motorcycles.
What is Bangor, Maine?
100
Perhaps the most famous opening line ever came from this book: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
What is A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.
100
Who said, "Aw, now that's not very nice. He's just a donkey!"
Who is Shrek?
200
The author of the Tell Tale Heart, and The Raven, among other scary stories.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
200
This story includes a bug-eyed creature named Gollum, who lives underground in a cave, and stars delightful fellows with hairy feet.
What is The Hobbit?
200
This is the home of the nation's oldest continuous Memorial Day parade?
What is Westminster, MD?
200
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much," is the opening line.
What is the opening line to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
200
This was the most lopsided football score in college football history? The winning team was coached by a man who they named the most famous individual trophy in college football after.
What is 222-0, Cumberland vs Georgia Tech. 1916.
300
He is a famous male author of horror, and gothic fiction for juveniles, born in 1943. Wrote the GooseBumps series.
Who is R.L. Stine?
300
It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.
What is Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney?
300
This fictional island off the east coast of the U.S was the setting for a frenzied feeding in the mid-1970s. Add "-ville, and you also had a great HORROR.
What is Amity Island?
300
"All children, except one, grow up." This is the opening line to a children's book featuring Wendy.
What is Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie?
300
He wrote the national anthem after seeing the flag still waving during a battle in 1814, and is buried in Frederick, MD.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
400
He wrote the only book that scared me in broad daylight, about the murder of the Clutter Family in Holcumb, Kansas, in 1959. The book is often referred to as the first non-fiction novel.
Who is Truman Capote? The book is in Cold Blood.
400
Young brothers Dylan and James Paxton set out on their own to learn the fate of their brother Davie and their mom in this riveting adventure set in Maryland and Georgia.
What is Buried Treasure, by Jack B Downs?
400
Harry Potter attended school here.
What is Hogwarts, in England?
400
"Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.
What is Don Quxote? By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
400
This ship, docked in Baltimore, is the last ship to survive from the Civil War.
What is the USS Constellation?
500
This book opens with Father Marin in the Gobi Desert, and is set mostly in Georgetown, Washington, DC. The soundtrack is called Tubular Bells. The girls spits green vomit and her head twists all the way around.
What is The Exorcist, with William Peter Blatty.
500
Bass Ellis fights dark criminal masterminds and struggles to rescue his beloved in this modern-day Caribbean adventure!
What is The Eden Mist Affair, by Jack B Downs?
500
Percy Jackson attends school here.
What is Yancy Academy?
500
He says, in a pathetically passionate whisper, "My precious, my precious."
Who is Gollum, in the Hobbit?
500
This man is on track to become the first U.S.-born male saint of the Roman Catholic Church.