The Shining Quiz Book - A Selection of Questions

1. Where were the opening scenes of Jack driving through the mountains filmed?

A) Cairngorms National Park, Scotland

B) Yosemite National Park, California

C) Glacier National Park, Montana

D) Tongass National Forest, Alaska

2. Which actual hotel in Oregon was used as the exterior of the Overlook Hotel for some of the wide shots?

A) Chateau Marmont

B) Mohonk Mountain House

C) The Stanley Hotel

D) Timberline Lodge

3. Who co-wrote the screenplay for The Shining with Stanley Kubrick?

A) Stephen King

B) Diane Johnson

C) Frederic Raphael

D) Michael Herr

4. What was Stephen King’s sequel to his original novel of The Shining called?

A) Revival

B) Doctor Sleep

C) Finders Keepers

D) The Wind Through the Keyhole

5. In which Hollywood blockbuster is The Shining seen playing on a drive-in theater screen that gets destroyed?

A) Independence Day

B) The Day After Tomorrow

C) Twister

D) Into the Storm

6. Who plays Jack Torrance in the television miniseries adaptation of The Shining?

A) Steven Weber

B) Gary Sinise

C) Tom Skerritt

D) Jimmy Smits

7. Which type of drink does Grady accidently spill over Jack in the Gold Room?

A) Coquito

B) Eggnog

C) Advocaat

D) Red wine

8. In which television comedy was The Shining spoofed in a Halloween special called The Shinning?

A) Family Guy

B) South Park

C) Futurama

D) The Simpsons

9. From which television show does Jack’s famous line, “Heeere’s Johnny!” come from?

A) Johnny Ringo

B) Jonny Quest

C) The Johnny Cash Show

D) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

10. What is the year in the photograph at the end of the film of the July 4^th Ball at the Overlook Hotel?

A) 1920

B) 1921

C) 1922

D) 1923

SCROLL DOWN FOR THE ANSWERS!!!

1) C - Glacier National Park, Montana (some footage from this second unit shoot was given to Ridley Scott by Kubrick for use in the original release of Blade Runner)

2) D - Timberline Lodge

3) B - Diane Johnson (apparently Stephen King also had written a draft of the screenplay which Kubrick didn’t use)

4) B - Doctor Sleep (in the afterword in Doctor Sleep, King notes that the sequel follows his novel rather than Kubrick’s film)

5) C - Twister

6) A - Steven Weber

7) C - Advocaat

8) D - The Simpsons (changed to The Shinning to avoid being sued!)

9) D - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (the show’s announcer, Ed McMahon, would introduce Johnny Carson with the catchphrase every night for 30 years. It is often written that Nicholson improvised the line though he claims it was always in the script)

10) B – 1921 (the photograph was actually a real photo from the 1920s into which Jack Nicholson had been airbrushed in)

Taken from The Shining Quiz Book by Killian H. Gore

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