The Shining Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: Chocolate

"How'd you like some ice-cream, Doc?"

Answer: Grady

Jack is chasing Wendy up the steps and is going to try to kill her. Wendy has a bat and keeps swinging it to protect herself from Jack. Wendy lands a blow to Jack which causes him to fall down the steps backwards. Jack is knocked unconscious by the fall. Wendy, who is afraid for her and Danny, drags Jack through the kitchen. She is going to lock Jack into the kitchen pantry. Jack is starting to come to and asks Wendy what she is doing. Wendy gets to the pantry door and in her panic can't get the door open. She struggles with the door for a few seconds and then realizes the pin is still in the door. She removes the pin and drags Jack into the pantry. Wendy closes the door and locks it. Jack tries to play on Wendy's love for him. He tells her his head hurts real bad from the fall. Wendy tells Jack she is going to take Danny into town and will bring back a doctor. Jack calls to Wendy and she answers sobbingly. Jack tells her she isn't going anywhere. Wendy discovers Jack has damaged the CB radio and snow mobile. Jack meanwhile falls asleep in the pantry. Jack is woken up by Delbert Grady. Delbert tells Jack that his wife has gotten the best of him. He says that he and some of the others don't think Jack's heart is in what needs to be done. Jack assures Grady that it is. Grady tells Jack that he will have to resort to harsher methods to get the job done. Jacks says that nothing would give him more pleasure then to take care of his family. Delbert then opens the door to the pantry and releases Jack.

Philip Stone plays the role of the former caretaker. He is the one who, as he puts it, had to correct his family. He tells Jack that when his daughters tried to burn down the Overlook, he corrected them. He says when his wife tried to prevent him from doing his duty, he corrected her too. Grady idea of correcting his family is extreme - he killed them. Philip Stone also did "A Clockwork Orange" with Stanley Kubrick. He played the role of Malcolm McDowell's dad. Philip passed away in 2003. Joe Turkel plays the role of Lloyd, the bartender. Tony Burton is Larry Durkin, the garage owner. Barry Nelson plays the role of Stuart Ullman, the hotel manager.

Answer: Jack

At this point, I had so little faith in Wendy I was actually afraid she might take him up on his offer! Thank goodness she didn't.

Answer: Jack

Jack tells Danny this in the scene after Danny sees the girls in the hall and they make much the same invitation.

Answer: Jack

This is one of the few points in the movie where Kubrick seems to be making an attempt to establish a loving relationship between Danny and his father.

Answer: naked women with afros

I've always been a bit perturbed by what Kubrick was trying to achieve with this.

Answer: 300

Mr. Ullman says this while showing the Torrances around the hotel.

Answer: Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick directed the iconic horror film 'The Shining' in 1980. The film, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, tells the story of a family who becomes the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel, where supernatural forces slowly drive the father insane. Kubrick's attention to detail and use of innovative camera techniques, such as the Steadicam, helped to create a sense of unease and tension throughout the film. Despite initial mixed reviews, 'The Shining' has since become a classic in the horror genre and is widely regarded as one of Kubrick's greatest works.

Answer: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

It evidently made him a crazy boy too!

Answer: Joe Turkel

Turkel, born on July 15th, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, landed the role of Lloyd. Lloyd was a bartender and his ghost appeared to Jack in a couple scenes in the movie. Midway through the movie, Jack went to the bar to talk to Lloyd and mentioned to him, in a joking manner that it was a little slow that evening. Jack then laughed at his own joke while Lloyd simply told Jack that it indeed was slow. Lloyd asked Jack what he wanted so Jack said he was glad that Lloyd asked him that since Jack had two twenty dollar bills and two ten dollar bills in his wallet to pay for drinks. Jack sarcastically stated he was afraid that money would be in his wallet until next April. Jack asked Lloyd if he could give him a glass of bourbon so Lloyd went to get Jack a glass of bourbon. In a later scene, Jack went to the bar and this time Lloyd served him bourbon on the rocks.
Turkel guest starred on the TV series', "Boy Meets World", "Miami Vice" and "Tales from the Darkside".

Answer: "Great party, isn't it ?".

Jack has just been released from the pantry. He goes to the apartment where he and his family reside. Jack breaks down the door with an axe. Wendy and Danny run into the bathroom to hide. Wendy slides Danny outside the bathroom window which has a snow drift right up to it. Wendy tries to get out but won't fit because the window is to small. She tells Danny to run and hide. Jack uses the axe to break into the bathroom. When the axe hits the door, Wendy starts to scream. She screams with every blow that the axe hits the door. Jack breaks the panel of the door open and looks in to see Wendy. Jack says, "Here's Johnny". He sticks his hand in the door to open it. Wendy cuts his hand with a kitchen knife. She got the knife when she locked Jack in the pantry. Jack screams as the knife cuts him. Suddenly they both hear the snowmobile, driven by Dick, coming to the hotel. Jack runs away to meet Dick. Wendy leaves the bathroom to find Danny. As she is looking for Danny she sees many strange things. She sees a man dressed in a black tuxedo. The man raises his glass to toast Wendy. He has blood running down the center of his face. Wendy turns around and runs the opposite way. Wendy turns the corner and sees the elevator. A river of blood explodes from the elevator shaft.

Answer: Jack

Jack yells that Wendy's got a bit of a surprise coming to her, if she expects to use the snow-cat and the radio.

Answer: Jack

And you did, Jack. That you did.

Answer: Dick

Dick shines this question to Danny when he's showing Wendy the storage room.

Answer: he looks in the mirror

Again, Jack's interactions with the elements of the hotel are largely informed by the presence of mirrors.

Answer: Susan Robertson

You have to really pay attention to get that one right.

Answer: 40

In the movie The Shining, there is a scene where Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, enters the walk-in freezer of the hotel. The question asks about how many chickens are kept in the freezer, and the answer is 40. This may seem like an odd detail to remember, but it actually serves as a subtle nod to the novel the movie is based on. In the book, the hotel's previous owner, Horace Derwent, had a fetish for chickens and kept a large number of them on the property. This detail was not included in the movie, but the presence of the chickens in the freezer serves as a small reference to the source material.

Answer: Bourbon on the rocks

Cheers Lloyd!

Answer: sunnyside up eggs

Wendy is pushing a food cart through the lobby of the hotel. She takes the cart up to their apartment. Wendy wakes up Jack so he can eat his breakfast. Jack sits up and we see him wearing a faded blue Stovington t-shirt. Wendy gives Jack his breakfast of sunnyside up eggs, bacon, and juice. Jack starts to eat his breakfast and Wendy sits down on the bed to talk to him. They both start to talk about the hotel and how much they like it there. Jack says he experienced a sense of deja vu that was almost ridiculous. Wendy tells Jack it is a nice day outside and asks him to take her for a walk. Jack says he should really get some work done. Jack at this point has yet to fall under the influence of the hotel. A few days later we see Jack staring at a model of the hotel's maze. He can see miniature versions of Wendy and Danny going through the maze. It is all down hill from here as Jack slips into what can only be described as madness.

It is never mentioned where Jack worked in the movie. The only reference we see to his old job is the t-shirt. In the book, Jack was fired from the teaching position for beating up a student. The student was caught by Jack slashing his tires. This is a key point in the book as it leads to Jack being offered the job at the Overlook.

Answer: Jack

Speaking to Grady through the storage room door about dealing with Wendy and Danny in the 'harshest possible way'.

Answer: Jack

Jack tells Wendy his theory about Danny's bruises and ripped sweater.

Answer: Danny

This is in response to Dick thinking he doesn't want to talk about shining. Then he says one of my favorite lines in the film, 'Tony is the little boy who lives in my mouth.'

Answer: salt

Big bags of Holly salt. Did you know that all the snow used on the external shots when Danny slid down outside the bathroom window was actually salt? That must've made a mess of their clothes.

Answer: His arms are shown passing the doorframe in the shot from outside, then from the shot from inside, they pass through the doorframe again.

This is probably another example of what happens with all the takes. When you cut together the best of 50 or so performances, the physicalities of them are bound to not match up perfectly. Some people have suggested, though, that the intention in this was to further suggest the power the hotel has to alter the physical boundaries of the world.