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Clayton Riddell is assisted by middle-aged Tom McCourt and teenager Alice Maxwell amidst the savagery that results when a mysterious pulse knocks out all cellular phones. A 2016 film adaptation starred John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, and Isabelle Fuhrman.
6 Cell quizzes and 70 Cell trivia questions.
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  Cell Test   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
In another Stephen King apocalyptic thriller, technology spells doom for the world as a terrifying Pulse is spread through cell phone signals. The story follows Clay Riddell as he travels to Maine to save his son. Good luck!
Tough, 10 Qns, kyleisalive, Aug 17 10
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  'Cell' Can you hear me now?   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Dear Constant Reader, Welcome to the 'Cell' quiz. It is an easy one with very basic information. If you have read the book I'm sure you will do well! Have fun!
Average, 15 Qns, oneof5, Dec 12 06
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  First Days of the Pulse   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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A multiple choice quiz on the early chapters of Stephen King's 2006 novel "Cell", an apocalyptic tale of survival after the world goes mad from technology.
Average, 10 Qns, oofahlandian, Aug 23 10
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  "Cell" by Stephen King    
Multiple Choice
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This is one of my favourite Stephen King books. Apart from the ending! WARNING - contains spoilers.
Average, 15 Qns, KerriW, Aug 31 14
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  Stephen King's "Cell"   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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This is the first quiz I have made and I just finished reading "Cell", so it seemed like a good place to start. Hope you enjoy it.
Average, 10 Qns, JoshD, Aug 29 14
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  Cell Multiple Choice Quiz    
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This was the fourth Stephen King book I read and remains one of my favorites. This is a Stephen King epic full of thrills, chills and excitment. Hopefully you enjoy this quiz.
Tough, 10 Qns, griffthebird, Jul 04 14
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What is the name of the mechanic who Tom, Alice, and Clay find in Tom's backyard?

From Quiz "Cell"





Cell Trivia Questions
1. What is the name of the graphic novel that Clay has written?

From Quiz "Cell" by Stephen King

Answer: Dark Wanderer

Clay had a meeting in Boston to try and sell his graphic novel. This means he is a long way from his home and family when the 'pulse' hits.

2. What street does Tom live on?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: Salem Street

Tom McCourt lives on Salem Street with his cat. The group went there to spend their first night after the Pulse began.

3. What day do people start going crazy after using their cell phones?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Cell"

Answer: October 1st

"The event that came to be known as The Pulse began at 3:03pm, eastern standard time, on the afternoon of October 1."

4. What was Clay Riddell doing at the very beginning of the book when the world suddenly went to hell?

From Quiz First Days of the Pulse

Answer: Standing in line to buy ice cream

He was standing in line before an ice cream truck in Boston, when a number of strange things happened at once: screams from the park, a man biting off the ear of a dog, a woman in a business suit attacking the ice cream man, and a girl attacking the woman in a business suit by biting through her jugular vein.

5. What is the name of the main character in Stephen King's 'Cell'?

From Quiz 'Cell' Can you hear me now?

Answer: Clayton Riddell

Clay is the main character of the book, although Tom, Alice and Jordan also play significant roles.

6. When the first wave of the 'pulse' hits, what is Clay waiting to buy?

From Quiz "Cell" by Stephen King

Answer: Ice cream

He hears the Mr Softee truck playing the theme tune from "Sesame Street" and decides to buy an ice cream to kill time until he is able to call Sharon. The paperweight has already been purchased by Clay as a gift for Sharon.

7. What was the name of the pregnant woman the group met who ended up traveling with them?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: Denise

Denise, Ray and Dan joined the group. At one point in the story Denise spits on Raggedy Man's face.

8. Prior to the arrival of 'The Pulse', Clay was a comic book artist. What was the name of his comic book, ironically accepted by a publisher, on October 1st?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: The Dark Wanderer

During the first few minutes of 'The Pulse', Clay's publishing folder (which was given to him by his wife) is stabbed through by a phone-crazy. It really doesn't matter anyway, the employees of the publishing company are probably crazy or dead. Clay is able to survive the initial blast and the events that follow with the help of a man he meets on the street, Tom McCourt.

9. The main character in Cell is Clayton Riddell. What does he do for a living?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Cell"

Answer: Artist

Clay had just sold his first comic to a publisher hours before "the pulse" for big money after years of struggling to make ends meet. Then the world as he knew it ended. Talk about bad luck.

10. Who is the first unaffected person whom Clay Riddell meets?

From Quiz First Days of the Pulse

Answer: Tom McCourt

As frenzied "phone-crazies" began jumping out of tall buildings around them, Tom began to mutter oaths beside him. "What's going on?" he finally asked Clay.

11. An event described as 'The Pulse' was the basis of the story. When did the Pulse occur?

From Quiz 'Cell' Can you hear me now?

Answer: October 1st

If you live in America then the TRULY frightening day is April 15th- Income Tax Day!

12. How old is Alice?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: 15

Alice meets Clay and Tom the day the Pulse begins and travels with them throughout the book. She was only 15 years old and had lost her mother during the chaos.

13. Outside which Boston location did Clay and Tom first find Alice?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: Atlantic Avenue Inn

After the chaos begins, Tom and Clay decide to hide away in a safe place, so they go back to Clay's hotel. Here, they bunker down for a bit in the lobby (as the other floors aren't safe) by turning off the elevator and blocking the doors with a couple of tall chairs. Before they enter, Clay notices a girl in a dress in shock and walking up the street. She runs away when Clay tries to help her, but she later returns and hides with them in the hotel. Her name is Alice, and her mother was transformed by The Pulse while they were in a taxi cab.

14. After taking refuge in the Atlantic Avenue Inn Clay and Tom met a girl who would join them in their travels. What was her name?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Cell"

Answer: Alice Maxwell

When they first saw her she was being chased by a phone crazy outside of the Inn. The Inn clerk, Mr. Ricardi, would not let her in at first but Clay and Tom convinced him.

15. Where do Tom, Clay, and Alice end up seeking temporary refuge early on the first day after "the pulse" hits?

From Quiz First Days of the Pulse

Answer: The Atlantic Avenue Inn

Tom and Clay need to convince Mr. Ricardi to let them in, which he does tentatively. He refuses to let Alice in at first and she herself is unwilling to join up with them. Later Alice, stalked by one of the "phone-crazies", pleads to enter the Inn, and is eventually let in under rather extraordinary circumstances.

16. Who killed Power Suit Woman?

From Quiz 'Cell' Can you hear me now?

Answer: Pixie Light

Pixie Light and Pixie Dark (Clay's names for them)were the girls in line with Clay when the Pulse hit. Myron Floren was best known as the accordionist on 'The Lawrence Welk Show' between 1950 and 1982. When Clay and company were walking along route 102 they heard Floren's version of'The Beer Barrel Polka'. The Head is Charles Ardai, Headmaster of the Academy.

17. What's the name of the smart, twelve-year-old boy the group meets?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: Jordan

Jordan was very smart with computers and made comparisons between the brain and computers. We first meet him at Gaiten Academy and he travels with the group throughout the book from then on.

18. What is the name of Tom's cat?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: Rafe & Rafael & Rafer

After deciding that it is safe to leave the hotel, the trio heads to Tom's house in Malden, where they can spend the night. Here, Tom's cat, Rafe, welcomes them. Along the way to the house, they meet up with a large group of people evacuating Boston including a religious fanatic who attacks Alice. Oddly, no one runs into a phone-crazy at this time, as they have all simply disappeared.

19. When the group left the Altantic Avenue Inn whose house did they decide to walk to in nearby Malden?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Cell"

Answer: Tom

Tom lived closer than Clay and Alice, and Mr. Ricardi refused to leave with them. He hung himself in the inn office shortly after they left him.

20. In which city were Tom, Clay, and Alice when half the world went completely mad?

From Quiz First Days of the Pulse

Answer: Boston

Derry and Castle Rock are famous (if not real) for their repeated use in Stephen King novels. However, "Cell" begins in Boston, Mass. It ends in Kashwakamak, Maine.

21. Where was Clayton when the Pulse occurred?

From Quiz 'Cell' Can you hear me now?

Answer: Boston

While many of these cities will be familiar to King fans, this tale begins in Boston.

22. After being unable to procure enough gasoline to soak the phoners, what idea does the group them come up with?

From Quiz "Cell" by Stephen King

Answer: Driving some full tankers onto the field from a nearby petrol station

Clay and Tom drive the tankers onto the field while the phoners are out foraging. Once they are all rebooting, they use the .45 to blow the tankers up.

23. What was written on the ice cream truck in the begining?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: Mister Softee

The first signs of chaos Clay sees are just outside of this ice cream truck. He continues to remember the horrors he saw outside of it, including Power Suit Woman turning to a phone crazy, Pixie Light's attack and Pixie Drak's loss of mind.

24. What colour is Johnny-Gee's cell phone?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: Red

Throughout the novel, Clay has trouble coping with the fact that his ex-wife and his son are back at home in Maine and that he is so far away. He constantly remembers that his son has a cell phone and that there's the possibility that he could have used it and become a phone-crazy. Clay forces himself onward and lets nothing stop him from getting to Maine. The other two, Tom and Alice, tag along.

25. Who does Clay knock out with a punch to the face on their way to Tom's house?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Cell"

Answer: An old lady with a bible

The old lady was harassing Alice and ranting about the end of the world.

26. What was the fate of Mr Ricardi?

From Quiz First Days of the Pulse

Answer: He committed suicide

He killed himself rather than "leaving his post" at the Atlantic Avenue Inn. Clay was the one to find him when he returned to the inn to retrieve his portfolio.

27. Why did Clayton want to get to Maine?

From Quiz 'Cell' Can you hear me now?

Answer: His wife and son were there

Even though he and his ex-wife had been having problems he was desperate to find her and his son. He was especially burdened because he had insisted that his son have a cell phone.

28. What is Tom's cat's name?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: Rafe

Rafe saved Tom's life by knocking over his cell phone. When the group starts to travel he has to leave Rafe behind, which upsets him, but he does it.

29. What is the name of the mechanic who Tom, Alice, and Clay find in Tom's backyard?

From Quiz Cell

Answer: George

When the three survivors wake up the next morning, they discover that there were phone-crazies walking all around them and they never noticed (in fact, Clay was sleeping out on the front porch!). Some of the phone-crazies come through the gate and into Tom's backyard to eat the vegetables that he's growing. After a quick argument between the 'zombies', George ends up breaking the neck of another phone-crazy over a piece of pumpkin.

30. The morning after the pulse the group woke up in Tom's house and discovered a phone crazy sitting in his garden. What was the phone crazy eating?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Cell"

Answer: A pumpkin

He had cracked a pumpkin in half on the corner of a wheelbarrow and was eating it. Clay, Tom and Alice were suprised to see a phone crazy use a tool to open the pumpkin and then refrain from attacking the woman that joined him in the garden.

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