Firestarter Trivia

1. Andy McGee and Vicki Tomlinson meet each other in a clinical trial for what chemical compound?

From Quiz Firestarter

Answer: Lot Six

Andy McGee and his young daughter, Charlie, on the run in New York City, hop into a cab and Andy, using his ability to push others into doing what he says, has the driver take them to Albany Airport, much further upstate. They're being chased by agents from The Shop. A decade earlier, twelve people (Andy and his wife, Vicki, included) were injected with vials of an experimental compound known only as Lot Six. Overseen by a Dr. Wanless, the trials proved to be informative but they did have lasting side effects. Some of the test subjects died during the trial, but some were resilient and emerged with certain abilities. As Andy and Charlie make it to Albany airport, Andy falls asleep, his energy expended, while Charlie uses her powers to help earn some money to further their escape. Though Charlie has been taught to avoid using her powers as they can lead to dangerous pyrokinesis, her efforts allow them to leave the airport safely and go hitchhiking, narrowly evading The Shop as their agents close in. Proceeding on foot, Andy and Charlie have a rough night, careening over a road barrier and down a hill before landing on the highway. Fortunately, a car picks them up and takes them to the nearby town of Hastings Glen, and there, they stay the night in a hotel.

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: Andy McGee

Played by David Keith who also starred in "Take This Job and Shove It", 1981, based on the song of the same name by Johnny Paycheck, amongst many others. A very multi-skilled actor who hasn't got the recognition he deserves, in my opinion.

From Quiz Stephen King's "Firestarter"

Answer: John

John Rainbird wants to get close enough to Charlie so that he can kill her and hopefully get his questions about death answered. Cap is the head of the Shop and is scared of Rainbird. Andy is kept away from Charlie while they are at the Shop. Orville (aka OJ aka The Juice) is the only character met more than once who has no real relevance to the story, most may remember him because his gun is named the Windsucker.

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: $500

Andy believes that Lady Luck has sent him the taxi driver, who he thinks of as a 'pushover'. "He was white (orientals were the toughest, for some reason); he was quite young (old people were nearly impossible) and of medium intelligence (bright people were the easiest pushes, stupid ones harder, and with the mentally retarded it was impossible)."

From Quiz Stephen King's "Firestarter"

Answer: Manders

He picks Charlie and Andy up nearer to the beginning of the book and saves them from getting caught, for the moment at least. There is a battle at his farm that results in him getting a bullet wound; his house, his barn, and several of his animals getting burned up; and his wife getting a lot of stress added to her life. They later house Charlie when she escapes the Shop's base.

From Quiz Firestarter

Answer: To his home

Waking up in Hastings Glen, Andy and Charlie are unaware that agents from The Shop are rolling into town, with ten in the immediate vicinity. Charlie reminds her father that they can head to Granther's cabin in Vermont (though she's never been there), escaping New York entirely. As they leave their hotel, they're picked up in an old farm truck being driven by Irv Manders, a kind man who invites the pair over for lunch at his nearby farmhouse. They narrowly avoid being caught by The Shop, but not for long, as they only have a five minute head-start. At the Manders residence, Andy unloads his troubles on Irv while his wife, Norm, takes Charlie out to feed the chickens. He explains everything from The Shop and DSI (the Department of Scientific Intelligence) to the experiment to the chase and even Vicki's death. It all comes down to Charlie's abilities and her strong pyrokinetic powers, something Irv doesn't believe until Al Steinowitz and The Shop roll up. Charlie knows that the bad men are there to kill her father, and it's because of this that she lets her powers take over, allowing her to set Steinowitz on fire, blow up the agents' vehicles, and set a blaze from next to nothing. Charlie faints for a brief spell while Irv is shot in the ensuing chaos. He hands the keys to his Jeep over to Andy and gives him directions to the state line, and with that the McGees ride off to Vermont. Charlie vows to her father that she'll never set another fire again. It's too dangerous. In Virginia, Cap receives a briefing on the failed mission. As the reports come in, he asks after Jon Rainbird, perhaps the only man who can get the McGees to him.

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: His Feet

The soldier is thinking bad things about a girl he got pregnant, Sally Bradford.

From Quiz Stephen King's "Firestarter"

Answer: the windsucker & windsucker & wind sucker

The Juice's other names are OJ and Orville Jamieson (King refers to him as "The Juice aka OJ aka Orville Jamieson" a couple times). This character I believe is actually only a filler character with no real purpose in the novel. He does, however, report the Manders' farm incident and helps several people working for the Shop get away at the end when Charlie lets it all loose. Even though he lacks relevance to the story, he is probably my favorite character.

From Quiz Firestarter

Answer: In the laundry room

John Rainbird, only briefly informed of the details involved in the Lot Six experiments, travels to Washington DC to kill Dr. Wanless and learn what he can about the McGees. It's then that he learns about Charlie. In Tashmore, Vermont, Andy and Charlie make it to Granther McGee's place just as autumn comes to an end and they make themselves at home, spending much of the winter there. It's a good time for self-reflection as Andy has the opportunity to recall the days leading to their escape across New England. It all started with they day Vicki died, when he had a feeling of ill omen at work at the school. He returned home to find an eerily empty home, ultimately finding Vicki dead in the basement laundry room. Leaving home he would come to determine that Charlie was missing, having been picked up from a friend's home by men claiming to be his work colleagues. He would cross city lines searching for an unmarked grey van, the last known vehicle she was seen with, taking the turnpike on a hunch. Andy would find Charlie with the kidnappers from the Shop stopping off at a rest stop for a bathroom break. Collecting her there, he would need to expend his energy using his power to 'push' people with his mind. They would stay at a nearby Best Western, taking stock and grieving their loss, before heading out on the run.

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: Lot 6

Andy feels guilty that Charlie is out so late, on the run, and feeling guilty herself because of the power she inherited from her parents. "How do you explain to a seven-year-old girl that Daddy and Mommy had once needed two hundred dollars and the people they had talked to had said it was alright, but they had lied?"

From Quiz Stephen King's "Firestarter"

Answer: Rachel

This deals a great blow to Cap and it is mentioned numerous times how much older he looks. Rachel was his assistant.

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: Irv and Norma Manders

When Charlie escapes from The Shop, she returns to the Manders' farm and stays for a while, but leaves when she hears them talking about how dangerous it is to have her there. She goes to New York, to the "Rolling Stone" offices to tell her story. "'Just like show-and-tell in school, huh?' the receptionist asked. Charlie smiled. It was the smile that had so dazzled the librarian. 'Yes,' she said. 'I've been waiting for a long time.'" These are the last lines in the book.

From Quiz Stephen King's "Firestarter"

Answer: Roberta

Andy is the name of Charlie's father, and the name they give her fake brother. Roberta is Charlie's middle-name, which is where she got it from. Norma is Irv's wife's name.

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: Roberta

Irv chooses to shorten it to Bobbi. She tells Irv that she and her father are going to see her mother who has just given birth to a baby boy, named Andy.

From Quiz Stephen King's "Firestarter"

Answer: snake

A snake had bitten his older brother long ago and that had scared Cap (who was less than five at the time). Cap mistakes a hose for a snake and runs to it to kill it, trying to save his brother, and gets shot by Rainbird. I put it lion, tiger, and bear because I kept thinking about that "Wizard of Oz" song that I hate so much, "Lions, tigers, and bears oh, my!".

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: Cap Hollister

Played by Martin Sheen in the movie.

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: He acted scared because it reminded him of the hole the 'Cong' put him in

He told her a story about being captured by the 'Cong', being put in a hole, and made to eat rotting rice and live spiders.

From Quiz Firestarter

Answer: The stables

Charlie's tests only get larger and the scientists of the Shop worry about Charlie's capabilities. She demands to see her father before any further examination and they know she could destroy the compound if she wanted to. Andy goes to Pynchot's funeral and on the way back he sets his plan into further action, using the Push to have Cap send him to Hawaii, but also convincing him to come with himself and Charlie and sending Rainbird away at the same time, keeping the man out of the picture. What he doesn't realize is that he's started another ricochet as Cap starts turning his mind to games of golf and poisonous snakes. Cap subsequently plans the plane to be moved to a sooner date and suggests to his superiors he'll spend time in Hawaii. When he visits Charlie-- all part of Andy's plan-- he lets her know the news and hands her a secret note from her father explaining the circumstances. She'll need to be at the stables at 1pm on Wednesday and she'll need to be wary of John Rainbird since he's not who he says he is. That night she has enough nightmares to raise the temperature of her controlled room. Rainbird shows up the next morning and Charlie gives him the cold shoulder, enough so that he's compelled to check the tapes for her room. All signs point to both Pynchot and Cap having been mind-affected by Andy, so he looks into the details of the coming week, cancels his flight, and sets his affairs in order.

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: Necromancer

'The Shop' keeps giving her little treats to keep her cooperative, when all she wants is to see her father.

From Quiz Stephen King's "Firestarter"

Answer: to Irv and Norma Manders

Charlie rests here for a while before departing (just in the nick of time) to a library to find out where she can go to publish her story. Then she goes to the Rolling Stone's office.

From Quiz Firestarter - The Book

Answer: Rolling Stone

In the movie, she goes to the "New York Times", but in the book, she goes to "Rolling Stone". She asked a librarian where she could go that was honest, nationwide and had no ties to the government. Hope you enjoyed this quiz!

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