Misery Trivia

1. When famous author Paul Sheldon got in a car crash, a woman named Annie Wilkes gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation. He wanted her to stop, because he didn't like the taste of what on her breath?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Misery"

Answer: Vanilla cookies, chocolate ice cream, chicken gravy, and peanut butter fudge

When he was in the crash, he could feel a mouth clamp over his, and he could taste those four things as her breath entered him. He wanted it to stop, and when he got a breath of regular air, he thought that regular air never tasted better. She then took him to her house, where he could heal. There, she said, "I'm your number one fan."

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Answer: Fast Cars

Writer Paul Sheldon wakes up in Annie Wilkes' Colorado mountain house to find that he has been injured in a car crash, but what luck - Paul is in the company of a former nurse. Soon, when Paul realizes that Annie is his number one fan and that she hasn't notifed anyone of his accident and location, he may be in a spot of trouble. When she asks permission to read his manuscript, "Fast Cars", she is highly disappointed with the inappropriate language used by the protagonist, a city boy on drugs. She forces Paul to burn his only copy in exchange for pain relievers.

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Answer: Cuts his foot off

In the movie, Annie Wilkes puts a brick between his legs and hits his ankles with a sledgehammer. She tells Paul a story about people who worked at a mine and got into trouble. She says that their feet were cut off so that they couldn't run away but could still work. She doesn't want Paul to escape, so she cuts his foot off. Later on in the story, she cuts his thumb off, but she doesn't call that "hobbling".

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Answer: Novril

Just after the acknowledgments, Stephen King wrote "There is, of course, no such drug as Novril, but there are several codeine-based drugs similar to it, and unfortunately, hospital pharmacies and medical dispensaries are sometimes lax in keeping such drugs under tight lock and close inventory."

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Answer: Novril

Annie gave Paul two capsules every six hours, and actually almost killed him with an accidental overdose. Paul even got addicted to the Novril as the story progressed.

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Answer: Novril

As Annie was once a nurse, it is assumed that she has access to many of the drugs used at the hospital. On many occasions, Annie gives Paul much more than the recommended amount and puts his life at risk. He also becomes addicted to the drug as it does what he calls 'bringing the tide in'. When Paul escapes his room, he finds cases of Novril in a box in the bathroom amongst other drugs.

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Answer: She tripped over a cat on the stairs.

Annie was really the one that killed her, but the newspaper believed the story about her tripping on the stairs. Paul read this in horror as he looked at Annie's scrapbook called "Memory Lane".

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Answer: n

Paul described the typewriter to be "grinning" at him, missing a "tooth" which was the letter "n".

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Answer: Burn it

After burning it, Annie forced Paul to write his best Misery novel ever, "Misery's Return", just for her. She gave him an old typewriter (which was missing an 'n'), so he could write the book.

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Answer: Ian

After Paul burns his manuscript, Annie buys him an old typewriter in order to have him create 'Misery's Return' to bring his murdered character Misery Chastain back from her death (of childbirth). When Paul decides to tell Annie that he doesn't like the paper that she bought for him, she shatters his knee and leaves the house to buy the right paper. He takes the opportunity to jimmy the lock to his door and find some help. He finds Novril, but the phone in her living room is a fake.

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Answer: Paul

When Paul was reading "Memory Lane", her brother's name was mentioned. It was shocking to him and a little bit weird. Annie knew that he read her book because she put hairs on it to see if it was opened. When the hairs were gone, she knew that Paul had been out of his room.

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Answer: "Where am I?"

The answer to this question is Sidewinder, Colorado.

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Answer: Cut off his thumb

She just walked into the guest room (where he was staying), and cut off his thumb. She then lit it on fire and used it as a candle for his birthday cake.

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Answer: A bobby pin

On his trip out of his room, Paul obtains his Novril and blacks out due to the pain in his legs. When he wakes up he tries to reach a phone but finds that he's unable to get a dial-tone. On his way back to his room, he accidentally knocks over a figurine, but catches it before it hits the floor. At this point, he hears Annie driving up to the house and manages to get back to his room while hiding the pills under his mattress.

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Answer: H. Rider Haggard

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Answer: Sean

After forcing himself to begin work on a new "Misery" novel, Paul gives his first chapters to Annie and she says that it isn't believable enough. She forces Paul to start again, making the beginning realistic, and as he goes on he begins to feel more at ease with his Misery. He begins the story with the main characters digging up Misery's grave to find that she's still alive. She seemed dead at chldbirth due to an allergic reaction.

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Answer: Pepsi

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Answer: Bashed the typewriter against her back

After he hit her back with the typewriter, she got up and tried to kill him. They then were locked in an epic battle.

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Answer: With money from Paul's wallet

When Paul realizes that Annie is in serious trouble with her taxes, he decides to help her out to get on her good side by paying nearly five hundred dollars from his own wallet for her taxes. After she goes out to pay for the taxes, Paul gets the idea for his novel, which he later crafts to be set in Africa amongst the Bourka Bee People. Annie also heads to her 'Laughing Place' for the first time, and Paul takes the opportunity to get some questions answered.

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Answer: Two

It says a couple of times in the story that he had two unsuccessful marriages. He fools Annie into thinking that he loves her.

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Answer: Can You

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Answer: He stuffed her mouth full of the burning pages of the manuscript

Annie was choking on the pages, but she was still fighting. It seemed as though she was impossible to kill.

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Answer: Memory Lane

When Paul escapes his room for the second time, he ventures around the house and finds that all of the exits have strong locks and that there's no escape. In the living room, he finds that Annie has kept her memories in a scrapbook and realizes that she was responsible for the murders of many sick people at various hospitals, and then the murders of young infants as the head of the maternity ward in Boulder, Colorado. Nicknamed 'The Dragon Lady', Annie was tried, but due to lack of evidence and reasonable doubt, she was let off the hook and she moved to her isolated house.

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Answer: In the baseboard in his room

He first hid it in his pants but then moved it under his mattress. He then decided that the mattress was an obvious place since Annie found both the knife and his stash of Novril there. He hid in in the baseboards the next morning.

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Answer: Tamara Kinsolving

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Answer: She tripped and hit her head on the typewriter

Annie cracked her skull, but still wouldn't give up. She decided she must kill Paul once and for all.

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Answer: Codeine

Paul gets hooked on this drug and steals some from Annie's bathroom. After he steals some, he stashes it under his mattress. Annie soon finds it and punishes him for it. This is why she hobbles him.

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Answer: Spring

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Answer: She was getting a chainsaw to kill Paul

Two state troopers eventually arrived and got Paul. Annie never came back; she died of her head injuries in the barn. Annie Wilkes was finally dead.

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Answer: David and Goliath

One day in the spring, while Annie is mowing her lawn, an officer drives to Annie's house to ask a question about Paul, who is declared missing. Paul throws an ashtray out the window to get his attention, but Annie ends up running the young cop over with her lawnmower. She blames Paul for this, as he was the one who caught the cop's attention. Later, more cops begin dropping by, asking Annie about the murdered cop (who has gone missing) as well as Paul. Soon, it nears the end when Paul needs to finish his book.

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