The Shining Trivia

1. Where does the first chapter take place?

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: Ullman's office

In this chapter Jack is being interviewed for the job at the hotel. It already revealed that Jack does not like Ullman. Jack never does start liking Ullman, he dislikes him through the entire book.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: Boulder

The story opens with Jack at a job interview at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado's Rockies. After being hired by the owner, Mr. Ullman, he is taken on a short tour of the hotel to learn of the various maintenance-type tasks he will have to perform. His wife, Wendy, and his young five-year-old son, Danny, remain in Boulder, awaiting the news. The family, desperately in need of cash after a few horrible incidents in their old home in the northeast states, is excited (and possibly a bit nervous) about the plan. While Wendy is worried about the isolation, and the obscure idea of spending an entire weekend alone in a vacant hotel, Danny, (with the help of his invisible friend, Tony) has been seeing things which could prove to be prophetic, up to and including his angry father, chasing him down a dark corridor with a large wooden club. The word REDRUM flashes before his mind, and although he can't put his finger on it, he knows it's a bad word- worse than the word DIVORCE, which he heard on the mind of his mother after the accident. Back in Maine, Jack had hurt Danny after he found that his son had nearly destroyed a play he had been working on. Somewhat drunk, Jack went to grab Danny's arm, but broke it instead. Wendy had nearly tried to ask for a divorce, but luckily, after an odd accident that Jack had with his friend, Al Shockley (who got Jack the Overlook job), the situation was avoided, and to top it off, Jack stopped drinking. Unfortunately, shortly after this, Jack cut a student from his debate team in a school where he had a teaching job, and the student, George Hatfield, slashed his tires. The incident was described as Jack 'losing his temper', but after the fact, a board of directors voted 6-1 for him to be suspended indefinitely, with Al being the single vote against. So they moved to Boulder to start anew, and Jack earned his job at the Overlook, still sober. The family begins to pack for the winter.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: shotgun

Delbert Grady killed himself by placing a shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. He did so after murdering his wife and two little girls.

From Quiz 'The Shining'

Answer: Arapahoe Street

Jack, Wendy and Danny lived on Arapahoe Street, in Boulder Colorado.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: Tony

Tony is Dany's future self coming to guide him.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: Martians

Jack calls martinis martians. He and Albert Shockley used to go out drinking all the time and they would always drink these. They stopped going out and drinking when they hit a bike and thought they hit a kid. They didn't hit a kid but it scared them enough to make them stop.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: Florida

The Torrance family arrive at the Overlook Hotel in their VW Beetle (although it barely makes the trip) and they are surprised to see many of the guests still checking out of the hotel. While they wait to be 'checked in' for the winter, they are shown around the grounds, passing the hedge maze, a playground, various rooms, and a roque court, which Danny finds particularly eerie. Danny realizes that the roque club was what his father dragged around the corridors in Tony's vision. He hides his true feelings to his parents, who begin to like the idea of staying in the hotel. Shortly after, the family is introduced to Mr. Hallorann, the Overlook Hotel's friendly chef, who shows them around the overstocked pantry. After a quick meeting, Danny is surprised to find that he can speak with Mr. Hallorann through his mind. As he takes his things to the car, Hallorann (Dick, to his friends) tells Danny of 'the shining', which may be the ability to see into the future, and may be the ability to read minds. Hallorann warns Danny to stay away from a certain room, and if he needs help, to just call.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: pantry

Wendy and Danny dragged Jack through the kitchen and locked him in the pantry, after he tried to strangle his wife.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: Mrs. Massey

She was visiting the Overlook with her extremely young male companion, and when he left her without so much as a goodbye, she stuffed herself with alcohol and sleeping pills.

From Quiz 'The Shining'

Answer: Anthony

Danny's middle name was Anthony, after his grandfather. It's where he got the name Tony for his imaginary friend.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: Grady

Grady also tries to convince Jack that he would be management material if he could just control his son and wife.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: Oranges

He tells this to Danny when they talk about the shining. Later in the book, when Danny attempts to call Dick with the shining, it says that he suddenly smells oranges then gets the shining.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: On the roof

After the staff of the Overlook departs for the winter holiday, Ullman takes it upon himself to give the Torrances a tour of the hotel they will be residing in. They continue along, even stopping within the Presidential Suite, where Danny sees a horrific scene in the bedroom. A man sits splayed against the wall, riddled with bullet holes and covered in blood. He speaks nothing of it as they continue to their living quarters. After this, Ullman leaves them at the front door, alone. While Wendy and Danny head to Sidewinder for supplies, Jack decides to begin work on the roof, fixing the shingles and preparing for winter. While doing this, he comes along a wasp's nest, lodged under the old shingles. Using a bug bomb, he defeats the bugs and takes a piece as a souvenir for Danny, who places it in his room next to his bed when he gets home. Wendy also notes that she's made doctor's appointments for the family so that they can be checked up before winter hits. That night, Danny wakes up to find three wasps on his hand, and after they sting him, Jack and Wendy run in to find the wasp's nest crawling with live insects. Jack quickly gets the nest out into the cold, then later incinerates it. They make a note to have the stings checked at the doctor's shortly after.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: cooking sherry

Jack gives Danny cooking sherry mixed with milk to calm his nerves. In the mini-series he gives him hot chocolate.

From Quiz 'The Shining'

Answer: Blue Beard & Bluebeard & "Bluebeard" & "Blue Beard"

Wendy had gotten mad at Jack for reading the story to Danny--He had a lot of nightmares because of the ending.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: His grandmother

He calls her 'Grams'. He tells Danny that they had conversations all afternoon when he was a boy but they never opened their mouths.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: Hedge animals

After Danny goes into a tunnel and thinks he sees something he quickly gets out. He begins to run to the hotel but it being snowy, he has issues running quickly. The hedge animals begin to chase but they do not succeed in killing Danny.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: Room 217

After the wasp incident, the family goes to Dr. Edmonds in Sidewinder, who examines Danny physically, and mentally. He asks Danny about Tony, his invisible friend, and deduces a few conclusions, also revealing the fact that Danny knew what his mother was thinking about in the waiting room. Edmonds later tells Jack and Wendy that Danny is, mentally, very advanced for his age. He tells them about Tony, and relates it to the idea of their thoughts of divorce back when Jack was drinking. Wendy describes their current situation the happiest she's ever been in her life. Jack later begins rooting through the boxes in the basement of the Overlook, an event Danny foresaw earlier, and he finds an old scrapbook outlining the dark past of the Overlook, including its shady owners (all seeming to have a connection with a billionaire, Horace Derwent) and a few dealings with unfriendly mobs. Jack decides that his next project will involve a history of the hotel. Danny, meanwhile, stops outside the door to Room 217, the room that Hallorann said not to enter. He nearly goes inside, but decides against it. Now frightened, he rushes back to the kitchen, what he feels is one of the safer rooms in the hotel. When the family heads back into Sidewinder, Jack makes an angry call to Ullman, stating that he wants to make a book about the Overlook. Ullman considers firing Jack over the situation, claiming that such a book would tarnish the hotel. Jack leaves it at that and the family returns to the Overlook as snow begins to fall.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: his father

Jack hears the voice of his dead father telling him to get rid of his wife and son. He then smashes the radio to get his father to shut up.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: Lion

The lion attacks Halloran before he gets to the Overlook Hotel; Halloran, however, conquers the beast by pouring gasoline on it and setting it on fire with his trusty Zippo.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: Oranges

In 1955 while stationed in Germany with the army, he smelled oranges and suddenly knew his brother had been killed.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: Excedrin

As the family begins to settle into their winter home, Wendy begins to notice that Jack is displaying symptoms that he had when he used to drink (such as wiping his mouth constantly and chewing Excedrin pills). She brushes it aside as she and Danny are assured that he hasn't had a drop. She considers the stay a blessing, as she'd rather be with Jack than with her verbally abusive mother. Danny agrees with this as well. While Danny and Wendy head to Sidewinder to pick up supplies before the bad snowfall hits, Jack takes the opportunity to trim the hedge animals on the grounds. It is at this time he decides to sit on the old playground, and as he looks to the hedges various times, he notices that they may be moving into different positions. He attributes this to hallucinations. After snow flies, the family takes to the inside of the hotel, and on one afternoon while Jack is in the basement and Wendy is napping, Danny returns to Room 217 with the key and intrudes. In the bathroom, he finds the dead body of a previous tenant who reportedly killed herself a few years earlier. He tries to flee, but is blocked by the locked door. The woman follows him as he blacks out. Jack, meanwhile, dreams about his father in the basement. During this, however, he sleepwalks to the family's CB radio, their only communication with the outside world (with the telephones out). He ends up unknowingly destroying it before waking up.

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: Tony telling him to stay away

Danny sees a blood-soaked mallet on the front seat of his father's car, after Jack returns from his interview at The Overlook, but this is after he sees Tony, and is told about "Redrum".

From Quiz Stephen King's "The Shining"

Answer: Alice in Wonderland

"Alice in Wonderland" is mentioned heavily while Danny decides whether or not he should enter (and go against his father's rule) the forbidden room.

From Quiz The Shining

Answer: 217

The corpse attacks Danny despite Dick's reassurance that they are no more harmful than scary pictures in a book. In the movie, the room number was 237.

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