Different Seasons Trivia Quiz

Answer: 20

Red is "the man who can get it for you." He was sent to prison for killing his wife. He took out an insurance policy on her, then fixed the brakes in her car. Unfortunately, she also stopped to pick up a neighbouring woman and her son. He was given three life sentences, to run consecutively.

Answer: Bank Vice-president

While Andy was serving his sentence, a man named Blatch told another prisoner that he had killed Andy's wife and her lover. He said Andy was a lawyer.

Answer: 38 years

"After thirty-eight years of routine hearings and routine details (in the course of those thirty-eight years, three lawyers died on me), my parole was finally granted. I suppose they decided that, at the age of fifty-eight, I was finally used up enough to be deemed safe."

Answer: Samuel Norton

Byron Hadley was the guard Andy advised about an inheritence, George Dunahay and Greg Stammas were wardens at Shawshank, but both were before Andy's escape.

Answer: Zihuatanejo

"Sure I remember the name. Zihuatanejo. A name like that is just too pretty to forget." Guadalajara has a population of 1,650,000, Ciudad Netzahualcoyotl 1,255,500, and Juarez 789,300. (Information from Atlapedia online)

Answer: Arthur Denker

His real name is Kurt Dussander, and he was Unterkommandant at Auschwitz from June 1943 to June 1944, amongst other things.

Answer: Andy Dufresne - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

"I live now on stock dividends. Stocks I picked up after the war under yet another name. Through a bank in the State of Maine, if you please. The banker who bought them for me went to jail for murdering his wife a year after I bought them...life is sometimes strange, boy, hein?" "Dufresne, his name was - I remember, because it sounds a little like mine.

It seems he was not so smart at wife-killing as he was at picking growth stocks."

Answer: Dick and Monica

"His dad was an architectural engineer who made $40,000 a year.His mom was a housewife and a secretarial school graduate who typed manuscripts in her spare time."

Answer: Heart Attack

He has a heart attack while digging a grave in his basement for one of his victims.

Answer: 'Rubber' Ed French

'Rubber' Ed French is the guidance counsellor at Todd's school. When Todd's grades start to slip, he has Dussander pretend to be his grandfather, and after it is revealed that Dussander was a war criminal, Ed puts two and two together, and goes to Todd's house to ask him about it.

Answer: Stud City

Gordie describes it in a fairly derogatory way. "It ought to have THIS IS A PRODUCT OF AN UNDERGRADUATE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP stamped on every page...because that's just what it was, at least up to a certain point."

Answer: Dennis

Denny died and was buried in a closed coffin with an American flag on it. He was ten years older than Gordie, so when he died "I was as sad for Denny's dying as I was when I heard on the radio that Dan Blocker had died. I'd seen them both about as frequently, and Denny never even got any re-runs."

Answer: Pie

They used blueberry pies for the competition, and in a surprise (and disgusting) ending, Davie throws up over the audience. It is a very well written story, and if you haven't read it, you should. Even if you have, read it again!

Answer: Chopper

"Chopper was - at least until the Camber's dog Cujo went rabid twenty years later - the most feared and least seen dog in Castle Rock."

Answer: Marshmallows

First the owner, Mr George Dusset, tried to rip them off by putting his thumb on the scales when weighing the hamburger, then he added the total wrong. The other item they bought was a churchkey to open the Cokes. Coke was invented in 1886 by Dr. John Pemberton and the first can for Coca-Cola was introduced in 1960.

Answer: Stevens

"I suppose Stevens might know how it all came to be - one thing I am sure of is that Stevens has been there from the first, no matter how long that may be....and I believe Stevens to be older than he looks. Much, much older."

Answer: It is the tale, not he who tells it

There is no mantle above the fireplace, just a big stone arch with those words engraved on the keystone.

Answer: Emlyn McCarron

George Waterhouse is the man who invites David to the Gentlemen's Club, George Gregson and Harry Stein are two of the other 'members'.

Answer: Department Store

She was also enrolled in acting classes. She was homesick, and went out a couple of times with a young man in her acting class, and by the time she realised she didn't love him, she was pregnant. She told him, and he said he would do the 'decent thing'. " A week later he was gone from his lodgings, leaving no forwarding address." Page 526

Answer: December 24th

December 10th was her due date, but she didn't give birth until Christmas Eve, just past 6pm.