"Lisey's Story" - Scott's Sayings Quiz

Answer: Dumbo's big Jumbo

I don't know why he called it this - was he referring to himself as "Dumbo"? Scott was an award-winning and prolific novelist with a vivid imagination. He told listeners to his lectures that everyone gets their ideas from a "word pool" that Lisey assumed to be a metaphor, until she actually went there.

Answer: Puffickly huh-yooge

The first time this crops up is in regards to a campus security guard's badge when Scott and Lisey went on an ill-fated trip to the University of Tennessee. Scott almost died after being shot by a madman but Lisey saved his life by hitting the shooter with the spade Scott used to inaugurate the new library.

Answer: Deep Space Cowboys

I'm sure Stephen King has come across many a "Deep Space Cowboy" in his time, too. Lisey immediately thought Gerd Allen Cole (Scott's would-be assassin) is one of these, so luckily she kept an eye on him. He turns out to be just your average crazed lunatic but luckily she was near enough to react quickly and save her husband's life.

Answer: UFO refueling stations

We find this out when Lisey got a phone call from the sinister "Zack McCool". Where she lives, any call coming in from a mobile (cell) phone sounds all crackly and distant because of the power-lines. She knew "Zack" called from a landline because the line was "clear as a bell".

Answer: Their frontloaded honeymoon

The trip they took introduced Lisey for the first time to Scott's strange world of Boo'ya Moon. Lisey tried to block all these memories out but after Scott died, he left her a "bool hunt" which led her back to the past and gave her the knowledge to protect herself against "Zack McCool" (later Jim Dooley).

Answer: Lisey's Sexy Lexus

Lisey got rid of the Lexus because it reminded her too much of Scott. She only finally got rid of the things in his study at the end of the book. Her new car was a cream BMW that her older sister Amanda thought was a disaster as the colour showed the dirt too quickly.

Answer: The memory nook

Scott has hung all his awards on the wall here, which include the Pulitzer prize for fiction!

Answer: Everything the same

This phrase is described as part of their marriage's "inner language".
"How many times had Scott come breezing in, calling 'Hey, Lisey, I'm home - everything the same?" Meaning is everything all right, is everything cool."
It's just one example of how close these two were.

Answer: "My undertaker's suit"

The newly-wed Landon's had their reception in a rock-and-roll bar and the band that played were the hilariously named "Swinging Johnsons". Lisey kept bits and bobs from the ceremony in her keepsake box which is referred to as "Good Ma's cedar box" throughout the book.

Answer: Geromino!

His dad said he could yell "Geronimo" but Scott was very young and scared so it came out slightly wrong. This part of the story tells us all about Scott's family, the "bad-gunky" and the love between Scott and his brother, Paul.

Thanks for playing my quiz, the book is so puffickly huh-yooge, I can probably squeeze a few more quizzes out of it!