People who tuned into Jeopardy last night got to see an entire category dedicated to the works of Stephen King. The category was aptly named "Stephen King Novel Plots". It popped up in the double jeopardy round, which allowed those well versed in the author's work to theoretically pull in even more money.
Now, naturally, I knew the answers to every single clue because it's Stephen King and because I'm just that brilliant. Yeah, they actually weren't too difficult.
As all of the clues were basically plot summaries, it wasn't that much of a challenge to connect the dots. The answers to each clue were as follows.
$400: Firestarter
$800: Salem's Lot
$1200: The Stand
$1600: The Dead Zone
$2000: It
So they did try to go for the more well known works as opposed to something that casual readers may not recognize by synopsis alone. Interestingly enough, no one got the answers for either Salem's Lot or The Dead Zone.
I was quite happy to see It made it on the list as that is one of my favorites. With only 5 slots and over ten times that many books under King's belt, there are a bunch of classics that didn't make the cut. Still, I think they did a good job picking titles, noting the "go to" books in King's collection as well as using some that were apparently not as obvious as one would think.
Stephen King novels on Jeopardy
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Originally Posted by flaggwalkstheline
