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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 30 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Misery
| What was the name of the medication given to Paul Sheldon? | Misery
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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."
| What letter was missing from Paul's Royal typewriter the day it was given to him? | Misery
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No. Paul described the typewriter to be "grinning" at him, missing a "tooth" which was the letter "n".
| What did Paul Sheldon first say to Annie Wilkes? | Misery
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"Where am I?". The answer to this question is Sidewinder, Colorado.
| Paul Sheldon compares Annie Wilkes to a graven image worshipped by superstitious African tribes in a novel by what author? | Misery
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| The day after Paul Sheldon was locked in the basement of Annie Wilkes, he took two capsules of his usual medication and washed them down with what? | Misery
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| What was the name of the game Paul Sheldon kept making references to while describing the creative process? | Misery
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| Who was the Sheriff's Office spokesman when Annie Wilkes was being questioned about the infant deaths? | Misery
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| When did Stephen King begin this book? | Misery
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September 23rd, 1984. Stephen King began this book in Lovell, Maine, and finished it in Bangor, Maine, on October 7th, 1986. This can be found at the end of the book, and written after it is "Now my tale is told."
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 legs 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".
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Have a cigarette and a glass of champagne. Annie memorized this, among many other things about Paul, and agreed to let him have his cigarette. Unfortunately for her, Paul planned to kill her when he lit the match for his cigarette and was successful in doing so.
| What is the name of the manuscript that Paul was forced to destroy? | Misery
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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.
| What is the name of the pain reliever given to Paul throughout the story? | Misery
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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.
| What is the name of Misery Chastain's lover in Paul's 'Misery' series? | Misery
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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.
| What does Paul use to jimmy the lock to his door while Annie heads to town? | Misery
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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.
| What was the name that Paul Sheldon had planned for Misery's child? | Misery
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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.
| How does Annie end up paying her overdue taxes? | Misery
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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.
| What is written on the cover of Annie's photo album/scrapbook? | Misery
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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.
| Paul designates two of the police officers that go through Annie's house with nicknames. What does he name them? | Misery
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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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