That's Just Not "It"... Trivia Quiz

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In the late 1950s, Georgie Denbrough becomes one of Pennywise's first victims during this particular cycle when he loses his paper boat in a storm drain one rainy day. Pennywise, whose lair is deep within Derry, Maine's sewer systems, is conveniently placed not only to catch Georgie at the pass, but to convince the young boy to reach in to grab the makeshift toy. It ultimately spells the end for young Georgie since his arm is torn off in the encounter and he's left to bleed out and die in the street.

Georgie's brother, Bill Denbrough, becomes one of the main characters and the de facto leader of the Losers Club for the bulk of the rest of the story, facing off against Pennywise across its two final cycles.

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This happens while the Losers Club pays a visit to the house on Neiboldt Street, pursuing It into a spot where they know it's been apt to appear. The event follows a culmination of increasingly more dangerous attacks in Derry during which both friends of the Losers Club and bullies out to get them fall prey to an even bigger force of supernatural origin.

It turns out that It certainly is waiting in the house on Neiboldt Street, and fortunately, Ben Hanscom has already melted down silver to make bullets to fight back. The creature ends up being driven to get the entire Losers Club into the sewers for one final battle as a result.

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When the Losers Club heads into the sewers, intent on killing It before he can do any more damage, they don't realize that they're being followed by manipulated bully Henry Bowers and his two goons, Victor Criss and Belch Huggins. Fortunately for the larger group, these bullies provide the perfect distraction to catch It's eye.

While Henry manages to escape, driven mad by the encounter (and subsequently placed into an institution), Victor ends up literally losing his head in a fight against what appears to be Frankenstein's Monster while Belch has his face torn off.

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The start of It's final cycle is marked by the death of Adrian Mellon who, attacked at Derry's Canal Days Festival for being gay, ends up getting tossed into the canal from the Kissing Bridge and found by Pennywise. When his body is found, it ends up showing signs of mauling, especially in his chest, that would not align with simply being tossed into the river. In reality, Pennywise seems to have gone for the man's heart.

It's after this event that children start dying in Derry again.

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During the final fight against It in its sewer chambers, the remaining members of the Losers Gang perform the Ritual of Chüd, and during this, Bill and Richie are effectively out of commission as they're placed into It's mind. In the meantime, Eddie makes an effort to distract It and protect the boys, doing so by taking his asthma inhaler and spraying it into It's eyes.

The distraction works, by all means, but Eddie loses his arm over it, quickly dying of blood loss as a result.

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This doesn't happen in "It" because it happens in the 1996 Richard Bachman novel "The Regulators" in which a neighbourhood is beset upon by creatures manifesting from a troubled boy's powerful psychic abilities. Mary Jackson is one amongst a handful of locals who die at the ultraviolent hands of the MotoKops, beings created from Seth Garin's mind based on one of his favourite TV shows (MotoKops 2200).

Unfortunately, Seth is also influenced by the extradimensional being known as Tak, so everything is that much more murderous and deadly.

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The same force as seen in "The Regulators", Tak, is featured in King's other 1996 novel, "Desperation", in which people travelling through a Nevada town become victims of the entity's dangerous ways, many of them losing their lives in a battle between the forces of good and evil.

The Carver family struggles from the jump with the youngest, Pie, being killed by a possessed Collie Entragian before the others are tossed into prison to await their fate. Ellen becomes another vessel for Tak after she's brought out to the mines to replace Collie's deteriorating body.

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It may have happened in Derry, Main, but "Insomnia", released by King in 1994, told a completely different story that ended off with strong ties to "The Dark Tower". In this one, Ralph Roberts starts experiencing debilitating insomnia that leads to his involvement with forces beyond this realm.

The story culminates with Ralph boarding Ed Deepneau's plane before he can crash into the civic center, managing to set it off-course and phasing out of the material plane to save Patrick Danville's life. Danville would ultimately be one of the final resources used by Roland Deschain to stop the Crimson King.

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Another book with a connection to Derry, Maine, "Dreamcatcher" starts with four friends who head out to a remote cabin for an annual hunting trip, arriving to find themselves in the midst of an unfathomable world event that sees aliens making contact.

They find a man in the woods and bring him back to the cabin only for him to die, a result of an alien parasite that makes its way through his body. When the guys still at the cabin for this investigate, it results in the death of one of them and the possession of another, Jonesy, who hides away in the recesses of his own mind.

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Young boy Bradley Trevor becomes a victim of the True Knot, a group of vampiric beings subsisting off what they call 'steam', a lifeforce pulled from their victims to keep them powerful and youthful well beyond their years. The catch is that Bradley had the measles, so those who imbibed of him started to perish, leading their leader, Rose the Hat, to take matters into their own hands and pursue Abra Stone, a powerful girl with the shining at her disposal. All of this happened in "Doctor Sleep" (2013), the sequel to "The Shining".