Dark Tower Series Trivia

1. Select the correct word to complete the opening sentence of the first book: "The Man in Black fled across the desert and The Gunslinger _____."

From Quiz Stephen King's "Dark Tower"

Answer: Followed

From Book One, "The Gunslinger", first line from the first book for the first question. The Man in Black goes by many names; some readers would know him as Flagg. Roland Deschain is The Gunslinger, the last of an ancient order of Knights, protectors of the white. The Man in Black promises to show the way to "The Dark Tower", only if The Gunslinger can catch him.

From Quiz Blaine The Mono

Answer: Slo-Trans

Blaine's Slo-trans engines can, while running on batteries, reach speeds of over 900 mph. They are often described as emitting a faint humming noise.

From Quiz "Dark Tower" Dialect

Answer: Many

Delah is a word from the Gilead High Speech, which Roland uses numerous times throughout the series.

From Quiz Pop Culture in Stephen King's "Dark Tower"

Answer: Rabbits

Shardik's name comes from a novel by Richard Adams - the author of rabbit-themed book 'Watership Down'.

From Quiz "The Dark Tower" by Stephen King

Answer: The Man in Black

"The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed" is the first line of this very long quest for the fabled Dark Tower.

From Quiz Come-commala to "The Dark Tower"

Answer: Nort

Sheb is the man who owns the bar, Zoltan's the name of the raven The Gunslinger saw at the dwellers' hut in the desert, and Jude is the name of the song that's playing when The Gunslinger first goes into the bar.

From Quiz Dark Tower Crossovers

Answer: Insomnia

Young Patrick (not mute at the time) is the boy that Clotho and Lachesis want Ralph to save. He is painting a picture of a man in a field of roses underneath the Dark Tower. He wants to tell his mom "Him's names Roland mommy and him's a king too."

From Quiz Char and the "Dark Tower" Series

Answer: "There are other worlds than these!"

After taking the boy along with him during his chase for Walter O'Dim (the Man in Black), Roland had bonded with Jake Chambers. It was a big shock and a sad ending for the gunslinger in the end of the first book, and Jake's last words haunted Roland through the rest of his quest. It wasn't until the third book ("The Wastelands") that Jake returned to Roland and Mid-World to become a gunslinger.

From Quiz Characters From Stephen King's "Dark Tower" Series

Answer: Roland Deschain

Susan was Roland's first love, Eddie is the first person Roland brings through the doors on the beach, and Randall is the evil magician.

From Quiz Dark Tower Series (all 7 books)

Answer: Rhea of the Coos

Jonas the Elder had entrusted it to her.

From Quiz Another Quiz About 'The Dark Tower' Series

Answer: Jack Mort

Jack Mort is an important character in the series in that he is the one responsible for Odetta's multiple personality syndrome (which is caused when he pushes a brick out of a window and it lands on her head) and for her missing legs (he pushes Odetta in front of a moving train). However, he does not become a part of the ka-tet. Roland pushes him in front of the same train that Odetta was pushed in front of and he dies. Odetta and Detta are then forced to acknowledge each other's presence and combine to become Susannah.

From Quiz The Dark Tower Series

Answer: Bango Skank

Bango Skank is a character that Peter Straub originally intended to use in 'The Talisman' but chose not to in the end. Who exactly Bango Skank is is never fully explained in the 'The Dark Tower' series. He is known by the graffiti messages that the ka-tet find occasionally throughout the books.

From Quiz "Dark Tower" Books

Answer: Tull

When the Gunslinger arrives at the town he rests his mule. Later the mule dies and his eyes are eaten by Zoltan the raven.

From Quiz 'The Dark Tower' - Books 1 & 2

Answer: Raven

Zoltan liked to chant, "Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot."

From Quiz Stephen King's Dark Tower Series

Answer: Robert Browning

Robert Browning, husband of fellow Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, wrote the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".

From Quiz Dark Tower (I - IV) Vocabulary

Answer: Life

Introduced in "The Gunslinger", (book 1) "khef" means several things, "life" being among them. Roland is referred to as having progressed through levels of the khef, therefore meaning that he moved through stages of his life. Freedom, desert, and wisdom have nothing to do with khef, however.

From Quiz Dark Tower I - IV

Answer: William Dearborn

Roland goes by the name William Dearborn when sent to Hambry.

From Quiz Stephen King's Dark Tower Series

Answer: Selina, Gloria

In 'Drawing of the Three', Eddie gives brief mention of his deceased sister, then Selina. In 'The Wastelands', he thinks about his brother Henry having to watch out for him because of his sister's death, when there was no one to 'Watch Out For Gloria'.

From Quiz Stephen King's "Dark Tower"

Answer: Between Book Four, "Wizard and Glass", and Book Five, "Wolves of the Calla"

"The Wind through The Keyhole" is a story within a story within a story. If you are going to read just one "Dark Tower" book, give this one a go. You can read it at any stage, but it picks up after the conclusion of "Wizard and Glass".

From Quiz Stephen King's "Dark Tower" Pop-Culture References

Answer: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Roland's mythos is based heavily in Arthurian legend. Stephen King does not even attempt to hide this, as Roland's descended from the first king of All-World, Arthur Eld, who used his sword, Excalibur, to help him bring order to the realm. Excalibur itself provided the metal used to forge the guns which Roland now bears. The Man in Black is a direct descendant of Maerlyn the Magician.

From Quiz Roland's Ka-Tet

Answer: Eddie

Eddie grows up idolizing his brother, even though his brother is an extremely negative influence on him. Despite having an affection for his little brother, Henry becomes easily jealous of Eddie's talents and is verbally abusive towards Eddie. It is Henry's downward spiral into drug addiction that ultimately leads to Eddie getting addicted himself and getting involved in other illegal activities. Eddie is able to put his addiction behind him and become a true gunslinger. However, he is unable to completely get rid of his brother's negative influence, as he can often hear Henry's voice taunting him when Eddie is in stressful situations that cause him to doubt himself.

From Quiz Universal Themes of "The Dark Tower" 1-5

Answer: Burned at the stake

"Roland I love thee!" were Susan's last words as she burned at the stake. Her aunt and the ancient witch Rhea set her up. Roland helplessly watched her burn from the pink flush of a glass globe, called the Wizard's Glass.

From Quiz Blaine The Mono

Answer: Little Blaine

Little Blaine was first intended to be the announcer to the cabin, but now gives unhelpful advice to Roland and his Ka-tet. Big Blaine does not seem to notice Little Blaine.

From Quiz America-Side in "The Dark Tower"

Answer: Henchick of the Manni

Harrigan is the street preacher Jake, Callahan, and later Mia and Susannah, meet in New York. He's the spitting image of Henchick, though I'd be surprised if Henchick ever said anything about God Bombs.

From Quiz "Dark Tower" Dialect

Answer: Little Saviour

A word use to refer to both Mordred - the 'little saviour' or child god of End-World - and John Cullum, who rescues Eddie and Roland from Balazar's men.

From Quiz Pop Culture in Stephen King's "Dark Tower"

Answer: Magnificent Seven

When our ka-tet joins with Zalia, Margaret and Rosa to fight on the road, Roland simply notes that seven is a good number - but Eddie picks up the similarities. "The Magnificent Seven" is a remake of "Seven Samurai".

From Quiz "The Dark Tower" by Stephen King

Answer: Tull

In Tull, Roland meets Allie. He sleeps with her and almost begins to fall for her it seems. This only lasts until he kills Sylvia Pittstons' demon, causing the rest of the town to try and kill him. You can't stop the Gunslinger.

From Quiz Come-commala to "The Dark Tower"

Answer: Doors

In his vision he saw the world being formed from the beginning. Plants first, then dinosaurs. He saw continents formed, then rose through the clouds above the atmosphere and saw the other planets of the universe.

From Quiz Dark Tower Crossovers

Answer: Bag of Bones

The number 19 appears throughout the book to help Mike Noonan solve the mystery about Sarah Laughs.

From Quiz Char and the "Dark Tower" Series

Answer: Jack Mort

In "The Drawing of the Three", Roland enters the third door on the beach labeled "The Pusher" and is placed into the mind of Jack Mort. Despite the fact that he killed Jake the first time, Roland manages to throw Jack Mort onto some train tracks before escaping his mind. In "The Wastelands", Jake also notices Jack Mort in new York before returning to Mid-World via Dutch Hill.

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