Answer Key for Daily Trivia Questions from Roald Dahl’s The BFG (1982)
Week 1
1. Name one of the things the Giant is carrying w/ him when he comes to Sophie’s village during the night.
A: Suitcase; trumpet; jar.
2. The Giants’ cave, esp. the shelves, are filled w/ ...what?
A: jars
3. What is the term the Giant uses when he is referring to people?
A: “human beans”
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Week 2
4. How tall is the BFG?
A: 24 feet
5. How did the BFG know that Sophie had seen him from her window?
A: he heard her heart beating from across the road
6. Name one of the words that the BFG uses to describe the Snozzcumber. (Hint: He uses eight distinct adjectives)
A: icky-poo, repulsant, filthing, disgusterous, sickable, rotsome, maggotwise, foulsome)
7. What color is frobscottle?
A: green
8. Who is the biggest and most dangerous giant of all?
A: the Fleshlumpeater
Week 3
9. Acc. to the BFG, who is the only human bean all giants is afraid of?
A: Jack – from Jack and the Beanstalk – the famous giant killer
10. How did the BFG learn to read?
A: Nicholas Nickelby
11. What human bean does Sophie tell the BFG is decidedly not a squifflerotter,a grinksludger, a squeakpip, or a not-mucher?
A: the Queen of England
12. Where does Sophie sit on the journey to London?
A: the BFG’s ear
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Week 4
13. What does the BFG call the Queen (how does he refer to her)?
A: “Her Majester”
14. What does Mr. Tibbs use as table legs for the BFG’s breakfast table?
A: four grandfather clocks
15. How does the BFG propose to bring his entire dream collection from Giant Country to London?
A: in the Queen’s bellypoppers [helicopters]
16. When Sophie stabs the Fleshlumpeater in his “right angle” (or Achilles heel), what does she use to stab him w/?
A: sapphire brooch from the Queen
17. From whom did the BFG finally get his elephant?
A: India [or the Ruler of India]