Trivia Bank for Roald Dahls’s The BFG (1982)
1. Name one of the things the Giant is carrying w/ him when he comes to Sophie’s village during the night. (Suitcase; trumpet; jar.)
- Mrs. Rance’s shop: buttons, wool, elastic
- the Goochey’s; greengrocer - Michael and Jane.
2. True or False: The Giant snatches Michael and Jane Goochey.
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3. T or F: The Giant carries Sophie to Giant Country in his suitcase.
4. What does the Giant have protecting the entrance to his cave? (giant stone)
5. The Giants’ cave, esp. the shelves are filled w/ ...what? (jars)
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6. What are the first words the Giant speaks? (“Ha! What has us got here?”)
7. T or F: Is the Giant a “cannybull”?
8. What does the Giant call people? (What is the term he uses?) (human beans)
9. What do Turks from Turkey taste like?
10. And Greeks from Greece?
11. People from Panama?
12. From Wales?
13. From Jersey?
14. Danes from Denmark?
15. The people of Labrador?
16. Human beans from Wellington?
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17. Why did the BFG snatch Sophie? (because she saw him)
18. How tall is the BFG? (24 feet)
19. What is the Giants’ term for human beans from the United States? (Yankee-Doodles)
20. If you were a Giant, and you were cold, what would you eat? (Hottentots)
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21. What is the name of the woman who ran Sophie’s orphanage? (“Mrs. Clonkers”)
22. What does the BFG wish for that he believes Sophie can provide? (An elefunt.)
23. What was the BFG doing at the window of the Goochey children’s bedroom? (blowing dreams)
24. How did the BFG know that Sophie had seen him from her window? (he heard her heart beating from across the road)
25.What kind of animal does the BFG describe as “tremendous natterboxes”? (Spiders)
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26. T or F: The BFG eats scotchhoppers, humplecrimps, wraprascals, and crumpscoddles.
27. Name one of the words (adjectives) that the BFG uses to describe the Snozzcumber. (icky-poo, repulsant, filthing, disgusterous, sickable, rotsome, maggotwise, foulsome)
28. Where does Sophie hide from the Bloodbottler?
29. Where does Sophie land when the Bloodbottler spits her out?
30. Where does the Bloodbottler plan to go the evening after he enters the BFG’s cave?
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31. What color is frobscottle?
32. T or F: The BFG thinks burping is “sweet and jumbly.”
33. T or F: “Kings and Queens is making whizpoppers.”
34. What does frobscottle taste like?
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35. Who is the biggest and most dangerous giant of all? (the Fleshlumpeater)
36. T or F: Giants is never eating other giants.
37. Where does the BFG hide Sophie when he goes to see the Giants (on their way to Dream Country)? (in his vest pocket)
38. What is the one reason why the BFG thinks giants, as bad as they are, are not as bad as people? (people are the only animal that kill each other)
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39. What’s the BFG’s term for the rare, best kind of dreams? (a golden phizzwizard)
40. And what does the BFG call the worst kind of dream? (a trogglehumper)
41. What are the BFG’s terms for two variants of the trogglehumper (3 diff. kinds of nightmares)? (a bogthumper and a grobswitcher)
42. What happens in the Fleshlumpeater’s trogglehumper? (he is attacked by Jack, from Jack and the Beanstalk, “the famous giant killer”)
43. Acc. to the BFG, who is the only human bean all giants is afraid of?
43. (Or) Who does the Giant reference as “a famous giant killer”?
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44. What is the name of the gym teacher in the dream about saving the teacher by jumping off a bridge? (Miss Amelia Upsctoch)
45. T or F: The BFG feeds the North Wind.
46. Name one of the boys’ dreams Sophie reads about. (upside-down ceiling boots; phone call from the President; invisibility belly-button; book you can’t stop reading)
47. What is your favorite dream fragment from the BFG’s storehouse of dreams?
48. How did the BFG learn to read? (Nicholas Nickleby)
49. Acc. to the BFG, who is the author of NIcholas Nickelby? (Dahl’s Chickens)
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50. What human bean does Sophie tell the BFG is decidedly not a squifflerotter,a grinksludger, a squeakpip, or a not-mucher? (the Queen of England)
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51. What does the BFG use to mix the bits of dream fragments together?
52. T or F: The Queen’s trogglehumper is described as looking like a jellyfish.
53. Where does Sophie sit on the journey to London?
54. When Sophie and the BFG get to London, where do they end up first? (Hyde Park)
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55. What is the name of the Queen’s maid? (Mary)
56. How does Mary react when she hears about the Queen’s dream? (drops her tray)
57. How does Sophie describe the BFG to the Queen? (a good giant; her best friend; a lovely giant)
58. What does the BFG call the Queen (how does he refer to her)? (“Your Majester”)
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59. What is the name of the Queen’s butler? (Mr. Tibbs)
60. Math Q! In order to feed the BFG, Mr. Tibbs multiplied all his food quantities by four. (e.g. If the Queen ate 4 sausages, he gave the BFG 16.) How did he figure this out?
61. What does Mr. Tibbs use as table legs for the BFG’s breakfast table? (4 grandfather clocks)
62. T or F: The BFG loves the taste of the Queen’s coffee. (horrible swigspill)
63. T or F: The BFG whizpops in front of the Queen of England.
64. How many fried eggs does the BFG eat while breakfasting w/ the Queen? (72)
65. What do Swedes from Sweden taste like? (Sweden sour taste)
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66. How does the BFG propose to bring his entire dream collection from Giant Country to London? (in the Air Force’s bellypoppers)
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67. How many bellypoppers followed the BFG from London to Giant Country? (9 - one for each Giant)
68. T/F: The BFG leads the Air Force right off the last page of the Atlas.
69. What sound do the Army Generals wrongly interpret as the sound of guns? (the giants’ snoring)
70. Where does Sophie stab the Fleshlumpeater? (his right angle - or Achilles’ heel)
71. What does she stab him w/? (sapphire brooch from the Queen)
72. When they get to Giant Country, in what kind of vehicles does the Army proceed to the sleeping Giants? (in 9 Jeeps)
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73. Where does the Air Force deposit the 9 trussed Giants? (at the zoo)
74. Once they are safely in their pit, what do the captured giants get to eat for the rest of their days? (repulsant snozzcumbers)
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75. From whom did the BFG finally get his elephant? (India)
76. He also received two camels and a llama - from where?? (Arabia and Tibet)
77. What new title does the BFG get from the Queen? (Royal Dream-Blower)
78. Who is the real author of Nicholas Nickelby?