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Characters & Trivia
Characters in books, movies and folklore and Trivia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What type of animal bit off the hand of Captain Hook in the story of Peter Pan? | crocodile |
| According to the ancient fairy tale, Rapunzel uses what part of her body to assist in her rescue? | hair |
| What name is given to the main female figure in a play or story, who is usually beautiful, smart, and virtuous? | heroine |
| In Astrid Lingren's "Pippi Longstalking", whom does Pippi believe has become king of the cannibals? | her father |
| In Mark Twain's book about a Yankee in King Arthur's Court... what state was the Yankee from? | Connecticut |
| name of the monkey that lives with Pippi Longstalking: | Mr. Nillson |
| Creature that chases the schoolmaster out of town in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | The Headless Horseman |
| In Charlotte’s Web, the story tells of a pig named Wilbur who is saved by a spider named Charlotte. What is the first message she writes in her web about Wilbur? | "Some Pig" |
| In Charlotte’s Web what was the name of the farmer who lived next door to Mr. and Mrs. Arable? | Mr. Zuckerman |
| Identify the rabbit that is a central character in children’s stories by Beatrix Potter? | Peter Rabbit |
| In the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin, what does the maiden spin into gold | straw |
| name of the 12 year boy who befriends Onion John in the Joseph Krumgold award winning novel | Andy Rusch |
| In Alice and Wonderland, what type of animal is always late? | rabbit |
| By what collective name were the comic characters Lucy, Charlie, Linus, and Snoopy known? | Peanuts |
| How many years does Rip Van Winkle fall asleep for in the story by Washington Irving | 20 years |
| Rip Van Winkle, the lazy farmer, falls asleep in which mountains? | Catskill |
| How many dwarves are in the Snow White story? | 7 |
| Name the dog belonging to the Grinch in the book and movie "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" | Max |
| Washington Irving character who falls asleep for 20 years while hunting in the Catskill Mountains and is not recognized when he returns home | Rip Van Winkle |
| charming Southern belle who takes Rhett Butler as her third husband and saves her beloved plantation Tara in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind | Scarlett O’Hara |
| Hero reared by apes in the jungle and known for his strength and agility in a series of stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs—he is also known as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke | tarzan |
| Black slave who tells the tales related by Joel Chandler Harris | Uncle Remus |
| Aunt Polly’s nephew who gets into one scrape after another in Mark Twain’s novel about a young boy growing up in St. Petersburg, Missouri | Tom Sawyer |
| Seemingly brave, powerful character who says he will give Dorothy and her 3 friends what they are seeking but turns out to be a little old man with a bald head and a wrinkled face in L. Frank Baum’s classic novel | Wizard of Oz |
| Paul Bunyan’s giant blue ox | Babe |
| Fox created by Joel Chandler Harris in his Uncle Remus stories | Brer Fox |
| Rabbit created by Joel Chandler Harris in his Uncle Remus stories | Brer Rabbit |
| St. Bernard who lives a miserable existence until he escapes in Jack London’s The Call of the Wild | Buck |
| Character who says “Good Grief” and has a dog named Snoopy in Charles Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts | Charlie Brown |
| Charming cat who entertains 2 young children with his tricks in a Dr. Seuss tale | Cat in the Hat |
| Friendly ghost of comic book and film fame | Casper |
| Black-clad villain, the Dark Lord of the Sith and father of Luke Skywalker, in the Star War series—his former identity was Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader |
| Negro laborer who, according to legend, died competing with a sledgehammer against a steam drill | John Henry |
| Archaeologist hero of George Lucas’ adventure movie Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels | Indiana Jones |
| Film character from outside Earth’s limits who is stranded and makes friends with children in a California house in Steven Spielberg’s film The Extra-Terrestrial | E.T. |
| Legendary lawman whose horse is named Silver and whose companion is Tonto | (The) Lone Ranger |
| Walt Disney’s most famous cartoon character, introduced in 1928 in Plane Crazy—his girlfriend is Minnie and his dog is Pluto | Mickey Mouse |
| Giant gorilla who when brought to New York City from Skull Island climbs the Empire State Building and is shot down by airplanes in a 1933 film | King Kong |
| Huge white whale that kills those trying to hunt him down and kill him in Herman Melville’s most famous book | Moby Dick |
| Young farmboy from the remote desert planet of Tatooine who becomes a Jedi Knight in the Star Wars series | Luke Skywalker |
| Large giant of American origin who says “Ho-Ho-Ho” as he helps to sell vegetable products | Jolly Green Giant |
| Little people in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Munchkins |
| Beagle who periodically fights his archenemy, the Red Baron, in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip | Snoopy |
| Legendary cowboy said to have dug the Rio Grande | Pecos Bill |
| Legendary giant lumberjack with superhuman strength and a large blue ox as a companion and friend | Paul Bunyan |
| Sailor-man and superhero who gets his strength from eating spinach | Popeye |
| Huge, hairy, manlike creature with long arms said to lurk about the Pacific Northwest— also called “Big Foot” | Sasquatch |
| Comic book superhero into whom Peter Parker is transformed when a mutant spider bites him, giving him great strength and climbing ability | Spider-Man |
| Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s comic book hero from the planet Krypton who is “faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, (and) able to leap tall buildings at a single bound” | Superman |
| Klondike half-dog, half-wolf that ends his days in California in a book by Jack London | White Fang |
| Computer endowed with artificial intelligence who tries to take over the spacecraft Discovery in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey | Hal 9000 |
| Blue-blooded villainess who kidnaps a brood of puppies to make fur coats out of them in a Disney film based on a Dodie Smith novel | Cruella de Vil |
| Baseball player who strikes out in the ninth inning resulting in “No joy in Mudville” in Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s baseball poem | Casey |
| Obsessed, one-legged captain of the whaling-ship Pequod who seeks revenge in capturing the white whale that cost him his leg in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick | Captain Ahab |
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