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Quiz: Fairy Tales

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Feb. 3, 2009

1) According to one of the Grimms’ fairy tales, who is Snow White’s colorfully named sister?

2) Disney did two short films based on “The Ugly Duckling,” but what was the first full-length Disney movie based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale?

3) Gregory Maguire’s second novel, after Wicked, was Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, a revisionist version of what fairy tale?

4) “Red Hot Riding Hood,” Tex Avery’s cartoon featuring a lustful, bug-eyed wolf visiting a nightclub, was parodied in what 1994 comedy/action film?

5) Slavic witch Baba Yaga’s house walks around on what kind of legs?

6) Four old animals decide to travel to Bremen and become town musicians. What kind of animals are they? For one point, name two; name all four for a bonus point. (Write down no more than 4 species.)

7) Giants, soldiers, and kings assumed the brave tailor who killed “seven with one blow” killed seven men. But he actually killed seven what?

8) In the Hans Cristian Andersen tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” the solder falls in love with what kind of paper doll?

9) The only Razzie award won by an animated film went to “Marry the Mole,” a song from what 1994 Don Bluth movie?

10) What Disney movie is based on the tale called “Briar Rose” by the Brothers Grimm?

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Quiz: Nonsense

I’ll quote you a bit of nonsense. You tell me the name of the work it comes from.

1) Klaatu barada nikto
2) Oo ee, oo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang
3) They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon
4) All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. (Specifically, the title of the poem.)
5) riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
6) Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess, Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your Knickers down.
7) Solakadoola menchicka boola, Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo.
8) There’s a letter called YEKK. And the YEKK is for Yekko
Who howls in an underground grotto in Gekko.
These Yekkos love echoes, and this is their motto:
“For best Yekko echoes, try Gekko, our grotto!”
9) Sha na na na, sha na na na na,
Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip
Mum mum mum mum mum mum
10) Toora loora toora loo rye aye
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