Answer: They both forget things a lot.
While Irene is a musician, Belinda is an artist. Irene thinks she's forgotten her health certificate and is threatened with quarantine by Matron, but luckily finds it pinned to her uniform. Belinda, meanwhile, has left her health certificate in her night case, goes to look for it and takes a night case belonging to another girl by mistake. Darrell wonders how the mistresses will cope with two absent-minded girls in the class. Irene immediately likes Belinda and the two later become friends.
From Quiz: Second Form at Malory Towers
Answer: Wonderful
Or, as Zerelda pronounces it, 'wunnerful'. She describes everything as 'wunnerful', from English accents to Darrell's dad and, like many American characters in Enid Blyton books, thinks England is a quaint little country. The Rivers agree to pick her up on the way to school as her grandma and Darrell's grandma are friends. Darrell is surprised to discover that Zerelda is only fifteen, as she wears make-up and looks much older. Darrell takes an immediate dislike to her, not helped by Zerelda falling asleep in the car when Darrell tries to tell her about Malory Towers. Alicia and the other girls (besides Gwendoline) mock Zerelda's habit of calling everything 'wunnerful'.
From Quiz: Third Year at Malory Towers
Answer: Sally
On the first day of term Miss Parker announced that Sally was chosen to be the head girl for the second form. Sally was chosen due to being steady, loyal, kindly and sensible. Most of the form was happy with the choice in head girl, although some were upset.
From Quiz: Malory Towers: Second Form
Answer: Darrell Rivers
The main character is Darrell Rivers. Darrell is an 11 year old girl who is starting boarding school for the first time. We meet her in the first chapter as she gets ready to head to her new school.
Sally and Gwendoline also are starting at Malory Towers this term, whereas Alicia has been at Malory Towers for a term. The name Darrell Rivers was inspired by Enid Blyton's second husband, Kenneth Darrell Waters!
From Quiz: Malory Towers: Book One
Answer: Mazeley Manor
Maureen talks incessantly about her old school, much to the annoyance of Darrell and friends, as new girls are supposed to be quiet. Alicia can't resist being sarcastic and mentioning how girls at Mazeley Manor failed their exams, but her sarcasm goes over Maureen's head. Mam'zelle Dupont mistakenly calls it 'Measly Manor', much to the delight of the girls, who use the nickname every time Maureen mentions Mazeley Manor. Unlike Malory Towers, it was a poor school with little to no discipline; Maureen has wonky teeth because she refused to wear a wire while at Mazeley Manor, and realises that if she had been at Malory Towers, Matron would have insisted on her wearing it.
From Quiz: In the Fifth at Malory Towers
Answer: North Tower
Darrell's mother sees her off at the station and she gets into the train carriage for North Tower girls, as each tower has its own section on the train. Miss Potts, her housemistress, asks Alicia Johns to look after her, and she also meets Pamela, the head of the house. There are two other new girls in the North Tower, Gwendoline Lacey and Sally Hope. Darrell's first impression of them is that Gwendoline is an annoying attention seeker who takes forever to say goodbye to her mother, and Sally is very shy. She also finds out that Alicia has a very sharp tongue and is always snarking people.
From Quiz: First Term at Malory Towers
Answer: Jones
Josephine Jones was a loud-voiced and rather bad-mannered girl. Her father was just the same. Both were fat with piggy little eyes and short necks.
From Quiz: "Last Term at Malory Towers" (Enid Blyton)
Answer: Darrell
Darrell Rivers is the heroine of the series. The books begin with her arrival at the school as a shy first former and follow her through the years until the sixth form where she is a mature and dignified head girl.
Darrell is a good all rounder - she works hard and excels at both academics and sports and is a friendly girl who gets on with most students. She is head girl of the fourth form and the author of the pantomime in the fifth.
Her temper first shows itself in the first book where she slaps Gwendoline in the pool and shakes Sally at half term, she has a tussle with Ellen over test papers in the second form and a confrontation with young June in fourth form which temporarily loses her her position of head girl.
She does, however, have the ability to recognise this fault within herself and always apologises after she has had time to calm down and tries hard to learn to control herself which makes her a true Blyton heroine.
At the end of the series she is all set to go off to St Andrews College in Scotland with Sally, Alicia and Betty and has high hopes of becoming a writer.
From Quiz: Flaws, Faults and Foibles
Answer: singing
Delia's aunt and cousins thought her singing was terrible. Bad taste!
From Quiz: All New "Malory Towers" Madness
Answer: June
June, the first former, is Alicia's cousin who is naughty like Alicia herself. This trick is making herself looked fatter and fatter and fatter...
From Quiz: Malory Towers: The Fifth Book
Answer: 3
There were three new girls- Clarissa, Connie and Ruth. Connie and Ruth were twins, though not identical twins.
From Quiz: 'Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'
Answer: Sally
Sally was a very kind and fair girl and thus an apt choice for head of the form. Alicia was hurt that she wasn't the head and was mean to Sally throughout the term.
From Quiz: 'Second Form at Malory Towers'- Enid Blyton
Answer: Amanda
Amanda, the new sixth-former, was convinced that June could be extremely good at both tennis and swimming, given the proper coaching.
From Quiz: "Last Term at Malory Towers" - Quotes
Answer: Irene
Irene was angry with Maureen because Maureen thought she was better at music.
From Quiz: "In the Fifth at Malory Towers" - Quotes
Answer: Emily
Darrell had initially asked Mary-Lou who said she couldn't as she was going out with Gwen. Darrell then asked Sally who also refused. So, Darrell asked Emily at last and she agreed.
From Quiz: Malory Towers: A Dream School
Answer: discussing the events of the upcoming term
Darrell was scared of the big girls.
From Quiz: Exciting Series of Malory Towers
Answer: Admiring herself
Darrell's very excited about going to boarding school for the first time.
From Quiz: Malory Towers Mania
Answer: "Brown coat, brown hat, orange ribbon, and a brown tunic underneath with an orange belt"
Darrell has a very exciting first term and soon makes friends with Sally and Mary-Lou.
From Quiz: Enid Blyton's Malory Towers School Series
Answer: Alicia
Sally was whom Darrel spent the rest of her years with in Malory Towers, but Alicia was her first friend there.
From Quiz: "Malory Towers": the nerve-racking quiz!
Answer: Brown and orange
""It's jolly nice" said Darrell." What are you talking about girl?! It's hideous. "Brown coat, brown hat, orange ribbon and a brown tunic underneath with an orange belt." Ugh.
From Quiz: Tally Ho! The "Malory Towers" Quiz
Answer: "I'm sure she's going to be a favourite with all of us in no time."
Daphne and Gwendoline arrive on the train, and Gwendoline takes her into the dormitory and introduces her to the girls as follows: "Hallo, everyone! This is Daphne Millicent Turner, a new girl. She's in our form and in our dormy. She travelled down in my carriage and I'm sure she's going to be a favourite with all of us in no time!"
The other girls find Gwendoline's way of introducing Daphne a bit weird, and Sally takes an immediate dislike to Daphne because she has 'too many airs and graces'. Daphne is pretty, blonde, charming and rich, and has never been to school before, and Gwendoline is sucking up to her. Sally later has to tell both girls to be quiet when they talk past lights out at bedtime.
From Quiz: Second Form at Malory Towers
Answer: Seven
Bill's real name is Wilhelmina, but she hates being called by her full name and will only answer to 'Bill'. Alicia knows about her through one of her brothers, who is friends with one of Bill's brothers. She comes from a big family and is the only girl of eight children. Bill and her brothers all arrive at school on horseback; her horse is a black stallion called Thunder, and she keeps him at school. Her father also breeds racehorses.
From Quiz: Third Year at Malory Towers
Answer: Darrell, Jean, Winnie
People expected Irene and Alicia to be in the running for head girl of second form as they had been at Malory Towers the longest. Irene did not care but Alicia was very upset that she was not in the running. Alicia believes she was not chosen as she plays fool too much, but in fact it is due to her wild and unruly tongue and the sharp things she could say.
From Quiz: Malory Towers: Second Form
Answer: 5 pounds
As a first form girl they were only allowed 5 pounds. Seems like a very little amount of money now. However, in current day money this is now worth around 180 pounds.
From Quiz: Malory Towers: Book One
Answer: Stand at the window pretending to cry
As anyone who's read the first book in the 'Malory Towers' series will know, Gwendoline and her mother always have a very dramatic parting, and when Gwendoline arrives at school, the girls stand at the window with handkerchiefs and pretend to cry. Mr Lacey finds it funny, but Mrs Lacey and Gwendoline do not. Mr Lacey warns Gwendoline that he expects her to get a better report this term. Meanwhile, the other girls tell Maureen that she and Gwendoline will get on really well, and Alicia gleefully introduces Gwendoline to her.
From Quiz: In the Fifth at Malory Towers
Answer: Brushing her hair
Gwendoline immediately gets on the wrong foot with the other girls on the train when she cries and makes a big fuss about saying goodbye to her mother. As the girls are getting ready for bed, Gwendoline is brushing her long blonde hair and counting the strokes, as she was always told to brush it a hundred times before bed at home. Katherine, the dormitory prefect, orders her into bed and she complains that the other girls are making her lose count, and Alicia jokes about spanking her with a brush. Gwendoline later gets into trouble for wearing her hair loose and Darrell has to plait it for her.
From Quiz: First Term at Malory Towers
Answer: Betty
Betty was Alicia's best friend. They were very much alike though Betty didn't have Alicia's quick tongue and sharp humor.
From Quiz: "Last Term at Malory Towers" (Enid Blyton)
Answer: Jack Horner
Jack Horner's nickname is Jack and he is 'wizard'! Sandy is Lucy's horse, Merrylegs is Clarissa's horse and Thunder is Bill's horse.
From Quiz: All New "Malory Towers" Madness
Answer: Daphne
The second form thief, Daphne, surprised everyone by saving Mary-Lou's life. She threw her belt down to Mary-Lou and held onto her until help arrived.
From Quiz: Malory Towers
Answer: North Tower
Darrell, Sally, Alicia and most of the others were in the North Tower. It had the best view among all the four towers. Felicity was glad that she was in the same tower as Darrell.
From Quiz: 'Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'
Answer: Mary-Lou
Alicia was talking about Catherine behind her back, because of her "saintly" ways. Mary-Lou said that Catherine was just being kind.
From Quiz: "Last Term at Malory Towers" - Quotes
Answer: June
The fifth-formers had a lot of trouble with the unruly first-former June.
From Quiz: "In the Fifth at Malory Towers" - Quotes
Answer: Sam, Roger, Dick
Sam was her favorite brother.
From Quiz: Exciting Series of Malory Towers
Answer: Sally Hope
It's a very strange match after their first term antics.
From Quiz: Malory Towers Mania
Answer: Cornwall
Cornwall is one of the most beautiful parts of England with a wild, rocky coastline.
From Quiz: Enid Blyton's Malory Towers School Series
Answer: June
She started Malory Towers the same year as Darrel's sister, Felicity.
From Quiz: "Malory Towers": the nerve-racking quiz!
Answer: North
The mistress for this tower is Miss Potts or "Potty" as the girls hilariously call her. Other girls in this tower are Sally , Gwen, Irene and Alicia.
From Quiz: Tally Ho! The "Malory Towers" Quiz
Answer: She is too hard and uncaring.
While Alicia is a prankster, that isn't the reason why Sally is picked instead of her. Sally is a kind, reliable girl and good at helping girls in need, while Alicia has a cruel streak and is hard and impatient with girls who are not very bright or struggling (something Sally herself notes earlier on). The teachers laugh at her pranks in private, but dislike the way she talks to other girls. Miss Grayling believes that while other girls might admire or envy Alicia, they won't want to be real friends with her.
From Quiz: Second Form at Malory Towers
Answer: Molly Ronaldson
Molly Ronaldson is a big, energetic girl in the Fourth Form who is in charge of Games this year. Darrell idolises her, not least because she is good at her job and has an eye for spotting talent, and eagerly hopes that Molly will pick her for the lacrosse team. Zerelda dislikes her because of her size and because she cannot understand the mentality of girls who love sports and take very little interest in their appearances. Darrell, meanwhile, cannot understand why Zerelda spends so much time on her hair and make-up and has so little interest in ordinary schoolgirl activities.
Margot Maynard, Monica Marilliar and Elfie Woodward are all Games Prefects from Elinor M Brent-Dyer's 'Chalet School' series.)
From Quiz: Third Year at Malory Towers
Answer: Ellen
Ellen, a new girl, received a scholarship to go to Malory Towers. When she arrives at Malory Towers she is tired due to all her hard work in winning the scholarship. Due to her brain not working properly after working too hard, she becomes very irritable.
From Quiz: Malory Towers: Second Form
