Dylan Thomas Trivia

1. How many days and nights did it snow?

From Quiz "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in Quotes

Answer: Dylan can't remember

"I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six."

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: To begin at the beginning...

In the 1960's full radio performance of the play, and the subsequent film, the first voice, who begins the play, was performed by the actor Richard Burton.

From Quiz A Child's Christmas in Wales

Answer: a town by the sea

Dylan Thomas lived in Swansea. "One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner..." There are many references to the sea.

From Quiz "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in Quotes

Answer: Waiting for cats

Dylan and his chum were waiting for cats so that they could throw snowballs at them. "The wise cats never appeared. We were so still, Eskimo-footed arctic marksmen in the muffling silence of the eternal snows - eternal ever since Wednesday - that we never heard Mrs. Prothero's first cry from her igloo at the bottom of the garden." To find out why Mrs. Prothero cried out, you'll have to read the book.

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: It says something backwards.

The name Llareggub is 'bugger all' backwards, yet looks suspiciously Welsh, a 1950's joke, still pretty darn funny though...

From Quiz A Child's Christmas in Wales

Answer: he can't remember

I'm sure we can all identify with this feeling - the memories may not be exact, but all Christmases roll together to form one perfect, definitive Christmas. "It was always snowing at Christmas. December in my memory is white as Lapland."

From Quiz "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in Quotes

Answer: Wolves

"Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales..."

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: Captain Cat

Most of the names in 'Under Milkwood' hold some deeper symbolism: i.e. the old 'seacat' of a captain, or words to that effect that actually make sense. ;)

From Quiz A Child's Christmas in Wales

Answer: cats

"We waited to snowball the cats. Sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered, spitting and snarling... The wise cats never appeared." What better games can be found than those involving a little imagination?

From Quiz "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in Quotes

Answer: Mittens made for giant sloths

Dylan's catalogue of useful presents reads thus: "engulfing mufflers of the old coach days, and mittens made for giant sloths; zebra scarfs of a substance like silky gum that could be tug-o'-warred down to the galoshes; blinding tam-o'-shanters like patchwork teacosies and bunny-suited busbies and balaclavas for victims of head-shrinking tribes; from aunts who always wore wool next to the skin there were moustached and rasping vests that made you wonder why the aunts had any skin left at all; and once I had a little crocheted nose bag from an aunt now, alas, no longer whinnying with us. And pictureless books in which small boys, though warned with quotations not to, would skate on Farmer Giles' pond and did and drowned; and books that told me everything about the wasp, except why."

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: Getting married to lots of different women.

Mr. Waldo, apparently, has lots of illigitimate children, due to the number of paternity summons he gets through the post.

From Quiz A Child's Christmas in Wales

Answer: fire brigade

They considered calling all these, and the ambulance as well. They said that Ernie Jenkins "likes fires". But in the end they just called the fire brigade. ("They won't be there", said Mr Prothero, "it's Christmas.")

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: Willy Nilly

Willy Nilly and his wife steam open all the mail before they deliver it, so they know everybody's secrets in Llareggub.

From Quiz A Child's Christmas in Wales

Answer: Would you like something to read?

"Jim and I waited very quietly, to see what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always."

From Quiz "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in Quotes

Answer: Made huge deep footprints in the snow

"...I would go out, my bright new boots squeaking, into the white world on to the seaward hill, to call on Jim and Dan and Jack and to pad through the still streets, leaving huge deep footprints on the hidden pavements. 'I bet people will think there's been hippos'. 'What would you do if you saw a hippo coming down our street?' 'I'd go like this, bang! I'd throw him over the railings and roll him down the hill and then I'd tickle him under the ear and he'd wag his tail.' 'What would you do if you saw two hippos?' Iron-flanked and bellowing he-hippos clanked and battered through the scudding snow towards us as we passed Mr. Daniel's house."

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: On his doorstep

The Reverend's services consist of him reciting a long poem, of his own composition, to the streets of Llareggub.

From Quiz A Child's Christmas in Wales

Answer: the postmen

"They were just ordinary postmen." Their wonderful purpose, of course, was to deliver the Presents.

From Quiz "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in Quotes

Answer: Rum

"Auntie Hannah laced her tea with rum, because it was only once a year." One suspects that Auntie Hannah had a fondness for liquor at any time of year. Earlier in the book Auntie Hannah has been described as having "a fondness for port" and Dylan reveals that after dinner she "stood in the middle of the snowbound back yard, singing like a big-bosomed thrush."

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: Mr and Mrs Pugh

Mr Pugh is constantly plotting to kill Mrs Pugh, but since the whole village, including Mrs Pugh, know all about it, I find it highly unlikely that he would get away with it.

From Quiz "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in Quotes

Answer: They were joined by an unseen singer

"One, two, three, and we began to sing, our voices high and seemingly distant in the snow-felted darkness round the house that was occupied by nobody we knew. We stood close together near the dark door. And then a small, dry voice, like the voice of someone who has not spoken for a long time, joined our singing: a small, dry, eggshell voice from the other side of the door: a small, dry voice through the keyhole. And when we stopped running we were outside our house..."

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: Ears

"Where'd you get that hair from? Got it from old Tom cat. Give it back then, love." I have no idea why Lily Smalls lives with the Beynons and yet has a different sirname, there's probably some random hidden story about it somewhere...

From Quiz "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in Quotes

Answer: Music

"Always on Christmas Night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang 'Cherry Ripe', and another uncle sang 'Drake's Drum'. It was very warm in the little house. Auntie Hannah, who had got on to the parsnip wine, sang a song about Bleeding Hearts and Death, and then another in which she said her heart was like a Bird's Nest; and then everybody laughed again; and then I went to bed."

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: 85

"I'm 85 years, 3 months and a day"

From Quiz A Child's Christmas in Wales

Answer: Auntie Hannah

Auntie Bessie "had already been frightened, twice, by a clock-work mouse" and was drinking elderberry wine, but was not singing. Auntie Dosie "had to have three aspirins" but Auntie Hannah drank port (and later laced her tea with rum "because it was only once a year") and "stood in the middle of the snowbound back yard, singing like a big-bosomed thrush." She then moved on to the parsnip wine and "sang a song about Bleeding Hearts and Death."

From Quiz "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in Quotes

Answer: Said some words

"Looking out my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-coloured snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steadily falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept."

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: Mog Edwards & Edwards

Mog and Myfanwy express their love through letters yet never make any effort to actually get married. P.S. "Shop at Mog's".

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: 11:30

11:30 is opening time. Apparently the clock has stood at the same time for decades, it is always opening time...I wish...

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: Mrs. Organ Morgan

"And when they saw me they pretended they were looking for nests...but you don't go nesting in long combinations, and your dress nearly over your head."

From Quiz 'Under Milkwood' by Dylan Thomas

Answer: Pembroke

There are a lot of song in the play. It was written to be a 'play for voices' and is one of my favourite plays because of the variety of styles and charcters it involves. Dylan Thomas rules!

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