About "The Pinhoe Egg" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Julia and Janet

Syracuse the pony was bought for Julia and Janet who had decided they must have ponies. Unfortunately for them, Janet discovered she was afraid of real horses and Syracuse was difficult with Julia. In the end, Cat, who thought he wanted neither a horse nor a bicycle, took over.

Answer: Molly is Gaffer Pinhoe's mare

Millie was Chrestomanci's wife, the mother of Julia and Roger. She was a powerful magic-user and ex-goddess. Molly was Gaffer Pinhoe's mare, who was really a unicorn.

Answer: Nutcase

Nutcase was Gammer Pinhoe's cat. He was entrusted to Marianne but kept escaping. Fiddle was a cat in a different book. He used to be a violin. Mig (from "Black Maria") and Sophie (from "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Castle in the Air") were other characters created by Diana Wynne Jones. They were both human, but both spent some time in the guise of cats.

Answer: Roger Chant

Joe made friends with Roger, with whom he shared a peculiar interest in weird and wacky inventions. They created a flying machine from furniture, a stuffed eagle and bits of bike and a feather duster.

Answer: Gaffer Farleigh

Gaffer Farleigh, who had been employed as a gamekeeper at Chrestomanci Castle, threatened Cat and later shot Chrestomanci. Cat eventually turned him into a stone tree.

Answer: She was born a Pinhoe

Irene and her husband Jason bought the house after Gammer Pinhoe went strange. Only a Pinhoe could buy the house, and Irene was a descendent of an exiled Pinhoe relative. She later became the new Gammer.

Answer: Eric Chant

Throughout the books in which he appeared Eric Chant was usually known as "Cat" because he was born a nine-lifed enchanter.

Answer: A young griffin

Klartch was the young griffin that hatched from the Pinhoe egg that Marianne gave to Cat Chant. In the manner of griffins, Klartch named himself. Derk, who appeared in "Dark Lord of Derkholm" and "Year of the Griffin" did have two griffin sons named Don and Kit, but they did not appear in "The Pinhoe Egg".

The groom was named Joss Callow (his mother was a Pinhoe) and the senior Pinhoe titles were Gaffer and Gammer.

Answer: The Farleigh and Pinhoe Gammers

Gammer Norah Farleigh and Gammer Edith Pinhoe were about as bad as one another. Gaffer Farleigh was bad, too, while Gaffer Pinhoe was a kindly old man who was "put away" by his wife.

Answer: All of these

Dolly, Uncle Richard Pinhoe's donkey, was a disguised unicorn; elder daughter of Molly, Gaffer Pinhoe's unicorn mare.