Biggles and Ginger Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hepple

Biggles also has his name clipped back and goes under the identity of "Biggs". The two of them have joined the legion in order to give a helping hand to Marcel Brissac. Much later in the story Biggles and Ginger find that their paths cross those of Erich von Stalhein. For a while there is even a strange alliance between them.

Answer: Biggles and the Black Peril

Ginger and Biggles meet each other somewhere in the north-east of England. By following the geographical logic of the events in the book it is probably in County Durham. However, Johns contradicts this idea later in the book by using Northumberland as the locale.

Answer: Newcastle

For a while the comrades are based at Cramlington aerodrome which is a few miles to the north of Newcastle. After Biggles is helped to escape from the house where he is being held the three of them visit Newcastle to make Ginger look more respectable. This all happens in "Biggles and the Black Peril".

Answer: Fred Summers

Ginger remains puzzled as to why anyone would travel to a foreign country to fight for a cause about which he himself knows very little. W.E.Johns did not like Franco's fascists but he also had no time for the influence of the Communist party.

Answer: Prague

Joining him in his slide on the roof was Biggles. Both of them were trying to get away secretly from the "safe house" provided by the British agent Smith.

Answer: The Laughing Horse

Ginger is saved by the intervention of Marcel Brissac who leads a raid on the nightclub in question. It is in this book that W.E.Johns extends the cooperation of the members of Interpol to include the police forces of the U.S.A. Eddie Ross proves to be both brave and unsubtle in the tactics he adopts when he comes across drug smugglers.

Answer: He launches paper gliders from the window of the tower.

Written on the wings of the glider were the words "S.O.S. Urgent." As soon as Biggles and Algy find the gliders they know that Ginger and Bertie must be somewhere around. Later the method of using the light and the Morse Code is employed to make further contact. This all happens in "Biggles and the Noble Lord".

Answer: He had disobeyed an order about carrying a water bottle.

Biggles even tells Ginger that he would have him put under close arrest for breaking orders if they were anywhere near a service depot. Later in the story he does indeed shoot Biggles down. However, Biggles was flying a Messerschmidt at the time and so this was hardly surprising. Modern editions of this story call it "Biggles Defends the Desert".

Answer: Dr. Augustus Duck

Inevitably the three comrades always think of Dr. Augustus Duck as "Donald" after the famous Disney cartoon character. The stories in "Biggles - Charter Pilot" all contain some element that can be best described as "fanciful". No wonder the other members of the squadron to whom Ginger tells them consider them to be "tall stories".

Answer: He is hit by a dart containing a very strong sedative.

Fortunately Ginger manages to rip out the dart before he takes the full dose of the drug into his system. The villains in the story had been using the dart-guns on bulls but they had also managed to kill a man by using it against him.

Answer: Onions

As he doesn't speak French very well Ginger is trying to pass himself off as a Spanish onion seller. This takes place in "Biggles 'Fails to Return'". Unfortunately his onions have been grown in England and they have rather a stronger taste than the ones that normally come from Spain.

Answer: Biggles in the Orient

Ginger is in fact shot down in an aerial dogfight near Dum Dum aerodrome in India. The Japanese had launched a large attack, believing perhaps that the "secret weapon" they had put into operation would make the members of each squadron afraid to fly.

Answer: His flying jacket

As he tried to escape from both the perils of the mine-field and the guns of the Wolf fighter Ginger tears off his jacket in a moment of inspiration in order to give the pilot something to shoot at. The ruse works and, though his jacket is nearly shot to pieces, Ginger survives.

Answer: A harpoon gun.

Ginger is successful, though the projectile from the harpoon gun actually missed the target. The harpoon glanced off the conning tower of the submarine and caught Thom, one of the Nazis, on the rebound. The rope that was trailing from the harpoon sent the rest of the firing squad into total confusion and so Biggles escapes.

Answer: He has accidentally drunk water that was polluted with the drug called gurra.

Many times Ginger finds himself getting into trouble during the long saga of the "Biggles" books. This time he is just unlucky that he is the one that chances to drink the infected water and have the hallucinations which follow.