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1. 'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame is not known for its imaginatively named characters as it includes Badger (a badger), Mole (a mole), Mr Toad (a toad) and Otter (an otter). However, Otter's young son has a less obvious name - what is it?
2. Marlene the Otter is a playful and determined character, with improbably long and curly eyelashes. She appears alongside characters from the 2005 movie 'Madagascar' in which TV spin-off produced by DreamWorks and Nickelodeon?
3. 'Return to the Hundred Acre Wood' is a 2009 sequel to A. A. Milne's famous series of stories featuring Winnie-the-Pooh. It introduces a new character, a slightly snobbish, pearl-wearing otter that lives in 'Fortitude Hall'. What is the name of this new friend of Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore?
4. Daxter, a character from the video games franchise 'Jak and Daxter', is a bit of a comedian but becomes more forceful and destructive when he becomes Dark Daxter. He isn't strictly speaking an otter as he was actually transformed from a boy into what fictional hybrid creature?
5. 'The Taggerung' is a children's fantasy novel written by Brian Jacques, featuring a legendary and powerful otter. The novel is part of a series of books that are set in an abbey and its surrounding land known as Mossflower Woods. What is the name of both the abbey and the series of novels?
6. Emmet is a generous, musical otter who appears along with his mother, Ma, in 'Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas'. A TV adaptation of the story was produced by a man who is better known as the creator of 'The Muppets'. What is his name?
7. In the 'Harry Potter' series, a patronus is conjured by the spell "Expecto Patronum" in order to repel Dementors. They are individual to their casters but generally take the form of an animal. Which major character, portrayed on film by Emma Watson, had a patronus that took the form of an otter?
8. There are over 700 known species of Pokémon, so it stands to reason that at least one would be an otter-like creature. Can you correctly pick out the one that is also known as the Sea Otter Pokémon from the list below?
9. A Disney children's TV series, created by Jim Jinkins and first broadcast in the United States in 1998, introduced an otter family named after the component parts of a popular sandwich filling. What were they called?
10. Henry Williamson's famous otter is described as 'joyful' in the novel's subtitle. What is the name of this book that was made into a popular family film in 1979?
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