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Quiz about Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker
Quiz about Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker

Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker Quiz


In "The Witches" by Roald Dahl, the Grand High Witch tells the witches of England how to make a potion called Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker. Don't shrink from taking this quiz if you remember how to make this brew and what it's meant to do.

A multiple-choice quiz by Catreona. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
Catreona
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
376,330
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
430
Last 3 plays: Guest 82 (4/10), Guest 14 (1/10), Guest 122 (6/10).
Question 1 of 10
1. What color is formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker when it is properly prepared and ready to use? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What kind of substance is Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What are the witches supposed to put Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker into? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Who does Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker turn into mice? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. When you are preparing Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker, do you need to put in any mice?


Question 6 of 10
6. How many gruntle's egg yolks do you need for a batch of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What is the special ingredient that puts the "delayed action" in Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. When the time delay is over and Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker starts to work, precisely how long does it take to turn the victim into a mouse? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What is the proper dose of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What might happen if you accidentally give your victim too much Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker? Hint



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1. What color is formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker when it is properly prepared and ready to use?

Answer: Green

Here is the list of ingredients for Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker:

The wrong end of a telescope, boiled till it is soft
The tails of forty-five brown mice, chopped off with a carving knife and fried in hair oil till crisp
Forty-five brown mice (whose tails have been chopped off) simmered in frog juice for one hour
Special, secret ingredient: an alarm clock, set to go off at 9:00 tomorrow morning, roasted in the oven till crisp and tender

Mix in the mixer on high speed.
While the mixer is going, add the yoke of one gruntle's egg, the claw of a crab cruncher, the beak of a blabbersnitch, the snout of a grovelspirt, and the tongue of a catspringer.

According to the Grand High Witch, "When you have mixed everything together in the mixer, you will have a most marvelous-looking green liquid."

I can't imagine how all that comes out green. But I'm not a witch.
2. What kind of substance is Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker?

Answer: A liquid

Here is the Grand High Witch's own explanation of how the formula works: "Child eats choc, which has in it Delayed Action Mouse Maker liquid. Child goes home feeling fine. Child goes to bed, still feeling fine. Child wakes up in the morning still OK. Child goes to school, still feeling fine. Formula you understand is delayed action and is not working yet... It is starting to work at exactly 9:00, when the child is arriving at school... Child arrives at school. Delayed Mouse Maker immediately starts to work. Child starts to shrink... Child is not a child any longer. It is a mouse!"

The Grand High Witch must be a terrible person indeed to think up such a dreadful potion! It could put a person off chocolates and candy!
3. What are the witches supposed to put Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker into?

Answer: Sweets (candies) and chocolates

They hide their terrible potion in chocolates and candy. That is why they need to become owners of beautiful, top quality candy stores (sweet shops). They need the loveliest candy and chocolates they can find to lure the poor, unsuspecting children to their doom. You see, the Grand High Witch really is a most terrible person.
4. Who does Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker turn into mice?

Answer: Children

The formula is supposed to be used on children. The Grand High Witch only hates children, not grownups. All the same, I think it would be wise for grownups to be very careful too. You never can tell...
5. When you are preparing Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker, do you need to put in any mice?

Answer: Yes

If you're preparing a Mouse Maker formula, I suppose it follows that you need to put in mice. I wouldn't be a very good witch. Just reading the recipe left me a little green. But here's what it says: "...you take exactly forty-five brown mice and you chop off their tails with a carving knife and you fry the tails in hair oil until they are nice and crisp." And as for the mice, "You simmer them in frog juice for one hour."

I don't know about you, but I'm beginning not to want my supper!
6. How many gruntle's egg yolks do you need for a batch of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker?

Answer: One egg

It seems gruntles nest very high up in trees, so their eggs aren't all that easy to get. Maybe that's just as well!
7. What is the special ingredient that puts the "delayed action" in Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker?

Answer: An alarm clock

If you think about the problem, you see at once that an alarm clock, set for 9:00 tomorrow morning and roasted in the oven must be what gives Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker its delayed action. At least, if you are a dastardly villain like the Grand High Witch you do. I wouldn't have thought of it. Would you?
8. When the time delay is over and Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker starts to work, precisely how long does it take to turn the victim into a mouse?

Answer: 26 seconds

Twenty-six seconds is all it takes to turn a strapping little boy or a pretty little girl into a fuzzy mouse!
9. What is the proper dose of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker?

Answer: One drop

The Grand High Witch is very careful to repeat that only one drop, one droplet even, is plenty. If you only need one drop, then a single batch of formula is enough to turn a whole lot of children into mice. The thought gives a person shivers!
10. What might happen if you accidentally give your victim too much Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker?

Answer: He or she might turn into a mouse right away.

The Grand High Witch explains: "An overdose of Delayed Action Mouse Maker will mess up the timing of the alarm clock and cause the child to turn into a mouse too early. A large overdose might even have an instant effect. And, you wouldn't want that, would you?"

If the children started turning into mice right away, the grownups who happened to be around would realize that the witches were responsible for the change and the witches would be arrested and taken to jail. The particularly clever and sneaky part of the whole plan is that the delayed action means the witches will be nowhere near the children when they turn into mice. So the witches will never be suspected, much less caught. As the Grand High Witch points out, "Witches never get caught."
Source: Author Catreona

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