On the Right Track Trivia Quiz

Answer: Neverland

In both the play "Peter Pan" (1904) and the novel "Peter and Wendy" (1911), the direction is given as "second to the right and straight on 'til morning." Walt Disney added the word "star" to this direction in 1953, making it "second star to the right and straight on 'til morning," and so it has been ever since.

Answer: Jericho

The story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho is found in the Bible in Joshua 6:1-27 and in the African-American spiritual "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho." Archaeological excavations in the 1930s, 1950s and 1990s have uncovered some historical basis for the destruction of this city at around the time of the Jewish conquest of Canaan.

Answer: by following a rabbit down a rabbit hole

The title of this work is often shortened to "Alice in Wonderland" but the longer title is original. Alice's entry to Wonderland is achieved by following a fully-clothed White Rabbit wearing a pocket watch.

Answer: the Big Dipper star formation

The seven stars which make up the Big Dipper are part of the larger constellation Ursa Major. The two stars on the outer part of the dipper create an imaginary line which points to Polaris, the North Star. This was useful to runaway slaves traveling by night to freedom in the North.

Answer: through a wardrobe

In "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (1950), the Pevensie children discover a passage from the country house of Professor Digory Kirke to the land of Narnia through an opening in the back of a wardrobe. The children had been sent to live in the countryside to escape the Nazi bombing of London during World War II. A wardrobe in English is the same thing as an armoire in French: a large, freestanding piece of usually-wooden furniture in which clothing is hung up.

Answer: the one less traveled by

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was one of America's best-loved poets. His verse, redolent of New England scenes and accents, has a universality in theme. This question is taken from his poem "The Road Not Taken."

Answer: "Bulk of treasure here"

While it is true that the map was marked with a red X -- three of them, in fact -- the writing identified where the largest part of Captain Flint's booty was buried.

Answer: The Winter's Tale

In "The Winter's Tale", Act III, scene 3, Antigonus flees the stage while being chased by a bear which catches, kills and consumes him offstage. This stage direction raises the question of whether the Elizabethan theatre used a real live bear or an actor in a bear suit for this scene. This stage direction was the inspiration for the title of playwright Lauren Gunderson's very dark comedy "Exit, Pursued by a Bear".

Answer: The Hunting of the Snark

"The Hunting of the Snark" is a nonsense poem and not at all one of Carroll's (Dodgson's) favourites. It tells the story of a crew of ten (all of whose names start with the letter B) who go in search of a snark. The poem shares certain nonsense words with "The Jabberwocky," e.g. galumphing, bandersnatch, outgrabe and frumious.

Answer: a road of yellow brick

This road is never called "The Yellow Brick Road" in the original novel; it acquired that name in the 1939 film adaptation. The 1939 film featured the song "Follow the Yellow Brick Road." In 1975, a black adaptation of the story was staged on Broadway and turned into a movie in 1978; both featured the song "Ease on the Down the Road" sung by Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.