The Jungle Books - Not the Movie Quiz

Answer: Tabaqui the jackal

Tabaqui the Dish-licker is subject to dewanee (the madness) but we'd call it Hydrophobia or rabies.

Answer: He is lame in one foot

Shere Khan's mother called him Lungri (the Lame One) - he has been lame in one foot since birth. Because of this he can only kill cattle, which annoys the villagers.

Answer: True

You wouldn't guess this from the movie! According to the book, Bagheera would have spoilt Mowgli if he'd had his way, but Baloo says Mowgli must learn all the law of the jungle.

Answer: The Monkeys

The Monkey-People (or Bandar-Log) have no Law. They are outcasts and Baloo warns Mowgli that the Monkey-People are forbidden to the Jungle-People.

Answer: False

Kaa rather despised the poison-snakes as cowards. He is actually a Rock Python, a sort of constrictor.

Answer: The buffaloes

Mowgli had been sent to herd the buffaloes, and, with the help of the wolves, stampeded them over Shere Khan. Buldeo came across Mowgli when he was skinning the carcass and tried to claim it for himself, but Akela the wolf knocked Buldeo down. For this, the villagers decided Mowgli was a wolf and cast him out.

Answer: Kotick

Kotick was the cub of Sea Catch and Matkah. Moby Dick was white, but not a seal!

Answer: Zaharrof

Zaharrof (an Aluet) had been lost the year before in a big gale. It was lucky for the white seal that the Aluet were superstitious, as he escaped the clubbing.

Answer: False

Darzee the Tailorbird and Chuchundra the muskrat helped him, although Rikki did the real fighting.

Answer: Teddy

Rikki saved Teddy's life by killing a karait and Nagaina, the King Cobra's wife.

Answer: Kala Nag

Kala Nag (which means Black Snake) was the calf of Radha Pyri and was a wise old elephant (nearly 70 at the beginning of the story). Dumbo and Babar are cartoon elephants.

Answer: An elephant-goad

Toomai carries an old heavy iron one, but dreams of having one of silver when his elephant is bought by a rich rajah.

Answer: A very wild country

At the beginning of the story the Viceroy of India is receiving the Amir of Afghanistan 'a wild king of a very wild country'. His entourage are described as 'savage men and savage horses from somewhere at the back of Central Asia'. Not much change there, then. Incidentally, I believe Afghanistan is also a very beautiful country.

Answer: False

Billy is a mule.

Answer: Tha

According to Hathi, Tha - the first Lord of the Jungle - made the jungle.

Answer: True

It was the buffalo that found Fear (man).

Answer: Obey

From the poem "The Law of the Jungle"
"Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they;
But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is -Obey!"

Answer: Mohiniwala

As far as I can ascertain, Mohiniwala no longer exists, although the incorrect answers do.

Answer: Little Brother

This is his name with his brothers from the Seeonee pack.

Answer: A crocodile

A mugger is a name for the Indian crocodile and this one had a village named after him.

Answer: True

His poison sacs had dried up because of his great age. I have not been able to find out if this could really happen, though there is evidence that the younger the snake, the more venomous the bite.

Answer: Innuit

They all belonged to the Tununirmiut - 'the country lying at the back of something'.

Answer: Dhole

Even the tiger will surrender a kill to the dholes. They fight in packs of over one hundred.

Answer: No

Out of two hundred fighting dogs, not one made it back with the news that Akela had been killed.

Answer: Nathoo

This is the name given to him by his 'mother', Messua. I cried in the film when Mowgli left the jungle. I wanted him to stay with the animals!