Jenny Nimmo Trivia

1. What is the name of the school for special and talented students that Charlie goes to?

From Quiz Crazy about Charlie Bone

Answer: Bloor's Academy

Bloor's Academy is owned by the Bloors. It's a school for children talented in academics and arts such as Painting, Music, Sculpting, Drama, Singing, etc. It's also for students with abnormal talents. Charlie Bone is one of the children of the Red King. These children are known to be endowed. There are a few such as Charlie and some are on the good side and some on the bad.

From Quiz Charlie Bone (Endowed) -Part 2

Answer: A glove

Naren Bloor is adopted by Bartholomew Bloor. She can send shadow words over great distances, but has to have some item of the receiver. The receiver has to have their window open and the moonlight needs to be able to shine on a wall, that's where the shadow words are seen.

From Quiz Charlie Bone (Endowed) -Part 1

Answer: Travel through the pictures and paintings

In the book "Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy", Charlie Bone visits Skarpo in his painting. He did not know he could do that until he looked at the painting and Skarpo looked back at him. Charlie asked his Uncle Paton why and how he did that. Uncle Paton explained to him about possibly traveling through pictures.

From Quiz Midnight for Charlie Bone

Answer: Bloor's Academy

Bloor's Academy is a school for students who are talented in either art, music, or drama. It is also for kids who have special talents, called endowments.

From Quiz Charlie Bone

Answer: Vertigo

Olivia is in Drama. She likes to dress up, wear makeup, and dye her hair.

From Quiz Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors

Answer: Be you small or tall

After catching Charlie talking in the hall, Manfred asks Charlie the school rules. Charlie recites the first four lines correctly, but cannot remember the last line. Manfred makes write the last line of the school rules 100 times and deliver them to his office. The school rules are: "Silence in the hall Talking not at all Never cry or call Even if you fall Be you small or tall"

From Quiz Awakening of the Red King

Answer: Descendants of an African King with several endowments.

This is the thing that is, generally speaking, what the whole set of books is about. For background information, the Red King was an man from Africa who came to Britain hundreds of years ago and had ten children. Shortly after the tenth child, a girl, was born, the Red King's queen, Berenice died. The Red King was consumed by sorrow and went to live in the forest. When he returned he was horrified to discover that five of his children had turned evil and the other five had fled. He was then transformed by the magician Mathonwy, into a tree.

From Quiz Charlie Bone and the Hidden King

Answer: make snow

The Flames: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, wanted Tancred to make it snow because he can control weather. They were very vague about their reasons and then stopped by Charlie's to warn him of the "Shadow."

From Quiz Midnight for Charlie Bone

Answer: He can hear people talking in photographs.

Charlie can hear people talking in pictures. He found this out when he was supposed to get a picture of his friend's dog but he got a different picture from the store.

From Quiz "Midnight For Charlie Bone" Quiz

Answer: He can hear the people in the photograph.

He first learns his power when he gets the wrong photographs.

From Quiz Crazy about Charlie Bone

Answer: Tancred Torsson

Tancred Torsson is known to have a lot of temper and he usually lets out large blasts of wind if he is in a bad mood. Tancred, also known as Tanc, is best friends with Lysander Sage, whom he's mostly seen with. He occasionally helps Charlie and his friends out if they need his aid. Tancred has blond spikey hair. He also has somewhat of a crush on Emma Tolly later on. Emma also feels the same way about him. In the fourth book, 'Castle of Mirrors', Tancred almost switches to the bad side when Joshua Tilpin uses magnetism on him to try and lure him into being his friend. But, in the end, Tancred comes back to the good side after his friends come to his rescue.

From Quiz Midnight for Charlie Bone

Answer: Amy Jones

Amy Jones works at a grocery shop and is a very nice parent to Charlie. She believes her husband to have died in a car crash. Maisie Bones is the name of Charlie's maternal grandmother.

From Quiz Charlie Bone (Endowed) -Part 2

Answer: Dagbert Endless

Dagbert Endless has the endowment of drowning people. His father, Lord Grimwald can control the oceans. His mother took gold from the drowned men's teeth and made charms to protect her son.

From Quiz Charlie Bone (Endowed) -Part 1

Answer: Telekinetic

You can get this information two ways. One, look on page that has the list of the endowed children in "Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors", it says their names then has the description: "Telekinetic twins, distantly related to Zelda Dobinski, who has left Bloor's Academy". Two, when they are in the King's Room on the first day in "Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors", Manfred introduces everyone. When he gets to Ideth and Inez they show off and make Charlie's books move. Tancred grunts "Telekinesis".

From Quiz Midnight for Charlie Bone

Answer: travelling through pictures

Charlie can listen to what is happening in pictures, no matter how old they are. Sometimes he can meet the subjects of the pictures. Charlie's friend Billy can talk to animals, and one of Charlie's friends can create illusions, as we find out in the later books.

From Quiz Charlie Bone

Answer: Emma Tolly

She lives with the Moons while she is controlled by Manfred. Charlie and his friends break the hypnotism spell that she is under using Tolly Twelve Bells, and Emma goes to live with her aunt, Miss Ingledew.

From Quiz Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors

Answer: Viva Valery

Vivienne Vertigo is the mother of Olivia Vertigo. She is a movie star, and also whom Olivia gets her original fashion sense from. Olivia's father is a film director.

From Quiz Awakening of the Red King

Answer: Sagittarius

Sagittarius was described by his master as the golden star, his brothers Aries and Leo were described as "bright flame" and "burning sun."

From Quiz Charlie Bone and the Hidden King

Answer: Hong Kong

He left his dog, Runner Bean, with Charlie . He had to go to Hong Kong because of a case his parents, who are detectives, were working on.

From Quiz Charlie Bone (Books 1-5)

Answer: Gabriel

Gabriel was right. The balance was tipping towards the 'bad guys', so the 'good guys' were feeling the effects strongly. Soon afterwards, it became three to six, and then two to six. Poor people =(

From Quiz The Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo

Answer: Great Great Uncle

Charlie's Great Uncle is Uncle Paton, his father is Lyell and his Granddad is Monty Bone.

From Quiz Charlie Bone Mix - First 5 Books

Answer: Fidelio, Olivia and Billy

Charlie first met Fidelio before he went to Bloor's. Fidelio went to Charlie's house to be his music tutor and helped him play piano. He met Olivia when she was in trouble with Manfred (the Head Boy at Bloor's) and gave her the bag of dropped books. Fidelio and Olivia aren't known to be endowed YET but Billy, the albino is. He can talk to animals and understand what they are saying. Billy helps Charlie get to the King's Room.

From Quiz "The Blue Boa", by Jenny Nimmo

Answer: Benjamin

Benjamin is in Hong Kong in this book.

From Quiz Midnight for Charlie Bone

Answer: Bloor's Academy for Gifted Children.

He goes to Bloor's Academy for Gifted Children. His horrible aunts are happy that he is going to school because they always thought that he didn't have powers.

From Quiz "Midnight For Charlie Bone" Quiz

Answer: His friend, Benjamin Brown

The picture of the dog for Benjamin's birthday is Ben's dog who is named Runner Bean.

From Quiz Crazy about Charlie Bone

Answer: a bird

Emma Tolly has the power to fly but she can only do it while she has taken the form of a bird. Emma sketches birds and then takes their form. She is in Art and loves to draw birds. She even invented a bird called the Tollroc, whose form she took to save Olivia. Often, when her fingers are in pain, she cannot turn into a bird. This is her weakness. Her Aunt, Julia Ingledew, the owner of Ingledew bookshop, looks after her because her parents are dead. She even has a duck named Nancy who was named after her mom. Emma has a crush on Tancred. She is known to be really close with Olivia. Her friends often call her Emma or Em.

From Quiz Midnight for Charlie Bone

Answer: Venetia, Lucretia, and Eustacia

Charlie's three Yewbeam aunts are horrible to him. They are proud of their Yewbeam heritage and are very cunning when they want to know or get something. They are also sisters of Charlie Bone's paternal grandmother. They only visit during Christmas time but when they find out about Charlie's endowment, they visit more often to keep an eye on him and find out secret things.

From Quiz Charlie Bone (Endowed) -Part 2

Answer: Mr. Onimous

Una Onimous's endowment is being kept secret until it is fully developed. Mr. Onimous is the current owner of the flames, Aries, Sagittarius, and Leo.

From Quiz Charlie Bone (Endowed) -Part 1

Answer: Hypnotize them

In any of the books where Manfred Bloor is concerned Charlie or anyone else who talks to him always describes his eyes as a pitch black, dark pit or close enough to it, and looks away quickly to avoid his hypnotizing stare.

From Quiz Midnight for Charlie Bone

Answer: Benjamin Brown

Benjamin lives just down the street from Charlie. Fidelio and Gabriel are two of his friends at Bloor's, and Rupe Small is an annoying boy who sleeps in the same dorm as Charlie.

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