Laura Ingalls Wilder Trivia

1. Laura has left her house in the "Big Woods" for someplace new. Where did Pa say they were going?

From Quiz "Little House on the Prairie" Part One

Answer: Indian country

Pa tells Laura they are moving to "Indian country". Pa believed there were to many people moving into the "Big Woods", and he did not want to live where the the land was becoming settled and the wild animals were becoming afraid.

From Quiz "Little House in the Big Woods" Part Two

Answer: A feather dipped in bear grease

Pa dips a feather in bear grease and uses it to grease his traps. The traps are used to catch mink, otter and bears. Some of these traps can break a man's leg! Trapping is still done worldwide.

From Quiz " Little House in the Big Woods" Part One

Answer: Pepin, Wisconsin

Laura Ingalls is born in the "Big Woods" near Pepin, Wisconsin in 1867 to Charles and Caroline Ingalls.

From Quiz Which Little House?

Answer: Little Town on the Prairie

This happens when Miss Wilder comes to teach school and Nellie Olson befriends her. Nellie is all too happy to influence Miss Wilder against Laura. The first trouble occurs when Miss Wilder makes Carrie write her spelling mistakes on the board and Laura, seeing that she is about to faint, tells Miss Wilder who then makes Laura write them in her place. The next day Carrie and Mamie Beardsley are swaying in their seat and the bolt becomes loose and makes a sound. Miss Wilder tells them to put their books away and just sit there and rock it. They start to but then Mamie moves and leaves Carrie doing it on her own. Miss Wilder doesn't say anything to Mamie but tells Carrie to keep rocking the bench. Laura finally snaps and says "If you want that seat rocked faster, I'll rock it for you!" So she does and uses all her strength and all the bolts come out of the floor and she makes so much noise that no-one can hear. Miss Wilder sends both her and Carrie home.

From Quiz Food From the "Little House" Books

Answer: salt pork

Salt pork was one of the few readily available meats in the days prior to refrigeration.

From Quiz Little House Christmas Treasury

Answer: poured it over snow

Pa brought in two pans of snow. The girls used the syrup to pour designs onto the snow. It quickly hardened into candy. They were allowed to eat one each. They had to save the rest for Christmas.

From Quiz Laura Ingalls Wilder

Answer: Laura Elizabeth Ingalls

Laura's full name is on the name card she gives to Almanzo.

From Quiz On the Banks of Plum Creek

Answer: A dugout

"The house is in the creek bank, Caroline." "Oh, Charles!" said Ma. "A dugout. We've never had to live in a dugout yet."

From Quiz The Long Winter

Answer: Little French horse

"Dinner was ready when they went to the shanty. Ma looked sharply at Laura and asked, "Is the work too hard for her, Charles?" "Oh, no! She's as stout as a little French horse. She's been a great help," said Pa."

From Quiz Little House on the Prairie

Answer: Wisconsin

Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing among the big trees, and they never saw that little house again.

From Quiz By The Shores of Silver Lake

Answer: Aunt Docia

"She was the pretty Aunt Docia who had worn the dress with buttons that looked like blackberries, long ago at the sugaring-off dance at Grandpa's house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin."

From Quiz Little House in Funtrivia

Answer: Mary, Carrie, Grace

Laura's sister's names are Mary, Carrie and Laura. Mary is the oldest and Grace is the youngest, and Carrie is a few years younger than Laura.

From Quiz "Little Town on the Prairie"

Answer: Mary Power

The sociable cost a dime, so Minnie and Ida could not afford to go, and Nellie said that it did not interest her.

From Quiz Little House in the Big Woods Part 2

Answer: a stump

When Pa was coming back from town, it started getting dark on him. In the shadows he saw what he thought was a bear. He was terrified since he did not have his gun. After a standoff that seemed to take forever he ran after the bear with a big stick. When he got to the bear it turned out to be an old burned black stump.

From Quiz Little House in the Big Woods Part 1

Answer: Ma and Pa

In the 19th century most children in the United States called their parents ma and pa. No one hardly calls their parents ma and pa anymore, but there are still alot of grandmas and grandpas floating around.

From Quiz Main Characters in Little House Books

Answer: Rose

Rose is Laura's daughter. She was an accomplished author herself. Written by Roger Lea McBride.

From Quiz Birthdays in Little Houses

Answer: Star and Bright

Father had made Almanzo a calf-yoke of red cedar, and Almanzo stayed off school in order to begin to train the two calves.

From Quiz Christmas in Little Houses

Answer: nearly 10

Almanzo would have been ten years old just over a month later.

From Quiz "Farmer Boy" Quiz

Answer: Three

They are Eliza Jane, Alice, and Royal. Royal is the oldest at thirteen years old, Eliza Jane is twelve, Alice is ten, and Almanzo, the youngest, is eight going on nine.

From Quiz The 'Little House' Books

Answer: Eliza

Eliza was quite nasty to Laura and Carrie when she taught them in DeSmet.

From Quiz Little House on the Prairie (all the books)

Answer: two

From Quiz A Little House

Answer: Laura Ingalls

Laura's middle name is Elizabeth.

From Quiz "Little House on the Prairie" Part One

Answer: They had to cross the Mississippi River before the ice broke

When the Ingalls decide to move, Pa told them they must move before the ice starts to break on the Mississippi. They drove their wagon across it. He worried the ice could break while they were in the middle of it.

From Quiz "Little House in the Big Woods" Part Two

Answer: Sugar snow

A sugar snow in the spring holds back the trees' leafing, which makes a longer run of sap. This provides the family with more sap to make maple sugar and maple syrup. Maple syrup is especially good on pancakes!

From Quiz " Little House in the Big Woods" Part One

Answer: Sukey

Another cow is mentioned later in the book named Rosie, but Sukey is the one Ma and Laura went out to milk. Spot is the name of a cow in another of Laura's books, "Little House on the Prairie".

From Quiz Which Little House?

Answer: On the Banks of Plum Creek

This occurs after they have moved out of the dugout and built the new house and think they are going to have a wonderful crop to pay off all their debts. Pa had just decided that he would begin harvesting the next week when the grasshoppers came. They appeared in a big cloud and landed and ate everything that was on the ground until there was nothing left to eat. Laura talks of them being so thick on the ground that there was nowhere to stand without walking on them. Everyone was happy when they finally left and Pa began ploughing to replant but then they all found sacks of grasshopper eggs everywhere and knew there was no point in planting a crop for the next year because when the eggs hatched they would just eat the next crop too.

From Quiz Food From the "Little House" Books

Answer: crackling cornbread

Cracklings are the crispy pork leftovers from strained melted lard. Ooh! are they tasty!

From Quiz Little House Christmas Treasury

Answer: a ragdoll

Charlotte had black yarn hair, a pink and blue calico dress, and red flannel stockings. Laura was very happy with her gift.

From Quiz Laura Ingalls Wilder

Answer: Jack

Jack appeared in the first, second, and fourth and fifth books but, sadly, died before the family left Plum Creek.

From Quiz On the Banks of Plum Creek

Answer: Pet and Patty

"He told Ma that he had traded Pet and Patty for Mr. Hanson's land. Laura was a big girl, seven years old. She was too big to cry. But she could not help asking, "Pa, did you have to give him Pet and Patty?""

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