P.L. Travers Trivia

1. What were the names of the youngest Banks children?

From Quiz "Mary Poppins" - Practically Perfect in Every Way

Answer: John and Barbara

There were four children in the Banks family. Jane, the eldest, was about six, and Michael four or five. The twins, John and Barbara, were infants. In the 1964 movie, the only children were Jane and Michael. There was no mention of John and Barbara.

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Answer: Michael pulls her in when he's flying his kite in the Park

Pamela Travers wrote eight Mary Poppins books altogether. She wrote several other children's and adult's books as well, but it is her character Mary Poppins that is remembered the most.

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Answer: Miss Andrews

Mr. Banks' old nanny was returning for a visit, and when she came, she came with a caged lark. Mary Poppins, who could talk to and understand the birds, had a sad conversation with the lark. The lark hadn't sung in two years, ever since he had been captured, so Mary Poppins thoughtfully set the poor lark free. Miss Andrews was very upset by that.

From Quiz "Mary Poppins" - Practically Perfect in Every Way

Answer: Sell matches

Bert, whose full name was Herbert Alfred, sold matches for a living. He also created chalk drawings, on nice and sunny days. Sometimes people would put money in Bert's hat as they looked at his drawings. In the chapter "A Day Out", Bert and Mary Poppins went inside a chalk drawing, and had a fine day out, eating raspberry-jam cakes and riding a carousel.

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Answer: She uses a Thermometer

She uses a very 'large Thermometer' to see how the children have behaved. Jane's 'temperature' reads, 'Careless, thoughtless and untidy', and Michael's reads, 'A very noisy, mischievous, troublesome little boy'. The twins's readings are similar.

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Answer: Jane

Jane was tired of being the eldest. Everyone expected her to be responsible and helpful, just because she was born first. She threw a tantrum, had to stay home from an outing with Mary Poppins, and found herself joining three boys who were painted on a bowl in a rather scary adventure.

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Answer: Mr. Wiggs

Mr. Wiggs had a dreadful problem whenever his birthday fell on a Friday. Whenever that happened, he found himself with so much laughing gas inside of him that whenever he laughed at the slightest thing, he floated up into the air.

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Answer: Annabel

Christina, Valentine, William and Everard are the children in the Royal Doulton Bowl, that's in the nursery. Jane throws the bowl across the room in a fit of temper and is invited into the world within.

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Answer: Topsy Tartlett

Mr. Turvey was Mary Poppins' cousin. He was in the business of mending things; plates, chairs, hearts - you name it, he could fix it. But the problem was was that the day the children came to call, it was the second Monday of the month. Everything went wrong on the second Sunday of the month; when he wanted to be inside, he found himself outside, for example. It wasn't uncommon for him to be standing on his head, because he wanted to be standing upright. His maid, Miss Topsy Tartlett, agreed to marry him though, and became Mrs. Topsy Turvey.

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Answer: Willoughby

The next door neighbor, Miss Lark, had a small dog named Andrew, who lived the lap of luxury. He had four overcoats, slept on a silk pillow, and even went to the hairdresser twice a week. But Andrew did not appreciate that life, and befriended a stray named Willoughby. He demanded to Miss Lark that Willoughby be allowed to move in with Miss Lark and himself, and she reluctantly agreed.

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Answer: The Sun

Mary Poppins and her charges attend a 'Circus of the Stars' (so to speak) on her evening off. All the planets in the sky appear - the Sun, the Moon, Orion, the Constellations, etc.

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Answer: Annabel

Mrs. Banks had another child, Annabel Banks. She was a very cute baby who, like all other babies, could talk to birds and the sunlight. She told the Starling of her journey into the earth, but within a week, had forgotten all about it. That made the Starling upset, because he loved to talk to babies and they always forgot how to so soon.

From Quiz "Mary Poppins" - Practically Perfect in Every Way

Answer: Because she had a star on her horn

Jane had an earache one day, so Michael was looking out the window to tell her what was going on on Cherry Lane. He saw a cow walking down the street, so Mary Poppins began telling them how that cow was a very dear friend of her mother's. That cow had once gotten a shooting star stuck on her horn and had to jump over the moon to get rid of it.

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Answer: Uncle Dodger

Mary Poppins brings the children to the park where they see a big ark, that wasn't there before. This is where Nellie-Rubina and her Uncle Dodger live.

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Answer: When it was ajar

Mary Poppins, on her evening out, went to the circus in the sky - Jane and Michael went too, not knowing she was there. They had plenty of attractions there, one being a clown that told jokes and riddles. However, Jane and Michael knew all the answers to his riddles, and the clown was deeply shamed.

From Quiz "Mary Poppins" - Practically Perfect in Every Way

Answer: Michael

Michael woke up on the wrong side of the bed one morning, and did some very bad things whilst in his foul mood. He knocked things over and even kicked the cook! His foul mood was eventually resolved at the end of the day, when he misused Mary Poppins' traveling compass and got himself in a very bad situation.

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Answer: They needed Mary Poppins to help 'set up' Spring

Nellie-Rubina, Uncle Dodger and Mary Poppins met in the park at night and proceeded to 'set up' Spring. They put up all the wooden decorations that Uncle Dodger had previously readied. There were flowers, lambs, tree leaves, and birds. They put everything into place with dabs of green paint instead of glue. When the children woke up the next morning, the snow had melted and Spring had arrived.

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Answer: Lady Muriel Brighton-Jones

The Banks children were excited to be getting balloons, but the balloon lady warned the children to be careful when picking out their balloons. One woman, Lady Muriel Brighton-Jones, had accidentally picked out the Prime Minister's balloon, and he hers. They switched, and then agreed to get married, since Lady Muriel was a jolly sort and the Prime Minister needed a wife who was cheery, since he was so serious.

From Quiz "Mary Poppins" - Practically Perfect in Every Way

Answer: birds

Whenever Jane and Michael went on an outing, they liked to buy a bag of bread crumbs from the bird woman. The bird woman sat every day on steps outside, and offered the bags of bread crumbs to feed the pigeons and doves that surrounded her on the steps.

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Answer: Mr. Turvy

Everything tends to go wrong with Mr. Turvey on the second Monday of every month. If he wants to go in, he's automatically outside, and if he wants to be outside, he's automatically stuck inside.

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Answer: Mary Poppins

The children all got balloons that all magically said their names. Michael's was yellow, Jane's was blue, the twins got a pink one (that read "John and Barbara Banks - One Between Them Because They Are Twins"), and Mary Poppins had a red one, with gold letters, that said "Mary Poppins". With the balloons, they were able to float up into the air!

From Quiz "Mary Poppins" - Practically Perfect in Every Way

Answer: Barley Sugar

Mary Poppins and the children went into a shop to buy gingerbread, and a woman that was older than the earth, Mrs. Corry, snapped off her fingers and gave them to the twins to chew on. New fingers grew back immediately in their place. Then she sold them gingerbread with glowing stars on them. Jane and Michael thought they were fake stars until later that night, when they saw Mrs. Corry and Mary Poppins painting the stars back onto the sky.

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Answer: His house keeper Miss Tartlet

His housekeeper Miss Tartlet started out being peevish and unfriendly, but when she starts to turn upside down like the others, she becomes prettier and sweeter. Also, it turns out that her full name is Topsy Tartlet. Together they became Topsy Turvy!

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Answer: Oldest

Mary Poppins and the Banks children went out on a snowy day to visit her friend, Nellie-Rubina, and Nellie-Rubina's Uncle Dodger. They had an ounce of conversation before leaving. Later that night, Jane and Michael spied on Nellie-Rubina, Uncle Dodger, and Mary Poppins as they glued leaves on the bare trees and let birds loose, bringing springtime.

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Answer: The Starling

John and Barbara could talk to the sunlight, wind, and birds. Babies could do that, but as they got older, they forgot how and forgot that they had been able to. John and Barbara were determined to always be able to talk to their bird friend, the Starling, but one day after they got their teeth, only cooed and giggled. They forgot how. The Starling claimed he wasn't really crying when that happened, but Mary Poppins knew he was saddened by that.

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Answer: Robertson Ay

In each of the Mary Poppins books, there is always one chapter where Mary Poppins settles down and tells the children a story. In this series, she tells a story of a King and his loyal Fool, the Dirty Rascal. It is revealed that the Dirty Rascal is so familiar because he is actually Robertson Ay, the family's lazy handyman. He might be lazy, but he brings good luck wherever he goes.

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Answer: Return

Mary Poppins asked for a Return ticket, commenting that "you never know when a Return ticket will come in handy". Then she got on the merry-go-round, which began to lift off the ground and float into the sky. Mary Poppins left them once again, which made the Banks children sad. But they knew Mary Poppins would be back, if the Banks children needed her badly enough.

From Quiz "Mary Poppins" - Practically Perfect in Every Way

Answer: West

When Mary Poppins came to stay with the Banks family, she said she wouldn't be staying long, only until the wind changed. The wind was facing the East when she came, so the morning they woke up and it was facing to the West, the children knew that their nanny would be leaving.

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Answer: Miss Andrew

Miss Andrew comes for an unexpected visit, and she is much worse than Mr. Bank's description. She's mean, rude, haughty and overbearing.

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Answer: Caruso

Caruso tells Mary Poppins that Miss Andrew trapped him in his field and has kept him prisoner in the cage for two years. Mary Poppins' extraordinary powers include being able to understand and communicate with animals.

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