Fables and Fairy Tales Trivia

1. A young boy decides to trade a cow for some magical legumes. What fairy tale is this, written in 1807?

From Quiz Old Upon A Time

Answer: The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk

This tale has been told in many different versions. The first was in 1734, as "Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" where he planted a magical bean. He climbed to the castle at the top and became a hero, saving hundreds of people. The story was changed again in 1807 to the Beanstalk version, another time in 1845 and finally evolved into the most popular version by Joseph Jacobs in 1890. There are actually over a dozen varieties of the story written. Most of them are about the Jack climbing the stalk and taking the treasures of the giant, racing down to the bottom, cutting the stalk and his family becoming rich! One version is "Jack and the Fire Dragon" where he comes to the aid of three sisters.

From Quiz Whatever You Want Me to Be

Answer: Alice in Wonderland

"Alice in Wonderland" was written in 1865 by Lewis Carroll. In Chapter Six, "Pig and Pepper", Alice arrives at the Duchess's house. Soup is being cooked, pepper is spilled and there are sneezes aplenty. The Duchess's baby, when handed to Alice, promptly turns into a pig.

From Quiz Fairy Tale Writers

Answer: Felix Salten

The original tale by Felix Salten, an Austrian author, was "Bambi, a Life in the Woods". It was published in 1923. He sold the film rights for $1000 in 1933 and they were later acquired by Walt Disney who turned the story into his fifth feature film ("Bambi") in 1942. Salten therefore never received a share of the profits from that film.

From Quiz What's the Right Fairytale?

Answer: Snow White

Snow White is a classic tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. The story is about a princess named Snow White and an evil queen who wants to get rid of Snow White. Trying to avoid the queen, Snow White meets friendly dwarfs along the way and they become friends. In the end, the queen is defeated and all the good characters live happily ever after.

From Quiz What We Learned Not to Do from Fairy Tales

Answer: Cinderella

Cinderella's fairy godmother warns her to leave the royal ball by the stroke of midnight, but she doesn't quite manage it, and her magic gown, coach and horses all disappear. Of course, it all works out in the end, and she gets to marry the handsome prince anyway.

From Quiz Rumpelstiltskin Mania

Answer: An imp

Rumpelstiltskin was an imp, or strange little man with magical powers, who lived alone in the Woods. He helped the miller's daughter who would someday have a baby that Rumpelstiltskin wanted.

From Quiz The Moral of the Story is...

Answer: Be prepared for when hard times come

"The Ant and the Grasshopper", one of Aesop's fables, promotes the idea of working when times are not hard and saving for adverse times. The grasshopper laughed at the hard-working ant, but the ant got the last laugh.

From Quiz Hungry Like the Wolf

Answer: Grandmother and Little Red both are eaten by the wolf and are not rescued.

In Perrault's version, the story ends with Red Riding Hood being gobbled up by the wolf, and neither she nor her grandmother comes back to life. Earlier (in Maria Tatar's translation) the wolf "threw himself on the good woman and devoured her in no time, for he had eaten nothing in the last three days" - hungry like the wolf, indeed. Perrault follows the tale with a moral that makes it clear that seduction and rape are implied and that "young girls, pretty, well-bred and genteel" should beware of "charming" wolves: "the most dangerous of all" (from "The Classic Fairy Tales" edited by Maria Tatar for the Norton Critical Edition).

From Quiz Haiku Fairy Tales

Answer: Red Riding Hood

Charles Perrault was the French author who published the original Mother Goose book in 1697. With it he invented a new literary genre, the fairy tale. He based his stories on old folk tales that he had collected. One of the most famous is the story of "Red Riding Hood". It tells of a girl who is seen by a wolf as she walks through the woods to take food to her sick grandmother. The wolf wants to eat her but is afraid to do it in a public place so he delays her by suggesting that she pick flowers for her grandmother. He gets to the old lady's cottage and eats her and then dresses as the grandmother and tricks Little Red Riding Hood when she arrives. The story differs in its different versions but always ends up with a woodsman, sometimes the girl's father, chopping the wolf open with and axe and rescuing grandma. The moral of the story, and all fairy tales have morals, is how unsafe one is outside of one's village and how evildoers try to deceive the innocent. It encourages caution, particularly for young girls and helpless old women. Question by Calpurnia09

From Quiz Grimm's Tales

Answer: Rapunzel

"Rapunzel" is one of my favourite tales. In 2010 Walt Disney produced a similar movie but changed the name to "Tangled".

From Quiz Goodnight Moon

Answer: Nine Jewels

The 'Navratna' consisted of nine courtiers of Akbar's court and were men with varied talents. They included Tansen, a musician, Faizi, a poet and Raja Todar Mal, his finance minister, among others. Though Birbal is sometimes depicted as a court jester, Akbar was very impressed with his wit and presence of mind and often came to him with problems facing the kingdom.

From Quiz How Grimm

Answer: Wilhelm

The brothers came from a large family of nine children. Three of their siblings died in infancy, followed by their father when Jacob was 11. They also lost their grandfather two years later, which left the family in straitened circumstances. The brothers were responsible for collecting and publishing 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' rather than actually writing them; the collection was originally known as 'Children's and Household Tales'.

From Quiz Grimm: The Brothers and Their Tales

Answer: 210

211, to be exact.

From Quiz Fables II: Aesop's Supposed Tales

Answer: The Wolf and the Kid

In fact, the Wolf was distracted by the Kid´s request. When he played the flute for the Kid to dance, the Dogs of the farm recognized the music, came to the Kid´s rescue, and the Wolf had to run away not to be killed. In addition, he lost his dinner. So, "do not let anything turn you from your purposes". Many people in the world don´t focus on what they need to do or do not set targets for their lives. This can deviate them from the right path, causing pain or the unachievement of their purposes.

From Quiz Obscure and Not So Obscure Fairy Tales

Answer: The Glass Mountain

This a Polish fairy tale collected by Hermann Kletke. It also was published in Andrew Lang's "The Yellow Fairy Book".

From Quiz What Do You Know About Fairies?

Answer: the human race

The classical Greek fates were believed to control the destiny of the human race.

From Quiz The Book of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

Answer: She has an affair with a slave

Every day, King Shahryar's first wife goes bathing with her handmaids. Whilst there, the Queen has 'relations' with a slave. Unfortunately this is seen by Shah Zaman, Shahryar's brother, and the lovers are executed. The betrayal of his wife makes Shahryar go mad and believe that all women will betray him.

From Quiz Grimm's Fairy Tales: The Princess in Disguise

Answer: The Queen

The queen dies and leaves the king a widower, making him promise to remarry someone as beautiful as she.

From Quiz Russian Byliny

Answer: Bogatyri

Bogatyri was the name for the near-mythic champions and warriors of Rus. Polyanitza is the name for a female warrior.

From Quiz MotherGoose's "Mother Goose" Quiz

Answer: Historians cannot agree on the identity of Mother Goose

According to the Mother Goose society, Mother Goose was "many she's and he's-different writers-in different times" (http://www.librarysupport.net/mothergoosesociety/who.html). The earliest recorded reference to Mother Goose was in Jean Loret's "La Muse Historique" (1650) which contained the line "Comme un conte de la Mere Oye" ("Like a Mother Goose story"). Charles Perrault also referred to Mother Goose in his book of fairy tales published in 1697 and this marks the beginning of Mother Goose's rise to fame. The claim that Elizabeth Goose or Vergoose was the original Mother Goose is largely disputed by historians and there is no supportive documentary evidence.

From Quiz Fabled Headlines 2

Answer: Little Red Riding Hood

A talking wolf wearing a nightgown and cap? It doesn't look good for the hunter.

From Quiz Fabled Headlines

Answer: The Shepherd's Boy (aka The Boy Who Cried Wolf)

All the boy wanted was some company...maybe to have a laugh, but liars are easily doubted even when they speak the truth (a wolf eventually did come).

From Quiz Disney Fairy Tales Vs. Classic Faery Tales

Answer: Cinderwench

The eldest sister began calling her Cinderwench because she was always filthy from work and because she was always covered in soot from sleeping by the chimney. This was adapted to Cinderella by the younger daughter, for she was somewhat kinder than her sister.

From Quiz Old Upon A Time

Answer: Goldilocks

In the original book it wasn't the Daddy, Mama and Baby Bear. It was the little small wee bear, the middle sized bear and the great huge bear. Now I don't know about you, but I told my son this story over and over and used a lot of varieties to the story. I even had my own voices, which he even remembers today close to 25 years later. As a matter of fact, Goldilocks wasn't even the original little girl. They used different names until they came up with Goldilocks in 1904. We really never knew what happened to Goldilocks when she ran away from the house, but it was insinuated that she made a clean getaway.

From Quiz Yesterday I Saw a Swan

Answer: He makes people get stuck to the swan and each other

This story is also known as 'Swan, Let It Stick!', and involves a magic swan, which a young man steals from its owner on the orders of an old woman, who tells him it will make his fortune. Whenever anyone admires the swan's feathers and asks to touch it, all he has to say is, "Swan, let it stick!" and they will be stuck to the swan. When other people try to free the people stuck to the swan, they become stuck to each other, and the hero walks through the streets with his swan and a parade of people stuck to its back and each other. The princess of the country has never smiled or laughed, but when she sees the ridiculous sight of the swan, she bursts out laughing and the king offers the hero her hand in marriage. Other versions of the tale, such as the Italian version collected by Italo Calvino, feature a goose.

From Quiz Whatever You Want Me to Be

Answer: Real boy

"The Adventures of Pinocchio" was written in 1881 by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio is a wooden marionette carved by his creator Geppetto. Many adventures later, Pinocchio did a good deed for the Fairy and she in turn made him a real boy.

From Quiz How Well Do You Really Know Your Grimm Fairytales?

Answer: 3

There are three brothers in the story. They are all the king's sons. The two oldest went out into the world (they left home). These brothers were very intelligent, yet they were stuck at one place unable to travel. The youngest brother is a dwarf. He is very young and simple. He sets off to find his brothers. After some time, the youngest convinces his older brothers to travel the world. I will stop my description of this story here. :)

From Quiz Fairy Tale Writers

Answer: Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

It was a traditional tale first published in 1740 in France. There are several other later versions known across Europe. De Villeneuve's version had a savage Beast in it and was rather too long. An abridged version with a more sympathetic Beast character was published by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 and it is that version we are now most familiar with.

From Quiz What's the Right Fairytale?

Answer: Cinderella

This is another classic tale perfect for a little girl's bedtime story. In summary, a normal girl named Cinderella works for an evil woman as a maid and one day goes to the royal ball and falls in love with the prince. Then she loses her glass slipper at the castle and after finding it, the prince returns the slipper to its owner. Cinderella and the prince then marry and live happily ever after. Information taken and reworded from: Wikipedia Based off the: Italian version

From Quiz What We Learned Not to Do from Fairy Tales

Answer: Snow White

Snow White accepts an enchanted apple from a little old peddlar woman who's actually the wicked queen in disguise. Luckily, her bite of the poisoned apple only lodges in her throat, and the prince is able to awaken her from a deathlike sleep with true love's kiss.

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