"Five Go to Mystery Moor" - Enid Blyton Quiz

Answer: Henrietta who wants to be called Henry.

It is typical of George to resent someone who is doing exactly the same as her. What makes it worse is that with her straight short hair Henrietta (Henry) actually looks more like a boy than George does with her curly hair.

Answer: Captain Johnson

Captain Johnson appears to be a very blunt and straightforward sort of man. He soon gets tired of Henry and George sulking because people won't treat them like boys all the time.

Answer: A skewbald.

Enid Blyton actually describes the horse as "a patient little skewbald horse, its brown and white coat looking very flea-bitten." Several times during the story she indicates that the leader of the gypsies has little thought for the health of the poor animal.

Answer: The name given to the sticks and leaves arranged in certain patterns to pass messages.

The messages left by the gypsies when they arrange the patrins are really solely for other gypsies. Julian, Dick, George and Anne get the little gypsy boy to indicate the route the gypsy caravan has taken.

Answer: Sniffer

He is called Sniffer because he spends a lot of his time sniffing. He claims to have forgotten his real name. Several times during the book George tries to encourage Sniffer to use the handkerchief that she has given him but he would rather treasure it as a precious object.

Answer: Clip

Even though the horse is injured one of the gypsies comes to try and take it out of the stable during the night. Fortunately Julian and Dick are wakened and they threaten to call Captain Johnson if the man doesn't go away.

Answer: Milling Green

It is while Julian, Dick and Anne are out riding with Henry (Henrietta) that they first come across the old railway line. George is in a bad temper and has opted to stay back at the stables.Later the old railway lines are to play a vital part in the story.

Answer: a small, walking hearthrug of black curly fur

Timmy has to inspect Liz for quite a while before he eventually decides that he is dealing with another dog. Liz was a bit of a spaniel, a bit of a poodle, and odd bits of something else. Liz is tiny and can do all sorts of tricks including walking around just on her back legs.

Answer: Misty Moor

Ben explains that it had that name because of the sea-fogs that used to come stealing in from the coast. He claimed that the fogs were so heavy that a man couldn't even see his own hand in front of his face.

Answer: sand

The sand was especially valuable for building work and the Bartles made quite a lot of money by bringing it to town and selling it. However, in a quarrel with the gypsies all the big men of the Bartle family disappeared. No one ever did get to the bottom of what happened and so the moor changed its name to "Mystery Moor".

Answer: He jumps into a gorse bush after a rabbit and gets a thorn in his foot.

George manages to get most of the thorn out of his foot and Timmy seems just as happy running around on three legs until the padded area on his paw recovers. He certainly enjoyed all the fuss that was made of him when he appeared to be injured.

Answer: Large numbers of dollar bills tightly packed together.

It is not until the end of the story that the children come to learn that the dollar bills are in fact counterfeit ones. The policeman describes the forgeries as being "beautiful" and indicates that they would have fooled many people.

Answer: Inside the funnel of the old wrecked locomotive.

It is Julian's idea to use the long funnel of the old locomotive as a hiding place. Once they have jammed them in they cover the top with a layer of sand. This proves to be an excellent hiding place. When they show the police at the end they can't get all the packages out at once because the funnel is so long.

Answer: They follow the rails in the wrong direction.

George and Anne already know that the little railway line runs to the village of Milling Green but in their confusion, in the terrible mist, they end up following the rails in the wrong direction. This leads them straight towards the gypsies.

Answer: Henry

George tricks the gypsies in two ways. By signing her name as "Georgina" she is warning people that something odd is going on because she would never agree to being called by a girl's name. By choosing Henry (Henrietta) she is sending Timmy back to the stables for help.

The gypsies believe that she is sending Timmy to Julian and Dick out on the Moor. The gypsies don't know any of the children's names.