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How Do You Outwit a Twit? Trivia Quiz

Written by the great Roald Dahl, Mr and Mrs Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. Test how many yucky things you know about them and their filthy world!

A multiple-choice quiz by gretab. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
gretab

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
153,884

Updated
Sep 14 23

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
638

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. What kind(texture) of hair grows on Mr Twit's face? Hint

silky, like a mermaids

dirty strings, like a dog in the rain

curls, like a poodle

bristles, like a nail brush

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Question 2 of 10

2. Why is Mrs Twit so ugly? Hint

because she had a terrible accident

she screws it up to scare children

she was born that way

her evil thoughts manifested into her appearance

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who are the Mugglewumps? Hint

The frog and worm which play tricks on the Twits

the naughty boys next door

four circus monkeys

Mr and Mrs Twit's children

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the name of the beastly glue which Mr Twit brushes on the tree to catch birds for his birdy pie? Hint

Neverfail sticky paste

Liquid nails adhesive

Hugtight sticky glue

Magnet strong superglue

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Question 5 of 10

5. What is the tree's name? Hint

Skinny sick tree

Brown scary tree

Big dead tree

Old broken tree

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who is the Roly Poly and what language does he speak? Hint

a pudding made with raisins, English

a beautiful coloured bird, English

a sparrow, Japanese

a lion with three paws, African

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Question 7 of 10

7. What is the first nasty trick Mr Twit plays on Mrs Twit? Hint

spagetti made from earth worms

a frog in her bed

a walking stick that keeps on growing

a glass eye in her beer

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Question 8 of 10

8. What does Mr Twit convince Mrs Twit to do so she shall stop shrinking? Hint

stretch herself with balloons

wear very high heels

eat growth powder

make her hair into a beehive

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Question 9 of 10

9. What is the brilliant idea of a Mugglewump to get Mr and Mrs Twit back for their nasty behaviour? Hint

hide all their money

glue all the furniture up onto the roof

plant lots of flowers in their garden

paint hughtight glue over all their things so they stick to them

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Question 10 of 10

10. How do the ravens side track the Twits? Hint

they smear the horrid twits with hugtight sticky glue

they make an impenetrable line of birds

they peck their hair and eyes

they do nothing

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What kind(texture) of hair grows on Mr Twit's face?

Answer: bristles, like a nail brush

Mr Twit, a foul and bad tempered old man, is continually described with food, animals and unidentifiable objects lodged in his feral and unkempt beard. Dahl's great talent for describing the unsavory is particularly noticed in "The Twits"

2. Why is Mrs Twit so ugly?

Answer: her evil thoughts manifested into her appearance

Through the character of Mrs Twit, Dahl has suceeded in creating a character that every child has known, or experienced the wrath of. Her evil natured face, her grumpy eyes and sour mouth are all parts of the old lady every child has known that lives down the road, in a dark house, usually with lots of cats!

3. Who are the Mugglewumps?

Answer: four circus monkeys

Sweetly, perhaps even poignantly (not a word used to describe Dahl very often) these "muggle wumps" are the tortured prisoners of the twits. Once famous performers, Mr and Mrs Twit force the animals to perform for them upside down, an act that causes great illness to the family, as dizziness is not a nice experience!

4. What is the name of the beastly glue which Mr Twit brushes on the tree to catch birds for his birdy pie?

Answer: Hugtight sticky glue

Perhaps an excerpt from some gruesome local tale, Quentin Blake's illustrations bring to graphic life the nature of these murdered birds, trapped on the Twits tree in a laughably horrid light.

5. What is the tree's name?

Answer: Big dead tree

Again, Dahl's idiosyncratic writing and personality echoes through the Spartan name and nature of this tree, leaving plenty of room for young minds to imagine and conjure their own ideas without feeling trapped in a description of depth and exactness.

6. Who is the Roly Poly and what language does he speak?

Answer: a beautiful coloured bird, English

A typical show pony/bird, the Roly Poly Bird helps to devise a plan to rid the Mugglewumps of the horrendous Twits.

7. What is the first nasty trick Mr Twit plays on Mrs Twit?

Answer: a frog in her bed

Married, for reasons unknown as they do not seem to enjoy each others company, the Twits play constant pranks and nasty tricks on each other, both as stubborn and stupid as the last.

8. What does Mr Twit convince Mrs Twit to do so she shall stop shrinking?

Answer: stretch herself with balloons

Another example of the idiotic but strangely lovable (because they are so hopelessly foul and moronic) Twit pranks that are littered throughout the novel.

9. What is the brilliant idea of a Mugglewump to get Mr and Mrs Twit back for their nasty behaviour?

Answer: glue all the furniture up onto the roof

As a child, this section fascinated me. I imagined the most spectacular living room on the ceiling, and the Twits slowly shrinking into their necks, an image that never fails to make me laugh out loud!

10. How do the ravens side track the Twits?

Answer: they smear the horrid twits with hugtight sticky glue

A comic, amusingly faecal scene -" some beastly bird has dropped his dirty droppings on my head!"-that no doubt causes children all over to laugh at

Source: Author gretab

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