Morris Gleitzman - "Doubting Thomas" Quiz

Answer: Australia

Morris Gleitzman came to Australia when he was a teenager. As they say, write about what you know best...

Answer: nipples

Awfully embarrassing when you need to scratch them. But then again, it could have been worse, hey?

Answer: it was from stress

At first Thomas pretended to have a stab wound, which really was a bit of jam under the bandage. Thomas felt very lucky to have a sister who brought him to the doctor even though she saw right through his trick.

Answer: teeth

Thomas' grandmother told him about her grandfather's brother. At first, nobody believed her but later, after seeing the article that his friend Holly found, Thomas got really worried. It always seems much more scary when things happen to someone you know (or related to).

Answer: the foot cream she sold was not from natural ingredients

Thomas' Mum was desperately trying to cut the costs of running her beauty salon. Of course, cheating is not the way to do it.

Answer: he lost his job

Thomas stalked him for half a day, trying to find out what was worrying his Dad so much that he had to lie to his family.

Answer: Holly and Kevin

Holly and John McLane are characters from the film "Die Hard". Alisha is Thomas' sister, Rocci is a kid from the same school (NOT a friend). Wolf is a character from another book by Morris Gleitzman.

Answer: car park manager

Kevin told everyone his father was with law enforcement because he wanted his Dad to seem cool.

Answer: he had a girlfriend

Thomas heard this info from Rocci's grandmother, in Thomas' Mum's beauty salon. She saw Holly come visit Thomas and called her his girlfriend.

Answer: they die young

Their immune system gets overloaded. There was only one person who lived a longer life, and Thomas set out to seek her help.

Answer: a car

The family's car was pretty much falling apart. And that's what the family thought was the reason for Thomas playing - trying to win a new car. Jet skis and harpoons was one of the intermediate prizes.

Answer: France

It was Paris they were after. There lived the only doubter who lived past a young age.

Answer: to give his parents a honeymoon they never had

To help his friend Kevin recover after the death of his grandmother - that's what Kevin invented when Thomas' Mum asked about the reason.

Answer: catacombs attendant

The article where Thomas and his friends found information about the only adult doubter was in French. Holly used a computer program to translate it, but the results were far from perfect. So they read catacombs to be a place for combing cats. A veterinary - that was Vera's husband.

Answer: people close to him must stop lying

Vera Poulet, the person who gave Thomas this information, tried to hide from people. That's why she worked in the catacombs. Interestingly, she didn't need to, as she was cured already, at a young age - as her husband kept trying to convince her (he told he little lies from time to time, Vera didn't have any reactions to them but still didn't believe until Thomas confirmed it).