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1. What was the author's real name?
2. What was the title of the first book written by James Herriot?
3. What is the fictional name of the town where James lived and worked?
4. How old was James (according to the books) when he first arrived in Yorkshire to interview for the veterinary assistant position at Skeldale House?
5. Here is an easy one - what are the fictional names of the two brothers James worked with?
6. What happened when James arrived at Skeldale House to meet his future boss for the first time?
7. What was the name of Mrs Pumphrey's pampered Pekingese?
8. What was the name of the housekeeper at Skeldale House?
9. What was the name of the pub where James and the Farnon brothers used to unwind over a pint most often?
10. Where did James meet Helen, the girl he fell in love with and later married?
11. Tristan was always playing tricks. Once he dressed as a monk and pretended to be a ghost to frighten motorists as they passed an old abbey late at night - what happened?
12. Where did James take Helen on their first date?
13. James once spent an evening at the home of a farmer whose hobby was winemaking. The family teased him, saying "Dad and his wine, he's always looking for a victim!" But James found the homemade wines quite delicious. What type of wine was NOT one of the ones he sampled?
14. Joe Mulligan often brought his Irish Wolfhound in to be seen, but the dog was so menacing that James and the brothers were never able to thoroughly examine him. Instead they prescribed some medicine, noting that the animal couldn't be seriously ill as it looked "pretty lively". What was the dog's malady?
15. Mrs Pumphrey acquired an unusual pet to be a companion for her spoiled little dog - a pig! What was its name?
16. When James and Helen married, they took in a ginger tabby cat that James had treated. However, the cat had the unusual habit of running away from home to attend all the local social functions. What was the cat's name?
17. Granville Bennett was a colleague who seemed to always lead James into excesses of food and especially drink, much to James' discomfort and embarrassment. James particularly didn't like looking like a chump in front of the lovely Mrs Bennett. What was her name?
18. When James found a tiny black kitten half-frozen among the rushes, the farmer's wife gave it "the old cure". What did she do?
19. James and Tristan once were called to see an extremely hostile and difficult cat, and had an impossible time trying to catch it as it raced around the room "like a wall of death rider". What was the cat's name?
20. Mr Partridge's dog Percy attracted a lot of embarrassing attention - first because of his ailment, and later because of a side-effect of the treatment. What was this side effect?
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