Guard Your Veg! Trivia Quiz

Answer: A hammer pounds him through a trap door.

Wallace is an inventor who is always seeking ways to make life easier. He has developed a quick means of going from bed to his dining room below, but putting on a few extra pounds means that he gets wedged in the trapdoor a bit too frequently. His "help" backup system is a lever, which, when pulled by Gromit, opens the closet door, releasing a huge mallet which pounds him through to his chair at the table a floor below.

Help indeed!

Answer: Anti-Pesto Humane Pest Control

When vegetable gardens are threatened by all manner of pests, Wallace and Gromit are mobilized in their very smart Austin A35 service van resplendent with the Anti-Pesto S.W.A.T. Team logo on the doors and sporting the license plate HOP2IT.

Answer: Mind Manipulation-O-Matic

Wallace's latest invention harnesses the power of moonlight to "extract unwanted thoughts and desires" from the vegetable eating bunnies. He aims to brainwash the bunnies in a manner of rabbit rehabilitation, in order to cure them of their anti-social, veg ravishing behavior, so that they can be released without fear of their re-offending.

Answer: Bun-Vac 6000

The BunVac 6000 is "capable of 135 rpm - rabbits per minute". It sucks the bunnies out of their warren into a blissful, weightless tube until they are humanely incarcerated back home.

Answer: The Plant Suite

Gromit dotes over his own entry in the Giant Vegetable Competition, a huge zucchini. He eschews Holst, Satie and Beethoven, however in favor of serenading the squash with "The Plant" Suite. Poor choice! In 2003, the Prince of Wales asserted that talking to his plants helped in their growth, and in 2007, his theory was supported by South Korean scientists who reported that rice plants responded to Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata".

Answer: a giant dancing female rabbit

Attached by cables to Gromit in the interior of the van, the huge mechanical feminine rabbit dances her way through the streets of town to the strains of "The Stripper". Written and recorded in 1962, by songwriter David Rose, the song has become synonymous with themes of striptease and sexual allure.

Answer: to Wallace's room

Here is where the plot thickens. Emerging from a night long chase of the were-rabbit, Gromit is startled to see that it has led him to his own back door. He carefully climbs in at the broken back door and tracks the beast's muddy footprints down the hall and to the cellar.

He and Wallace discover Hutch sleeping in the broken remnant of his cage - his belly frightfully fat. Wallace supposes that Hutch's treatment with the "Mind-Manipulation-O-Matic" has created the monster, but reasons that even if that is so - he has also captured the beast. Wallace rushes off to tell Lady Tottington the good news of the capture, as Gromit sets about rebuilding a new escape proof cage for Hutch. Securing the cellar door, Gromit notices the beast's footprints continuing down the hall and up the stairs into Wallace's bedroom.

But what happened back in Wallace's room - was it carnage, cabbage or comedy? The duo may have captured the veg ravaging were-rabbit in a new high security lock-up, or may have let it loose upon an unsuspecting and defenseless Tottington Hall!

Answer: Lady Companula Tottington

Lady Tottington is the mistress of Tottington Hall, and is just the sort of client Wallace thinks will thrust his pest control firm to prominence with a well placed word here and there. She is a single forty something who favors gardening and little animals, and is particularly interested in the humane treatment of the very creatures that threaten her prize vegetables. Bearing the name of creator Nick Park's favorite flower - Campanula, she becomes enamoured of Wallace after seeing him in action with his clever contraptions.

Her attention to Wallace (she insists that he call her "Totty") places him in direct conflict with hunter and would-be suitor, Victor Quartermaine. Helena Bonham Carter provided the voice for Lady Tottington, and went on to another animated feature - "The Corpse Bride".

Answer: Philip, his bulldog

As Quartermaine's minion, Philip is intent upon squaring off with Gromit just as his master is focused on thwarting Wallace. This is his (and Quartermaine's) tragic flaw, however, mistaking Wallace as the more fearsome adversary. The result is that both Philip and his master are caught off guard. Philip - initially a pointer at the beginning of production, was transformed into the more iconic British breed by producers. Growbag, and Thripp are minor characters in the film. Hutch is the name of a rabbit who figures prominently in the plot, but not as Quartermaine's chum.

The voice of Victor was provided by Ralph Fiennes, who went on to the starkly contrasting film "The Constant Gardner".

Answer: False

Five years in the making, at 100 seconds per week (at 24 frames per second), the movie won the Oscar for Best Animated Film of 2005. Best Picture for 2005 was "Crash", Best Documentary Feature was "March of the Penguins". Wallace and Gromit were islands in the midst of controversy that year, as the film causing perhaps the greatest stir was "Brokeback Mountain". Meanwhile, back at Aardman Studios, thirty animators from England, Finland, France, Scotland, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Australia and Denmark quietly put the finishing touches on the film that would be recognized as the "Best British Film" of that year by the British Academy Awards.