True or False? Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

Matthew Laborteaux (Albert Quinn Ingalls) and Patrick Laborteaux (Andy Garvey) are brothers.

Answer: True

There are 187 titles, 29 are either two-parters, three-parters or TV movies.

Answer: True

The episode was called 'Fred' - he was a very special goat.

Answer: True

The programme's Rev Alden was called Robert, but the real cleric was called Rev Edwin H Alden; he was written of with great affection by Laura in her books. He was the same age as her father, Charles, not the elderly man as shown on the programme.

Answer: False

Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush played Carrie Ingalls. Brenda and Wendi Turnbaugh played Grace Ingalls.

Answer: False

Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder, appeared in more episodes than anyone else. The score was fairly even between Melissa and Michael until the last series, 'Little House: A New Beginning', when Michael was not a regular cast member.

Answer: True

Nellie was tricked into sitting in the game in 'Meet Me at the Fair'; Laura had been sitting there for half an hour when she saw some good shots approaching, and conned Nellie into taking her place. Nancy was the star attraction of the Mermaid game at a Walnut Grove fair, and was dunked by the townsfolk (her adoptive mother, Harriet, was the first to dunk her).

Answer: False

They had a boy and a girl, Benjamin and Jennifer (Benny and Jenny). Nellie Oleson did not exist in real life; in the books she was made up, a composite of three girls Laura knew, and Percival Dalton was invented for the programme.

Answer: True

Amazing, but they did! The games included a skipping competition, when Willie beat Mary. One of the highlights was when the town's men took part in a tug-of-war competition.

Answer: True

In the episode entitled 'The Third Miracle', Mary was trying to find help for Adam, the coach driver and a pregnant woman; the smoke which came from the fire started by the sun shining through her old eyeglasses acted as a signal for Charles to find Mary and then the overturned stagecoach.

Answer: False

Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary Ingalls) was removed from the credits in series 8; she appeared in two episodes in this series, the first one to explain her leaving the town for New York, and when she and Adam visited in 'A Christmas They Never Forgot'.

Answer: False

At the very beginning, her school friends were girls who were from the books. These friends were soon replaced by boys such as Carl, Jonah and Andy - it is thought that these boys were introduced to balance the gender appeal of the programme.

Answer: True

They had Mary, Laura, Carrie and Grace, and Charles Jr (Freddie), who died when he was a baby (in real life he died at 9 months). Albert, James and Cassandra were invented for the television programme.

Answer: False

Charles buys this ornament in 'The Enchanted Cottage' when Mary believes she is regaining her sight, and Mary gives it to Laura. Albert buys Mary a musical jewellery box in 'May We Make Them Proud'; the music snapped her out of her lethargy and brought her to the place where she could come to terms with the loss of her child.

Answer: False

Three were broken. The first was broken when Laura slammed the door, the second when she knelt on the parcel in the back of the wagon, and the third when she was the indirect cause of an accident which left Charles, and the broken pane, in the bushes.

Answer: True

This was Mr Montague, and he appears in 'Hello and Goodbye', the last regular episode. He also appears in the three specials, 'Bless all the Dear Children', 'Look Back to Yesterday' and 'The Last Farewell'.

Answer: True

This is in the episode 'Freedom Flight'; a family of Indians stay in the soddy because their grandfather is too ill to be moved. Some of the townsfolk are determined to kill them because they are Indians so it is up to Charles and Doc Baker to save them.

Answer: False

It was Julia Sanderson who died and left her three children. Grace went to their house to look after them while Charles looked for adoptive parents. Isaiah Edwards married her and they adopted the children.

Answer: False

The family had two dogs, Jack and Bandit (Jack is the dog shown on the credits). The only Ingalls family dog Laura mentions in her books is Jack (he was described as a brindle bulldog). The Ingalls family did, however, have cats, the first being Black Susan in the Big Woods.

Answer: True

The episode is 'Centenniel' and they are worried that Charles (who is upset by new taxes) would be angry that they were still making the flag to celebrate the nation's birthday.

Answer: False

The most obvious one is the case of Matthew Laborteaux, who played Albert Quinn Ingalls and the younger Charles Ingalls in flashback episodes.

Answer: True

The first time it was to Luke Simms, the son of a pig-farmer (they had a shot-gun annulment). The second time she married Percival Dalton (who had changed his name from Isaac Cohen).

Answer: False

Tricky one? Sorry. Charles has had more than his fair share of fist-fights - far too many to list. And he doesn't always think first, either (he punched Almanzo without knowing the full story, for example).

Answer: True

But he always came back. That man loved that woman. Can't think why.

Answer: True

In 'The Inheritance' Charles is persuaded to spend money he does not have, and is forced to see his farm sold to pay debts. His friends work together to fix the auction and bought the farm for just two cents, selling it back to him.