The Answers to the Fourth Quite Niche Children’s Literature Quiz

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Who’s that Chalet School Girl?

1. COME JOY LEN- Joyce Lemon
2. NEWTS NOSE – Nest Owens
3. ACCENTS HENRY – Nancy Chester
4. ARCHY FRIEND – Richenda Fry
5. BAT HARBOUR IF – Faith Barbour
6. ANDY HURT WRY – Ruth Wynyard
7. DUSK ELIJAH – Hilda Jukes (justice! for! hilda!)
8. JOHN TOELESS – Jose Helston
9. DIMENSION SERENADE – Adrienne Desmoines
10. CLARIFY DYNAMITE – Felicity Maynard

Name that Head (some of them have more than one…)

1. Malory Towers – Miss Grayling
2. St Clare’s – Miss Theobald
3. The Chalet School – Hilda Annersley, Nell Wilson, Mademoiselle, Madge Bettany, bonus points if you included Miss Bubb because she’s amazing.
4. The School of the Good Sisters – Good Sister June
5. Deepdean – Miss Barnard, Miss Griffin
6. Knight’s Haddon School – Miss Fotheringay
7. Whyteleafe School – Miss Belle and Miss Best
8. The School For Bad Brownies – Mr Grim
9. St Rollo’s – Miss Lesley, Mr Quentin
10. Crunchem Hall – Miss Trunchbull

Am I a character from an EJO book or am I a vegetable?

1. RADICCHIO – Vegetable
2. RAVARATI – EJO (Technically this is the surname of a character, but I’m going to go with it).
3. ROSALY – EJO
4. RAPINI – Vegetable
5. ROSABEL – EJO
6. RAMPION – Vegetable
7. ROMANESCO – Vegetable
8. ROSILDA – EJO
9. ROSALIND – EJO
10. RUTABAGA – Vegetable

Five by Five Bonus round!

Name five ….

1. of the Ladies Circle in Whitby … – Alice Boston (Aunt Alice), Matilda ‘Tilly’ Droon, Dora Banbury-Scott, Prudence Joyster, Edith Wethers, (And I will also take Rosalyn Cooper here as well…).
2. The Famous Five in order of best-to-worst … – George, Anne, Timmy, Dick, Julian.
3. Members of the Galloping Fanes’ livery yard … – Another Legend, Comet, Nelson. The Mare Who Sometimes Slips A Stifle, The Bad Tempered Chestnut.
4. The Five Children of Five Children And It … – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and ‘The Lamb’
5. Inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood … – Kanga, Roo, Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger, Owl, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, (and, of course, Heffalumps!!!!)