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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Dahl, Roald
| Who has a great money-making scheme for George's Marvelous Medicine? | For Avid Roald Dahl Lovers! (QueenMab) |
| Which Roald Dahl book involves humans turning into ducks? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
The Magic Finger. The family gets turned into ducks by a girl who is angry at them. She doesn't like that they hunt and kill ducks, so she turns them into ducks, and the ducks move into their house.
| Which of Mr. Twit's disgusting features is discussed in chapter one of 'The Twits'? | For Avid Roald Dahl Lovers! (QueenMab) |
| Which giant is featured in the BFG? | For Avid Roald Dahl Lovers! (QueenMab) |
| Which book is about an old man who is in love with the woman who lives in the apartment below him? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
Esio Trot. He tells her that he knows a spell that will help her turtle grow. However, it is a lie. He just switches her turtle with a bigger one every day.
| Which book involves an enormous chicken, and a little boy's "potion"? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
George's Marvelous Medicine. The medicine was made by a boy called George, and when he feeds it to the chicken, it makes her grow to the size of the barn. George's father is thrilled because people will pay lots of money to see the chicken and to buy the eggs.
| Which book involves a farmer trying to kill an animal? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
Fantastic Mr. Fox. The story is told from the fox's point of view, and also involves many other woodland animals.
| Which book features little creatures that live inside trees? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
The Minpins. Little Billy comes across them after being chased through the forest by a horrible monster.
| What fairy tale 'proves that gambling's not a sin, provided that you always win' in Dahl's 'Revolting Rhymes'? | For Avid Roald Dahl Lovers! (QueenMab) |
Snow White. The dwarves are all ex-race horse jockeys, and with the aid of the magic mirror (courtesy of Snow White) they can always back the winning horse.
| What does B.F.G. stand for? | Test Your Roald Dahl Knowledge (FunkyCat_aus) |
| What do George and James have in common? | For Avid Roald Dahl Lovers! (QueenMab) |
they both have no kids around to play with. Only James lives with horrible aunts, because he's an orphan. George lives with his parents and horrible grandma
| What did Charlie have to do to gain entry to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory? | Test Your Roald Dahl Knowledge (FunkyCat_aus) |
unwrap the golden ticket on a chocolate bar. 'it was the golden ticket'...he couldn't believe it!
| The main character's father breaks his ankle illegally hunting pheasants. Which book does this happen in? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
Danny the Champion of the World. This book is all about Danny, who lives with his father in a trailer and helps him run a gas station.
| Roald Dahl has written an auto-biography of his childhood. True or False? | Books Written by Roald Dahl (roobear) |
| Miss Trunchbull doesn't believe that Matilda read which book? | For Avid Roald Dahl Lovers! (QueenMab) |
| In which book was someone addicted to TV and went on a special tour? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Remember, Mike Teavee was so addicted to TV that he shrunk himself.
| In which book was a character very smart for that person's age? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
Matilda. Remember, Matilda was the girl. She was really smart, but her parents were too stupid to notice her.
| In which book is there a character named Veruca Salt? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Veruca Salt is the spoiled daughter of two very rich people and is accustomed to getting everything she wants. She becomes upset because she can't have a golden goose.
| In which book does a little boy's nose nearly come off? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
Boy. Little Roald's sister is taking the family for a ride, and they crash into a bush.
| In which book did the characters catch a jewel thief red handed? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. Remember, when the Giraffe and the Pelly were washing the windows, they saw a thief stealing the Duchess' jewels.
| In which book did someone waste all of their Elizabeth Arden make-up? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
Matilda. Remember, when Matilda dyed her father's hair, he asked for a mirror, and his wife gave him a little face powder compact, and shrieked when he dumped the powder all over the floor out of shock.
| In which book did someone have a really bad rival that was really RICH? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
Danny the Champion of the World. Remember, Mr. Victor Hazel owned those pheasants.
| In which book did characters have nothing to eat but a disgusting looking vegetable? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
The BFG. Remember, they were the snozzcumbers.
| In which book did a character pronounce everything strangely? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
The BFG. Remember, in the BFG, he learned to read only from one book, and so later someone helped him out to read and talk properly.
| In which book did a character pay a company to wash his windows? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.
| In which book did a character lose their job in the winter? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Remember, Charlie's father lost his job because the factory he worked in closed.
| In which book did a character lose his most beautiful possession that made the character look like he was different from the other species? | For Roald Dahl Fans (13eb) |
Fantastic Mr. Fox. Remember, those hunters shot off his tail, a fox's most prized possession, but the fox was safe.
| In what book was there a girl named Sophie as a main character? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
The BFG. Other main characters in this book are the BFG and the Queen of England.
| In what book was there a boy whose parents died in a car crash? | Which Roald Dahl Book? (broadwaygal) |
The Witches. "Boy" is Roald Dahl's autobiography, and "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" is the sequel to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", which many people know because of the movie.
| In 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' which vegetable does Mr. Fox steal? | For Avid Roald Dahl Lovers! (QueenMab) |
carrots. His son reminds him, as they raid the farmer's pantries, that the rabbits will be needing food too.
| In "Matilda", who was the girl who told Matilda and Lavender about the "chokey"? | Books Written by Roald Dahl (roobear) |
Hortensia. Hortensia also told the girls more horror stories.
 Frequently Asked Questions about Dahl, Roald
- In the book by Roald Dahl, what were the names of Matilda's parents? ( goto )
- What do these British people have in common? J S Lowry, David Bowie, French and Saunders, Nigella Lawson, Vanessa Redgrave, Albert Finney, Jon Snow, John le Carre, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Evelyn Waugh and George Melly. ( goto )
- Gary Dahl introduced a new bread to America in the 1970s. What was it? ( goto )
- What new bread did Gary Dahl introduce to America in the 1970's? ( goto )
- What was it that Gary Dahl created in the 1970's that made him an overnight millionaire? ( goto )
- Which of his books did Raold Dahl dedicate to his grand-daughter? ( goto )
- What connects Charles Darwin in 1836, Roald Amundsen in 1912, Queen Elizabeth II in 1954 and 2000 and Pope John Paul II in 1986? ( goto )
- Who scored the first goal in the FIFA World Cup 2002 (Matt Holland, Patrick Mboma, Papa Bouba Diop, Jon Dahl Tomasson)? ( goto )
- Could anyone tell me the names of all Roald Amundsen's party that were the first to reach the South Pole, and additionally what were their birth dates and death dates? It's for a project I am doing and can't seem to obtain this kind of information. ( goto )
- After a two-month ordeal, the expedition of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded them by just over a month. In what year did this take place?
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