Answer: Germany
Jacob was born in 1785 and Wilhelm (who would be called William in English) in 1786 in the town of Hanau. They published their first collection of eighty-six stories in 1812, with a second book, containing seventy stories, in 1814.
From Quiz: The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm
Answer: Cinderella
It is not well-known that the evil step-sisters also managed to fit their feet into the slipper, but only after cutting off pieces of their feet. The blood revealed their trick.
From Quiz: Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Answer: Their eyes are pecked out by birds.
They become blind as a punishment for their evil ways.
From Quiz: The grim Brothers Grimm
Answer: Make haste slowly
"Make haste slowly" is actually the last line in the story. "The Nail" is about a man who, in his rush home, pays no heed to the fact that his horse has a nail stuck in its horseshoe. The horse's leg eventually breaks, and the man is forced walk home with all of his possessions fastened to his back.
From Quiz: Lesser Known Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Answer: Briar Rose
Yes, she really does have a name, although in the Disney "Sleeping Beauty" movie, it was Princess Aurora.
From Quiz: Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Answer: She is forced to dance in red hot iron shoes until she falls down dead.
This is crueller than in the Disney version in which she falls off a cliff.
From Quiz: The grim Brothers Grimm
Answer: for beating and cursing his wife
In "Sharing Joy and Sorrow," a tailor is arrested for beating his kind and pious wife. After he has gone to prison, he is advised that he needs to learn to share joy and sorrow with his wife. He is released and is soon back to his old ways. After he is brought forth once again to the judges, he advises them that he has in fact shared joy and sorrow "...whenever I hit her I was full of joy, and she of sorrow; and if I missed her, then she was joyful, and I sorry." The judges give him what he deserves.
From Quiz: Lesser Known Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Answer: Breadcrumbs
The children are abandoned in the woods by their evil stepmother, who does not wish to feed them. Hansel leaves white pebbles to mark their route, but is locked in before the second abandonment so cannot collect any pebbles this time. He uses bread, but this is eaten by the birds, leaving the pair hopelessly lost. They are captured by a witch, but manage to kill her and steal her money before reaching home again. The stepmother has died, and the children live happily with their father using the witch's wealth.
From Quiz: The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm
Answer: 20 ells
An ell is a unit of measurement of 44 inches. Rapunzel's tower, therefore, was 73 feet, 4 inches high. She had a lot of hair.
From Quiz: Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Answer: They got stuck in the thorns surrounding the castle and died a slow death.
There was nothing special about the prince - the 100 years of enchantment were up and the thorns surrounding the castle turned into roses. Too bad the other princes weren't so lucky!
From Quiz: The grim Brothers Grimm
Answer: a nightingale
Jorinda and Joringel were lost in the woods. They came upon a witch's castle which caused Joringel to stand still, unable to move, and Jorinda to be transformed into a nightingale. The witch sets Joringel free, but not after capturing Jorinda. Joringel is despondent, pining for his lost love. He dreams of a blood red flower that has the power to break any spell. He finds the flower, breaks the spell, and Jorinda and Joringel live happily ever after.
From Quiz: Lesser Known Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Answer: cut off her heel
One step-sister was told to cut off her heel, and the other was told to cut off only her big toe.
From Quiz: The Real Grimms' Tales
Answer: Bremen
The story was called 'The Town Musicians of Bremen' and describes how the four animals have all been abandoned by their owners due to their age. They decide to form a town band, and head off towards Bremen. On their way, they come across a cottage where four thieves are gloating over their loot. The animals 'sing' to them, but make such a row that the thieves run away. When the thieves return, they are attacked by each animal in turn, mistaking the cat for a witch, the dog for an ogre, the donkey for a giant and the rooster for a judge. The thieves abandon the cottage, where the animals make their home, and never actually reach Bremen at all.
From Quiz: The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm
Answer: Gold
Hope that didn't fool you. Yes, it was a golden slipper the prince tried on Cinderella's foot, after he got it away from her by spreading the stairs to the castle with pitch (tar).
From Quiz: Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Answer: She is put naked into a barrel full of nails and dragged through the streets by white horses until she is dead.
The imposter actually came up with her own sentence, though unknowingly. The king asked her what punishment a person deserves for deceiving his master and that was her reply. Not the brightest crayon in the box now, was she?
From Quiz: The grim Brothers Grimm
Answer: because a woman uses the ears to clean her child's dress
When God himself roamed the earth, corn stalks produced 400 to 500 ears of corn per stalk. After the Lord sees the woman use His beautiful ears of corn to clean her child's frock, he decides that men no longer deserve His heavenly gifts. The woman and the bystanders plead for the innocent birds who would now starve because of her mistake. The Lord pities the birds, and leaves the corn stalks to grow 50 to 60 ears, like they do today.
From Quiz: Lesser Known Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Answer: the prince's servants tripped over a tree stump
This caused the poison apple lodged in her throat to become dislodged.
From Quiz: The Real Grimms' Tales
Answer: Tom Thumb
The stories begin in a similar way, with a poor couple wishing for a child, even if it is very small. Their wishes are granted, and both Thumbling and Tom Thumb undergo various (but different) adventures, due to their diminutive size. Thumbling is eaten by both a cow and a wolf, before managing to escape and return home. A second story collected by the Grimms is called 'Thumbling's Travels', where his father is a tailor, and the disasters which befall him are similar to those in the first tale.
From Quiz: The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm
Answer: He gets so mad that he rips himself in half.
You can't help but feel sorry for Rumpelstiltskin. After all, it was the queen who promised to give away her own child.
From Quiz: The grim Brothers Grimm
Answer: Straw
The girl's father has boasted to the king that his daughter can spin gold from straw. The king locks the girl in a room full of straw overnight to turn it into gold. In return for her necklace, a creature resembling an imp carries out the transformation for her. The king is not satisfied, though, and insists that she repeats the task. The imp takes her ring in return for her help. On the third night, the king promises to marry her if she succeeds (and kill her if she doesn't). She has nothing left with which to pay the imp, who makes her promise to give him her first child in return for his help. The queen, as she now is, tries to negotiate her way out of the bargain when the imp comes for her child. Her only escape is to guess his name, which she manages to do when her servant overhears the creature singing a song including his name, which is the name of the story, 'Rumpelstiltskin'.
From Quiz: The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm
Answer: Rapunzel's father had promised the witch to give her up when the witch caught dad in her garden.
Rapunzel's mom got a look at the rampion in the witch's garden and pined away for it. Dad, not wanting to lose his wife (whom he loved) snuck in and got some rampion. When he didn't get caught, he went again and didn't fare as well. The witch threatened his life, but forgave Dad with the condition that when he got his long-wanted child, he would give her up. Rapunzel was born shortly after.
From Quiz: Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Answer: His stomach is filled with stones and the huntsman skins him.
I'm told in some versions the grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood die, but I can't find any of those.
From Quiz: The grim Brothers Grimm
Answer: A bit of four leaf clover
In "The Beam" a magician has a rooster pick up a seemingly heavy beam as if it were light as a feather. A girl, after having come across a bit of a four leaf clover uncovers the deception, thus the magician is run out of town. He swears revenge. On her wedding day, she comes across a wide brook without a bridge, and proceeds to lift her dress so she might cross it. The bitter magician appears, laughing, as HE uncovers the deception, "AHA! Where are thine eyes that thou takest that for water?" She is standing in the middle of a field, with people surrounding her...with her dress hiked up. She is laughed out of town.
From Quiz: Lesser Known Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Answer: Bear
This Snow-White is not the one who met the seven dwarfs, but one of a pair of sisters, with the other being named Rose-Red. They are kind to a bear, who spends the winter nights at their cottage to keep warm. When summer comes, the bear disappears, but the girls encounter a dwarf while out walking. They help the dwarf on many occasions, but he is totally ungrateful to them. On the final occasion, they find the dwarf being threatened by the bear. The dwarf pleads with the bear to kill the girls instead of him, but the bear ignores him and kills him. As soon as the dwarf is dead, the bear changes back to his princely form, and marries Snow-White, with Rose-Red becoming the wife of the prince's brother.
From Quiz: The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm
Answer: their house catches fire, and they live in poverty and misery with plagued consciences
The man's wife, while trying to help him after he faints over his guilt, accidentally starts a house fire, "and the rest of the years they had to live they passed in poverty and misery, tormented by the pangs of conscience."
From Quiz: Lesser Known Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Answer: she had already died
In the original story, when Hansel and Gretel return with jewels, they discover that while they were gone, the step-mother had died.
From Quiz: The Real Grimms' Tales
Answer: Cinderella
The story of 'Cinderella' is one of the best known of the fairy tales. The version by the Grimms has most of the features we know, although the two stepsisters are beautiful to look at, not ugly. They are just as unkind to Cinderella, with the name of 'Aschenputtel' meaning 'Ash Fool'. The ending is the same, with the prince marrying Cinderella, although the fate which befalls the two unkind sisters is rather more cruel than the version we know.
From Quiz: The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm
Answer: Their mother forced them to.
Their family was very poor and so their mother told their father to leave them in the woods. At first, he didn't want to, but he finally agreed. In the end, the mother had died while the two children were away. When they came back, the three of them lived happily ever after.
From Quiz: The grim Brothers Grimm
Answer: to go to Heaven
Hansel does not ask to go to Heaven, he asks for the cards and the dice with which he can use to win every game. He asks for a tree whereon every kind of fruit would grow, and from which no one who climbs up can come down again unless Hansel wills it so. Using these tools, he cheats the Lord, Death, and Lucifer, until finally he is thrown down and his soul fragments and inhabits all of the "gambling vagabonds who are living this very day."
From Quiz: Lesser Known Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Answer: there was no dew on the flower
Because she only turned into a flower in the morning, there was no morning dew on her.
From Quiz: The Real Grimms' Tales
Answer: Swans
In 'The Six Swans', the brothers have been changed into swans by their wicked stepmother. The sister can save them by making a shirt from starwort for each of them. In addition, she cannot speak or laugh for six years. The sister marries, and is badly treated by her mother-in-law, although she cannot defend herself without condemning her brothers to live as swans for ever. She is about to be burned at the stake, when the six years expire and the swans appear enabling her to break the spell by throwing the shirts over them. The mother-in-law suffers the death penalty instead, leaving the family to live happily ever after.
From Quiz: The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm
Answer: She throws him against the wall.
I say the Grimm version because there are other versions of "The Frog Prince", one of which has him turning into a prince after three days of companionship, as provided by the princess. The Grimm Brothers, however, saw it fit to have the princess become so disgusted with the frog that she picked him up and threw him against the wall.
From Quiz: Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Answer: He is a cannibal and a thief.
The girl avoids being killed and eaten by her fiance (whom her father was forcing her to marry, of course) thanks to the help of an old woman. On her wedding day, she tells everyone the truth about the man and they executed him.
From Quiz: The grim Brothers Grimm
Answer: wild boar
A wild boar is ransacking a certain country, and the King declares that whoever can kill the beast will have his daughter's hand in marriage. Two brothers, the youngest kind and good, the oldest lazy and arrogant, go forth into the wood, and the good brother slays the beast with the aid of a little fairy. The wicked brother kills his youngest brother and takes the boar to the King. After he is married, a herdsman finds the younger man's bone and uses it as a mouthpiece for his horn. When he plays it, the bone sings the whole sordid tale, and the story comes to light. The evil brother is drowned, and the youngest brother's body is properly buried.
From Quiz: Lesser Known Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Answer: golden ball
This is usually the same in most adaptations of the story.
From Quiz: The Real Grimms' Tales
Answer: Elves
The story is known in English as 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' or 'The Cobbler and the Elves'. The shoemaker has given away a pair of shoes to a lady in need, leaving him with only enough leather to make one final pair of shoes. The elves visit overnight and make a pair of shoes which the cobbler is able to sell at much more than his usual price. He buys more leather, but also helps a poor passerby. The cobbler is again rewarded for his kindness with the assistance of the elves, although they disappear from his life once they are given clothes made by the shoemaker's wife.
From Quiz: The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm
Answer: Falada
Conrad was the name of the goose boy who grew so annoyed with the talking horse's head over the archway that he told the king about everything that happened when he was around the goose girl.
From Quiz: Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
Answer: Their mother cuts her head off.
The mother was planning on killing the good girl, because both mother and daughter resented the foster child. She accidentally kills her own child and tries to catch the other, but to no avail. She dies in the end, and the good people live happily ever after. Hope you enjoyed the quiz!
From Quiz: The grim Brothers Grimm
Answer: because he is very greedy
"The Ungrateful Son" is about a greedy boy who hides a piece of chicken from his father so that he can have it all to himself. The chicken turns into a toad, and attaches itself to the boy's face. The boy cannot remove it, so he must feed the toad, or else it feeds on his face. Yummy!
From Quiz: Lesser Known Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Answer: their eyes were pecked out by pigeons
They went to Cinderella's wedding and acted nice to share her fortune, so as punishment for being fake, their eyes were pecked out.
From Quiz: The Real Grimms' Tales
