The Case of Sensational Scent Trivia Quiz

Answer: two miles

Centerburg was a town in Midwestern America founded by Ezekiel Enders many years ago. Ezekiel Enders bought all of the land from the Indians for a jug of cough syrup. Ezekiel soon found 42 pounds of edible fungus and took it as a sign, so he settled down and founded a town and named it Edible Fungus. Many years later, Edible Fungus came to be known as Centerburg.

Answer: building radios

Homer Price loves building radios and makes a hobby out of them. Sometimes, when he goes up to his room to work on building a radio, he has the family cat Tabby for company.

Answer: He had read about it somewhere

Homer was very careful not to frighten the skunk when he saw him for the first time, but he soon tamed him and named him Aroma, which means smell in Latin. He had also read that skunks could make good pets.

Answer: inside Homer's suitcase

Aroma's home was right beneath Homer's window. To let him come up when he needed company, Homer used some rope and a basket to build him an elevator. When Homer would whistle, Aroma would climb into the basket, and Homer would pull the basket up using the rope, so that Aroma could come up and visit Homer while he was working on radios.

Answer: $2000 and a dozen bottles of Dreggs After Shaving Lotion

After the suitcase containing the reward was stolen by the four robbers, N. W. Blott offered half the money and lotion bottles to anyone who gave him the suitcase, though a lot of the lotion bottles were broken in the end. The smell of Dreggs After Shaving Lotion came to be known as "that distinctive invigorating smell that keeps you on your toes."

Answer: the second robber

The fourth robber picked up a rock and threw it at Aroma to scare him away, and Aroma immediately released his bad smell for protection.

Answer: $4

They were supposed to pay $4, but they paid Homer $5 and told him to keep the change. When Homer was about to put the $5 bill in the counter, he smelled a mixture of Dreggs After Shaving Lotion and Aroma's horrible smell, so Homer came to the conclusion that the four men were the robbers.

Answer: Mexico

Two of the robbers wanted to drive to Mexico in the night, but the other two were afraid of driving during nighttime and were reluctant to go. The robbers thought they smelled Aroma, so they all decided to go to Mexico straightaway, but Homer didn't let them, and the robbers were soon arrested by the sheriff.

Answer: BOY AND PET SKUNK TRAP SHAVING LOTION ROBBERS BY SMELL

Homer and Aroma led the robbers from the cabin to the barbershop, so that the sheriff could handcuff them and put them in jail. The robbers weren't accustomed to walking on ground barefoot, so they couldn't escape. After they were arrested, the sheriff congratulated and thanked Homer for helping him.

Answer: True

Homer's parents let Homer keep Aroma, because Homer had tamed him a lot, and instead of hurting business, he doubled and helped business. There is no more mention of Aroma during the next five chapters.