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Famous Mice! Trivia Quiz

Come and meet some mice from literature, film, TV, music, and even one or two real ones!

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Rowena8482

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
272,122

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
788

Question 1 of 10

1. This mouse was homeless in a song by Pink Floyd, and "he's getting rather old but he's a good mouse." Can you name him? Hint

Sebastian

Jeremy

Gerald

Claude

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Question 2 of 10

2. The ancient Romans used to use a container called a glisary to raise cute, fluffy dormice in. What did they then do with the mice? Hint

Religious sacrifice to the Household God/dess

Children's pets

Ate them as snacks

Bait to train fighting dogs

3. This famous literary mouse is Algernon, friend and "partner in experiment" of Charlie Gordon. Can you remember what name Charlie and Fay gave to Algernon's girlfriend, the female mouse they bought to keep him company? Hint

Minnie

Missy

Mimi

Melisande

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Question 4 of 10

4. Most people have heard of Mighty Mouse - super hero and all round good rodent. In the cartoons his girlfriend was Pearl Pureheart, but what was she called in the comic book stories published in the 50s and 60s? Hint

Mimi

Mitzi

Minette

Maude

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which classic author wrote a short story about a singing mouse called Josephine? Hint

Kafka

Tolstoy

Dostoyevsky

Proust

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Of Mice and Men" has to be one of the most famous "mouse" titles in the World, but do you know whose poem Steinbeck adapted the phrase "of mice and men" from? Hint

William Wordsworth

Robbie Burns

William Shakespeare

John Keats

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Question 7 of 10

7. Where do the mice live in "Bagpuss"?

Answer: (Three Words (3,5,5,))

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Question 8 of 10

8. "The Mouse That Roared" was a tiny Duchy that declared war on the United States in the eponymous story. What was its name? Hint

Grand Hardwick

Grand Richwick

Grand Beswick

Grand Fenwick

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Question 9 of 10

9. In 2007, researchers Timothy Holy and Zhongsheng Guo proved that male mice do what in the presence of female mouse pheremones? Hint

Urinate excessively

Dance

Sing

Faint

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Question 10 of 10

10. You may well have seen the film "Stuart Little," featuring the mouse adopted by a family in New York. This film was (very) loosely based on a book of the same name written by which famous children's author? Hint

Enid Blyton

Michelle Magorian

Roald Dahl

EB White

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This mouse was homeless in a song by Pink Floyd, and "he's getting rather old but he's a good mouse." Can you name him?

Answer: Gerald

Gerald was featured in the song "Bike" which first appeared on the "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" album, released in 1967. It went to number 6 in the UK album charts.
"I've got a mouse and he hasn't got a house,
I don't know why I call him Gerald"

2. The ancient Romans used to use a container called a glisary to raise cute, fluffy dormice in. What did they then do with the mice?

Answer: Ate them as snacks

The edible dormouse, latin name glis-glis, was considered a delicacy in Roman times. The glisary was used to breed a plentiful supply to be roasted and snacked on.

Answer: Minnie

Charlie, Algernon, et al. featured in the classic science fiction novel "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. First published in 1966, it won the Nebula Award and was nominated for a Hugo Award.

Answer: Mitzi

The operatic super hero was voiced by both Roy Haley and Tom Morrison - all together now, "Here I come to save the daaaayyyyyyyy"
Mighty Mouse first appeared in 1942, having been altered from a house fly called (who'd have guessed it?) "Superfly," drawn by Izzy Klein. The head of the studio thought a mouse would be more appealing to viewers and Mighty Mouse was 'born'.

5. Which classic author wrote a short story about a singing mouse called Josephine?

Answer: Kafka

Kafka wrote "Josephine the Singer" also known as "The Mouse Folk" in 1924, shortly before he died of tuberculosis. It has been proposed that the allegorical story was about Kafka himself, as his tuberculosis was of the larynx, and, like Josephine in the story, he lost his ability to communicate with his voice.

6. "Of Mice and Men" has to be one of the most famous "mouse" titles in the World, but do you know whose poem Steinbeck adapted the phrase "of mice and men" from?

Answer: Robbie Burns

"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley" was from Robbie Burns work "To a Mouse," written in 1785. The book "Of Mice and Men" was first published in 1937, and featured a scene where a character tried to stroke a mouse and accidentally killed it.

7. Where do the mice live in "Bagpuss"?

Answer: The Mouse Organ

"Bagpuss" was made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. Every episode saw the mice singing their 'fixing song' as they restored the "thing that Emily found that someone had lost."

8. "The Mouse That Roared" was a tiny Duchy that declared war on the United States in the eponymous story. What was its name?

Answer: Grand Fenwick

The satirical novel "The Mouse That Roared" was published in 1955 and is by Leonard Wibberley. It was made into a film starring Peter Sellers, Leo McKern and William Hartnell, in 1959.

9. In 2007, researchers Timothy Holy and Zhongsheng Guo proved that male mice do what in the presence of female mouse pheremones?

Answer: Sing

The researchers discovered that mice can actually sing, and produce recognisable songs on a par with those produced by young birds. The full paper on their work is titled "Holy, T.E., and Z. Guo. 2005. Ultrasonic songs of male mice. PLoS Biology 3(December):e386."

Answer: EB White

"Stuart Little" was EB White's first children's book, first published in 1945. EB White also wrote "Charlotte's Web."

Source: Author Rowena8482

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