Answer: Green
Here is the list of ingredients for Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker:
The wrong end of a telescope, boiled till it is soft
The tails of forty-five brown mice, chopped off with a carving knife and fried in hair oil till crisp
Forty-five brown mice (whose tails have been chopped off) simmered in frog juice for one hour
Special, secret ingredient: an alarm clock, set to go off at 9:00 tomorrow morning, roasted in the oven till crisp and tender
Mix in the mixer on high speed.
While the mixer is going, add the yoke of one gruntle's egg, the claw of a crab cruncher, the beak of a blabbersnitch, the snout of a grovelspirt, and the tongue of a catspringer.
According to the Grand High Witch, "When you have mixed everything together in the mixer, you will have a most marvelous-looking green liquid."
I can't imagine how all that comes out green. But I'm not a witch.
From Quiz: Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker
Answer: They look and act normal, even though they are anything but normal.
He says "REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS."
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: We are not told his name in the book
Luke was the name of the main boy in the film 'Witches' based on the book.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl - "The Witches"
Answer: The Grand High Witch frizzled her away with sparks from her eyes
The witch who couldn't believe that The Grand High Witch could get rid of all the children in the world was frizzled alive by The Grand High Witch's eyes.
From Quiz: 'The Witches'
Answer: Solveg
One day, Solveg came home from school eating an apple a nice lady had given to her on the street. The next morning she was missing but her father found her in an oil painting, feeding some ducks.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: A liquid
Here is the Grand High Witch's own explanation of how the formula works: "Child eats choc, which has in it Delayed Action Mouse Maker liquid. Child goes home feeling fine. Child goes to bed, still feeling fine. Child wakes up in the morning still OK. Child goes to school, still feeling fine. Formula you understand is delayed action and is not working yet... It is starting to work at exactly 9:00, when the child is arriving at school... Child arrives at school. Delayed Mouse Maker immediately starts to work. Child starts to shrink... Child is not a child any longer. It is a mouse!"
The Grand High Witch must be a terrible person indeed to think up such a dreadful potion! It could put a person off chocolates and candy!
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Answer: Norway
The book starts in Norway, where the narrator's parents died in a car crash. He goes to his grandma and they stay in Norway for a while, before going to England.
Norway has the largest number of witches living in it and is the place where the Grand High Witch lives.
From Quiz: "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
Answer: Mr Stringer
In the film, the manager Mr Stringer is played by Rowan Atkinson.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl - "The Witches"
Answer: witchophile
Grandmama is a retired witchophile.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: the Grand High Witch
The Grand High Witch is the ruler of all witches.
From Quiz: 'The Witches' by Roald Dahl
Answer: Sweets (candies) and chocolates
They hide their terrible potion in chocolates and candy. That is why they need to become owners of beautiful, top quality candy stores (sweet shops). They need the loveliest candy and chocolates they can find to lure the poor, unsuspecting children to their doom. You see, the Grand High Witch really is a most terrible person.
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Answer: Working on the tree house he and his best friend Timothy were building.
He couldn't have been talking to Timothy because Timothy was sick with the flu. He was nailing on a plank of the roof, when the first witch tried to lure him down with a pet snake.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: William and Mary
The boy was given William and Mary by his Grandmother for his birthday.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl - "The Witches"
Answer: Bournemouth
After Grandmama got pnemonia, the doctor whouldn't let them go to Norway, so they went there instead, even though Grandmama wouldn't stop smoking those 'vile, black cigars.'
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: Bruno Jenkins
Bruno is a greedy boy. In the end, his greed is what gets him turned into a mouse!
From Quiz: 'The Witches' by Roald Dahl
Answer: Children
The formula is supposed to be used on children. The Grand High Witch only hates children, not grownups. All the same, I think it would be wise for grownups to be very careful too. You never can tell...
From Quiz: Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker
Answer: Blue
Witches have spit as "blue as a bilberry". Instead of writing with ink, they can use old-fashioned pens with nibs and simply lick the nib when they want to write. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to notice the blue saliva, unless a witch spits, but they are very careful to avoid spitting.
From Quiz: "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
Answer: pneumonia
She caught pneumonia, three or four weeks before they were to leave. Instead, they went to a hotel in England.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
The 'Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children' sign was outside the ballroom, where the annual Grand High Witches' meeting was to take place.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl - "The Witches"
Answer: The housemaid who looks after Grandmamma
Mrs Spring moved into the house after Grandmamma fell ill with pneumonia.
From Quiz: 'The Witches'
Answer: Ashton
'It killed all the nits all right, but it nearly killed Ashton as well.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: Mr. Stringer
Mr. Stringer was not too kind to our hero in the story.
From Quiz: 'The Witches' by Roald Dahl
Answer: She has a machine that prints bank-notes
The Grand High Witch can make any kind of money (English pounds, American dollars, Chinese Yuan etc.) using machines identical to the ones used by governments. She lives in a large, expensive castle.
From Quiz: "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
Answer: The Hotel Magnificent
The Hotel Magnificent was on the South Coast of England. They couldn't have stayed in the other three, because those are all hotel chains in America.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: a mouse
This was the formula that the Grand High Witch had planned to use to wipe out all of the children in England
From Quiz: Roald Dahl - "The Witches"
Answer: The Hotel Magnificent
Although they wanted to travel to Norway, Grandmamma fell ill and on doctor's orders they went to Bournemouth, staying at the Hotel Magnificent.
From Quiz: 'The Witches'
Answer: 26 seconds
That's with one drop, the boy got a whole bottle and he turned into a mouse instantly.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: William and Mary
William and Mary were the main character's pets. They were white mice.
From Quiz: 'The Witches' by Roald Dahl
Answer: One egg
It seems gruntles nest very high up in trees, so their eggs aren't all that easy to get. Maybe that's just as well!
From Quiz: Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker
Answer: A snake
A strange woman wearing gloves, presumably a witch, offers the main character a snake. The boy, terrified, climbs up a tree and stays there for hours.
From Quiz: "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
Answer: Mary and Willam
He gets them right before they go to the Hotel Magnificent, as a consolation present from his grandmother.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: Bruno
The boy watched in horror as Bruno turned into a mouse.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl - "The Witches"
Answer: Mr Stringer
Grandmamma agues terribly when the hotel boss, Mr Stringer, forbids their pet mice to stay at the hotel. Grandmamma says: "How dare you say that when your rotten hotel is full of rats!" to an outraged Mr Stringer, who eventually allows the mice to stay.
From Quiz: 'The Witches'
Answer: blue
She put him in a sock and pretended to 'drop' her blue knitting wool.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: An alarm clock
If you think about the problem, you see at once that an alarm clock, set for 9:00 tomorrow morning and roasted in the oven must be what gives Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker its delayed action. At least, if you are a dastardly villain like the Grand High Witch you do. I wouldn't have thought of it. Would you?
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Answer: Mice
The boy dreams of becoming the owner of a "White Mouse Circus", and trains William and Mary to become tight-rope walkers by putting them on one end of the piece of string, and cake on the other. The mouse walks across the rope and is rewarded with cake. The string is then lengthened, and the process repeated until the mouse is an expert tight-rope walker.
From Quiz: "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
Answer: The Grand High Witch
It mentions it many times in the book...they call her the Grand High Witch. She is the one who calls all of the shots!
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: We are only told in the book that they are Mr and Mrs Jenkins.
Mr and Mrs Jenkins thought that the boy's Grandmother was absolutely bonkers when she tried to tell them their son Bruno had been turned into a mouse by the witches.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl - "The Witches"
Answer: 14
She said her meat was too tough probably just to stall time. They got her a second serving, but the cooks and bus-boys all spat on it.
From Quiz: The Witches
Answer: 26 seconds
Twenty-six seconds is all it takes to turn a strapping little boy or a pretty little girl into a fuzzy mouse!
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