Little House on the Prairie Trivia Quiz

Answer: Wisconsin

Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing among the big trees, and they never saw that little house again.

Answer: Pet and Patty

They were beautiful little horses, and Pa said they were not really ponies; they were western mustangs. When Laura asked what their names were, Pa said that she and Mary could name them. So Mary named one, Pet, and Laura named the other, Patty.

Answer: Their dog Jack

Before Pa could answer, Laura cried, "Oh where's Jack?"

They had forgotten Jack. They had left him on the other side of that dreadful water and now they could not see him anywhere. He must have tried to swim after them, but they could not see him struggling in the water now.

Answer: A frying pan with legs

The spider had short legs to stand on in the coals, and that was why it was called a spider. If it had had no legs, it would have been only a frying pan.

Answer: A log fell on her ankle and sprained it

(She only sprained her ankle, she never broke it)

"Does it hurt much?" he asked.
Ma's face was gray and her mouth was a tight line. "Not much," she said. "No bones broken," said Pa. "It's only a bad sprain."

Answer: Stick and Daub

"You've done well to build that chimney up so high, all by yourself," Ma said. She ran her hand through his hair and stood it up more than ever. "Why don't you make it stick-and-daub the rest of the way," she asked him.
Well, it would be easier," he admitted. "I'm blamed if I don't believe I will!"
He hauled saplings from the woods, and he cut and notched them and laid them up like the walls of the house, on top of the stone chimney. As he laid them, he plastered them well with mud. And that finished the chimney.

Answer: A piece of beef & a cow and calf

Ma could not believe that Pa had actually brought home a cow. But it really was their own cow. The calf was too small to travel, Pa said, and the cow would be to thin to sell, so the cowboys had given them to Pa. They had given hime the beef, too; a big chunk was tied to his saddlehorn.

Answer: Glass windows

"It rained between here and Independence, going," Pa told them. "And coming back, the mud froze between the spokes till the wheels were nearly solid."
Then his eyes twinkled at Ma and he told her to open the square package on the table. "Be careful," he said "Don't drop it."

In that square package there were eight small squares of window-glass.

Answer: An Indian Maid

Ma was rocking in the rocking-chair, holding Baby Carrie against her breast and she began to sing softly the the fiddle.

"Wild roved an Indian maid,
Bright Alfarata,
Where flow the waters
Of the blue Juniata".

Answer: Nine sweet potatoes

There were nine sweet potatoes. Mr. Edwards had brought them all the way from town, too. It was just too much. Pa said so. "It's too much, Edwards," he said. They never could thank him enough.

Answer: Blue and Red

(Usually Ma tied the braids in the girls' hair with pink and blue ribbons . Laura in pink and Mary's in blue.)

A bright colored ribbon was drawn underneath and the color showed through. The ribbon in Mary's comb was blue, and the ribbon in Laura's comb was red.

Answer: To hunt buffalo

Every spring they made peace and all came together for the big hunt.

"They're sworn to peace among themselves," he said, "and they're thinking about hunting the buffalo. So it's not likely they'll start on the war-path against us."

Answer: Soldiers

"No, Scott!" Pa answered him. "I'll not stay here to be taken away by the soldiers like an outlaw!"

Answer: Tenderfeet

Pa muttered to himself: "Tenderfeet! Everything they own, and no dog to watch it. Didn't keep watch himself. And tied his horses with ropes!" Pa snorted. "Tenderfeet!" he said again. "Shouldn't be allowed loose west of the Mississippi!"

Answer: The mule

(Pet had a baby mule in the barn right after they arrived in Indian Territory)

"Never mind, Caroline!" Pa told her. "We'll make a better garden. Anyway, we're taking more out of Indian Territory than we took in." "I don't know what," Ma said, and Pa answered, "Why, there's the mule!"