Q 01/05

Which green fizzy drink beloved of the BFG has bubbles that sink downwards instead of rising?

A) Fizzlecrump

B) Frobscottle

C) Bubblejuice

D) Gloopwhizz

Answer · why

B) Frobscottle

Frobscottle bubbles sink rather than rise, so the gas leaves the other end — a trick the BFG proudly demonstrates at the Queen's breakfast table in th...

Q 02/05

What does the BFG call the thunderous flatulence that his favourite fizzy drink sets off?

A) Whizzpopping

B) Thunderbumping

C) Rumbledumping

D) Botty-bursting

Answer · why

A) Whizzpopping

Whizzpopping is the BFG's word for it, and he happily lets rip in front of the Queen of England herself over a royal breakfast.

Q 03/05

Which revolting vegetable, the BFG's only crop, tastes to Sophie of frog skin and rotten fish?

A) Glumpkin

B) Wobblewort

C) Snozzcumber

D) Splatchgourd

Answer · why

C) Snozzcumber

The snozzcumber looks like a knobbly cucumber and is all the BFG has to eat since he refuses to eat people; to him it tastes of cockroaches and slime ...

Q 04/05

In which misty land does the BFG catch the dreams he later blows into children's bedrooms?

A) The Land of Nod

B) Dream Country

C) Slumber Valley

D) Sleep Island

Answer · why

B) Dream Country

Dream Country is where the BFG nets good dreams and bad ones alike, and on one trip there the other giants catch him and toss him between them like a ...

Q 05/05

What instrument does the BFG carry with his suitcase when Sophie first spots him in the street?

A) A bugle

B) A flute

C) A bagpipe

D) A trumpet

Answer · why

D) A trumpet

A trumpet is how the BFG delivers dreams, blowing each one through a bedroom window, and it is his sight of Sophie at her window that makes him snatch...

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