Q 01/05

Cinderella's slipper is glass in the French tale, but what is it made of in the Grimms' version?

A) Silver

B) Gold

C) Fur

D) Crystal

Answer · why

B) Gold

Gold, and the prince smears the palace stairs with pitch so the shoe sticks fast as she flees. Each stepsister then slices off part of her foot to squ...

Q 02/05

In which town near Frankfurt were the Grimm brothers born?

A) Kassel

B) Hamelin

C) Steinau

D) Hanau

Answer · why

D) Hanau

Hanau was home only until Jacob was six, when the family moved to Steinau. Today it is the starting point of the 600 km German Fairy Tale Route, which...

Q 03/05

What is the German title of the Grimms' famous collection, first published in 1812?

A) Kinder- und Hausmärchen

B) Deutsche Sagen

C) Volksmärchen der Deutschen

D) Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Answer · why

A) Kinder- und Hausmärchen

Kinder- und Hausmärchen means Children's and Household Tales, yet the 1812 first edition was a scholarly anthology with learned notes, compiled for ad...

Q 04/05

Who, rather than peasants, told the Grimms most of their first-edition tales?

A) Hessian monks

B) Returning soldiers

C) Educated friends

D) Village children

Answer · why

C) Educated friends

Educated friends and acquaintances, most of them women, told the brothers their tales in person. Many had first heard the stories from unlettered tell...

Q 05/05

How many tales did the seventh and final 1857 edition contain?

A) 211

B) 156

C) 300

D) 100

Answer · why

A) 211

That was 200 numbered folk tales plus a handful of legends.