Q 01/05

After a plane cuts its seagull strings, James's giant peach lands on which New York landmark?

A) Empire State Building

B) Statue of Liberty

C) Chrysler Building

D) Brooklyn Bridge

Answer · why

A) Empire State Building

The Empire State Building's spire spears the peach, bringing out police and firemen before the city's children eat the fruit down to its stone.

Q 02/05

What does the old man give James in the 1996 film, able to grow anything to colossal size?

A) Magic beans

B) Crocodile tongues

C) Dragon scales

D) Witch's fingernails

Answer · why

B) Crocodile tongues

Crocodile tongues, glowing and wormlike, leap from James's spilled bag into the soil under a barren tree, and the giant peach swells out of it overnig...

Q 03/05

When James's giant peach appears over New York in Dahl's novel, what do crowds first mistake it for?

A) A meteor

B) A balloon

C) A bomb

D) A spaceship

Answer · why

C) A bomb

A bomb is the first guess and a spaceship the second, so police and firemen are already waiting when the peach comes down on the city.

Q 04/05

Which sky-dwellers, makers of hail and rainbows, pelt James's peach after the Centipede mocks them?

A) The Fog Folk

B) The Sky Wardens

C) The Rain Kings

D) The Cloud-Men

Answer · why

D) The Cloud-Men

The Cloud-Men hurl cans of rainbow paint that set the Centipede solid as a statue, and only the rain from their faucets frees him.

Q 05/05

Unlike in Dahl's novel, what becomes of Aunts Sponge and Spiker in the 1996 Giant Peach film?

A) They survive and follow James

B) The rolling peach flattens them

C) The sharks eat them

D) The police arrest them

Answer · why

A) They survive and follow James

They survive and follow James all the way to New York, arriving with fire axes at the landing until Miss Spider wraps them in silk; the book simply fl...