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

In the 1996 Giant Peach film, what magic does the mysterious old man hand James in a bag?

A) Magic beans

B) Crocodile tongues

C) Dragon scales

D) Witch's fingernails

Answer · why

B) Crocodile tongues

Crocodile tongues were meant to work their magic on James, but he trips and spills the bag, and the wriggling green things escape into the soil beneat...

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 weather balloon

C) A bomb

D) An airship

Answer · why

C) A bomb

A bomb is the first guess of panicking New Yorkers, and once the peach has landed the police take its giant bugs for visitors from Mars.

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 seagulls carry them off

Answer · why

A) They survive and follow James

They survive and follow James to New York, where they come at him with fire axes until Miss Spider wraps them in silk and the police arrest them; the ...