Q 01/05

Lassie is a fictional dog of which breed?

A) Rough Collie

B) Border Collie

C) German Shepherd

D) Golden Retriever

Answer · why

A) Rough Collie

Every screen Lassie since 1943 has been a male descendant of one dog, Pal.

Q 02/05

Lassie first appeared in a 1938 short story published in which magazine?

A) The New Yorker magazine

B) Collier's Weekly

C) Ladies' Home Journal

D) The Saturday Evening Post

Answer · why

D) The Saturday Evening Post

Eric Knight expanded it into the novel Lassie Come-Home two years later.

Q 03/05

In what year was Eric Knight's full-length novel Lassie Come-Home published?

A) 1943

B) 1946

C) 1940

D) 1950

Answer · why

C) 1940

It grew out of the 1938 short story and reached cinemas three years later.

Q 04/05

In which English county is the novel Lassie Come-Home set?

A) Yorkshire

B) Cornwall

C) Somerset

D) Cumbria

Answer · why

A) Yorkshire

The Depression-era story follows a collie's long journey home to her young master.

Q 05/05

How did Lassie's creator Eric Knight die in January 1943?

A) In a military plane crash

B) In a car accident

C) Of pneumonia

D) At the Battle of Kasserine Pass

Answer · why

A) In a military plane crash

He was a US Army major in Special Services when his C-54 went down in Dutch Guiana, months before the first film opened.