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

Lassie is a Rough Collie, the long-coated variety that differs from the Smooth Collie only in coat; screen Lassies have been sable-and-white dogs with...

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

The Saturday Evening Post ran Eric Knight's short story 'Lassie Come-Home' in its 17 December 1938 issue, before he expanded it into a full novel.

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

Lassie Come-Home was published as a novel in 1940 by the John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia, with illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse.

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 novel is set in Yorkshire: Joe Carraclough's family lives in the fictional mill village of Greenall Bridge, and Lassie treks hundreds of miles bac...

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.