Q 01/05

What was Lewis Carroll's real name?

A) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

B) Samuel Langhorne Clemens

C) Eric Arthur Blair

D) Theodor Seuss Geisel

Answer · why

A) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He wanted a pen name for the pieces he was getting into print, and his editor picked Lewis Carroll from a list of four he of...

Q 02/05

In which English county was Carroll born, at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury?

A) Lancashire

B) Surrey

C) Yorkshire

D) Cheshire

Answer · why

D) Cheshire

Cheshire. The county was linked to a grin long before Alice: people were already saying 'to grin like a Cheshire cat' in the 1700s, so he borrowed the...

Q 03/05

Young Carroll wrote a series of what for his ten siblings?

A) Magazines

B) Almanacs

C) Songbooks

D) Sermons

Answer · why

A) Magazines

Magazines. All eleven children were meant to contribute, but he ended up writing nearly everything in the surviving issues himself.

Q 04/05

Which public school, the setting of Tom Brown's School Days, did Carroll attend and dislike intensely?

A) Eton

B) Winchester

C) Rugby

D) Harrow

Answer · why

C) Rugby

Rugby. He wrote that no earthly consideration would make him repeat his three years there, yet his maths master said he had not taught a more promisin...

Q 05/05

Alice's journey in Through the Looking-Glass is plotted as the moves of which game?

A) Backgammon

B) Draughts

C) Croquet

D) Chess

Answer · why

D) Chess

Chess. Alice starts as a white pawn on the second square and is promised a crown when she reaches the eighth, just as a pawn is promoted to a queen.