Q 01/05

In which country was Roald Dahl born?

A) Wales

B) Norway

C) Scotland

D) England

Answer · why

A) Wales

He was born at Villa Marie in Llandaff, Cardiff, and a plaza in Cardiff Bay is now named after him.

Q 02/05

Dahl's parents were immigrants from which country?

A) Sweden

B) Denmark

C) Germany

D) Norway

Answer · why

D) Norway

He spent most childhood summers with his mother's family there, and his first language was Norwegian.

Q 03/05

Dahl was named after which famous explorer?

A) Leif Erikson

B) Erik the Red

C) Fridtjof Nansen

D) Roald Amundsen

Answer · why

D) Roald Amundsen

Amundsen had beaten Scott to the South Pole in 1911, five years before Dahl was born.

Q 04/05

Which children's author, his childhood idol, did the six-year-old Dahl meet at her Lake District home?

A) Enid Blyton

B) Beatrix Potter

C) Kenneth Grahame

D) A. A. Milne

Answer · why

B) Beatrix Potter

The meeting at Hill Top was dramatised in the 2020 TV film Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse.

Q 05/05

In the 'Great Mouse Plot of 1924', eight-year-old Dahl and his friends put a dead mouse in a jar of what?

A) Gobstoppers

B) Sherbet

C) Toffees

D) Liquorice

Answer · why

A) Gobstoppers

The 'mean and loathsome' shopkeeper Mrs Pratchett later inspired one of the villains in Matilda.