Q 01/05

In which city was Rudyard Kipling born in 1865?

A) Bombay

B) Calcutta

C) Madras

D) Delhi

Answer · why

A) Bombay

Bombay's newly founded Sir J. J. School of Art had hired his father, John Lockwood Kipling, to teach architectural sculpture, so the newlyweds sailed ...

Q 02/05

Kipling's parents met while his father worked in the potteries there, then named him after Rudyard Lake in which English county?

A) Staffordshire

B) Derbyshire

C) Worcestershire

D) Shropshire

Answer · why

A) Staffordshire

Staffordshire's Rudyard Lake is really a reservoir, built in the 1790s to feed the Caldon Canal; John Lockwood Kipling courted Alice Macdonald there i...

Q 03/05

Which three-time British prime minister was Kipling's first cousin?

A) Neville Chamberlain

B) Stanley Baldwin

C) Ramsay MacDonald

D) Herbert Asquith

Answer · why

B) Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin's mother and Kipling's mother Alice were two of the Macdonald sisters; in 1936 Baldwin, then serving as prime minister, was one of the...

Q 04/05

What did Kipling call the Southsea boarding house where he and his sister were left as young children?

A) The House of Desolation

B) The Place of Silence

C) The House of Bondage

D) The Iron Cage

Answer · why

A) The House of Desolation

The House of Desolation was his name for Lorne Lodge, where Mrs Holloway's bullying drove him to tell careful lies, a habit he later called 'the found...

Q 05/05

Kipling's schooldays at the United Services College in Devon inspired which story collection?

A) Soldiers Three

B) Stalky & Co.

C) The Day's Work

D) Debits and Credits

Answer · why

B) Stalky & Co.

Stalky & Co. turns a cheap, rough new school that readied boys for the army, where the short-sighted Kipling had a hard start, into an unruly paradise...