Q 01/05

Which James Bond star played the Green Knight in the 1984 film Sword of the Valiant?

A) Roger Moore

B) George Lazenby

C) Sean Connery

D) Timothy Dalton

Answer · why

C) Sean Connery

Sean Connery took the part opposite Miles O'Keeffe's Gawain, in director Stephen Weeks's second attempt at filming the poem after a 1973 version.

Q 02/05

Which fantasy novelist co-edited a 1925 scholarly edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

A) J.R.R. Tolkien

B) C.S. Lewis

C) T.H. White

D) Kenneth Grahame

Answer · why

A) J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien prepared the medieval text with E. V. Gordon, and his own verse translation followed in 1975, after his death.

Q 03/05

Which British actor plays Gawain opposite Ralph Ineson in the 2021 film The Green Knight?

A) Riz Ahmed

B) John Boyega

C) Daniel Kaluuya

D) Dev Patel

Answer · why

D) Dev Patel

Dev Patel plays Gawain as a young man setting out to test his courage, in a film that David Lowery wrote, directed, produced and edited.

Q 04/05

In the Green Knight's bargain with Gawain, the return blow falls due after which stretch of time?

A) Seven full years

B) A year and a day

C) Forty days and nights

D) A single fortnight

Answer · why

B) A year and a day

A year and a day carries the tale round to the next New Year's Day, so the whole story opens and closes in the dead of winter.

Q 05/05

Which sorceress, seen as an aged lady at the castle, devised the Green Knight's test of Gawain?

A) Queen Morgause

B) The Lady of the Lake

C) Morgan le Fay

D) Queen Igraine

Answer · why

C) Morgan le Fay

Morgan le Fay learned her arts from Merlin, the Green Knight says, and she enchanted the lord of the castle to test the pride of the Round Table.