Q 01/05

Who created Tarzan?

A) Rudyard Kipling

B) H. Rider Haggard

C) Jack London

D) Edgar Rice Burroughs

Answer · why

D) Edgar Rice Burroughs

Burroughs also created John Carter of Mars, and at his death was thought to have earned more from films than any other writer.

Q 02/05

In the language of the great apes, what does the name 'Tarzan' mean?

A) White skin

B) Tree lord

C) Silent hunter

D) No mother

Answer · why

A) White skin

Burroughs built a partial ape vocabulary for the books; 'Tarmangani' is the apes' word for white humans in general.

Q 03/05

What is the name of the she-ape who adopts and raises the infant Tarzan?

A) Teeka

B) Kala

C) Mumga

D) Momaya

Answer · why

B) Kala

In the novel she has just lost her own baby, dropped from a treetop while she fled the ape king.

Q 04/05

Which Los Angeles neighborhood sits on Burroughs's former ranch and is named after Tarzan?

A) Encino

B) Reseda

C) Tarzana

D) Woodland Hills

Answer · why

C) Tarzana

Burroughs bought the ranch in 1919 and is buried there.

Q 05/05

What is the name of Tarzan's chimpanzee sidekick in the classic Hollywood films?

A) Bonzo

B) Cheeta

C) Jiggs

D) Boko

Answer · why

B) Cheeta

No chimpanzee appears in Burroughs's novels at all; the character was invented for the movies.