Q 01/05

What do the Swiss Family Robinson join together to make a boat and leave the wreck?

A) Cabin doors

B) Wooden tubs

C) Sea chests

D) Hatch covers

Answer · why

B) Wooden tubs

Wooden tubs, eight of them, came from four big casks the father sawed in half. Young Jack had the idea, having sailed in a tub round the pond at home.

Q 02/05

In The Swiss Family Robinson, what do the monkeys hurl down when the father throws stones up at them?

A) Mangoes

B) Bananas

C) Breadfruit

D) Coconuts

Answer · why

D) Coconuts

Coconuts rained down because monkeys copy whatever they see, a trick the father used to stop Fritz shooting one of the animals out of annoyance.

Q 03/05

Which giant snake swallows Grizzle, the family's donkey, whole in The Swiss Family Robinson?

A) A boa constrictor

B) A reticulated python

C) An anaconda

D) A king cobra

Answer · why

A) A boa constrictor

A boa constrictor spent a whole morning swallowing the donkey, then lay too bloated to move, which gave the father and Fritz their chance to shoot it.

Q 04/05

Which 1960s TV series recast the Swiss Family Robinson as colonists stranded far from Earth?

A) Star Trek

B) Doctor Who

C) Lost in Space

D) The Outer Limits

Answer · why

C) Lost in Space

Lost in Space ran on CBS from 1965 and gave its castaways the surname Robinson. A comic called Space Family Robinson had tried the idea three years ea...

Q 05/05

When a British ship finally finds the Swiss Family Robinson, what do the parents choose to do?

A) Sail home to Europe

B) Move on to Australia

C) Stay on the island

D) Build a larger ship

Answer · why

C) Stay on the island

The parents stay on the island they have spent ten years turning into a home, while some of their sons sail away with the ship.