Q 01/05

'Erin Hunter', the credited author of Warriors, is what?

A) A retired veterinarian

B) A pseudonym of J. K. Rowling

C) A Scottish schoolteacher

D) A pen name for a team of writers

Answer · why

D) A pen name for a team of writers

The team, working with HarperCollins and the packager Working Partners, includes Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Victoria Holmes and Tui Sutherland. Holmes...

Q 02/05

The surname 'Hunter' was picked partly so the books would shelve next to which other animal fantasy series?

A) Watership Down

B) The Animals of Farthing Wood

C) Redwall

D) Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Answer · why

C) Redwall

Brian Jacques's mouse-abbey saga was the obvious comparison.

Q 03/05

Which member of the Erin Hunter team creates the plot of every Warriors book before the others write it?

A) Kate Cary

B) Victoria Holmes

C) Cherith Baldry

D) Tui Sutherland

Answer · why

B) Victoria Holmes

HarperCollins asked her in 2001 to come up with a fantasy about cats, a subject she was not especially interested in until she found themes she cared ...

Q 04/05

Who wrote the first two Warriors novels, Into the Wild and Fire and Ice?

A) Victoria Holmes

B) Kate Cary

C) Cherith Baldry

D) Tui Sutherland

Answer · why

B) Kate Cary

Cary and Baldry alternated books through the early arcs, with Sutherland joining later.

Q 05/05

In which year was Into the Wild, the first Warriors book, published?

A) 1999

B) 2003

C) 2006

D) 2010

Answer · why

B) 2003

HarperCollins released it in January 2003. By 2014 the series had spent 119 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.