Roald Dahl was born more than 100 years ago. His life was as dramatic and tragic as any of his stories – a life in which he played many parts during his 74 years. Many of those events turned up in the books we loved to read when we were children and then read to our own children. Happy birthday, Mr Dahl.
We’ve also just turned our best quizzes into a book that you can keep! Take our quizzes home, or purchase it as a gift for a friend.
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In what part of the UK was Dahl born in?
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Scotland
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Wales
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Which country did his parents come from?
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Norway
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Finland
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In which branch of the Armed Forces did Dahl serve during World War 2?
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The RAF
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The Navy
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At which private school was he educated for 5 miserable years of cruelty and physical violence?
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Repton
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Eton
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Which chocolate company sent boxes of new varieties to the school to be tested out by the pupils?
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Cadbury’s
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Fry’s
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What was the career of Dahl’s first wife, Patricia?
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An actress
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A doctor
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The BFG is dedicated to Dahl’s daughter who died from measles at 7 years old. What was her name?
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Olivia
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Sophie
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Which county did Dahl makes his home in 1954?
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Buckinghamshire
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Surrey
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Dahl’s first major children’s novel was published in 1961, which one was it?
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James and the Giant Peach
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Which Dahl story features a tortoise called Alfie who brings two lonely people together?
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Esio Trot
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The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me
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What was the title of Dahl’s dark, macabre short stories published in 1979?
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Tales of the Unexpected
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Someone Like You
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For which classic children’s film did Dahl write the screenplay?
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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Mary Poppins
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For which Sean Connery Bond film did Dahl write the screenplay in 1967?
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You Only Live Twice
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From Russia with Love
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Which of Dahl’s novels sends a strong anti hunting message featuring the Gregg family who get turned into the animals they hunt?
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The Magic Finger
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Fantastic Mr Fox
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Which Dahl novel features Boggis, Bunce and Bean?
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Fantastic Mr Fox
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The BFG
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In George’s Marvellous Medicine, which revolting relative of George’s is the medicine designed for?
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His Grandma
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His Great Aunt
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Revolting Rhymes features poems based on fairy tales. Which tale did Dahl not turn into a Revolting Rhyme?
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Rapunzel
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Snow White
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In his 1983 poetry collection, Dirty Beasts, which Beast springs wings and becomes a celebrity?
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The Cow
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The Pig
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Which novel begins, ‘What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays.’
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The Twits
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Danny Champion of the World
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Which novel ends, ‘…he thought it would be nice if one day he sat down and wrote it as a book. So he did. And that is what you have just finished reading.’
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James and the Giant Peach
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The BFG
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Question of
What is the name of the first part of Dahl’s autobiography?
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Boy
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Some Time Never
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Which of Dahl’s heroines attends the dreadful Crunchem Hall Primary School?
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Matilda
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Sophie
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Charlie’s grandparents are Joe/Josephine and…?
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George/Georgina
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Henry/Henrietta
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, how many Golden Tickets are issued?
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Five
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Six
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Question of
Where did Dahl write many of his stories?
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In a shed at the bottom of his garden
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In a public library
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