AWFULLY BIG BLOG ADVENTURE'S NEW YEAR 2021 QUIZ by Penny Dolan

 

It's the first of January 2021 and the beginning of a new year. Let's hope it will be better for many than the one that came before.

Right now, a post about New Year Resolutions or Inspirational Goals doesn't seem to fit my mood, so here - instead - is the Awfully Big Blog Adventure New Year Quiz instead. 

Appropriately, the twelve questions are about Beginnings found in well-known Children's Books. I wonder which ones you'll recognise?

Are you ready? Found a pen and a scrap of paper? Or shout them aloud over your mince pie, along with "Easy Peasy." And you don't need to fill in any deletions. Steady? Go! With no Googling either!

Wishing you Good Luck!  

And even more Good Luck and Better Times for the year ahead too.  

(nb Answers can be found below the second set of New Year Bells)

1. The Sun did not shine, it was too wet to play so we sat in the house on that cold, cold wet day.

2.  In a hole in the ground there lived a _____________

 

3. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of  The Adventures of ______ __________ but that ain't no matter.

4. One sunny Sunday the caterpillar hatched out of a tiny egg.

5.  It was Mrs May who first told me about them.

6 . There was a hand in the darkness and it held a knife.

7.  "Where's Papa going with that ax?"

8.  Mrs _________'s Academy for  Witches stood at the top of a high mountain surrounded by pine forests.

 

9.  When ________ _______  was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever.

10. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it.

11. It was a dark and blustery afternoon in Spring and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried out bed of the old North Sea.

 

12. The first place I can well remember was a large, pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.

 

That's it! Well done, probably, and hooray!  

And every good wish for your year ahead.

(With Impressive Resolutions or Without.)

Penny Dolan

@pennydolan1

 

 

 

 

Hello Again. Here's the Answers!

1 The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss

2 The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien

3 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

4 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

5 The Borrowers by Mary Norton

6 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

7 Charlotte's Web by E.B.White

8 The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy

9 The Secret Garden by F. Hodgson Burnett

10 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S.Lewis

11 Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

12 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell