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How Well Do You Remember Enid Blyton Books?

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6.00pm, 4 Mar 2017
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1. Pick the made-up Famous Five book title.
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Five Have Plenty Of Fun
Five Get Into A Fix

Five Go To Pirate's Cove
Five Go Off In A Caravan
2. Which of these characters is NOT an inhabitant of the Faraway Tree?
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Dame Washalot
The Great Green Grasshopper

Silky the fairy
Mr Watzizname
3. True or false: Enid Blyton created Noddy.
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True
False
4. The Famous Five's names are...
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Julian, Fanny, George, Timmy, Jo
Dick, Anne, George, Julian, Timmy

Peter, Dick, Pam, Anne, Scamper
Jack, Janet, Julian, Susie, Binky
5. In the Malory Towers series, what were the four dormitories named after?
The four points of the compass
The four seasons

The four suits in a deck of playing cards
6. Blyton wrote three books about which magical piece of furniture?
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The Invisible Cabinet
The Enchanted Wardrobe

The Flying Bed
The Wishing Chair
7. True or false: The phrase "lashings of ginger beer" is associated with Enid Blyton, but never actually appeared in any of her books.
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True
False
8. Which sport was very popular at St Clare's?
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Tennis
Lacrosse

Hockey
Handball
9. In the modern revisions of the Faraway Tree books, Dame Slap is called what?
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Dame Snap
Dame Clap

Dame Scrap
Dame Strap
10. And finally, how many books did Enid Blyton write in her lifetime?
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803
762

59
154
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