Quiz! Maddening March Stories

Curious Quiz, March 2025

The answers to the questions below require knowledge across a range of stories so prepare to be challenged. Keep an eye out for something that connects all of the answers, it might help you to fill in some of the rest.

Scroll down for the answers and let me know in the comments how you did.

Questions

1. A seven year old Donnie Dunagan was the original voice of which Disney title character in 1942?

2. A translation of which 1926 children’s story, set in a fictional wood, became the only book in Latin to ever feature on the New York Times Best Seller list?

3. Which children’s book, published in 1902, was responsible for the first ever licensed character to be made into a stuffed toy?

4. In which video game series would you find bandaged nurses, Pyramid Head, and a haunted New England town?

5. Which animated series began in 1930 with a title inspired by Disney’s ‘Silly Symphonies?’

6. Which mythological sequence of animals was decided by their rankings in a race across a river?

7. Which collection of African American folktales was collected and adapted by a white writer, Joel Chandler Harris, in 1881?

8. Which 1972 novel takes its name from a natural beauty spot near Kingsclere in Hampshire?

9. In which film would you find the Knights Who Say "Ni!" and Tim the Enchanter?

10. In which film does a vision of ‘Frank’ tell the protagonist when the world is going to end?

Answers

1. Bambi.

2. Winnie-the-Pooh.

3. The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

4. Silent Hill.

5. Looney Tunes.

6. The Chinese Zodiac.

7. The Uncle Remus stories.

8. Watership Down.

9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

10. Donnie Darko.

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