1. “On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvres, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkey bewitched to a dark gold.” Who is about to partake of this feast?

   1. The Bennet sisters

   2. Anna Karenina and Vronsky

   3. The March sisters

   4. Jay Gatsby and friends

2. Who cannot stand the idea of a feast of “Who-Pudding, and rare Who-roast beast”?

   1. Scrooge

   2. The White Witch

   3. The Grinch

   4. Gollum

3. What do Sara Crewe, Ermengarde and Becky feast on in A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, after Sara has endured months on starvation rations thanks to evil headmistress Miss Minchin?

   1. Thick-cut sandwiches, cold roast chicken, jumbles, apples, pears, dear little biscuits and hot, strong tea

   2. Cake, little meat-pies, jam-tarts, buns, oranges, red-currant wine, figs and chocolate

   3. Sardines and ginger cake

   4. Fish and chips

4. What is the disguised Odysseus served by his own swineherd on his return to Ithaca?

   1. Pork on a spit and wine

   2. Fish roasted in the embers of the fire

   3. Hard bread and cheese

   4. Pomegranates

5. “When that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh, sweet friends! hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up into little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt.” From which novel is this feast taken?

   1. The Lord of the Rings

   2. Oliver Twist

   3. Moby-Dick

   4. The Old Man and the Sea

6. A “triumph ... it was rich; it was tender. It was perfectly cooked.” What does Mrs Ramsay serve up in To the Lighthouse, to praise from Mr Bankes?

   1. Boeuf en daube

   2. Coq au vin

   3. Irish stew

   4. Boeuf bourgignon

7. What does the Very Hungry Caterpillar NOT feast on, in Eric Carle’s picture book?

   1. An apple

   2. Salami

   3. A potato

   4. A green leaf

8. “Coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwiches-pottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater” is in whose wicker luncheon basket?

   1. Ratty’s

   2. Jeeves’

   3. George’s (Georgina by rights)

   4. Harry Potter’s

9. What is the name of the little boy in Roald Dahl’s Matilda who is forced to eat an entire chocolate cake by Miss Trunchbull?

   1. Bruno Bumblebonger

   2. Bruce Bogtrotter

   3. Stephen Sweedlepipe

   4. Harold Honeythunder

10. From which children’s book is the following feast taken from? “Bulrush and water-shrimp soup provided by the otters; a large flagon of Skipper’s famous hot root punch; hazelnut truffle; blackberry apple crumble; baked sweet chestnuts; honeyed toffee pears; and maple tree cordial, a joint effort by hedgehogs and squirrels.”

    1. CS Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

    2. JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

    3. Brian Jacques’ Mossflower

    4. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

Solutions

1:D, 2:C, 3:B, 4:A, 5:C, 6:A, 7:C, 8:A, 9:B, 10:C

Scores

1. 2 and above.

   Congealing

2. 5 and above.

   Going cold

3. 8 and above.

   Wholesome and filling

4. 10 and above.

   Tasty!