1. How many fried eggs does the BFG eat at the royal breakfast?

   1. None – the BFG is famously a vegan

   2. Two dozen

   3. Just three, not wanting to be rude

   4. All of them – the chef sends his apologies to the Queen to say there are none left

2. According to Rudyard Kipling's narrator in Captains Courageous, after which of the following do 'most people and all boys demand food'?

   1. Wild brawling

   2. Violent emotion

   3. Extreme discomfort

   4. A corrective beating

3. When Winston and Syme are served by the 'white-aproned prole' in the Ministry of Truth canteen, what's on the menu?

   1. Stew, bread, cheese, Victory Coffee and a saccharine tablet

   2. Thin gruel with a side of stale bread and cold beef

   3. Bread, tripe and onions, hot chicory and a curly wurly

   4. Watery vegetable soup, bread, ham and a small pot of honey

4. According to Amy in Little Women, if one girl likes another, what does she give her?

   1. A segment of orange

   2. Two raisins

   3. A freshly picked apple

   4. A lime

5. How long will a few bites of Elven Lembas bread keep a body full in the Lord of the Rings?

   1. A whole day's march

   2. A week

   3. Depends how long you chew it for

   4. Till the next full moon

6. In To the Lighthouse, Marthe serves up a dish with an 'exquisite scent of olives and oil and juice', a 'confusion of savoury brown and yellow meats'. What is it?

   1. Beef and dumpling stew

   2. Chicken and bacon casserole

   3. Beauf en Daube

   4. Lamb Bhuna

7. When Rabbit asks Pooh if he wants honey or condensed milk with his bread, what does Pooh reply?

   1. He asks Rabbit to put both into a triple-decker sandwich

   2. He only wants the honey

   3. He asks for both, but then, so as not to seem greedy, asks Rabbit not to worry about the bread

   4. He asks Rabbit for a bowl of each in which he can dip his bread – like eating soup

8. In The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, what does the White Witch's enchanted Turkish Delight actually do?

   1. Give the victim an insatiable appetite for more Turkish Delight

   2. Force the victim to only tell the truth

   3. Poison the victim

   4. Require the victim to set off for Istanbul. A deliberately impossible destination from Narnia

9. How large is the prize turkey Scrooge buys on Christmas morning?

   1. As big as the boy he sends to fetch it

   2. One hundred pounds

   3. As fat as the Lord Mayor

   4. Four times the size of Tiny Tim

10. According to the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, what kind of food is eaten tomorrow, yesterday, but never today?

    1. Cheese

    2. Bovril

    3. Jam

    4. Gravy

Solutions

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

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   A performance so scrappy you couldn't make soup from it.

2. 6 and above.

   Getting there, but you'd better have some second helpings from the library.

3. 10 and above.

   A delicious performance. You have a truly enormous appetite for reading.