1. “Double, double, toil and trouble; / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” What, amongst other things, do Shakespeare’s trio of witches cast into their cauldron as they chant?

   1. Cat’s whiskers and beetles’ wings

   2. Frog’s toe and dog’s tongue

   3. Toad spawn and fox urine

   4. Balsamic vinegar and goat's cheese

2. What kind of bait does CS Lewis's White Witch use to lure Edmund when he first enters Narnia?

   1. Turkish delight

   2. Humbugs

   3. Crack cocaine

   4. Fox's Glacier Mints

3. Mildred Hubble is the worst witch at Mrs Cackle's Academy for Witches. But who's the teacher's pet?

   1. Winifred Wallow

   2. Betty Callow

   3. Drusilla Mallow

   4. Ethel Hallow

4. In Roald Dahl's The Witches, the Grand High Witch plans to turn children into what?

   1. Mice

   2. Corgis

   3. Frogs

   4. Giant peaches

5. Who are the direct literary ancestors of Terry Pratchett's trio of witches, the Wyrd Sisters?

   1. Chekhov's Three Sisters

   2. The real life female siblings of the Redgrave family

   3. The three witches in Macbeth

   4. Sister Sledge

6. What spell does the sea witch, in Hans Christian Anderson’s Little Mermaid, cast on the mermaid?

   1. She gives her jewels in exchange for her fins

   2. She gives her legs in exchange for her voice

   3. She makes her prince fall passionately in love with a walrus

   4. She gives her tricks, in exchange for treats

7. What name does Gregory Maguire give the formerly unnamed Wicked Witch of the West in his recent novel Wicked, about the life of L Frank Baum’s invention?

   1. Belinda the Bad

   2. Hecuba Deville

   3. Elphaba Thropp

   4. Tiffany Aching

8. What does Sycorax, the witch mother of Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, do to Ariel?

   1. She plagues him with warts

   2. She traps him in a pine tree

   3. She condemns him to an eternity wandering the earth

   4. She curses him to always tell the truth, but never be believed

9. “I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” Who makes this witchy threat?

   1. Abigail Williams in The Crucible

   2. Madam Malkin in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

   3. The Grand High Witch in The Witches

   4. Russell Brand in My Booky Wook

10. Who illustrated the iconic Meg and Mog series of children’s books about the witch her cat?

    1. Posy Simmonds

    2. Axel Scheffler

    3. Jan Pienkowski

    4. Quentin Blake

11. What do John Updike’s trio of witches do to their rival in The Witches of Eastwick?

    1. Give her cancer

    2. Marry her to Philip Roth

    3. Trap her in a picture

    4. Strand her in Texas

12. Whose series of fantasy books features a witch called Rhea of the Coos?

    1. Stephen King

    2. JRR Tolkien

    3. JK Rowling

    4. CS Lewis

13. What do witches fly on in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials sequence?

    1. Geese

    2. Mops

    3. Cloud-pine branches

    4. EasyJet

Solutions

1:B, 2:A, 3:D, 4:A, 5:C, 6:B, 7:C, 8:B, 9:A, 10:C, 11:A, 12:A, 13:C

Scores

1. 4 and above.

   Oh dear. You have the supernatural abilities of Paul Daniels. No, actually, more like Debbie McGee

2. 8 and above.

   Not bad, but you’re not really <I>flying</I> yet, are you? Time to get your broom serviced

3. 10 and above.

   Really quite good, but a few bits left out - did you remember to add baboon’s blood to your cauldron?

4. 13 and above.

   Abracadabra, your powers are strong! We will have to burn you