Roald Dahls Writings

#3 Week 1

Sigrun Sørumgård
January 03, 2025

What was the name of Roald Dahls first published children’s book?
What was the first name of Danny´s father in the book Danny, the champion of the world?
Fantastic Mr. Fox was adapted into a stop-motion animated film by Wes Anderson. Which actor voiced Mr. Fox?
Who illustrated 18 of Roald Dahls books, as Matilda, The Witches and George's Marvelous Medicine?
What does The BFG stand for, a title of one of Roald Dahls books?
What´s the name of the young protagonist of the story (the BFG), a sweet 8-year-old girl?
What is the name of Roald Dahls autobiography?
The last book published in Roald Dahls lifetime was Esio Trot, but in what year was it published?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 children's musical fantasy film, which Roald Dahl co-wrote the screenplay for together with Ken Huges. It´s based on the novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car. Who wrote that?
In which book do we meet the character Augustus Gloop?

Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales to affluent Norwegian immigrant parents.
He served as a Hurricane fighter pilot in WWII.
Roald Dahl would only ever write his books in pencil and on yellow colored paper and has invented more than 500 new words in his stories

Nepal
Senegal
Dragon
The Dannebrog is the national flag of Denmark and is considered the oldest continuously used national flag in the world.
There are only two countries with square flags. They are Switzerland and Vatican City.
Vexillology
The first Commonwealth country to drop the Union Flag was Canada in 1965, but the most recent country was South Africa in 1994.
Poland
They all feature weapons. Belize features two axes (though axes might not be counted as weapons?); Guatemala has two crossed rifles and two crossed swords; Mozambique an AK47 rifle; and Saudi Arabia a sabre.
France. The royal white flag was used during the Bourbon restoration from 1815 to 1830.