After the pigs have taken control In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the Seven Commandments on the wall of the big barn are replaced with only one. But what is it?
ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL
ALL ANIMALS MUST BE PROPERLY INITIATED INTO THE DINING CLUB
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW BUT SOME ANIMALS MAKE THE LAW
One of the most cherished fictional pigs, PG Wodehouse’s Empress of Blandings, is cared for by a squint-eyed pigman fond of a drink. What’s his name?
Wellbeloved
Truelove
Loveheart
Cameron
“Where’s Papa going with that axe?’ asks Fern at the opening of EB White’s classic, Charlotte’s Web. But what does he need it for?
To cut down an apple tree
To make a kennel for Wilbur to live in
To destroy a collection of Supertramp LPs
To kill a baby pig
On hearing of a talking pig, which pillar of the Enlightenment declared pigs to be “a race unjustly calumniated. Pig has, it seems, not been wanting to man, but man to pig”?
Benjamin Franklin
Voltaire
David Cameron
Samuel Johnson
How does Farmer Hogget acquire Babe, the sheep-pig, in Dick King-Smith’s novel?
He wins him in a game of poker at a drug-fuelled dinner party
He rescues him from certain death at the hands of an axe-wielding pig farmer
He finds him in a country lane
He wins him in a competition at the village fair
When Pooh and Piglet decide to trap a Heffalump in AA Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, what do they decide to use as bait in their trap?
Cannabis
Cake
Haycorns
Honey
King Eurystheus sends Heracles to catch the Erymanthian boar – but what kind of trouble had this piggy monster been causing?
Slashing welfare and giving tax breaks to millionaires
Eating the children of Erymanthian nobles
Destroying Erymanthian crops with its fiery breath
Terrorising farmers on the slopes of Mount Erymanthos
After the storm in King Lear, which character does Cordelia lament has spent the night hovelled “with swine … In short and musty straw”?
The prime minister
Edgar
Gloucester
Lear
When the boys kill a pig in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, they cut off its head and put it on stick. But why?
As an initiation ritual into the gang of hunters
To cook it over an open fire
As a friend for Simon to talk to
For an offering to the beast of the island
Ted Hughes opens View of a Pig with a pig stretched out on a barrow. But how much do they say it weighs?
as much as David Cameron before he went on a low-carb diet
300 pounds
100 kg
as much as three men
