Quiz: Magic Faraway Tree or Whomping Willow?

Which children’s book begins with the line: “A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood”? Photograph: Liam Grant/Stocksy United

1. Who lives in Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree?

   1. Pie Face and You Know Who

   2. Moon Face and Mister Watzisname

   3. Slapped Face and Cheeks the cat

   4. Julian, Dick, George, Ann and Timmy the dog

2. In her 1970 song Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell alerted us to the environmental horrors of the town planners who “paved paradise to put up a parking lot”. They took all the trees, but where did they put ‘em?

   1. In a tree museum

   2. Into a wood chipper

   3. Into heavy industry

   4. In flatpack furniture

3. In Disney’s Pocahontas, what song does Grandmother Willow sing?

   1. Listen With Your Bark

   2. Listen With Your Heart

   3. Fake Plastic Trees

   4. Coconut Tree

4. Who drove a car into the Whomping Willow?

   1. Ron ‘Revs’ Weasley and Harry ‘Hot Wheels’ Potter

   2. Max from Where The Wild Things Are

   3. Ben and Holly

   4. Roland Rat

5. Which is the most accurate description of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree?

   1. Luscious and bushy

   2. Small and sparse

   3. Tall and strong

   4. Like something out of Hamleys

6. Whose face in a tree surprises Steve Carell in Get Smart?

   1. Donald Trump

   2. Tina Fey

   3. Ricky Gervais

   4. Bill Murray

7. Which children’s book begins with the line: “A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood”?

   1. Stuart Little by E B White

   2. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

   3. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

   4. The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

8. How many trees did the Stereophonics sing about in their 1997 hit?

   1. A Billion Trees

   2. A Million Trees

   3. A Thousand Trees

   4. A Hundred Trees

9. Which of these famous trees from science fiction/fantasy can’t speak?

   1. Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy

   2. The evil apple trees from Wizard of Oz

   3. The Ewok Treehouse from Star Wars

   4. Treebeard from Lord of the Rings

10. Which tree-themed Hollywood star also voiced Voyd in Incredibles 2?

    1. Sophia Bush, AKA Brooke Davis from One Tree Hill

    2. Brad Pitt, aka Mr O’Brien from The Tree of Life

    3. Emily Watson, aka Yvonne Carmichael from Apple Tree Yard

    4. Matthew McConaughey, aka Arthur Brennan from The Sea of Trees

Solutions

1:B - Moon Face used to hang out in the Enchanted Wood with Joe, Bessie and Fanny, but recently the awkward F-name has been swapped for “Franny” in the new edition of Blyton’s classic., 2:A - Legend has it that Mitchell wrote Big Yellow Taxi about Hawaii, and the “tree museum” she sang of is Foster Botanical Garden., 3:B - Featuring backing vocals by the voice of the wind, Grandmother Willow’s song confirms her status as Pocahontas’s spiritual advisor., 4:A - Joyriding a Flying Ford Anglia into the Whomping Willow wasn’t the greatest start to the new term at Hogwarts, was it? Especially when the tree in question is prone to violence under attack., 5:B - The legendary 1965 animation A Charlie Brown Christmas, based on the comic strip Peanuts, sees Charlie protesting against the commercialisation of 25 December. Searching for the true meaning of Christmas, Charlie decorates the most forlorn fir he can find., 6:D - “I get it. Who wants to talk to a guy in a tree?” wails Bill Murray, playing Agent 13. , 7:D - The story of a mouse walking through a European forest without getting eaten has sold 13.7m copies worldwide, been adapted for the West End stage and even become an Oscar-nominated film.  , 8:C - Did you know that “it only takes one tree to make a thousand matches”, but it “only takes one match to burn a thousand trees”? The Stereophonics learnt that from the back of a box of England’s Glory matches., 9:C - The Ewoks get all the best lines in Star Wars, but every other famous tree has a signature catchphrase. “I am Groot” is a classic from Guardians of the Galaxy. The evil apple trees scold Dorothy with, “How'd you like it if someone came along and tried to pick something off of you?" in The Wizard of Oz. Then Treebeard goes deep: “The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.”, 10:A - Bush! Double botanical points. The teen drama was set in the fictional town of Tree Hill in North Carolina, which appeared small and sleepy, but transpired to be a hotbed of good-looking people dating other pretty yet inappropriate people.

Scores

1. 10 and above.

   Tree-mendous! You are wiser than the mighty oak.

2. 7 and above.

   Branch out a little more and you could reach the sky.

3. 0 and above.

   You're a mere sapling when it comes to knowing your trees.

4. 4 and above.

   You could do with sprucing up your tree knowledge.

Yorkshire Tea and trees
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