Fairy Tale Trivia

As children, many of us read fairy tales or had them read to us. I have a powerful interest in myths and legends of this sort, which led me to write a novel based on a fairy tale, which led me to create this quiz.

Are you a fairy tale expert? How much fairy tale trivia can you remember? Especially when we are talking about the Grimms versions of the fairy tales and not the Disney ones that softened up the rough edges of the often scary and gruesome old stories. Enjoy!

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1. Rumpelstiltskin -- Gotta love a story about a rotten little man who gets his comeuppance. The spinning-wheel deficient heroine who called Rumpy for help was the daughter of a:
butcher
squire
miller
rock star
2. The Twelve Dancing Princesses -- Hm, I hear that was rewritten into an AWESOME book! In the land below in the Grimms version, there are three forests the princesses travel through to reach the palace of much disco. There were a forest of silver, a forest of gold, and a forest of:
diamonds
platinum
whatever is inside Wolverine
pine trees
3. The Three Spinning Fairies -- More spinning? Man. If the king does not kill you for your bad spinning, the spinning wheel itself might put you to sleep for a hundred years. Anyway, in this fairy tale, the three spinning fairies who came to rescue this hapless maiden had some deformations. One had a flat foot, one had a giant thumb, and one had:
really great hair
a large bottom lip
very sharp teeth
extremely wide shoulders
4. King Thrushbeard -- One of my favorite all-time fairy tales! In this story, how to the hero and the heroine hook up?
He is cursed to be a bird until a princess kisses him
He meets her at a ball being held in his honor so he can remarry after his first wife died
On a reality crystal ball show when she and nineteen other princesses vie for his affections
Her dad gets pissed at her and gives her away to a beggar at the gate, who is Thrushy in disguise
5. Cinderella -- A lot has been written about the many, many versions of Cinderella. In the Grimms version, what happened to the wicked stepsisters at the end of the story?
They each got their own fairy tale with princes from a secret society who could turn into wolves
The stepmother, in her great disappointment over how the whole Cinderella thing turned out, sold them into slavery
They were locked into spiked barrels and rolled through the streets of town
Their eyes were pecked out by the white doves who had served the role of fairy godmother
6. The Fisherman and His Wife -- What kind of fish was the fisherman calling upon to shower riches and fame upon his greedy wife?
cod
flounder
Jaws
whale
7. The Goose Girl -- The unfortunate heroine of this story received advice from a very unusual source. What was it?
a small iron stove in the corner of the kitchen
a magpie
a decapitated horse head
Dr. Phil
8. Snow White and Rose Red -- These two gals had an interesting winter, what with the bear and the evil dwarf. Which one of them married to the bear once his curse was lifted?
Snow White
Rose Red
When they chopped the bear in half, as requested, he turned into two princes, one for each of them
Neither of them -- they took the money from the evil dwarf and opened a day spa
9. The Six Swans -- The silent sister who rescued her brothers from the swan curse by weaving six shirts of aster flowers still managed to get on the bad side of her new stepmother. What did the stepmother attempt to accuse the heroine of?
theft
cannibalism
witchcraft
insider trading
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves -- As I am sure you can guess, the Grimms version bears little resemblance to the Disney version. In this one, how did the queen trick Snow White into eating the apple?
She said it would bring her all the wisdom of the universe
She said the dwarves had sent her to deliver Snow White a sack lunch
She asked Snow White to sing and stuck it in her mouth when she hit the high note of Livin La Vida Loca
She cut it in half, giving Snow White the red half with the poison and biting into the white half without the poison
11. BONUS QUESTION 13! The Blue Light -- In this lesser known story, the King fired an old soldier who had his revenge with the help of a little man summoned by smoking a pipe lit by a magic blue light. Which of the following did he have his genie prototype do?
Build him a palace that was even grander than the palace of the King and equip it with furniture made of ivory and precious metals
Create a mountain of glass and hide the magic blue light at the very top so no one could ever steal it
Give him the power to turn everything he touched into gold
Dress the soldier in a suit of princely clothing so he could get into the royal ball
Kidnap the princess and force her to perform menial tasks like clean the house and polish his boots
Rescue his two brothers from their enslavement at the hands of an evil sorcerer

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