This article is more than 9 years oldThe Brothers Grimm – a fairytale quizThis article is more than 9 years oldTwo hundred years ago, the celebrated siblings published the second volume of their gigantic collection of fairytales. See if you can find a happy ending to these questions1.The first volume of the Grimms' tales contained 84 stories. How many were added in volume two?99908070Reveal2.What was the original title for the brothers' collection?A Golden TreasuryChildren’s and Household Tales Tales of Wonder and ImaginationGo the F**k to SleepReveal3.In The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, seven little goats are eaten by the big bad villain. How does the story end?The kids tickle the wolf's insides until he coughs them up, and with their mother's help they cook him for a magnificent dinnerTheir father returns and kicks the wolf so hard that one by one the children pop out of his mouthThe wolf falls asleep from overeating, allowing mother goat to cut his belly open, release the unharmed youngsters and replace them with rocksThe wolf remembers his own brothers and sisters being eaten by a bigger, badder wolf and is so stricken with remorse that he cuts open his own belly to release the little onesReveal4.Which of these is NOT the title of a Grimms' fairytale?The Pig and the ButcherThe Crystal Ball Maid MaleenThe Boots of Buffalo LeatherReveal5.The unlikely friendship in Cat and Mouse in Partnership goes sour after the mouse discovers the cat has eaten all the fat they were saving for winter. The cat then eats the mouse and the story ends with the words …“Cats and mice should never be partners”“Cats are not as sweet as they look”"And that is the way of the world"“And everybody else lived happily ever after”Reveal6.What was the Grimms' alternate title for The Frog Prince?The Princess's KissIron HeinrichThe Enchanted Lily PadA Hop Too HighReveal7.Which character familiar from retellings of the Cinderella story is absent from the Grimms' version?The fairy godmother The wicked stepmotherThe stepsistersThe prince Reveal8.What is the Queen's eventual punishment for her attempts to have Snow White killed?She is forced to wear red-hot iron shoes, and to dance until she drops deadShe is shrunk to half the size of the seven dwarves and becomes their servantA spell confines her to live inside the enchanted mirror Snow White kills and eats her Reveal9.Who wrote that the Grimms' fairytales were “among the few indispendable, common-property books upon which western culture can be founded"?TS EliotHarold BloomWH AudenMichael GoveReveal10.Fairytales were far from the brothers' only interest. Jacob formulated what is known as Grimm's Law. What is this?A popular guide for parents laying down rules for effective disciplineA philological classification of sound-changes in the history of Germanic languagesA mathematical theory of calculating perfect numbersThe explanation for why stories should always begin with the words “once upon a time”RevealExplore more on these topicsCultureFictionFairytalesquizzesShareReuse this content