Hobbit Quiz!

[650lb Sumo]

(1) When was The Hobbit first published?
(2) Who is the Main Protagonist?
(3) How many dwarves are there in the company he joins, and who is their leader? (Not Gandalf) (Two Marks)
(4) What is the Main Protagonist's role in the Company?
(5) What is the Company's plan? (Two Marks)

(6) What is the main factor pressing them for time? (Two Marks)
(7) How many times are the Company (usually without Gandalf) captured or trapped, and by whom?
(8) The Main Protagonist finds/takes/steals six main items. What are they? (Six Marks)
(9) What is the Main Protagonist's 'first payment of his reward'?
(10) What event does the Main Protagonist's return home disrupt, and who is in charge of it? (Two Marks)

Spoiler

(1) 1937
(2) Bilbo Baggins
(3) 13 - Thorin Oakenshield
(4) Burglar (half a mark for 'thief')
(5) To reclaim their ancestral Kingdom Under The Mountain from the dragon Smaug

(6) Entering Lonely Mountain by the main entrance would likely get them noticed and killed by Smaug. There is a secret entrance, but its door can only be seen and opened when illuminated by the last sunlight on Durin's Day.
(7) Six: by the Trolls in the wilderness, by the Goblins in their caves, by the Goblins and Wargs, when they chase them down and trap them up trees (the only time Gandalf is also trapped), by the Giant Spiders in Mirkwood, by the Wood-Elves in their prison in Mirkwood, and by Smaug and then the Lakemen and Wood-Elves in the Kingdom Under The Mountain. If you count Smaug, and the Lakemen and Wood-Elves as separate traps and said 'seven' you can count that as correct. (Seven Marks)
(8) The key to the Trolls' cave, Sting, the One Ring, the prison keys, a great, two-handled [golden] cup, and the Arkenstone
(9) The mithril coat of mail (as well as a belt and helmet)
(10) Grubb, Grubb and Burrowes are auctioning the contents of Bilbo's home.

The pass mark is 12/25. How did you do?

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I've read the book least 3x and I only got 9.

 

[TheNinja]

I got 5.5 - It was one of my favorite books in middle school too. It's been so long though.

 

[Tone C]

19/22 . Acceptable.

Didn't know the year and missed one of the times trapped .

One of my 5 desert island books this would be

I'd also argue that their mission was to regain the stolen treasure...

 

[Spam On Rye]

Legit just finished rereading all of Tolkien and only got half of these right. The main themes and Tolkien's cosmology stuck with me but basic plot points are already blurry. MY memory is shit.

 

[ChickenBrother]

9/22

Read half the book years ago when I was about 12. But I remember the shit out of the kid's record storybook version that I played about 700 times as a kid. Alas that version glosses over most of the details of this quiz

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

(1) When was The Hobbit first published? - I thought it was prior to WW2? 1937?
(2) Who is the Main Protagonist? Bilbo Baggins
(3) How many dwarves are there in the company he joins, and who is their leader? (Not Gandalf) (Two Marks) kiwi, killi, idk....Thorin oakanshield?
(4) What is the Main Protagonist's role in the Company? He was the "burgler"
(5) What is the Company's plan? (Two Marks) To burglurize the mountain guarded by Smaug the dragon?

(6) What is the main factor pressing them for time? (Two Marks)
(7) How many times are the Company (usually without Gandalf) captured or trapped, and by whom? The trolls, the elves, I don't fully remember
(8) The Main Protagonist finds/takes/steals three main items. What are they? (Three Marks) Sting, the one ring, and a chest of gold
(9) What is the Main Protagonist's 'first payment of his reward'? a chest of gold?
(10) What event does the Main Protagonist's return home disrupt, and who is in charge of it? (Two Marks) I don't remember, a party maybe?

 

[650lb Sumo]

(8) The Main Protagonist finds/takes/steals three main items. What are they? (Three Marks) Sting, the one ring, and a chest of gold

Good point. I have read the book, but a long time ago. I've watched the films much more recently, and they do contradict the book here. In the film it's Gandalf who finds Sting, but in the book you would probably say it's Bilbo, and the cave also has a door, to which he finds the key:

They searched about, and soon found the marks of trolls’ stony boots going away through the trees. They followed the tracks up the hill, until hidden by bushes they came on a big door of stone leading to a cave. But they could not open it, not though they all pushed while Gandalf tried various incantations.“Would this be any good?” asked Bilbo, when they were getting tired and angry. “I found it on the ground where the trolls had their fight.” He held out a largish key, though no doubt William had thought it very small and secret. It must have fallen out of his pocket, very luckily, before he was turned to stone.“Why on earth didn’t you mention it before?” they cried. Gandalf grabbed it and fitted it into the keyhole. Then the stone door swung back with one big push, and they all went inside. There were bones on the floor and a nasty smell was in the air; but there was a good deal of food jumbled carelessly on shelves and on the ground, among an untidy litter of plunder, of all sorts from brass buttons to pots full of gold coins standing in a corner. There were lots of clothes, too, hanging on the walls—too small for trolls, I am afraid they belonged to victims—and among them were several swords of various makes, shapes, and sizes. Two caught their eyes particularly, because of their beautiful scabbards and jewelled hilts. Gandalf and Thorin each took one of these; and Bilbo took a knife in a leather sheath. It would have made only a tiny pocket-knife for a troll, but it was as good as a short sword for the hobbit

I've changed the scoring for that question, but left the pass mark as it is.

Edit: If we're including the key to the cave we should include the prison keys, so I've added those too.