Roald Dahl 100 Kids Activity Worksheet Page 18
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27R O ALD D A H L 10 0
GO B B LE F U N K Q UI Z
Roald Dahl is well known for his use of inventive language and the words he made up.
We call it GOBBLEFUNK, after the BFG’s instruction to Sophie: ‘Don’t gobblefunk around
with words.’ Test your knowledge of Gobblefunk with our phizz-whizzing quiz!
1
If you feel _________, you are confused
5
What is being described here?
or puzzled. You feel as if your brain is
‘A knobbly vegetable like an enormous
reeling from a punch and is as muddled
cucumber with black-and-white stripes that
as a squiggly piece of doodling. What is
grows in Giant Country. They taste disgusting
the missing word?
but they are all the BFG has to eat, as he refuses
A.
extra-usual
to hunt human beans like other giants.’
B.
mideous
A.
snozzcumber
B.
nibbleswicke
C.
biffsquiggled
C.
puddlenut
2
What is the name of the green fizzy drink
that the BFG and other giants drink
6
What are the people called that work in
instead of water?
Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory in exchange
A.
frobscottle
for chocolate? They love music and dancing
B.
langwitch
and often make up songs to sing.
A.
Nishnobblers
C.
zozimus
B.
Oompa-Loompas
3
What is Gobblefunk for ’a young human
C.
Plushnuggets
bean, not yet a grown-up’?
A.
pigwinkle
7
Which Gobblefunk word means
B.
natterbox
‘delicious’ or ‘very tasty’?
A.
luctuous
C.
chiddler
B.
uckyslush
4
What word did Roald Dahl invent to mean
C.
delumptious
‘cheerful’? For example, the BFG says
‘a few gollops of frobscottle is always
8
A _________ is a sea-creature like an octopus,
but with four tentacles rather than eight. All of
making me _________again.’
its tentacles are needed to make Wonka-Vite.
A.
hopscotchy
What is the missing creature called?
B.
cockles
A.
poddle
C.
catasterous
B.
quadropus
C.
bobolink
LESSON IDEA!
WANT TO FIND OUT MORE? Look up more fantabulous definitions in the
Oxford Roald Dahl
Dictionary! This is an extra-usual dictionary that will inspire
a lifelong love of reading, writing and languages. Brought to you by the
children’s dictionary experts at Oxford University Press.
Can you make up your own
GOBBLEFUNK WORD
just like Roald Dahl did?
Ask your class to stitch bits and pieces of their favourite words together to create
new and magical meanings. Can they come up with a story featuring their word?
Tell the world about your PHIZZ-WHIZZING
ROALD DAHL 100 party using:
UU#RoaldDahl100 @Roald_Dahl
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