Tuesday 16th May 2023
Difficulty: Hard
Moomins (Quiz #179)
Moomin toys. Photo: Helsingin kaupunginmuseo (Creative Commons)
The Moomins are a family of white, round fairy-tale characters with large snouts, who appeared in a series of novels, short stories, and a comic strip by Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson.
1. In which year were the Moomins introduced to British readers in the form of a daily comic strip?
2. The Moomin family and their friends live in Moomin Valley, a beautiful land where the only ambition is to “live in peace, plant potatoes and...”...WHAT?
3. Tove Jansson drew every comic strip herself. After five years of this, what did she say about the Moomins?
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