Emoji Quiz

🦁👑 Which animated film do these emoji spell out?

• The Lion King
• The Jungle Book
• Madagascar
• King Kong

Answer: The Lion King. The Lion King (1994) follows the lion cub Simba, who must return to claim his place as king of the Pride Lands.

🚢🧊💔 Which blockbuster film is this?

• Life of Pi
• Titanic
• Jaws
• Waterworld

Answer: Titanic. Titanic (1997) is a love story set aboard the liner that struck an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912.

❄️👸⛄ Which Disney film do these emoji point to?

• Tangled
• Moana
• Frozen
• Brave

Answer: Frozen. Frozen (2013) stars Elsa, a queen with icy powers, her sister Anna and Olaf, a talking snowman.

🌧️🐱🐶 Which English idiom is this?

• Let the cat out of the bag
• Every dog has its day
• Fighting like cats and dogs
• It's raining cats and dogs

Answer: It's raining cats and dogs. "It's raining cats and dogs" means it is raining very heavily. The rain emoji is the giveaway.

🗽🍎 Which city is famously nicknamed by these emoji?

• New York
• Los Angeles
• Chicago
• Boston

Answer: New York. New York is "the Big Apple", and the Statue of Liberty stands in its harbour.

🔔🔔🛷❄️ Which Christmas song is this?

• Silent Night
• Jingle Bells
• Deck the Halls
• Let It Snow

Answer: Jingle Bells. Jingle Bells, by James Lord Pierpont, was first published in 1857 under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh".

🏠👦✈️🎄 Which Christmas film is this emoji clue?

• Elf
• The Polar Express
• Home Alone
• The Grinch

Answer: Home Alone. In Home Alone (1990), eight-year-old Kevin is accidentally left behind when his family flies to Paris for Christmas.

🚢🐘🦒🌧️ Which Bible story do these emoji tell?

• Jonah and the Whale
• The Tower of Babel
• Moses and the Red Sea
• Noah's Ark

Answer: Noah's Ark. In Genesis, Noah builds an ark for his family and pairs of animals before rain falls for forty days and forty nights.

🧒🪨🎯👹 Which Bible story is this?

• David and Goliath
• Samson and Delilah
• Daniel in the Lions' Den
• Cain and Abel

Answer: David and Goliath. In 1 Samuel 17, the young shepherd David defeats the giant Goliath with a sling and a single stone.

🍫🏭🎫 Which children's book is this?

• Matilda
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• The BFG
• James and the Giant Peach

Answer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In Roald Dahl's 1964 novel, Charlie Bucket finds a Golden Ticket to tour Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

🐘🛋️🤫 Which phrase do these emoji spell out?

• An elephant never forgets
• A white elephant
• The elephant in the room
• Sweep it under the rug

Answer: The elephant in the room. "The elephant in the room" is an obvious problem that everyone notices but nobody wants to talk about.

👴🌊🐟 Which classic novel is this?

• Moby-Dick
• Treasure Island
• Robinson Crusoe
• The Old Man and the Sea

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella about an old fisherman's battle with a giant marlin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953.

⏰🍊 A tricky one: which novel and film title is this?

• A Clockwork Orange
• Orange Is the New Black
• The Time Machine
• Run Lola Run

Answer: A Clockwork Orange. A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel, filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.

🌹🌹⚔️👑 Which historical event do these emoji describe?

• The Hundred Years' War
• The Wars of the Roses
• The Battle of Hastings
• The Glorious Revolution

Answer: The Wars of the Roses. The Wars of the Roses (from 1455, with the decisive battle at Bosworth in 1485) were fought for the English throne between the houses of Lancaster (red rose) and York (white rose).

🐺💵🏙️ Which film is this? Hint: think finance, not forests.

• Dances with Wolves
• The Big Short
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Margin Call

Answer: The Wolf of Wall Street. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), directed by Martin Scorsese, tells the story of stockbroker Jordan Belfort.