Fairy Tale Characters

Based on the clues, name these characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

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First submitted	February 13, 2013
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Clue

Character

Owner of a glass slipper

Cinderella

Gretel's brother

Hansel

Duck that is actually a swan

Ugly Duckling

Strangely-named imp who can spin straw into gold

Rumpelstiltskin

Egg who "had a great fall"

Humpty Dumpty

Her hair becomes a prince's ladder

Rapunzel

Traded a cow for magic beans

Jack

She eats a poisoned apple, but is revived by a prince's kiss

Snow White

Turns a pumpkin into a carriage, among other exploits

Fairy Godmother

Little Red Riding Hood's enemy

Big Bad Wolf

Princess who sleeps for a hundred years

Sleeping Beauty

Sticky waterfowl owned by Simpleton

Golden Goose

Cunning cat who becomes a French bigwig

Puss in Boots

Cookie comes to life and proves difficult to catch

Gingerbread Man

Amphibian who transforms when kissed

Frog Prince

Two of their three houses are blown down

Three Little Pigs

Stock character who is the object of female fantasies

Prince Charming

Leads the rats and town children away

Pied Piper

Loses her flippers for a prince's love

Little Mermaid

American man who falls asleep for twenty years

Rip Van Winkle

Level 23

Feb 13, 2013

Please accept 'Rapunsel'! Great quiz, I say that the more I think about Shrek, the more answers I get :D!

Level 65

Sep 23, 2019

and Raputa the Buta!

Level 68

Aug 12, 2020

yea shrek got me thinking puss in boots was mexican or sum

Level 69

Feb 13, 2013

You should accept the characters real names as well. For example Ariel for Little Mermaid.

Level 60

Feb 13, 2013

Agreed

+13

Level 46

Feb 13, 2013

Well, those aren't exactly the characters' "real" names, just their Disney names.

Level ∞

Feb 13, 2013

Okay, I'll accept those as well.

Level 26

Feb 13, 2013

I got them all except Golden Goose. Darn. :(

+10

Level 46

Oct 14, 2015

Me too.... a sticky waterfowl? How is the goose sticky?

Level 58

Nov 24, 2016

If I remember my Classics Juniors correctly, the simpleton is carrying the goose and anyone who touches it, gets stuck to it, as if magnetized. But I don't know why.

Level 66

Jun 26, 2022

One version is:

Simpleton did something nice to an old man, where his brothers didn't. He received the gold goose afterwards. Various people wanted a feather, but got stuck. The strange parade made a princess, who never smiled, laugh uncontrollably. King had the princess wed the simpleton.

Level 25

Feb 16, 2013

Humpty Dumpty isn't necessarily an egg. It never specifies.

Level 28

Nov 7, 2018

Yes, but most people have seen him portrayed as an egg, and that is how he is typically portrayed, even though it doesn't really specify. So most people typically think of Humpty Dumpty as an egg.

Level 83

Jul 28, 2020

Correct. nowhere in the rhyme does it say he's an egg. also I'm very surprised rip van winkle is so low with so many US quizzers.

Level 85

Jan 8, 2022

I'm sure someone thought he was a very good egg.

Level 76

Dec 10, 2023

The rhyme itself doesn't specify, no, but it's generally agreed by folklorists that the rhyme started its life as a riddle to which "an egg" was the answer, and that's the meaning that's been assigned to it for most of the rhyme's recorded history.

Level 80

Jun 15, 2013

Please accept frog for frog prince. I tried bullfrog, toad, princess and the frog, etc.

Level 17

Apr 1, 2014

I agree! I tried "frog" and "princess and the frog", I didn't get it.

Level 28

Nov 7, 2018

The question specifically says, and I quote, "Amphibian who transforms when kissed" not, "What is the name of the story when a girl kisses a frog and he becomes a prince" where the answer would be The Princess and the Frog, but it specifies it being the "amphibian who transforms when kissed" so it has to be frog prince. Sorry to be nit picky but I just can't help it.

Level ∞

Jul 2, 2015

Okay

Level 44

Jan 30, 2014

I put "princess" for "Stock character who is the object of female fantasies" since the stereotype is little girls wanting to be a princess. Just read the clue wrong I guess.

Level 45

Nov 26, 2017

I put the same at first!

Level 57

Mar 27, 2014

The fairy tale never says Humpty Dumpty was an egg.

Level 75

Sep 1, 2015

It developed into a riddle and so it wouldn't give the answer in the rhyme. My old Mother Goose book includes Humpty Dumpty as a riddle and answers "egg" after the rhyme.

Level 77

May 22, 2014

Couldn't think of Prince Charming. Went with Prince Valiant. Duh.

Level 55

Dec 12, 2014

You should accept "Melvin" for the little mermaid because I think she should be called Melvin.

Level 75

Sep 1, 2015

Would you accept Melvina?

Level 46

Jul 13, 2020

ahazhashshshshshsksaakakak

Level 89

Jun 26, 2022

You should also accept Bob for Rumpelstiltskin because I don't feel like typing that again.

Level 75

Mar 3, 2015

I was sure I'd ace this one, but you got me with Simpleton. Great quiz.

Level 58

Sep 1, 2015

FYI, never in the nursery rhyme does it state that Humpty Dumpty is an egg :)

Level 69

Sep 1, 2015

I got stuck on Rip Van Winkle but got it at the last second when I remembered the Flintstones episode where Fred fell asleep for 40 years (he was dreaming)! Great Quiz!!

Level 66

Dec 7, 2017

I remembered an episode of Family Matters where Carl sleeps through his house being burglarized, and one of the other officers nicknames him Rip Van Winslow.

Level 43

Sep 1, 2015

The five year old inside me is cheering that twelve years later, her older self has not let her down. 90%

Level 39

Sep 1, 2015

Hi - nice quiz, but why specifically Prince Charming? I tried Handsome Prince, Prince, etc., and none would work. A lot of these fairy tales don't use Prince Charming", just a prince or handsome prince.

Level 58

Sep 26, 2017

Oh my, someone who has never seen Shrek!

Level 66

Dec 7, 2017

Or read Fables!

Level 10

Sep 19, 2016

You should accept the Princess and the Frog, after the Disney movie came out, nobody says "The Frog Prince."

Level 76

Jan 4, 2018

But it's asking specifically for the character. The character is not "The Princess and the Frog."

Level 78

Jun 28, 2022

And, of note, it accepts 'frog'.

Level 66

Dec 7, 2017

Now I have the Green Jelly song about the three little pigs stuck in my head. Thanks a lot!

Level 28

Nov 7, 2018

I don't think it should be "Stock character who is the object of female fantasies", because who is going to get that? Maybe you should say something like "Prince who is the hero in stories such as Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" I know that's kind of long, but who would get "stock character who is the object of female fantasies

Level 76

Feb 13, 2019

"because who is going to get that?"

I'd say about 53% of people.

Level 67

Sep 23, 2019

Which to behonest, is weirdly low, because Im pretty sure most recognize the answer. Not saying that it needs to be changed though. Sometimes having to figure stuff out a bit is not a bad thing (though not my favorite clue. Never ever has been my fantasy... ugh, I never wanted to be a princess or get a a prince charming, I'd rescue myself thank you very much, not gonna wait and sit pretty because of being to scared to brake a nail or whatever. I'd slay the dragon myself, well actually I wont I like dragons. That would be a fantasy which resonate more with me, taming the dragon and then flying away with it (Pre all the tv hype show about dragons) )

Level 79

Jul 31, 2022

So you want them to give half the answer away with "prince"? It's a perfectly good clue, you just didn't know it!

Level 43

Jul 2, 2020

I'd never heard of Rip Van Winkle before now. Looks like a US tale. Good quiz though.

Level 65

Jul 16, 2021

You should accept "Little pigs" for three little pigs. It says three houses were blown down, three is implied

Level 37

Jun 26, 2022

could you please accept "rumpelstilzchen"? this is the german spelling that i grew up with

Level 67

Jun 26, 2022

Humpty Dumpty is actually a cannon.

Level 76

Dec 10, 2023

This claim was first made in 1996, with no supporting evidence, and after at least 150 years of Humpty being recognized as an egg.

Level 64

Jun 26, 2022

Misread Little Red Riding Hood as "Robin Hood" and kept wondering why Sheriff of Nottingham wasn't accepted

Level 81

Jun 26, 2022

Disney doesn't own these characters. They use them because they're in the public domain as folktales. The Grimm brothers collected a lot of them; Hans Christian Anderson is responsible for many others; and a lot of the others are English nursery rhymes.

Level 79

Jun 27, 2022

Should accept Briar Rose for Seeping Beauty.

Level 76

Jan 2, 2024

Seeping Beauty being a close friend of Pus in Boots?

Level 66

Jun 27, 2022

Rip Van Winkle seems to be a US-centric question, never heard of it in the UK. Other than that, good quiz

Level 48

Jun 28, 2022

Agreed, that one completely stumped me. I got all the others because they felt like they were more widespread

Level 78

Jun 28, 2022

Nearly all of these are from European fairy tales, even if they are now well known... you can't complain that there is one American one among the bunch.

Level 77

Jun 27, 2022

Could you please accept "Kolobok" for the Gingerbread Man?

Level 78

Jun 28, 2022

I should have gotten Prince Charming.. but can you consider accepting 'Knight in Shining Armor'? It definitely fits the bill.

Level 49

Jul 11, 2023

"Stock character who is the object of female fantasies" i may or may not have guessed shrek

Level 80

Dec 24, 2023

Argh! I tried Peter Piper.

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