Characters
The best friend of the protagonist. He hates wasting time.
Who is Tock?
A marketplace where words are sold that is ruled by King Azaz.
What is Dictionopolis?
The genre of The Phantom Tollbooth.
What is Fantasy?
"It's bad enough wasting time without killing it"
Who is Tock?
DAILY DOUBLE:
According to the Lethargarians, it is unlawful, illegal and unethical to do this in The Doldrums.
What is thinking?
The King of Digitopolis.
Who is Mathemagician?
DAILY DOUBLE:
The name of the of fantasy kingdom that Milo travels to via the Phantom Tollbooth.
What is the Kingdom of Wisdom?
When the demons are cutting down the staircase to the castle in the air, this is an example of an internal or external conflict?
"Perhaps I can be of some assistance...a-s-s-i-s-t-a-n-c-e."
Who is the Spelling Bee?
When Milo returns from his journey, he realizes he has only been gone this amount of time.
What is one hour?
The two princesses who kept order in the land of Wisdom.
Who are Rhyme and Reason?
An imaginary land where people become depressed and lazy.
What is The Doldrums?
When Milo is defeating the demons of ignorance, he is where on the Hero's Quest Plot map?
The Challenges
"Everyone knows that words are more important than numbers any day of the week."
Who is King Azaz?
This is the one sense that the Sense Taker cannot take.
What is a Sense of Humor?
DAILY DOUBLE:
Milo meets this female character in prison.
Who is Faintly Macabre?
The name of the island Milo jumps to in the Sea of Knowledge.
What is Conclusions?
The point in the story where Milo, Tock, and Humbug escape the demons and rescue Rhyme and Reason from Castle in the Air.
What is the climax?
"A seven is a seven anywhere in the world."
Who is the Mathemagician?
The Terrible Trivium gives Milo this tool to use in order to move a pile of sand.
What is a pair of tweezers?
In Dictionopolis, this character works as a police officer, judge, and jailer at the same time.
Who is Officer Shrift?
The name of the fantasy land that includes all of the towns, boroughs and municipalities comprising the Kingdom of Wisdom.
What is The Lands Beyond?
DAILY DOUBLE:
The point in the story when Milo realizes that he doesn't need to travel to the Lands Beyond to feel fulfilled; life is full of interesting things to see and do.
What is the resolution?
"I have no shape of my own, so I try to be just like whatever I'm near. In the mountains I'm a lofty peak, on the beach a broad sand bar, in the forest a towering oak, and sometimes in the city I'm a very handsome twelve-story apartment house."
Who is the Gelatinous Giant?
This person is the author of The Phantom Tollboooth.
Who is Norton Juster?