Season 30, Day 16 - "Trivia 101"
It's Smith week, and today's quiz is inspired by Dodie Smith.
Dodie Smith
Dodie Smith was an English novelist and playwright. Smith’s classic children’s novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians was inspired by a friend’s remark about her Dalmatians: “Those dogs would make a lovely fur coat.” Originally serialized in Woman’s Day magazine as The Great Dog Robbery, The Hundred and One Dalmatians is about a kidnapping of a family of Dalmatian puppies. Pongo, one of the canine protagonists of the novel, was named for Smith’s first pet Dalmatian. Smith also wrote a bizarre sci-fi sequel to The Hundred and One Dalmatians titled The Starlight Barking, but it was not used for any of the sequels to the various Disney film adaptations. Smith’s other works include I Capture the Castle, which was voted as one of the U.K.’s 100 best-loved novels as part of a massive BBC survey called “The Big Read.”