What is the Scouring of the Shire?

The hobbits freeing the Shire from Saruman's control

The Shire Quiz: Hobbiton, Bag End and Hobbit Country

The Shire quiz wanders the lanes of hobbit country, from Bag End to the Brandywine River. Play an interactive set of 10 questions on Hobbiton, Bilbo and Frodo's hole, the Four Farthings, Bywater's Green Dragon inn, Buckland, pipe-weed, the Gaffer, the Sackville-Bagginses, Tookland and the Scouring of the Shire.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Author
Who created the Shire?
Home
What is Bilbo's home called?
Village
Which village lies beside Bag End?
Parts
How is the Shire divided?
Inn
Which inn do hobbits visit in Bywater?
River
Which river forms the Shire's eastern edge?
Weed
What do many hobbits famously smoke?
Relatives
Which relatives covet Bag End?
Gaffer
Who is the Gaffer?
Scouring
What is the Scouring of the Shire?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who created the Shire?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
It appears in The Hobbit.
Q2: What is Bilbo's home called?
Answer: Bag End
It is a hobbit hole under the Hill.
Q3: Which village lies beside Bag End?
Answer: Hobbiton
It is in the heart of the Shire.
Q4: How is the Shire divided?
Answer: Into Four Farthings
Each is a quarter.
Q5: Which inn do hobbits visit in Bywater?
Answer: The Green Dragon
Sam talks about Ents there.
Q6: Which river forms the Shire's eastern edge?
Answer: Brandywine
Buckland lies beyond it.
Q7: What do many hobbits famously smoke?
Answer: Pipe-weed
Longbottom Leaf is a well-known kind.
Q8: Which relatives covet Bag End?
Answer: The Sackville-Bagginses
Lobelia is the most famous.
Q9: Who is the Gaffer?
Answer: Sam's father, a gardener
His name is Hamfast Gamgee.
Q10: What is the Scouring of the Shire?
Answer: The hobbits freeing the Shire from Saruman's control
It happens near the end.

The Shire Quiz – Hobbiton, Bag End and Hobbit Country

In J.R.R. Tolkien's books, the Shire is the green, peaceful homeland of the hobbits. Bilbo and later Frodo live at Bag End, a comfortable hobbit hole under the Hill above Hobbiton.

The Shire is divided into Four Farthings, with the Brandywine River on its eastern edge and Buckland just beyond. Hobbits gather at the Green Dragon inn in Bywater and enjoy pipe-weed such as Longbottom Leaf.

Sam's father, the Gaffer, tends the gardens, and the Sackville-Bagginses long to own Bag End. At the end of The Lord of the Rings, the hobbits return to free the Shire from Saruman in the Scouring of the Shire.

What This Quiz Teaches

Tolkien fans will enjoy these questions.

Who created the Shire
Where hobbits live
Which places are famous
Who the neighbors are
What happens at the end

Did You Know?

Hobbits love second breakfast.
The Party Tree stood in a field near Bag End.
Michel Delving is home to the Shire's mayor.
Tookland is the home of Bilbo's adventurous relatives.
The Shire was inspired partly by rural England.