QUIZ: How Much Do You Know About "Born Free"? – Petful

A conservationist, artist AND journalist.

A conservationist.

A journalist.

An artist.

A concert pianist.

Collaborated on a number of books.

Established a game refuge in Kenya.

Worked with cheetahs and leopards as well as with lions.

Raised Elsa and her littermates after their mother was killed.

Raised Elsa and eventually released her back into the wild. (The other 2 cubs were sent to the Rotterdam Zoo.)

An idealized portrait of their work with wildlife in Kenya.

Based entirely on Joy Adamson’s notes and observations.

Drawn heavily from George’s journals. (He did not receive any income from the books until many years later.)

A loving collaborative effort between the couple.

Partly fictionalized. There were really several “Elsas.”

“Elsa and Her Cubs” and “The Searching Spirit.”

“Forever Free” and “My Pride and Joy.”

“Living Free” and “Forever Free.”

“Living Free,” “Forever Free” and “Pippa’s Challenge.”

“Living Free,” “Forever Free” and “Queen of Shaba.”

“Pride” and “Into the Lion’s Den.”

“Living Free” and “Secondhand Lions.”

“To Walk With Lions” and “Christian the Lion.”

“Living Free” and “The Last Lions.”

“Living Free” and “The Lions Are Free.”

Simply an experiment in wildlife rehabilitation.

The first of many lions they would work with during their marriage.

The catalyst for their becoming conservationists and working to restore the wildlife in the Kora Reserve in Kenya.

A one-off or happenstance lion.

In many ways, the child they’d never had. After Elsa died, they more or less went their separate ways but never divorced.