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Discworld Quiz!

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    #362
    HemmingSay
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭HemmingSay


    9 out of 10 times.

    Q:In "Moving Pictures" what did the alchemists call their equivalent of popcorn.


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    #363
    BossArky
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,494 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    A: Banged Corn

    Q: Apart from the Death of Rats (SQUEAK!) which other personification of Death was not reabsorbed following Reaper Man? This is not the Raven by the way.


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    #364
    KamikazeBananze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭KamikazeBananze


    A: Death of Fleas.

    Q: In Thud!, what is the symbol for a mine, and what is it's name?


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    #365
    mel_sto_helit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭mel_sto_helit


    A: A circle with a horizontal bar across it. It is called "The Long Dark".

    Q: In The Fifth Elephant what is the name of the wolf that Angua travels to Uberwald with?


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    #366
    KamikazeBananze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭KamikazeBananze


    Hmmm... not Bum...

    A: Gavin.

    Glad I now own every single Watch book.

    Q: In Eric, who grants Eric's wishes?


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    #367
    soulcakeduck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭soulcakeduck


    rincewind. but it was supposed to be duke vassenego.

    who allegedly died by choking to death on a concubine?


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    #368
    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    Vincent the ripper.

    what learning disability did miss. Flitworth's cockrel suffer from?


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    #369
    gweedo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭gweedo


    Dyslexia.

    In Pyramids, what was used to cap the old king's Pyramid?


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    #370
    don.juanito
    Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭don.juanito


    electrum capstone

    What is a'tuns patience compared to in soul music?


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    #371
    darthculain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭darthculain


    Looks like you really stumped everyone there. And wasn't the comparison in the Light Fantastic?


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    #372
    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    yeah im pretty sure a'tuin isnt actually mentioned at all in soul music..

    but if it WAS the light fantastic you were thinking of..

    claims it to be as patient as a brick.

    ill leave it to you guys to decide if I get to ask a question or not


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    #373
    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    yeah ill take that as permission.

    which book begins:

    "The Morris dance is common to all inhabited worlds in the multiverse. It is danced under blue skies to celebrate the quickening of the soil and under bare stars because it's springtime and with any luck the carbon dioxide will unfreeze again."


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    #374
    Star Lord
    Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Reaper Man.

    What profession does Lord Vetineri start out in?


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    #375
    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    assasin

    what is the luggage made from?


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    #376
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,836 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    sapient pearwood

    [edit] oops jumped the gun - just have to wait to see if mawk was right


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    #377
    funky penguin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    Twas Assassin alright.

    Q. Not-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But.....?


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    #378
    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    funky penguin wrote:

    Q. Not-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But.....?

    Not as big as medium sized Jock but bigger than wee Jock Jock


    how does rincewind describe priests to twoflower in the light fantastic?


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    #379
    fiona_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭fiona_bob


    I don't think this is it but when twoflower asks why they're sacrificing someone Rincewind suggests that they're keen on killing


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    #380
    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    close but whats the simile he uses?


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    #381
    Kazobel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭Kazobel


    BossArky wrote:
    A: Banged Corn

    It's actually Banged grain :D

    Which singer is imp y celyn suppose to be a parody of and how do we know? there's actually references to 2 different singers in relation to him so if you can name the other one too (saying how it's referenced ) you get a bonus point :D


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    #382
    Jack Sheehan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭Jack Sheehan


    Buddy Holly

    Imp=bud y Ceyln=holly

    What does Eureka! mean in Ephepian?


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    #383
    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    means "get me a towel!"

    or something pretty close..

    what are movies called on the disc? adn where are they made?


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    #384
    kittex
    Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭kittex


    Moving Pictures, made in Holy Wood.

    Whose tooth was knocked out to trap the tooth fairy in Hogfather?


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    #385
    Jack Sheehan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭Jack Sheehan


    Banjo's! (or Reginald Lillywhite if you're precise)

    What is constable Visit's Full name? (bonus points for his friends name)


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    #386
    gweedo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭gweedo


    Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets Which is a mouthful to say in the morporkian language, but is much easier in the omnian language. His friend's name is Smite-the-unbeliever-with-cunning-arguements.
    Where will i collect my cheque?


    QUESTION:

    What did Moist Von Lipwig nick from Drumknott when leaving Vetinari's office?


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    #387
    Jack Sheehan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭Jack Sheehan


    His pencil.....Twice.
    Heres a tricky one, in the new novel 'Making Money' what is the name of the stamp forger?


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    #388
    gweedo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭gweedo


    Owlswick Jenkins was his real name. He had a new name given to him . . .

    *Thinks*

    Igor gave it to him . . .

    *thinks some more*


    Clamp!


    *thinks more again*


    starts with an E . . . .


    ah SOD IT


    *Googles*


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    #389
    Quondam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Quondam


    Exorbit i believe. But what's Vimes' badge number?


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    #390
    funky penguin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    177 Iirc?


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    #391
    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    yeah its 177, and since FP didnt ask a question, i guess ill keep the thread rolling.

    given the choice of fighting anyone, who would an Ogg rather fight?


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