robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(3/13/03 5:04 pm) Reply
Course 101: DW trivia
I'm going away for a week this weekend, so here's something for you to mull over in the meantime.
All the subjects mentioned were covered in the lecture course which occured in room 3b, so you have no excuse for not knowing the answers.
1. Who runs the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons? and where is it situated?
2. Which of these is not a world bearing elephant: Great T'Phon,Tubal, Berilia, Cubal, Jerakeen. and what is he?
3. How many children does Nanny Ogg have? and how many are named in the DW novels?
4. What was the resograph? and what is its real world equivalent?
5. Which one of these is not a translation of a genuine motto:
a)Now you see it, now you don't
b) To protect and serve (or should that be Make my day, Punk?)
c) Now that's magic
d) No killing without Payment
e) No [cough] loving without payment
f) Just like That
g) Whip it Quick
h) How much is that doggy in the window?
i) I say, I say, I say
Who do the others belong to?
6. What is the Liber Paginarum Fulvarum? and who borrowed it?
7. What does Y M R-C-I-G-B-S A stand for? where do we see these initials?
8. Which of Greebo's eyes is missing? what colour is the other one?
9. Explain why Constable Visit and his fellow modern Omnians really buggers up the DW time line.
10. who trained Granny Weatherwax? how long did it take?
There are a variety of points available for each question. Bonus points may be awarded for depth of knowledge above and beyond the call of duty.
There are no trick questions. But some of the questions may be tricky.
Enjoy, or not as the case may be.
rob, who's going skiing, for the first time. Please don't tell me to break my leg
Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons is run by lady Sybil Ramkin, in various outhouses of what I think of as Vimes's place. On the map, its one of two places labelled "here be dragons"
damn, its too long since I read the fifth elephant.. I'm assuming the extra one is now being mined for its fat.
Jason, Our Ron, scores of daughters-in-law, though, so there must be others
Resograph: lit. "thingness-writer" used in Moving Pictures to sense the huge disturbance in reality at Holy Wood. Its real-world equivalent was an ancient metallic pot with dragons-heads around the edge, facing outwards, with balls in their mouths. It was used to measure earthquakes, I think.
I'd like to see the person who could actually use *how much is that doggy in the window*
Now you see it, now you don't has to be alchemists
To Protect and to Serve would be the Watch
Now that's magic: The UU
No Killing without payment: Assassins
Just like that: Guild of Conjurors
Whip it Quick: The Thieves
I say, I say, I say: Unsure
The liber sounds like something Eric might borrow, but I'm sure it wasn't
The Young Men's Reformed Culturalists of the Ichor god Bel-shamharoth Association. We see it in hogfather, in an interesting scene involving the oh God of Hangovers and Susan.
Left, yellow.
Constable Visit and co. were around far before Small Gods came out, yet they rely heavily on the events which take place in that book. Eg. the symbol of the Omnians being the turtle which their Prophet Brutha the Chosen One was tortured upon.
Granny Weatherwax... I recall her being a young(ish) girl in the beginning of Lords and Ladies, but can't remember her trainer. sorry. If it was Black Aliss, I'll kick myself, but I think it was someone less sinister.
By the way Rob: Skiing is fun. Believe me, I've been doing it since I was 2 years old. Snowboarders are evil incarnate, cos they flatten moguls. My favourite slope just happens to be in the same place as they filmed mordor. Go figure, NZ.
The Broken Drum
I'm a freak, an aggrivation. It seems I made the right decision.
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(4/3/03 3:45 pm) Reply
Re: Course 101: DW trivia
Well, I'm back... actually I've been back a week but [insert excuse here].
You may or may not be pleased to know that I'm still in one piece, if a little bruised.
That was a valiant attempt by TBD... is anyone else going to have a go at at any additions/corrections, or shall I give you the answers now.
BTW 'how much is that doggy in the window' /is/ a genuine motto
rob, who wishes he was still on holiday
squirel52 Out of mind, be back... sometime
(6/6/03 12:20 am) Reply
Re: Course 101: DW trivia
i remember that granny camped herself on the front doorstep of ne of the local witches, and wouldn't move until she was trained... damned good thing too, can u imagine her as a non-witch, with all this pent up magical frustration..:P
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This little pig went to Hades
This little pig stayed home
This little pig ate raw and steaming human flesh
This little piggy violated virgins
And this little pig clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(6/7/03 4:39 pm) Reply
Re: Course 101: DW trivia
hmm, I suppose, for completeness's sake I should include some answers... well, lets see if I can remember them.
1. Rosie Devant-Molei, it is on Morphic Street.... I spotted this in G!G! and did a mental double take, but its true.
2. Cubal is a Djelibeibean god of cutlery.
3. Nanny Ogg has 15 kids, and all of them are mentioned by name. Terry has said, somewhere he mentioned that she had 15 kids, but he had just been naming them randomly and not keeping count. By the time someone counted their names he had named exactly 15... lucky, eh?
4. Resograph: yup, a pretty good answer elsewhere... I'll only add that the roundworld equivalent was... chinese (or maybe japanese)
5.a) The UU, and the crest incidently looks pretty like my old uni, Oxford
b) Fabricati Diem, Punc: the watch motto... translated by colon as 'to protect and serve' but...
c) Conjurers guild
d) Assasins
e) 'seamstresses' and allied traders (or whatever the guild is called)
f) this i made up, but is, of course the catchphase of a certain be-fezed magician
g) Thieves
h) 'Quanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra' One of A-M's two mottos.. devised by King Ludwig the Tree... (the other is 'pure in mind and water', devised by a comittee.
i) 'Dico, Dico, Dico' the Fools
6. 'The book of Yellow pages' is mentioned in one of the dedications, Neil Gaiman has it
7. yup, The young mens.... among over places its on Alberts Bath towel
8. His left eye is yellow
9. well... basically the logic goes something like this:
Visit is clearly not the sme kind of Omnian who was arround at the start of Brutha's career, a sensible suggestion would be that Visit is an omnian around the time of bruthas Death, so the major part of SG takes place 100 years Before Present.
So, 100 years ago brutha visited Ephebe, and met certain philosophers.
But, Tepic met some of the same philosophers in Pyramids, he also met Dr. Cruces in the assassins guild, and Cruces is present in the modern Watch books.
So we have these philosophers existing now, and 100 years ago.
As Susan says in ToT 'either ephebian philosophers inherit their names, or some one stitched a hundred years of Omnian history where it shouldn't have been'
10. Nanny Gripes. It took a week /and/ she had the afternoons off.
Rob, who only had to look up one of those answers, when answering the questions, but thats only beacause he had already looked them up when setting the questions
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