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Terry Pratchett's 'The Fifth Elephant'

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Terry Pratchetts The Fifth Elephant game quiz
"One of my favourite "Discworld" books with a romantic passage between Carrot and Angua that brings tears to my eyes. Enjoy the quiz."

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1. What's the name of the Imp who is in Ankh-Morpork's first speed camera, being erected by Sergeant Colon on one end of Brass Bridge, at the beginning of the book?
    Wee Mad Arthur
    Daft Wullie
    Rob Anybody
    Rodney


2. What does All Jolson offer Sergeant Colon that finally gets him to remove the clamp from the cart outside his restaurant?
    Honey Ice Cream
    Buttered Slumpie
    Smitten Steak
    Information


3. Vetinari had received a letter - it read 'DeEr Cur, The CruELt to HOMLIss DoGs In thIs CITy Is A DIssGrays, WaT arE The WaTCH Do Ing A BouT IT?' Who was it SiNed (sic) by?
    The LeAK AgyANsct CrUle T To DoGs
    Carrot Ironfoundersson
    Laddie
    Scraps


4. Who, specifically, did Vetinari send to the crowning of the Low King in Uberwald? Be careful with your answer!
    Sam Vimes
    The Duke of Ankh
    Commander of the City Watch
    Sybil's husband


5. Cheery Littlebottom, the dwarf corporal, explained to Vimes that some dwarfs acted as if B'hrian Bloodaxe was still alive. She described these dwarfs as drudak'ak. What does this mean?
    'Ideas taster'
    'A dialect word meaning "watermeadow"'
    'They do not get out in the fresh air enough'
    'Dwarf Mining Law'


6. What would Leonard of Quirm's 'Very-Fast-Coffee machine' have been if Leonard hadn't been thirsty?
    A scale model of a device for reaching the moon and other celestial bodies
    A thing that could destroy whole mountains
    A device that fired lead pellets with tremendous speed and force
    An instrument for unthinkable mass destruction


7. Vetinari described Uberwald as a 'mystery inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma'. How did Sergeant Colon, panicking about Vimes not coming back, describe it?
    A history inside a middle wrapped in an enemy
    A muesli inside a griddle wrapped in a tortilla
    A quiz story inside a ridicule wrapped in an engineer
    A misery wrapped in an enema


8. What did an increasingly paranoid Colon, promoted to Captain in the absence of Vimes and Carrot, think was being stolen?
    Sugar lumps
    Petty cash
    Strawberries
    Paperwork


9. Both Inigo Skimmer and Carrot interrupted when Sybil was trying to give Sam news she'd received from Mrs. Content. What was the news?
    The swamp dragons weren't well
    Sybil needed to lose weight
    Sybil was going to have a baby
    Sam needed to lose weight


10. What, according to Gaspode, was not being a Bad Dog?
    Shirking a Duty
    Biting a hand that fed him
    Stealing sausages
    Doing it on the carpet


11. What was not one of the disciplinary charges that acting Captain Colon had laid against his men?
    Making an arm fall off in an unsubordinate way
    Nostrilling
    Earlobing
    Bad time-keeping, demeanour and all-round uselessness


12. Who did the guards that Vimes nicknamed Nobbski and Colonesque refuse to let into Bonk without a 'pisspot'?
    Cheery Littlebottom
    Detritus
    Inigo Skimmer
    Lady Sybil


13. Who was not a surviving 'child' of Guye and Serafine von Uberwald in 'The Fifth Elephant'?
    Wolfgang
    Angua
    Elsa
    Andrei


14. Who was Captain of the Candles, who committed suicide after the Scone of Stone had been stolen?
    Albrecht Albrechtson
    Rhys Rhysson
    Dozy Longfinger
    Dee


15. How many crowns did anyone who won Wolfgang's great game win?
    Four hundred
    One Thousand
    One hundred
    Eight hundred


16. Irina, the youngest of the three sisters that Sam Vimes runs into, had all sorts of ideas as to what could be done if they cut down their Cherry Orchard. What was not one of them?
    A roller-skating rink
    A Rugby pitch
    A conservatory to grow pineapples
    Move to Bonk and get a big apartment


17. The three sisters lend Vimes the gloomy and purposeless what, of Uncle Vanya?
    Ra-ra skirt
    Seagull
    Trousers
    Overcoat


18. What does Sybil sing to get them taken to see the Low King?
    Bloodaxe's "Ransom" song
    Ironhammer's "Ransom" song
    A Wizard's Staff has a Knob on the End
    Sybil doesn't sing


19. What, found in fat deposits, are BCBs?
    Big Carbon Balls
    Burnt Crunchy Bits
    Brown Curdled Bits
    Big Carrot's Belt


20. What is fatsup, a traditional Uberwald dish?
    Soup with sausages in it
    Liver and onions
    A type of ketchup
    Venison


21. What colour tights are part of Sam Vimes' official dress uniform?
    Answer: (One Word)


22. Vimes describes Wolfgang to Sybil like this '..one who just won't let go. Eight-stone weaklings who'll try to headbutt Detritus. Evil little bantamweight _______s who'll bust a bottle on the bar and try to attack eight watchmen all at once. You know what I mean? Idiots who'll go on fighting long after they should stop. The only way to put 'em down is to put 'em out'. What does he say this type is?
    Bottle covey
    Beserker
    Nutter
    Head job


23. Poor Igor at the embassy is killed by Wolfgang. But as the Igors say, 'what goes around, comes around'. Which bit of Igor can't be used again?
    Right hand
    Hip joints
    Lower intestine
    Heart


24. Who finally killed Wolfgang?
    Tantony
    Angua
    Sam Vimes
    Carrot


25. What does Angua make Carrot promise to do at the end of 'The Fifth Elephant'?
    Kill her himself if she turns like Wolfgang did
    Give up the Watch as it's too dangerous
    Marry her when they get back to Ankh-Morpork
    Ask the King for a bag of gold for what they'd done


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Compiled Jun 28 12