Terry Pratchett Trivia

1. How tall were adult nomes?

From Quiz Truckers

Answer: Four inches

Nomes grew to four inches in height and were stocky in build and they lived on Earth unknown to humans. They either lived among humans in urban areas in the sorts of places mice and rats might occupy, such as under floorboards, or they lived away from humans in the countryside. Nomes lived at a faster rate than humans, so that one year to them was the same as ten years to a human. Despite their height and girth, nomes moved many times faster than humans and also spoke very quickly in high-pitched squeaky voices. To them human speech was too slow to be understood and they referred to it as 'mooing'.

From Quiz The Wee Free Men.

Answer: Drinking, fighting and stealing cows.

The fact that these are their favorite things is first mentioned in another book, "Carpe Jugulum".

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Answer: Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure

This book is the image of ideal life for the Clan; animals wearing clothes and talking with humans as though it was normal. To us a dumb children's book, to them ideal life. As a note, the Clan did try to wear clothes but it wasn't practical for living in sewers.

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice's Amazing Quiz

Answer: in a mail coach

In the very first paragraph of this book, it states "It began - PART of it began - on the mail coach that came over the mountains from the distant cities of the plain." It turns out that this carriage is stolen, and the occupants arrive eventually in the town of Bad Blintz.

From Quiz The Wee Free Men

Answer: Fion

Feegles rarely have daughters, because, as with bees, having multiple queens (Keldas, for Feegle) could lead to trouble.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Wintersmith'

Answer: A really unpleasant person

The Nac Mac Feegles are a clan of six inch high, red haired, blue men with a special dialect all of their own.

From Quiz The Tiffany Quiz

Answer: Aching

Over the generations, the name has been spelled many different ways, from Akins to Archens to Akens or Akenns.

From Quiz A Hat Full of Sky

Answer: Jeannie

When the old Kelda went back to the land of the living, Jeannie came over from the Long Lake Clan and married Rob Anybody. At the start she seems to dislike Tiffany, but she still sends Rob to protect her.

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice etc: Quiz Time!

Answer: The Unseen University, Sator Square

Same place as 'Gaspode the Wonder Dog' was educated. Klatchian Curry Gardens-the first place Death's horse Binky took Susan when she inherited Death's role while still in school.

From Quiz "The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents"

Answer: Keith

His name is Keith and he is revealed in an early chapter. Keith hasn't told anyone his name because nobody asked.

From Quiz Truckers

Answer: They stowed away in one of the Store's lorries

Masklin, Grimma and the older nomes lived in a burrow in the countryside. Masklin hunted and foraged for food for them all while Grimma looked after the older nomes and did all the work inside the burrow. Country nomes were prey for such animals as foxes and rats, so that the numbers in Masklin's group had gradually reduced to eight. Masklin realised they would not last the winter, so devised a plan for them to travel to a better place by stowing away in a lorry. The nomes did this and the lorry happened to be from the Arnold Bros Store (est 1905) and took them to the Store where they met the other nomes who already lived there.

From Quiz The Wee Free Men.

Answer: Aching.

Tiffany Aching is only nine years old when this book begins.

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Answer: Darktan, Big Savings, Dangerous Beans

Darktan is the rat leader of the Trap Disposal Squad. Big Savings is the leader of the female rats and is a formidable force. Dangerous Beans is the "thinker" rat, he has adapted to the rats' change faster then anyone else. Peaches is Dangerous Beans' friend and she writes the Thoughts. Maurice is a cat and friend (even if he pretends not to be) of the rats. Keith is the "Piper". Hamnpork is the aging leader of the rats. Toxie is a young rat in the Clan. Malicia is the mayor's daughter. Mr. Clicky is a wind-up rat that the Trap Disposal Squad uses to set off the traps.

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice's Amazing Quiz

Answer: he tells them that gold is silver and silver is gold

Although Maurice only carries out one of these tricks, he is very dishonest and would probably try any of the other tricks if he had the opportunity.

From Quiz The Wee Free Men

Answer: A lawyer

The toad was a lawyer to a client of a fairy godmother, who had recently given her client the 'health, wealth, and happiness" package, and the client woke up one morning and didn't feel very happy. The client had the toad charge him with breach of contract, and she turned him into a toad and the client into a hand mirror. Then the judge applauded.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Wintersmith'

Answer: Miss Treason

Miss Treason is 111 years old,(although she put it about that she was 113 for 'professional reasons' as 111 sounded so...adolescent.') blind and deaf. She was skilled in the art of Borrowing, and used the eyes of animals around her, usually mice, reading what they saw out of their minds.

From Quiz The Tiffany Quiz

Answer: The Nac Mac Feegle and pictsies

The Nac Mac Feegle were thrown out of Fairyland for being Drunk and Disorderly.

From Quiz A Hat Full of Sky

Answer: Miss Level

Tiffany went to live with Miss Level on the recommendation of Granny Weatherwax. Miss Level was a very unusual witch, because there were two of her. Most people assumed she was twins, and she did nothing to discourage this.

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice etc: Quiz Time!

Answer: Gaspode, dog

Gaspode has featured in many "Discworld" books and almost all Ankh-Morpork ones (Night Watch books, 'The Truth',) and in 'Moving Pictures'. He's small, possibly a terrier-type of dog. Spends one book trying to be a wolf and part of another ('The Truth') disguised as a poodle. The result was, according to William: '...a kind of malformed poodlosity...' He also has every disease known to dogkind including Licky End, which you only get as a pregnant sheep. Believed to still be part of the begger gang with Foul Old Ron. Nobby is one of the three original watchmen, (Vimes, Colon and Nobby) and is probably, on balance, human, and possibly 33 (his mother wasn't very good at counting) The Luggage belongs to Rincewind and was given to him by Twoflower, the Discs first tourist. It's made of "Sapient Pearwood" which was accidently created during the Mage Wars. Very intelligent (by wood standards), and a wizard owning even a wand or some small item made of this wood is considered very lucky (except on the Counterweight continent where it is very common. Great A'tuin is the great star-turtle upon which the four world-elephants stand bearing the weight of the Disc on their shoulders. He/She swims apparently endlessly throughout space. All people know is that he/she is looking forward to something.

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Answer: Uberwald

They've been kicked out of Sto Lat and Pseudopolis and come from Ankh Morpork. They end up in Bad Blintz in Uberwald.

From Quiz Truckers

Answer: Monitored telephones and computers

The Thing was a small black cube that had always been just an object which Masklin's group had looked after for countless generations and which they regarded as a kind of holy relic. Once they were in the Store near electricity the Thing began to show a lot of small lights and started talking to the nomes. It told them that it was a Flight Navigation and Recording Computer and that their ancestors were originally from another planet. Fifteen thousand years ago their scout ship had crash-landed here but the mother ship was still nearby in space waiting for them. Then the Thing monitored telephone calls and the Store's computer and found out that the Store was going to be demolished in twenty-one days' time.

From Quiz The Wee Free Men.

Answer: You'll get beaten by people who spent their time working hard.

Miss Tick is in fact an odd witch and lets herself get caught by villagers as she doesn't mind being burnt.

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Answer: 8

The Rat King is eight rats tied together by their tails. It can control the minds of rats, humans and cats and wants to destroy all the humans.

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice's Amazing Quiz

Answer: he is a talking cat

Maurice is, of course, a talking cat, although at some points in the book he acts as though he is both a god, and has been alive for ages.

From Quiz The Wee Free Men

Answer: Granny Aching nodding and saying "That'll do".

Granny Aching was the Trials. Her two sheepdogs, Thunder and Lightning, were the best on the Chalk. So if she said that a shepherd was even just ok, that shepherd felt like he owned the Chalk for a while.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Wintersmith'

Answer: Six

Miss Treason took Tiffany to see the Dark Morris, the dance that welcomes the winter. Similar to the Morris dance she had seen to welcome the summer, Tiffany, convinced it was all wrong and with the seventh member missing, leapt into the space and joined in. Ooops.

From Quiz The Tiffany Quiz

Answer: Rob Anybody

Some people I know didn't get the joke in Rob's name the first time. Fion is the Kelda's daughter, sister to most of the other pictsies. Hamish flies on birds.

From Quiz A Hat Full of Sky

Answer: Oswald

Miss Level didn't know if Oswald was male or not, she just pictured him as a 'worried little man, with a dustpan and brush'. To keep him out of the way in the kitchen, Miss Level would mix the salt and sugar together, and let Oswald separate them again.

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice etc: Quiz Time!

Answer: Peaches

Peaches is one of the most intelligent rats just after Dangerous Beans himself. She worries Maurice by asking all the questions he doesn't want anyone to ask. She is also one of the strongest opposers of the scheme (rats invade town, Keith shows up and pipes them out. They all get paid).

From Quiz The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Answer: living off Unseen University's rubbish heap

This also had an effect on Gaspode the dog who appears in many other Discworld books including Moving Pictures and The Fifth Elephant.

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