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First Among Sequels Trivia Quiz

How much do you know about the fifth book in the "Thursday Next" series by Jasper Fforde?

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
Rowena8482

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
266,928

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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247

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Question 1 of 10

1. What is the 'thing' Thursday knits? (It is finished by Thursday5) Hint

A bolero for Melanie the gorilla

One sock for Landen

A dodo cosy

A beret

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Question 2 of 10

2. What sort of company is the 'front' for Thursday and her team's clandestine SpecOps activities? Hint

Tea shop

Carpet fitters

Mobile library

Croquet school

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is the "yellow thing" displayed at the ChronoGuards recruitment evening? Hint

A pertrified banana

Crystallized dodo pee

Fossilized primordial custard

Half a second of snooker ball

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who is Thursday's youngest daughter? (the one who doesn't actually exist) Hint

Wednesday

Josephine

Sunday

Jenny

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Question 5 of 10

5. What do the 'cheese mafia' leave on Thursday's car bonnet to warn her off her cheese-legging activities? Hint

Gorgonzola grenade

Bomb made of a milk churn

Burning camembert

A cow's head

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who are Friday's favourite band? Hint

Rubidium Rhino

Strontium Goat

Plutonium Bear

Uranium Sasquatch

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Question 7 of 10

7. What is the first thing Thursday1-4 does to get Thursday into trouble with Jurisfiction? Hint

Floods the Well of Lost Plots

Mixes up the pianos

Leaves the top off the toothpaste

Tells Heathcliffe that Cathy has another man

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Question 8 of 10

8. What did Tuesday do at school that got her noticed? Hint

Blew up the chemistry lab

Wrote a symphony

Solved 'Fermat's Last Theorem'

Set the cookery room on fire

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who is the demon who is posing as an old man to harvest souls? Hint

Bauk

Laxl

Colx

Raum

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Question 10 of 10

10. What is the recipe that is the key to saving the world? Hint

Unscrambled eggs

Unroast beef

Unflipped pancake

Unbaked Alaska

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the 'thing' Thursday knits? (It is finished by Thursday5)

Answer: A dodo cosy

She knits a blue and white dodo cosy for Pickwick the dodo, whose feathers have all fallen out.

2. What sort of company is the 'front' for Thursday and her team's clandestine SpecOps activities?

Answer: Carpet fitters

'ACME Carpets' provides cover so that Thursday, Spike et al can carry on doing the same jobs they did before their division of SpecOps was disbanded due to budget cuts.
They also lay all types of floor covering at very competitive rates!

3. What is the "yellow thing" displayed at the ChronoGuards recruitment evening?

Answer: Half a second of snooker ball

Friday knows all along that the 'mystery object' is a half second of snooker ball but only admits it on the way home. He MUST join the ChronoGuard to save the World but is refusing on the grounds of being a bone idle teenager with no desire to get blown up/squished/otherwise horribly dead.

4. Who is Thursday's youngest daughter? (the one who doesn't actually exist)

Answer: Jenny

Jenny is the only one of Thursday's children not to be named for a day of the week. Her other daughter is Tuesday and her son is of course, Friday.
Jenny is a figment of Thursday's imagination, planted there as a 'worm' by Aornis as revenge.

5. What do the 'cheese mafia' leave on Thursday's car bonnet to warn her off her cheese-legging activities?

Answer: Burning camembert

Thursday and her stalker Millon are involved in obtaining cheeses smuggled in from Wales, and peddling them to 'users' in and around Swindon.
The 'Swindon Old Town Cheese Mafia' (aka the Stiltonistas) warn her off, probably because she gets first choice of the 'goods'.

6. Who are Friday's favourite band?

Answer: Strontium Goat

Strontium Goat release an album called "Hosing the Dolly" on which Friday plays guitar solo on Track 2.
Aunt Polly gets an advance copy for him even though he hasn't actually recorded it yet - confused? you will be!

7. What is the first thing Thursday1-4 does to get Thursday into trouble with Jurisfiction?

Answer: Mixes up the pianos

Thursday1-4 is the 'bad' Thursday and she is determined to get Thursday into as much trouble as possible. She also sneaks out into the real world and sleeps with Landen!

8. What did Tuesday do at school that got her noticed?

Answer: Solved 'Fermat's Last Theorem'

Fermat's last theorem was on a blackboard so Tuesday solved it in passing. It was a week before she admitted it because she thought she was going to be in trouble. After this she agreed to lecture maths A Level students but doesn't like them much.

9. Who is the demon who is posing as an old man to harvest souls?

Answer: Raum

He is a Demon of the '10th Throne' and is dispatched back to Hell by the original 'little old man' Major Pickles whom he had replaced in order to entrap the souls of various tradespeople who call at the house.

10. What is the recipe that is the key to saving the world?

Answer: Unscrambled eggs

Mycroft originally discovered the equation or recipe for unscrambled eggs, and hid it in "The Wreck of the Hesperus" to keep it safe from the ChronoGuard.

Source: Author Rowena8482

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