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View original postI’ve always wanted to do a series specific quiz and since we’re running a Discworld themed game of mafia over on the RPG board I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone. Shameless self-promotion and a quiz on one of my favorite series, if you’d like to join us, just go to our Registration Thread. It probably goes without saying that this quiz contains spoilers.


View original postThis one will be broken into 3 categories, Geography, Characters, and Books


View original postGeography – Name that place


View original post1. This city is the most well-known from the series, and the setting for a large number of its books.

Ankh-Morpork


View original post2. This small kingdom in the Ramtops is home to numerous witches, one of whom authored an erotic cookbook titled “The Joye of Snackes”.

Lancre


View original post3. This vast, dark, and foreboding land has broken into numerous smaller states ruled by vampires, werewolves, and dwarves after the breakup of the Evil Empire.

Überwald


View original post4. This large nation, ruled from its capital of Al Khlai, is featured as one of the two disputants in the book Jingo and is the home of the character known as “71-hour Ahmed”.

Klatch


View original post5. This ancient river kingdom is best known for its many pyramids.

Djelibeybi


View original postCharacters - Name that Character


View original post6. This corporal of the Night Watch carries a signed note by the ruler of his city certifying that he is, in all probability, a human. He is also a kleptomaniac.

Nobby Nobbs


View original post7. This merchant, who is known for his many adventurous and spectacularly unsuccessful business ventures typically sells meat pies in between his other doomed enterprises.

Cut-my-own-throat Dibbler


View original post8. This witch is known and feared throughout her home in the Ramtops and beyond, and is an expert on Headology and “Borrowing”, a technique in which one puppets the body of an animal.

Esme "Granny" Weatherwax


View original post9. This decidedly gaunt-appearing character has appeared in virtually every book in the series and takes customer service rather seriously in spite of rarely getting repeat business.

Death


View original post10. This wizard is the current in a long line of ill-fated Arch-Chancellors of Unseen University, and is well known for his love of crossbows and hunting.

Mustrum Ridcully


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View original post11. This book, the second one focusing on the Night Watch, revolves heavily around a string of crimes committed with a new and dangerous weapon.

Men At Arms


View original post12. This book revolves around a confrontation between witches and some very genre-savvy vampires.

Carpe Jugulum


View original post13. This book tells the story of a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter of the craftsmen he is apprenticed to.

Mort


View original post14. This book revolves around the efforts of a city’s Postmaster switch that city from a gold standard, and hopefully make some money while he’s at it.

Making Money


View original post15. This Interesting volume tells the story of a very unskilled wizard who finds himself stuck in an ancient and vast empire in the middle of a very ineffectual rebellion.

Interesting Times

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