Terry Pratchett Trivia

1. The story starts and ends on the homeworld of Dom Sabalos which is in orbit about the purple star See-Why. What is the name of this planet?

From Quiz The Dark Side of the Sun

Answer: Widdershins

See-Why is more formally called CY Aquirii, and is identified as having two orbiting planets, one of which is Widdershins. The other options are all listed in the book; Terra Novea, or New Earth, is described as being "metal-rich and dynamically technological", Eggplant is a place where the vegetarians had to be ferocious due to the aggressive flora and Quaducquakucckuaquekekecqac is the homeworld of the cannibalistic Drosk.

From Quiz "Strata" - Another Layer of Terry Pratchett

Answer: The Company

Although there is one reference giving the company's official name as 'John Company', all other references are simply to 'the Company', (note the capital C). The Company "builds worlds and terraforms planets", including laying down the fake fossils, coal deposits and other strata of a fake pre-history - the Strata of the book's title - or possibly not. Magrathea is the planet in Douglas Adam's "Hitchiker's Guide" series which also constructed planets.

From Quiz A Tour of "Nation"

Answer: Imo

Imo created everything, including Locaha, the god of death. Om and Anoia are from Pratchett's "Disworld" series.

From Quiz Dropped from "The Discworld Companion"

Answer: Two

The names in brackets are the book they appeared in. They were Artorollo a king of Ankh Morpork (Mort) and Ashk-ur-men-tep pharaoh of Djellibeybi (Pyramids). Djellibeybi has never encouraged originality so he was virtually identical to almost all other pharaohs.

From Quiz 'Making Money' by Terry Pratchett

Answer: Golems

Yes, real ancient golems, built by golems. At one point it is thought they are made of gold. Dwarfs are traditionally miners, but so far Terry hasn't concerned himself with things vermian in Discworld.

From Quiz The Truth

Answer: Gunilla Goodmountain

Gunilla Goodmountain's printing press is the first in Ankh-Morpork. They offer to do ten copies of one thousand words apiece for only one dollar.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Feet Of Clay'

Answer: Father Tubelcek

Poor Father Tubelcek was found dead in his home by Mrs Kanacki, who alerted the Watch. Vimes mused it was the neatest death he had ever seen as his arms were folded across his chest and his eyes had been closed.

From Quiz The Diskworld Almanak

Answer: The prawn

This is for the common year of 400 days (from one cold season to the next). Owing to the peculiarities of a world on the back of a turtle the true celestial year is 800 days.

From Quiz The Last Hero

Answer: Cohen

"Fingers" Mazda was the First Hero who stole fire from the Gods. Cohen is returning what was stolen. Rincewind is best classified as a coward. Carrot is a hero at the end, in the opinion of Cohen anyway.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Carpe Jugulum'

Answer: Carmilla

From Quiz The Dance of the Seasons

Answer: She joined in the dance

There are two kinds of Morris dance. The first is the traditional dance which welcomes summer, the dancers are dressed in white, wearing ribbons and bells. There are musicians and the Fool who dances between the dancers and entertains the crowd. The Dark Morris is to welcome the winter. It is danced under the moonlight sans musicians and Fool. The dancers are dressed in black and are silent except for their boots hitting the ground. Tiffany felt compelled to dance and this brought her to the Wintersmith's attention and sent the Summer Lady underground. As Granny Weatherwax says to Miss Tick: "A witch who won't wear black. No, it's blue and green for her, like green grass under a blue sky. She calls to the strength of her hills, all the time. An' they calls to her! Hills that was once alive, Miss Tick! They feels the rhythm of the Dance, an' so in her bones does she, if she did but know it. And this shapes her life, even here! She could not help but tap her feet! The land taps its feet to the Dance of the Seasons!"

From Quiz "Strata" - Another Layer of Terry Pratchett

Answer: Spindle Kings

Humans learnt about Spindle Kings from their archaeological remains, found in the galaxy and a handy ship with mummified crew and (more importantly) a library which drifted into the solar system. Spindles were telepaths and liked a lot of space to avoid too much mental noise. For example, the ship mentioned above was 100 miles long with 3 crew, the rest was almost entirely empty space. Before the Spindle Kings were the Wheelers, before them the Paleotechs and before them the ChThrones. How these other races fit in to the plot is best found out by reading the book.

From Quiz A Tour of "Nation"

Answer: Air, Fire, and Water

Throughout the book, the grandfathers are yelling at Mau to replace the God Anchors.

From Quiz Dropped from "The Discworld Companion"

Answer: Pyramids

He serves on a ship called the Unnamed which is basically a smuggler but also made a good revenue from any pirates who make the mistake of attacking it. He is covered in pornographic tattoos and was very embarrassed when Ptraci, ex handmaiden of the late pharaoh Teppicymon XXVII saw him and used him as a sort of text book.

From Quiz Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment

Answer: Thief of Time

"The Thief of Time" is about time and Lu-Tze is a member of the history monks whose purpose is to observe things. If these things are not observed by a qualified person they are not history but just sequential events.

From Quiz 'Making Money' by Terry Pratchett

Answer: Trying to break into his own Post Office

Moist is bored, Adora Belle is away, so he's keeping his hand in by reverting to his old habits. He still has his wonderful gold suit, and he still designs stamps. He doesn't get the chance to really make money until he meets Lord Vetinari.

From Quiz The Truth

Answer: 5 dollars

The Lady Margolotta of Uberwald, the Dowager Duchess of Quirm, King Verence of Lancre, and many other Ramtop nobles pay him five dollars for this service. The Seriph of Al-Khali pays him half a cartload of figs for the newsletter, instead of five dollars.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Feet Of Clay'

Answer: Vampires

Famous for quoting "Not really alive but not dead enough."

From Quiz The Diskworld Almanak

Answer: Name of a meteorite that would land in the sea near Quirm if the great A'Tuin did not take evasive action.

It was named after an aunt of the discoverer. Retrophrenology works on the principal that if the bumps on your head control your character, altering the bumps will alter your character.

From Quiz The Last Hero

Answer: Fire

Cohen is planning to return it with interest because the gods let him get old.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Carpe Jugulum'

Answer: Omnia

From Quiz The Dark Side of the Sun

Answer: Probability math

The correct answer is probably the least interesting option. Probability maths (abbreviated to p-maths) is "a set of nine equations which can be used to predict the future". The immediate problem is that our hero, Dom, is predicted to die at noon on the day after the story starts, not that he knows it. Psychohistory is found in the Foundation books written by Isaac Asimov. The alternative options are both real studies in mathematics.

From Quiz "Raising Steam": The Railway Comes to Discworld

Answer: Malignity

I suspect that this doesn't appear in any roundworld list of collective nouns, but if Sir Terry Pratchett has written that it is correct on Discworld who are we to argue. It is used to describe the numerous goblins living on the roof of the house nominally inhabited by Moist von Lipwig and Adora Bell Dearheart. One learns a lot about Discworld goblins in this book.

From Quiz The Dance of the Seasons

Answer: Paper thin ice roses

The Wintersmith first created the Tiffany snowflakes. He then made dozens of paper thin roses out of ice. Following that, he wrote Tiffany's name over and over on the cottage windows with frost ferns and then he created Tiffany shaped icebergs. Thankfully he did not create heart shaped hailstones, but no-one would probably have noticed anyway as with the Tiffany snowflakes. Nanny Ogg says that the Wintersmith was trying to impress Tiffany, "he wanted to show you his muscles".

From Quiz "Strata" - Another Layer of Terry Pratchett

Answer: Written a book

Writing a book may not seem a big deal, but I feel that Terry Pratchett here has anticipated the trend towards e-books and away from printed words long before anyone else, considering that this was written in the 1970s. To quote from Strata: "The actual writing hadn't been difficult. The real problem had been learning how to make paper, then hiring a staff of robots and setting them to build a printing press." It also has made Kin a celebrity, being asked to sign copies at various places.

From Quiz A Tour of "Nation"

Answer: Ermintrude

Daphne's grandmother thought Ermintrude was a good name, but Daphne hated it.

From Quiz Dropped from "The Discworld Companion"

Answer: a date

It is supposed to be the day when witches and warlocks stay in bed. With regard to witches this is a legend - they stay in bed on the day they feel like having a lie in and no one even knows what a warlock actually is. It is not noted which book it appears in.

From Quiz Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment

Answer: Sweeper

He is technically not actually a monk but just a servant. No one but an idiot confuses the technicality with actuality.

From Quiz 'Making Money' by Terry Pratchett

Answer: The Dyslectic Alphabet Killer

According to Vetinari, the editor of the 'Tanty Bugle' appeared to think that it was 'not a proper crime unless someone is found in three alleys at once' and Moist (as Albert Spangler) had not been hanged for murder - of course, he hadn't been hanged at all. You may recognise the real murderers I distorted for the wrong answers.

From Quiz The Truth

Answer: A woodworm

Mr. Tulip was going to just die, but Terry Pratchett's editor kept telling him that Mr. Tulip shouldn't die. She wanted to see him in another book, but instead Terry Pratchett brought him back as a woodworm.

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