David Weber Trivia

1. What is Honor's home planet?

From Quiz David Weber's Honor Harrington

Answer: Sphinx

Manticore is the system's home world. Basilisk was annexed by Manticore just before Honor's birth and Gryphon is the the third planet in the Manticore system.

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 2)

Answer: Customs and Security Officer for Basilisk Control

Captain Reynaud, in charge of Basilisk Control, was completely surprised when the Lieutenant was assigned to him. No other Manticoran Fleet Captain had ever assigned anyone to Basilisk Control. He stated, "I don't know if I'm ready for the concept of a competent senior officer on Basilisk Station!"

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 1)

Answer: Honor Harrington

Honor Harrington is from a heavy gravity world called Sphinx. It has a year that is 5.22 Terran years long.

From Quiz Treecats!

Answer: An admiral

Honor, who is ever the military history buff, named her treecat after Chester William Nimitz (February 24, 1885 - February 20, 1966). The original Nimitz was the Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces for the United States and Allied forces during World War II. He was the nation's leading authority on submarines, as well as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation (now called the Bureau of Naval Personnel) in 1939. He was America's last surviving fleet admiral.

From Quiz A Taste of Honor

Answer: She embarrassed an admiral

Honor's ship, Fearless, had been modified to test a new weapon developed by Admiral Sonja Hemphill. In the war games, once the other ships knew of the existence of the new weaponry, Fearless was repeatedly destroyed. Although it was not Honor's fault that the grav lance didn't work out, she was sent to Basilisk Station, where incompetent officers were often posted.

From Quiz David Weber's Honor Harrington

Answer: 6

The destroyer Hawkwing; the cruiser Fearless; the heavy cruiser Nike; the, ah, armed merchantman (Q-ship) Wayfarer. The sixth vessel is the ESN (Elysian Space Navy) Farnese, which Honor commanded as the newly formed ESN fought it's way out of the PRH's prison system.

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 2)

Answer: Lieutenant JG Rafael Cardones

Rafe couldn't figure out how to reprogram the drones without picking up all the drones that had already been deployed. The Captain told him to figure it out for himself. The only way to reprogram the drones was to go into the computer through the tac channel and that would be difficult, more because it took more time, than being complex. He finally figured it out with Commander McKeon's help.

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 1)

Answer: A treecat

Treecats are six-limbed creatures who are the planet Sphinx' only sentient species. They are intelligent telepaths with their own kind, and empaths with humans. Treecats can 'taste' the 'mind-glow' of humans, some of whom have stronger mind-glows than others.

From Quiz Treecats!

Answer: Dances on Clouds

Honor was given this name by the 'cats for her love of hang gliding. And considering that she holds an all-time record at Saganami Island for sailplanes, it works really well for her. By the way, Soul of Steel is the name that the 'cats use for Queen Elizabeth III, Death Walker is the name of a character from season one of the show Babylon Five, and I just made up One Arm, although after "In Enemy Hands" that would be accurate.

From Quiz David Weber's Honor Harrington

Answer: Treecat, dolphin, gremlin

In "On Basilisk Station" we are told that treecats rate 0.8 on the intelligence scale. Though they aren't being entirely straight with the humans that share their world...

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 2)

Answer: Saganami Island

Major Isvarian was assigned to Captain Honor Harrington as liaison officer by Dame Estelle. He was also senior officer in the Medusan Native Protection Agency on planet.

From Quiz Treecats!

Answer: Queen Elizabeth III

Soul of Steel is a pretty good description of Queen Elizabeth when you consider how stubborn she is and factor in her tendency to hold grudges until they die of old age and then take them to the taxidermist. None of the others have been adopted, so we don't know if they have treecat names or not.

From Quiz A Taste of Honor

Answer: Rob Stanton Pierre

The author sometimes refers to him as Rob S. Pierre. This is a not very subtle analogy with the French Revolution.

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 2)

Answer: Bosun Sally McBride

Honor stated she was certain that, over the years, some of her crew had "observed" other personnel who attempted to hide illegal items aboard ship. She only asked the bosun to find some of those "observers". These people would form the team for inspection of orbital transfers and space-to-ground traffic (customs).

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 1)

Answer: Alistair McKeon

Commander McKeon wanted command of HMS Fearless himself, and was less than welcoming when Honor first came on board, but he never openly defied her authority. He did his job, not offering to assist her as a good exec should have done.

From Quiz Treecats!

Answer: Death Fang's Bane

Stephanie Harrington was the first person to see a treecat, the one who came up with the name "Treecats" and the first person to be adopted by a treecat. She earned the name of Death Fang's Bane because, after being adopted, she fought a Death Fang (known to humans as a hexapuma) to save her 'cat, who had been seriously injured by it.

From Quiz A Taste of Honor

Answer: 2

Three duels take place in the book. In the first, Honor's lover, Paul Tankersley, is killed by hired duelist Denver Summervale. In the second, Honor kills Summervale before he has time to fire a single shot. Honor then challenges Summervale's employer, the Earl of North Hollow, to a duel. This isn't the last book in the series, so I guess you can figure out who wins.

From Quiz David Weber's Honor Harrington

Answer: The ability to read a person's emotional state

The ability to read a person's thoughts is called telepathy. The ability to affect an object mentally is telekenetics. The ability to tell the future is clairvoyance.

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 2)

Answer: Gryphon kodiak max pelts

Gryphon kodiak max pelts were on the controlled species list and therefore not to be hunted or killed by anyone. At that point, Ensign Tremaine decided to inspect the main hold as well. Later it was mentioned that the pelts were worth 43 million Manticoran dollars. Note: Ensign Tremain was only 13 years old and a new graduate of the academy on his first deployment.

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 1)

Answer: Lord Pavel Young

Lord Young, then a cadet, cornered Honor in the showers one night and tried to rape her. She was an expert at unarmed combat and easily protected herself.

From Quiz David Weber's Honor Harrington

Answer: Piracy and corruption

There may be more corrupt systems in the Honorverse, but nowhere suffers more from lack of central government control over the provincial governors who are in cahoots with the pirates that prey on all merchantmen travelling the Confederacy's spaceways.

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 2)

Answer: Mekoha

It took 40 kilos of Medusan green moss to produce 1 kilo of raw mekoha paste, and ten kilos of the paste to produce one kilo of the final product. 30 grams of Mekoha was considered an average dose for new users, but that went up as the habit grew. The Medusans used it in religious rites and smoked the mekoha.

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 1)

Answer: She lost all but the first deployment in the war games.

During the war games, Honor and her crew won the first deployment because the other ship's Captains were unaware of the grav-lance. During succeeding deployments, Honor and her crew lost every engagement. Admiral Hemphill was embarrassed and wanted Honor "out of sight and out of mind".

From Quiz Treecats!

Answer: 2

A 'cat who has been adopted has two names, a clan name and a human name. The clan name is usually a descriptive name and can change many times throughout a treecat's life. The human name is given by their human partner and is viewed by the treecats as an affirmation of the adoption bond.

From Quiz A Taste of Honor

Answer: Hunting pirates

The Navy asked her to take on this duty at the request of several of her former adversaries. It would help them if she were successful, but they wouldn't mourn if she were killed in the process...

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 2)

Answer: Denver Summervale

Denver Summervale had been a captain in the Royal Manticoran Marine Corp. He had killed a brother officer in a duel and was court martialed. This was not the first person he had killed on the "field of honor". An interesting fact was that Denver's cousin, Allen Summervale, was Prime Minister to the Queen on Manticore.

From Quiz On Basilisk Station (Part 1)

Answer: Captain Lord Pavel Young

Honor now regrets that she didn't file formal charges of rape against Pavel Young. Had she done so, and had Young been convicted, he would never have worn an officer's uniform.

From Quiz Treecats!

Answer: Tree Dancer

Tree Dancer was renamed "Seeker of Dreams" by Song Weaver, a Memory Singer for Red Leaves Dancing clan, when he got into a huge fight with his clan elders over his decision to find a human to adopt. All of the others are mentioned in "What Price Dreams?". Song Weaver is a Memory Singer for Red Leaves Dancing clan, Leaf Stalker is a Bright Water clan hunter, and Dunatis is one of the treecats who have adopted Sphinx Forestry Service members.

From Quiz A Taste of Honor

Answer: She was attending a birthday party

The Prince Adrian was captained by Honor's second-in-command and good friend Alistair McKeon. Honor had traveled over from her flagship to confer with him, but also to participate in a surprise party. When they unexpectedly encountered the Peeps in what they had believed to be friendly territory, she could not safely return to her own ship.

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