Jonathan Stroud Trivia

1. What is happening at the beginning of "Ptolemy's Gate"?

From Quiz Ptolemy's Gate

Answer: Some assassins are trying to kill Ptolemy.

A group of assassins was sent to kill Ptolemy. They don't succeed, for though it appears that Ptolemy is fast asleep on his bed, it's actually Bartimaeus who they see, Ptolemy having hidden so they wouldn't find him. Bartimaeus, of course, manages to kill the assassins.

From Quiz Lesser Known Spirits of the "Bartimaeus" Series

Answer: Asmoral

Asmoral "the resolute" was a Djinni whose master ordered him to attack his friend, Ianna the Djinni. Bartimaeus states this as proof that friendships among spirits are temporary.

From Quiz Djinn, Pentacles and More! - Part One

Answer: A sulphur cloud

He wanted to scare Nathaniel as he recognized that it was Nathaniel's first summoning.

From Quiz The Golem's Eye

Answer: Prague

He was in the forces who were fighting against Gladstone.

From Quiz "The Bartimeaus Trilogy" Book 1

Answer: Arthur Underwood

Arhtur Underwood never wanted an apprentice at all, so when he does take Nathaniel, he does it grudgingly.

From Quiz Bartimaeus Mayhem

Answer: Tell me your name

Though Nathaniel already knows Bartimaeus's name (he couldn't have summoned him without it) he first asks this of Bartimaeus. The next command, but not charge, is for him to obey his will. This is said after Bartimaeus makes a particularly long and boasting statement. He then charges Bartimaeus to take the amulet from a certain prominent magician, Simon Lovelace, and upon return hide it in his master's office, thus getting revenge on Lovelace and protecting himself if Lovelace came calling.

From Quiz The Golem's Eye

Answer: He is killed when the Inferno Stick he uses blows up.

When his master dies, Bartimaeus is freed from his bonds and floats away to the Other Place, right before an afrit's scythe that would have killed him hits harmlessly into the dirt. Bartimaeus is on the Czech side that is eventually defeated by Gladstone and his two afrits, Patterknife and Honorius.

From Quiz The Amulet Of Samarkand

Answer: Nathaniel

Nathaniel is the boy's birth name and Bartimaeus finds out.

From Quiz Ptolemy's Gate

Answer: Because it makes Nathaniel feel guilty.

Being reminded of Kitty Jones makes Nathaniel fell guilty because he thinks that she died when she defeated the golem, and so it's because of her that he's still alive. She actually isn't dead, but Bartimaeus decided to tell Nathaniel that she was, so that she would be able to escape. You may think that it's because Bartimaeus and Kitty were friends, but actually they aren't until the end of the book.

From Quiz Lesser Known Spirits of the "Bartimaeus" Series

Answer: Nittles

Nittles was a messenger Imp belonging to Simon Lovelace who was forced to divulge information on his master, by Bartimaeus.

From Quiz Djinn, Pentacles and More! - Part One

Answer: 2- Like some Commoners with talents

Cats can observe two out of the seven planes. Bartimaeus states that there are more, but they are not of any use, and those who use them are showing off.

From Quiz The Golem's Eye

Answer: Rupert Deveroux

Nathaniel is Deveroux's right hand man and Nathaniel idolises him.

From Quiz "The Bartimeaus Trilogy" Book 1

Answer: Bartimaeus

Bartimaeus is a fourth-level djinni. Nathaniel charged him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace.

From Quiz Bartimaeus Mayhem

Answer: Jabor and Faquarl

Bartimaeus has a difficult time fufilling his charge commanded by Nathaniel. Sneaking into the house as a fly, he manages to spy on Simon Lovelace and a younger woman companion known as Amanda Cathcart. After listening to them for a good while, he moves out of the room and journeys to where Simon Lovelace keeps all his magical items of power. Taking the Amulet, Bartimaeus is pursued by Jabor, a djinni of considerable power. After escaping into a closed room, Bartimaeus erects a shield to keep Jabor busy as he plans his escape. Seeing his rival, Faquarl, spinning a cleaver in his hand and telling him to hand over the Amulet, Bartimaeus is trapped. After some quick thinking, he lets go of the shield on the door just as Jabor lets go a particulary strong detonation (typical magic attack.) This detonation hits Faquarl straight on, giving Bartimaeus the distraction he needs to escape. Though he is chased by servants of Simon Lovelace all night, his biggest problem is actually a group of teenage commoners.

From Quiz The Golem's Eye

Answer: Internal Affairs

Interestingly enough, Nathaniel is following in the footsteps of his previous master, Arthur Underwood, whom he despised. His new master, Jessica Whitwell, is a much more powerful magician, considered one of the top four magicians in the government.

From Quiz Lesser Known Spirits of the "Bartimaeus" Series

Answer: Phoebus

Phoebus, the Afrit, was in the service of Hans Meyrink, the Chief Minister of the Czech Empire. Phoebus died in the Siege of Prague, shortly before his master.

From Quiz Djinn, Pentacles and More! - Part One

Answer: Infinite Confinement

When Bartimaeus finds out Nathaniel's real name, Nathaniel threatens to confine Bartimaeus in a tobacco box filled with rosemary, which is bad for any djinn's essence.

From Quiz The Golem's Eye

Answer: Bartimaeus

Nathaniel promised not to summon Bartimaeus again after the whole Lovelace affair, but he does. I just made all the other names up!

From Quiz "The Bartimeaus Trilogy" Book 1

Answer: Amanda Cathcart

Towards the end of the book, Bartimaeus and Nathaniel go to Heddleham Hall, where Amanda Cathcart was hosting the conference, to tell everyone about Simon Lovelace.

From Quiz Bartimaeus Mayhem

Answer: Crocodile

This is a tricky question. Bartimaeus has a shield around him to protect from the nosy strangers, but the punks see right through it and take the weakened form of Bartimaeus by brute strength. As he is being held and talking to the leader of the group, a girl named Kitty, he changes to a Crocodile which promptly makes two off the three kids let go. One holds on and he makes a well-timed change into a fox and escapes into the night.

From Quiz The Golem's Eye

Answer: Nemaides

This demon usually uses the guise of a green monkey, its preferred form. Most djinn and other demons have preferred forms; Bartimaeus is particularly fond of the Ptolemy guise, for example. Nemaides hits them with the Black Tumbler, though miraculously Kitty is unharmed while Jakob suffers permanent black-grey lines on his face and temporary blindness. This incident causes Kitty to join the "Resistance," a group of commoners with powers that allow them to either see demons (whom are normally invisible to all commoners), be able to sense auras coming from magical objects, or simply be able to be unharmed by most magical attacks from demons.

From Quiz The Amulet Of Samarkand

Answer: Protects the wearer from magical attacks

Nathaniel steals the Amulet from a magician (Simon Lovelace) because Nathaniel was humiliated by him.

From Quiz Ptolemy's Gate

Answer: Real War Stories

"Real War Stories" is what the government is using to convince the people that war is heroic. It has (false) stories about how heroic it is, so that people will want to go to war, and will forget that they will probably die.

From Quiz Lesser Known Spirits of the "Bartimaeus" Series

Answer: Sophocles

Mandrake thought he could exchange his hostage, Jakob Hyrnek, for Gladstone's staff, which was in the possession of Kitty. Sophocles kept Jakob from blurting out their plans, by keeping a claw on his neck.

From Quiz Djinn, Pentacles and More! - Part One

Answer: Europe

Seven league boots are "highly potent magical devices invented in medieval Europe." Normal Earth rules of time do not apply, allowing the wearer to cover large distances in short time.

From Quiz The Golem's Eye

Answer: A Panther

He is in a Minotaurs form when he is fighting the Golem. Even though Ptolemy is his favoured form, when he is talking to Nathaniel after the break in, he takes on the form of a jet black panther.

From Quiz "The Bartimeaus Trilogy" Book 1

Answer: Simpkin

Simpkin is the obediant shop assistant of Sholto Pinn. Sholto Pinn gets rare magical artifacts and sells them in his shop.

From Quiz Bartimaeus Mayhem

Answer: Mrs Underwood says it

With this important bit of information, Bartimaeus can send powerful forms of punishment right back at Nathaniel merely by saying the counter-spell and then muttering his name. Nathaniel realizes that Bartimaeus knows his name, and yet keeps him as a servant. Nathaniel deals with this threat by casting a spell of permanent confinement on a tobacco tin filled with rosemary. This spell works quite simply; Nathaniel sets a date and if he is not alive to undo the curse, Bartimaeus will be doomed to a lifetime in a tobacco tin in the oozy mud of the Thames. This means that if Bartimaeus causes Nathaniel harm by saying out loud his birth-name Bartimaeus will be doomed for eternity.

From Quiz The Golem's Eye

Answer: Pinn's Accoutrements and surrounding stores

During the attack on Pinn's Accoutrements, Simpkin, the servant foliot of Sholto Pinn, is killed by the Golem. Other casualties are three demi-afrits and six Greybacks, members of the elite Night Police, the leader of whom is Henry Duvall. Pinn's is attacked first, followed by the National Gallery, and then the British Museum. Gladstone's Tomb is never attacked by the Golem.

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