FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!
Hogfather Quizzes, Trivia and Puzzles
Hogfather Quizzes, Trivia

Hogfather Trivia

Hogfather Trivia Quizzes

  1. Home
  2. »
  3. Quizzes
  4. »
  5. Literature Trivia
  6. »
  7. Pratchett, Terry

Fun Trivia
When the Hogfather is 'killed' (because children have been tricked into disbelieving in him), Death takes his place on Hogswatchnight (December 32) and his granddaughter Susan must restore the real Hogfather to his proper role.
2 Hogfather quizzes and 35 Hogfather trivia questions.
1.
  The Hogfather   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
British Terry Pratchett fans had the chance to see the excellent film at Christmas 2006. This quiz is mostly about the book, but with some film questions.
Average, 25 Qns, Quiz_Beagle, Feb 01 07
Average
Quiz_Beagle gold member
1047 plays
2.
  Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is multiple choice quiz on Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" book, "Hogfather".
Average, 10 Qns, JasonOgg, Nov 19 06
Average
JasonOgg
1204 plays

Hogfather Trivia Questions
1. Why did the Guild of Assassins take pity on Teatime?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: He'd lost both parents at a very early age

As Lord Downey later said 'We should have wondered a bit more about that'...Teatime did have a glass eye and preferred his name to be pronounced 'Teh-ah-tim-eh'. The assassin whose father died was Teppic ('Pyramids')

2. According to Albert, what is "that warm feeling you get inside"?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: Heartburn

Due to Albert's show of "unseasonal grumpiness", Death threatened, "NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT." Death was acting Hogfather, along with red robes, a sleigh, pigs and an elf in the form of Albert.

3. What was the name of the organiser of the "best and most select group of the city's singers"?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: Anaglypta Huggs

Mrs Huggs believed that the custom of "wassailing" (singing songs that Mrs Huggs had carefully selected, through the streets) was an occasion for "fellowship and good cheer".

4. Mustrum Ridcully supplied what vital ingredient for the cure for the oh God of hangovers in 'Hogfather'?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Wow Wow Sauce

Joss Acland played him in the MOB production. I think he did an excellent job as the Archchancellor, but my personal preference would have been for Brian Blessed...

5. According to Ponder Stibbons: botanically, what is the banana?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: A type of fish

As Ponder said, "According to my theory it's cladistically associated with the Krullian pipefish, sir, which of course is also yellow and goes around in bunches or shoals." Archchancellor Ridcully: "And lives in trees?" Ponder: "Well, not usually, sir. The banana is obviously exploiting a new niche."

6. What did Susan threaten would happen to Gawain if she caught him being twee again?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Susan would knot Gawain's arms behind his head

Susan had no truck with the previous governess, who had conjured real monsters out of the childrens' imagination. Susan deals in real, ridiculous threats in graphic detail!

7. What race is Modo?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: Dwarf

Modo is Unseen University's gardener and odd-job man. Or rather, dwarf.

8. What is the name of Mrs Gaiter's daughter?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: Twyla

Susan Sto Helit is the governess to both of Mrs Gaiter's children, Gawain and Twyla, as well as being a duchess and Death's granddaughter.

9. What was "the Castle of Bones" made of?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: Ice

"The Castle of Bones" was supposedly inhabited by the Hogfather. By the time Susan got there, it was about to come crashing down. Then it did.

10. Banjo 'reminded Sideney too much of Ronnie Jenks, the bully' who'd made Sideney's life a misery at school. What school?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Gammer Windlestone's Dame School

Ronnie wasn't even a pupil, just a relative of Gammer Windlestone. Like Banjo, Ronnie was obviously a bit intellectually-challenged. Funny how so many bullies are, isn't it?

11. What is the first name of the Cheerful Fairy?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: Gwendoline

The Cheerful Fairy, with the Blue Bird of Happiness (really a blue chicken), wasn't very cheerful.

12. When Susan was eight she'd made twenty-seven dollars from her parents by putting teeth out for the tooth fairy from a collection of animal skulls that she'd found in the attic. A molar from which animal had been the mistake that got her found out?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Hippopotamus & hippo

Susan, of course, given whose grand-daughter she is, is happy with skulls from an early age! I mounted a hippo's tooth, that my friend was given by a Masai in Kenya, in silver to make a pendant. My jewellery tutor says it's the most grotesque piece of jewellery he's ever seen!

13. What was the weapon used to kill Teatime?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: Poker

"It only kills monsters," according to Twyla. Susan used the poker for, other than killing Teatime, disposing of monsters - bogeymen and the like.

14. Which member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch was given a Burleigh and Stronginthearm crossbow?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: Corporal Nobby Nobbs

Poor old Nobby Nobbs. From the Hogfather he hadn't been given anything at all throughout his entire life, and from everyone else he'd been given bath salts, herbal bath lumps, bath soap, bubble bath and other bath items. He can't understand why, because he barely ever has a bath.

15. What were the "Three Bulgies"?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's Discworld - "Hogfather"

Answer: Gerbils

All three Bulgies were buried behind Twyla's garden shed. They tended to die a lot. The idea was to replace them when she wasn't looking.

16. Euphrasia Goat wants a pony from the Hogfather - as part of her present the 'Hogfather' gives her a 'pair of those trousers that make you look as though you have a large ______ in each pocket'. What?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Rabbit

I shall never look at jodhpurs the same way again! He also gives her a bridle and a saddle and 'a rather strange hard hat'. The scene with 'Euffie' is one of my favourites - so much so that I'll base the next question on it....

17. All the random belief sloshing around because the Hogfather's dead is bringing things into being. Bibulous is the Discworld's God of Wine. Who is the 'oh God of Hangovers'?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Bilious

He also comes with a small green and purple imp who hits him on the head and coats his tongue with yellow gunk. I've had mornings like that, but the poor 'oh God' doesn't even drink!

18. Another being called into life in 'Hogfather' appears in the laundry. It looks like a very small elephant with a very wide trunk. The Chair of Indefinite Studies is cross with it. What is it?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: The Eater of Socks

The Hair Loss Fairy appears on the Dean's head. The Pencil Eater is a bird with a very odd-shaped bill and the Cheerful Fairy is equipped with a Blue Chicken of Happoness. The Chair of Indefinite Studies is cross with the Eater of Socks because it ate his sock with the flax-reinforced heel. The Eater of Socks is so cute in the film!

19. Who was the only one of the Wizards who'd enjoyed Hogwatch all his life?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Archancellor Ridcully

A huge row starts among the wizards when the Senior Wrangler found out that the Dean had had a pillowcase, rather than a stocking. They all start going on about how ghastly Hogswatch is. Ridcully had enjoyed it all; the 'ancient relatives', the games, paper hats and had even carefully read the Hogswatch cards and 'found time for a few kind thoughts about the sender'. Bless!

20. 'On Dasher, on Dancer , on Cupid and Vixen...' you all know how it goes here on Earth, but who is missing from the Hogfather's sleigh pullers? Snouter, Gouger, Rooter and _______?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Tusker

The Hogfather is left a glass of sherry and a pork pie and a turnip for the hogs (except from the Librarian, who gives them a banana (figures)). In our house, Santa Claus got sherry or whisky and biscuits or cookies and a carrot for Rudolph....

21. Who is the leader of the Ankh-Morpork Wassailers in 'Hogfather'?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Anaglypta Huggs

Mrs Huggs has carefully removed all the 'rude' words from the old wassailing songs, but, as the footnote notes 'sometimes a chicken is nothing but a bird'.

22. After the 'Hogfather' has erm..redistributed the food, what is NOT on the menu at the posh restaurant in Ankh Morpork for Hogswatch?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Christmas Pudding

Death swapped the beggars' meal (mud and old boots) for a catered meal for over a hundred. However, the rsourceful manager saves the day, treating the boots like aged beef and trying to caramelise mud. The wrong answers were dishes: Mousse de la Boue was 'Mud Mousse in a basket of shoe (groan!) pastry, Sole d'une Bonne Femme came from the ladies' shoes and the laces became Spaghetti Carbonara! I bet the guests had eaten worse!

23. What were the gang using to control children?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: A huge pile of teeth

The huge pile of teeth in the MOB production was actually made up of over 1/2 million (500,000) individual plastic teeth - and two of them are among my most treasured possessions!

24. The things that frightened them as children come after the gang in the house where they've worked the teeth spell. What was Chickenwire's especial fear?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: a wardrobe & wardrobe & the wardrobe

The decoration round the keyhole turned into a face in the night and it whispered things. With me, if the wardrobe door was just a little bit open...funny what frightens us as children, isn't it?

25. When Twyla's uncle died, they just told her that he'd 'gone'. For three weeks, Twyla believed that her uncle had been buried in 'the sad patch' 'along with Buster and Meepo and all three Bulgies'. What were the three Bulgies?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: Gerbils

Makes perfect sense to a child, why shouldn't you bury your relatives with your pets?

26. What does Banjo Lilywhite want to stay in the house and do the Tooth Fairy's job?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: A puppy called Spot

Banjo's not really cut out to be a villain, he was just born into the wrong family and got in with the wrong crowd. He had a kitten when he was little but his mam 'drownded it 'cos it was dirty'. Aww! (Hamish is my hamster and he likes to be in quizzes).

27. What extra 'toy' does Gawain have at the end of the book?

From Quiz The Hogfather

Answer: A 'marble' that rolls in a funny way

It's actually Teatime's false eye! I hope you enjoyed the quiz. Please don't forget to rank it, and do let me know what you thought!

This is category 15751
play trivia = Top 5% Rated Quiz, take trivia quiz Top 10% Rated Quiz, test trivia quiz Top 20% Rated Quiz, popular trivia A Well Rated Quiz
new quizzes = added recently, editor pick = Editor's Pick editor = FunTrivia Editor gold = Gold Member

Teachers / educators: FunTrivia welcomes the use of our website and quizzes in the classroom as a teaching aid or for preparing and testing students. See our education section. Our quizzes are printable and may be used as question sheets by k-12 teachers, parents, and home schoolers.

 ·  All questions, answers, and quiz content on this website is copyright FunTrivia, Inc and may not be reproduced without permission. Any images from TV shows and movies are copyright their studios, and are being used under "fair use" for commentary and education.