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When a teenager named Mort is apprenticed to Death at the fair, he disturbs the balance of reality by saving a princess who had been destined to die.
4 Mort quizzes and 45 Mort trivia questions.
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  #4 'Mort': Death Comes to Us All   great trivia quiz  
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...except on the Discworld. Death has hired a new apprentice, so not even wizards can expect a visit from the Grim Reaper himself.
Average, 10 Qns, AcrylicInk, Oct 03 18
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  "Mort" by Terry Pratchett    
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Some random questions about this book.
Average, 10 Qns, martinjudo, Apr 04 09
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  'Mort' Random Questions    
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I have taken Terry Pratchett's 'Mort', the fourth book in his Discworld series, and randomly opened it to ten different pages resulting in the following questions.
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  Terry Pratchett's "Mort"    
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This quiz is based on "Mort", one of the most sucessful books by Terry Pratchett.
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trivia question Quick Question
Does time pass in Death's Domain?

From Quiz "Terry Pratchett's "Mort""





Mort Trivia Questions
1. Discworld is an imaginary world placed on a turtle. What is the turtle called?

From Quiz "Mort" by Terry Pratchett

Answer: Great A'Tuin

Albert is DEATH's butler. Lezek and Hamesh are members of Mort's family.

2. The books in The Stack go all the way back to clay tablets and animal skins. What does Ysabel say everyone was called back then?

From Quiz 'Mort' Random Questions

Answer: Ug and Zog

Mort: "Did you get past Ug and Zog? A lot of people would be very interested to know what's there." Ysabel: "I got frightened. It's a long way and I didn't have enough candles." She never went back that far again.

3. What is the first line of the book?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's "Mort"

Answer: This is the bright candlelit room where the life-

The description of the bright candlelit room is the answer. The others are from other books such as "Guards! Guards!" and "Maskerade".

4. The first souls Mort saw belonged to a group of animals. Which animals did Death take out of a water butt in Ankh-Morpork?

From Quiz #4 'Mort': Death Comes to Us All

Answer: Cats

It turned out that Death had a fondness for cats. Like wizards, they were one of the few creatures that could always see Death, even when he wasn't coming for them. It angered him when people killed cats, and he stroked a variety of them on numerous occasions in the story. When Mort saw the ghostly figures of the drowned kittens in Ankh-Morpok he guessed that they were souls.

5. Magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances tend to crop up how often?

From Quiz "Mort" by Terry Pratchett

Answer: nine out of ten times

Scientists had calculated the possibility of a world existing on a giant turtle in space at being millions to one.

6. In Princess Keli's biography, her assassination led to the union of what two cities?

From Quiz 'Mort' Random Questions

Answer: Sto Helit and Sto Lat

Keli was the daughter of the king of Sto Lat. She became queen when his cousin, the Duke of Sto Helit, arranged for his assassination. She was next on the list but Mort killed the assassin instead of collecting Keli. When he returned home he looked at her biography and it showed the future including her assassination.

7. Which two people lived in Death's house, though neither of them were technically dead?

From Quiz #4 'Mort': Death Comes to Us All

Answer: Albert and Ysabell

All of the options were famous Discworld duos, but it was Ysabell and Albert who lived in Death's house. Ysabell was Death's adopted daughter who spent her time reading the biographies of young people in love. Albert had made an agreement with Death towards the end of his life. Instead of dying, he spent thousands of years outside of time and became Death's servant.

8. What is special about reannual plants?

From Quiz "Mort" by Terry Pratchett

Answer: Plants that grow backwards in time

Farmers, like Mort's father, plant their seeds this year so that they will grow last year! The others are made up.

9. What does Death tell Mort is "THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"?

From Quiz 'Mort' Random Questions

Answer: A sharp edge

He says this after they have collected the King of Sto Lat and Mort tried to stop the assassination. Mort feared he would be dismissed. Death says, "BECAUSE YOU SHOWED COMPASSION? NO. I MIGHT HAVE DONE IF YOU SHOWED PLEASURE." This explains a lot about Death. He's just an anthropomorphic personfication doing his job.

10. When Death took Mort out on his rounds for the first time, whose soul did Death take?

From Quiz #4 'Mort': Death Comes to Us All

Answer: King Olerve

King Olerve's power-hungry cousin, the Duke of Sto Helit, was moving himself up the line of succession by taking out the competition. He hired an assassin from Ankh-Morpork to kill the king during a party. Mort tried to save the king. He argued with Death about how unfair it was: a good man would die and the evil man behind the assassination would live for decades more. But in the end, there was nothing Mort could do to stop the murder. When someone's time was up, they had to die.

11. What is the name of Mort's father?

From Quiz "Mort" by Terry Pratchett

Answer: Lezek

Binky is the name of DEATH's horse. Albert is also a wizard and Hamesh is Mort's uncle.

12. According to Death, "THERE'S NO JUSTICE, ONLY _______."

From Quiz 'Mort' Random Questions

Answer: ME

This is an often used phrase in the books in which Death appears. Even Mort uses it when talking to Albert.

13. It wasn't long before Mort did the Duty on his own. Whose soul did he take on his first solo mission?

From Quiz #4 'Mort': Death Comes to Us All

Answer: A witch called Goodie Hamstring

Goodie Hamstring didn't want to move on to the next world. She wanted her ghost to stay on the Disc until she fizzled out. On Mort's next job, the abbot's soul wanted to be taken into the village so that he could be reincarnated. Even though, after being reborn thirty-odd times, he was sort of fed up with the idea. Mort realised that souls went wherever they were expecting to go after death. He reasoned that it was unfair because bad people might expect a reward but some good people might think they deserve punishment for minor sins they had committed. Death told him that there was no justice, only himself.

14. On what day was the Hiring Fair?

From Quiz "Mort" by Terry Pratchett

Answer: Hogwatch Eve

Morts father is taking him to the fair in the hopes that Mort will become apprenticed to a trade. Unfortunately only one "person" is interested in Mort.

15. What is the princess' real name?

From Quiz 'Mort' Random Questions

Answer: Kelirehanna

At Mort and Ysabel's wedding she is introduced as "Her Supreme Majesty, Queen Kelirehenna I, Lord of Sto Lat, Protctor of the Eight Protectorates and Empress of the Long Thin Debated Piece Hubwards of Sto Kerrig". Susan is their daughter. Kelikalikimaka is my own made-up name based on the Hawaiian "Mele Kalikimaka" (Merry Christmas).

16. Does time pass in Death's Domain?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's "Mort"

Answer: No, not at all

Time doesn't pass at all, hence why Ysabell is still young and Albert is still alive. If he goes outside the domain for 90 days, he dies.

17. In the castle in Sto Lat, Mort took the soul of an assassin, but whose soul was he supposed to take?

From Quiz #4 'Mort': Death Comes to Us All

Answer: Princess Keli

After taking the abbot into the town, Mort checked the name on his third and final timer of the night. An assassin had ben sent by the Duke to kill Princess Keli while she was asleep. She became queen after the assassination of her father, King Olerve, but the coronation ceremony was yet to take place. If the uncrowned queen died, the Duke of Sto Helit would become king. Mort didn't want that to happen, so he used Death's weapon on the assassin instead. Mort had interfered with time and destiny, so things started to go wrong for the princess.

18. In which town is the Hiring fair located?

From Quiz "Mort" by Terry Pratchett

Answer: Sheepridge

Sheepridge is a small town on the Rimtop. The others are cities which Mort visits on his adventures.

19. How old is Cutwell?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's "Mort"

Answer: 20

When Albert asks him how old he is, he replies "Twenty".

20. Who had Death come for when he decided to adopt Ysabell as his daughter?

From Quiz #4 'Mort': Death Comes to Us All

Answer: Her parents

Ysabell's parents were killed while crossing the Great Nef in a storm. Death found her and, because he couldn't have real feelings (skeletons don't have glands), he 'thought' sorry for her. She had lived in Death's domain ever since.

21. Who was the first person Mort sees DEATH collecting?

From Quiz "Mort" by Terry Pratchett

Answer: King Olerve the Bastard

King Olerve is assassinated by the Duke of Sto Helit. Princess Keli is the assassinated king's daughter.

22. What is Albert's claim to fame at Unseen University?

From Quiz 'Mort' Random Questions

Answer: Founder

He founded UU two thousand years prior to the book's present. He reached an agreement with Death to be his servant rather than die. Time does not pass in Death's domain. He only loses time on the rare occasions he goes back into the real world. When Mort confronts him about his identity, Albert has ninety-one days, three hours and five minutes of life left.

23. In "Mort", who was summoned when a wizard used the Rite of AshkEnte?

From Quiz #4 'Mort': Death Comes to Us All

Answer: Death

If a wizard needed to speak to Death (before their time was up) they would use the Rite of AshkEnte to summon him. The wizards liked to go overboard with octograms and magical paraphenalia, but the incantation was actually fairly simple. Death hated it when wizards summoned him using the Rite. Their timing was always inconvenient for him. As Mort had taken on the role of Death, he felt the call, but Ysabell managed to make him stay put.

24. What is the name of DEATH's "daughter"?

From Quiz "Mort" by Terry Pratchett

Answer: Ysabell

Ysabell's parents died while crossing the Great Nef during a storm where DEATH found her and saved her life. Keli is a princess from Sto Lat. Rincewind is a wizard who appears in many Discworld books.

25. When Albert returns to Unseen University, who are the first two people to whom he talks?

From Quiz 'Mort' Random Questions

Answer: Rincewind and The Librarian

All the other wizards fled. Rincewind's robes were caught in the door, and the Librarian, being an ape, had a relaxed attitude towards human affairs.

26. A new monarch was going to be crowned post-haste. Which animal was going to be sacrificed so that the High Priest would be able to see it?

From Quiz #4 'Mort': Death Comes to Us All

Answer: An elephant

The High Priest at the Temple of Blind Io had problems with his vision. The elephant was led to the altar where the priest was standing but he still couldn't see it. As the time bubble was closing in on Princess Keli, there wasn't much time for the coronation and the Priest was complicating everything. When he finally brought the knife down, it grazed the elephant's trunk, enraging the animal and bringing an abrupt end to the coronation ceremony.

27. What is the real name of DEATH'S butler?

From Quiz "Mort" by Terry Pratchett

Answer: Alberto Malich

Igneous Cutwell is the resident wizard at Sto Lat. Ronron Shuwadhi is a Klatchian mystic who created the first pizza. Hummok M'guk is a Hublandish tribesman who plays Death in a game of dice.

28. Who was Mort's first appointment as Death?

From Quiz 'Mort' Random Questions

Answer: Goodie Hamstring

All are Lancre witches, but it is Goodie Hamstring who leaves a bundle of hay "for thee hors" and has a bottle of raspberry port to share with Death. But she gets Mort and has to help him learn what he's supposed to do. After she died her soul momentarily assumed a bodily form much more alluring than the elderly lady he met upon arrival.

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