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The Discworld counterpart of 'Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management' offers insight into the culture of Discworld, as seen through the eyes of Nanny Ogg.
3 quizzes and 30 trivia questions.
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  Nanny Ogg's Cookbook Quiz Challenge   popular trivia quiz  
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A quiz on 'Nanny Ogg's Cookbook' by Terry Pratchett, a collection of recipes and etiquette tips by Lancre's most popular witch. All recipes mentioned here (even the wrong answers) are in the book.
Tough, 15 Qns, orlandodaddy, Jan 28 07
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  Take this Nanny Ogg's Cookbook Quiz   great trivia quiz  
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From the woman who gave us 'The Joye of Snacks'(Banned) and 'Mother Ogg's Tales for Tiny Folk'(Withdrawn) comes a book to rival Mrs Beeton.
Tough, 10 Qns, lostsanity, Feb 16 07
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  5 Question Nanny Ogg's Cookbook Quiz    
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The greatest cookbook ever written!
Average, 5 Qns, SkateS, Jan 28 07
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Nanny Ogg's Cookbook Trivia Questions
1. Leonard of Quirm's recipe for a Cheese Sandwich DID NOT involve him doing what?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Drawing, in the margin, a small picture of a rose

The other answers were indeed aspects of his search for the elusive Cheese Sandwich, alas his absent-minded genius often got side-tracked.

2. The first recipe is Deep Sea Blowfish (The Easy Version - not requiring _________________). What is not required?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Years of Training

In 'Pyramids' Teppic, Chidder and Arthur celebrate their passing the Assassins School final examination with the most expensive meal Chidder could think of. Deep Sea Blowfish is safe provided every bit of stomach, liver and digestive tract is removed, otherwise the diner will become part of the wallpaper. There is no such thing as a second-rate blowfish chef. Although Nanny's recipe states that it is important that no part of the blowfish is to be used at all, the recipe does call for it.

3. What is Nanny Ogg's first name?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Gytha

Esme is of course Granny Weatherwax and Magrat is Magrat.

4. What is the least favourite dessert of Verence II?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Gooseberry Fool

After ten years at the Fools Guild, the mere sight of anything containing custard made him very upset. He even banned it in Lancre.

5. What is the correct spelling of the second recipe, made famous as part of 'The Joye of Snackes'?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Bananana Soup Surprise

In 'Maskerade' when Mr. Goatberger reads this recipe he reaches for a ruler and looks at it thoughtfully. Mr. Cripslock does the same. This is the correct spelling for this recipe, not to be confused with the Banananana Dakry as described in 'Witches Abroad'. (Nanny knows how to start spelling "banana", she just doesn't know when to stop.)

6. Who publishes this book in Discworld?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: J H C Goatberger

But only because Chrysoprase is threatening him.

7. Pteppic, a former king, introduced which sweet to Djelibeybi?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Jelly Babies

Djelibeybi actually means 'Child of the Djel'.

8. According to Nanny Ogg, "Chop Suey" is Agatean for what?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: All the labels have fallen off the tins

She tells us this in her recipe for Slumpie. You can make it out of anything as long as you call it Slumpie. It is part of the infamous dinner served to Enrico Basilica (Henry Slugg), Lady Esmerelda (Granny Weatherwax), Mr. Bucket and Salzella at the Opera House in 'Maskerade'.

9. Which recipe does the Patrician contribute?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Bread and Water

The Potato Cakes were suggested by Rincewind over one shoulder as he ran away.

10. Who made an Individual Fruit Pie containing 30 Tons of cooking apples and 1 clove?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: B.S. Johnson

He also designed a machine to peel, core and slice the apples, unfortunately it stapled a man to a wall.

11. What recipe has two main ingredients, one to make you see in the dark and the second so you have something to look at?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Carrot and Oyster Pie

According to Nanny, oysters are available in any month that has a vowel in it. This recipe was included in the original 'Joye of Snackes'.

12. Whose family possesses the recipe for Wow-Wow sauce?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Ridcully's

It's all Ridcully's fault about the compost heaps.

13. The recipe for Wow-Wow Sauce is a hereditary family possession of which U.U. Arch chancellor?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Ridcully

Does anybody know where I can obtain grated wahoonie?

14. Which recipe can be attributed to "The Crew" of beggars: Foul Ole Ron, The Duck Man, Coffin Henry and Arnold Sideways?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Brodequin Roti Facon Ombres

In 'Hogfather', when Death is filling in to keep the belief going, he swaps the sumptuous food from a posh restaurant with the beggars' planned meal of old boots and mud. With some creative naming, the restaurant served Brodequin Roti Facon Ombres (soldier's boots done in the Shades fashion [in mud]), Mousse de la Boue dans une Panier de la Pate de Chuassures (mud mousse in a basket of shoe pastry), Sole d'une Bonne Femme Servis dans un Coulis de Terre en l'Eau (ladies' shoes in mud) and Tourte a la Boue (mud pies). For the laces he had them dig up the recipe for Spaghetti Carbonara. Nanny's recipe however, does call for fresh beef instead of shoe leather.

15. How many frogs are used in Nanny Ogg's recipe for Dried Frog Pills?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: 0

The only person who should eat Dried Frog pills with real Dried Frog's in is the Bursar...and possibly my dad.

16. According to Nanny Ogg, what is the 30th wedding anniversary signified with?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: A lobster or crayfish

Pottery carthorse - 6th anniversary. Troll's tooth - 60th anniversary. Rabbit made from sea-shells - 40th anniversary.

17. Nanny includes the recipe for Mrs. Gogol's ____________ Gumbo.

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Clairvoyant

In 'Witches Abroad' we learn that Mrs. Gogol says she can see the future in a bowl of gumbo. That's just a trick to make her appear knowing. All you can really see is that the future will certainly contain a very good meal. It's the jambalaya in which she sees the future, but as far as Nanny knows, it's the gumbo.

18. What should only ever be eaten with the left hand, never a knife and fork, otherwise 'Bluebirds will fly out of your nose'?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Asparagus

Of course an 'Asparagus Flipper' should be used.

19. What is the final instruction in Leonard of Quirm's Recipe for a Cheese Sandwich?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Send out for pizza

There are no ingredients but 26 steps, none of which ultimately contribute to the immediate creation of a cheese sandwich.

20. 'Genuine Howondaland Curry' was taken from the writings of which explorer?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Ponce Da Quirm

Finding the Fountain of Youth was his life's ambition. Unfortunately no-one told him you had to boil the water first. He will be sorely missed.

21. Which recipe is for the so-called food which appears the most in the Discworld canon?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: C.M.O.T. Dibbler's Sausage-inna-bun

Mr. Dibbler is a purveyor of goods. Whenever one of his get rich quick schemes goes awry, he falls back on selling foodstuffs, usually "Sausages! Inna Bun!" The consummate salesman, he often resorts to discounting his merchandise to make the sale; "And that's cutting me own throat." (Hence his nickname 'Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler'. CMOT himself appears in eight novels (as of 2006), and he has morphic equivalents in other parts of the Discworld: Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dyblah, Disembowel-Myself-Honourably Dibhala, Al-Jibla, and Fair-Go Dibbler. CMOT could find uses for bits of animals the animal didn't know it had. He also discovered that with enough mustard and fried onions people would eat anything.

22. 'Vegetable Stew with Dumplings' was contributed by -

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Sergeant Angua of the Watch

Being a vegetarian werewolf is not easy.

23. Which recipe was provided by Mustrum Ridcully, Archancellor of Unseen University?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Wow-wow sauce

The recipe in the book is not the genuine one. That one has a tendency to turn into an explosive when mixed with charcoal, the only element of gunpowder not in the recipe. In 'Reaper Man' it caused a compost heap to explode. Although Ridcully is known as the advocate for the Bursar taking the Dried Frog Pills, according to Nanny's cookbook, it was Ponder Stibbons who discovered the recipe.

24. Making 'Maids of Honour', Nanny Ogg joked that they ended up being what?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Tarts

Bananana Surprise is, surprisingly, soup. Try it, it's actually surprisingly good.

25. What happens to Nanny's Maids of Honour if you take your eye off them?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: They end up as tarts

I just love the joke: "They starts out as Maids of Honour, but they ends up as tarts." Another recipe from the original 'Joye of Snackes'.

26. Which ingredient in Lord Downey's Mint Humbugs do the editors insist you leave out?

From Quiz Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Answer: Arsenic

Lord Downey is the head of the Assassins Guild, after all.

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