Soul Music Trivia

1. In 'Soul Music', who was Susan's headmistress?

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Miss Butts

Susan's headmistress has to write notes to herself to remember she was interviewing Susan Sto Helit, but she still forgets. Miss Cumber was one of the teachers that complained that Susan made herself invisible. I'm afraid that Miss Bumms and Miss Rears are my 'humorous' takes on the words 'Butts'.

From Quiz 'Soul Music' Random Questions

Answer: Target

The D'regs are a "collection of cheerfully warlike nomadic tribes" which feature only slightly in this book during an attack on the Klatchian Foreign Legion fort. They come to their own in 'Jingo'. Although the U.U. wizards are featured in this book, Rincewind is not part of the cast of characters.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: It's blue

He also informed him that the sound of one hand clapping was 'cl', with the other hand making the 'ap'.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: blue

This is when Death goes to visit the holy man. We also learn the interesting fact that the sound of one hand clapping is 'CL' (the other hand makes the AP).

From Quiz 'Soul Music' Random Questions

Answer: The Skunk Club

The Senior Wrangler tries to backtrack and claim he'd never been there at all, but we know the truth. The Bursar suggests the Opera House (he never really caught the Music With Rocks In bug). The Pink Pussycat Club features in 'Thud' as the place where Nobby's girlfriend works as a pole dancer.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Klatchian Foreign Legion

It's common knowledge that people join the Klatchian Foreign Legion to forget. They forget everything except sand apparently.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Tin Lid Alley

Apparently if the Guild find you playing without a licence, 'they take your instrument and they shove - ..it's not much fun if you're a piccolo player'. According to Wikipedia, 'Tin Pan Alley was originally a specific place, West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.' This was where a group of music publishers set up. Tin Lid Alley is obviously the Discworld equivalent.

From Quiz 'Soul Music' Random Questions

Answer: Beau Nidle

"Beau Nidle". Beau-nidle. Bone-idle. Get it? (sheesh)

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Seventy five dollars

They can't play anywhere without being members of the Guild, and they can't be members of the Guild until they've played. You work it out.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: C.V. Cheesewaller

Cheesewright was a friend and fellow assassin of Teppic,("Pyramids") Cutwell was a young wizard in Sto Lat, once made Royal Recogniser by Princess Keli, ("Mort") and Changebasket was the re-founder of the Ancient and Truly Original Sages of the Unbroken Circle.("Equal Rites")

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Two hard-boilled eggs

They order four fried rats (without ketchup!), some dwarf bread (one of the things that convinced Glod that Imp wasn't elvish was that Imp liked dwarf bread), some coke (not the drink, the fuel) for Lias and then Imp asked for two hard-boilled eggs, which causes the others to give him an odd look. (This is not a typo, Imp comes from Llamedos, with its sing-song accent of double els in words).

From Quiz 'Soul Music' Random Questions

Answer: Bribery

Well, it's not really bribery. Glod told the Quirm Mayor about the new "Music Tax" which came to $250 in Sto Lat and suggested paying it in advance. This convinced the Mayor to ignore the letter he had received from Sto Lat which is why he had been waiting at the town gates to begin with. All the other methods are employed in other books to get in or out of somewhere.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Cliff

Glod didn't think anyone with a name like Cliff would last long in the music business...

From Quiz 'Soul Music' Random Questions

Answer: Oops, we wanted a boy

When Susan is reflecting on her own name, to which the other three qualities apply, she says at least it isn't a bad name, like Nigella.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: He had bony knees

Death was slighty taken aback by this. Even more so when Susan called him Grandad. Grandfather he could live with, but Grandad was only one step away from Gramps in his opinion.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Plaited it and tied it in ribbons in the school colours

She was still barred from sport for using 'her axe in a threatening manner'. When the girls go to the stables, Gloria is accused of salivating over the pony!

From Quiz 'Soul Music' Random Questions

Answer: Lord Robert Selachii

He has just drawn his black-bladed knife when Susan appears and frightens him off. The others are also assassins. Chidder is Teppic's best mate in school in 'Pyramids'; Lord Downey is the head of the Assassin's Guild; Mr. Teatime (that's Te-ah-tim-eh) appears in 'Hogfather'.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Adrian Turnipseed

A student at Unseen University, so named 'Big Mad Drongo' for once drinking a whole pint of shandy.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: St. Michael

One joins the Klatchian Foreign Legion to forget - and this corporal has certainly managed! Rummaging in his vest, he tries 'Medium' and 'Hand Wash Only' before Death concedes 'Corporal Cotton' is feasible. 'St. Michael' is the British firm Marks & Spencer underwear mark, and there's a very silly joke about someone announcing 'St. Michael' was their name having consulted their vest. Because Death doesn't do a lot in the Legion, they christen him 'Beau Nidle', which works in several ways!

From Quiz 'Soul Music' Random Questions

Answer: The tree swing

Susan had some vague recollections about her other grandfather having bony knees, but when she saw the swing it all came back to her. He'd attached each rope to a seperate branch, but unfortunately on opposite sides of the tree, so he'd just cut out a section of the trunk. What made Susan understand her grandfather was that there was no need for any props to hold up the tree afterward.

From Quiz 'Soul Music' Random Questions

Answer: The Librarian

He says he didn't make it, he just put it together. Well, actually he just said "Ook." When Death chases after the Band on the Librarian's motorcycle, he wears the Dean's jacket, thus doing so "in a coat he borrowed from the Dean," a reference to the Don McLean song 'American Pie'.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: 34

They were tipped into an empty beer bottle for safe-keeping by the Death of Rats.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: BORN IN ANKH-MORPOK

He'd started with 'DEAN', but it was a long coat. He went on with 'BORN TO', but wasn't quite sure what to put next (it eventually became 'BORN TO RUNE'). 'LIVE FATS DIE YO GNU' came about because it's very difficult to keep track of the direction you're going when you're working on the other side of the material. At seventy-two years old, the Dean feels seventeen.

From Quiz 'Soul Music' Random Questions

Answer: Keith

In another modern reference, it has often been noted that Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones looks like Death himself. Mort is the name of Death's former apprentice who became the Duke of Sto Helit (and is Susan's father). Nobby thinks he sounded like a Leonard. Colon finishes the scene by saying, "For a moment there I thought he sounded like a Susan." He's right, of course.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Mr. Scrub

Beau Nidle was his given name in the Klatchian Foreign Legion, the others are just fabricated by me. Thanks for playing my quiz, I hope you enjoyed it!

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Hide Park

C.M.O.T Dibbler allowed them to give a free concert as he realised there would be lots of marketing opportunities (food, posters, t-shirts etc. etc.) Hyde Park and Green Park are both parks in London.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Mr Scrub

Death found it very peaceful living with Foul Old Ron (and his dog and his Smell), Coffin Henry, Arnold Sideways and the Duck Man. Death was known as Bill Door in 'Reaper Man', and Keith and Leonard were mentioned in 'Soul Music' when Colon and Nobby were speculating about Death's first name.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: The Jolly Cabbage

Scrote was in the Sto Plains, which are many miles of cabbages. The Jolly Cabbage was not a very merry place, though. The only way they don't finish up as spare ribs (or in Cliff's case, a rockery) is because they play. I made up the Amusing Boar and The Giggling Dwarf as suitably Discworld-ish. The Happpy Hamster is for my hamster, Hamish, who likes being in quizzes.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: It was deaf

What would you expect in a book about 'Soul Music' other than a deaf leopard? (Note: Def Leppard is a famous British hard rock band). The owner had got rid of it cheap because it couldn't hear the lion-tamer, but Scum doesn't think it will matter to their band as 'Your trousers don't have to listen'. When Noddy speculates about how to kill a leopard (which is in Crash's bedroom), Crash suggests they 'let it choke to death on Scum'.

From Quiz Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'

Answer: Redecorated them

By Pseudopolis, Glod is painting the rooms and putting up curtains. Rock star excesses were not for him! Even though Glod knew the most famous horn player there ever was was Brother Charnel, who stole Offler's altar gold and played magical music on the horn he made from it, here and now the people would shout for Glod Glodsson and not remember some felonious monk. (This is one of my favourite Discworld puns).

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