'Men At Arms' Random Questions Quiz

Answer: His badge

Vetinari does allow Vimes to keep his badge since he is retiring the next day and can therefore have an honorable retirement. Of course we know that Vetinari was just prodding Vimes to continue working on the case anyway.

Answer: Duke of Pseudopolis

We discover this when Nobby shows off his extensive knowledge of weapons in the armory. Of course, as Sergeant Colon points out, Pseudopolis lost all its wars, then asks Nobby who he sold the weapons to. Nobby replies that they just spent a lot of time away being polished and sharpened - about one hundred percent of the time actually.

Answer: Bluejohn

Bluejohn is one of the trolls guarding the Day Watch House who is the first of Carrot's recruits. The other three are part of Vetinari's Affirmative Action hiring: the Silicon Anti-Defamation League insisted on troll participation in the watch and Ruby wouldn't marry Detritus unless he had a proper job; of course that meant there had to be a dwarf also - Cuddy had gotten bored making fortune rats for his brother-in-law; Angua liked eating meals and sleeping indoors, and the only other job available was a "seamstress". We don't ever find out if the 'minority' she represents is women or werewolves.

Answer: Leonard of Quirm

Leonard was cursed with intelligence and inspirations and a fascination with the world. Other world leaders may have killed Leonard, but Vetinari considered him so perfect of his type that he was hard to destroy. Instead he locked him in a room in the Palace, provided him with food and materials and let him tinker away, oblivious to the outside world other than Vetinari's occasional visits.

He has never in his entire life harmed a living creature. It is his ideas that are dangerous because he can innocently design a machine of incredible military cruelty in the margins of a drawing of the beauty of the human smile. (But of course nobody would ever dare to actually build it.)

Answer: The hoho

A haha is a ditch dug in the land so rich landowners don't have to see cattle and inconveniet poor people going by. Thanks to B.S. Johnson's unique grasp of measurements the Patrician's Palace has a hoho, a ditch fifty feet deep and had claimed three gardeners already.

Answer: The city militia

Having determined that there was an irreperable breakdown of law and order and having been asked for assistance by an officer of the city who is a citizen in good standing, he re-formed the Night Watch into a city militia according to the "Laws and Ordinances of Ankh-Morpork".

The officer at the Armory ignores Carrot's request for entry, but when Nobby approaches and says he is an Auditor, they get in.

Answer: "Mayonnaise" Quirk

Rich, thick and oily; and smells faintly of eggs.

Answer: Big Fido

He was a normal dog with a collar, and a blanket, basket and food bowl all with his name on them until one day something went "click"; he savaged his owner, attacked a Labrador and killed the leader of the largest feral dog gang (Barking Mad Arthur) and turned a band of strays into what he thought a wolfpack was. Oh, and he was a poodle.

Answer: 2000

The Librarian puts it to best use by dropping it - unfortunately it is Lance-Constable Cuddy on whom he drops it.

Answer: Orthopaedic reasons

His back was giving him trouble again, so she mixed gravel into his dirt. Other residents at Mrs. Cake's lodgings were Reg Shoe the zombie, Mr. Ixolite the banshee, Mrs. Drull the retired ghoul now doing children's party catering, and of course her daughter Ludmilla who is part werewolf.