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Quiz about Moving Pictures Random Questions
Quiz about Moving Pictures Random Questions

'Moving Pictures' Random Questions Quiz


I have taken Terry Pratchett's 'Moving Pictures', the tenth book in his 'Discworld' series, and randomly opened it to ten different pages resulting in the following questions.

A multiple-choice quiz by orlandodaddy. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
orlandodaddy
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
248,289
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
535
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Question 1 of 10
1. What is the name of Deccan's book found by Victor? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. The thought of what object causes Gaspode to wake up from the dream caused by the spirits of Holy Wood? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What do the wizards attempt to disguise themselves as when they attend the moving pictures show? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Gaffer is a member of which Guild? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which of the following is NOT a belief of Mrs. Marietta Cosmopolite (3 Quirm Street, Ankh-Morpork)? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What is the name of the outer-dimensional monster whose distinctive cry is 'Yerwhatyerwhatyerwhat'? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Based on the poster for "Blown Away", which of the following do the wizards NOT call the click? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. To what did Dibbler change the name of Silverfish's "Interesting and Instructive Films"? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. According to Gaspode, when will be the right time for Victor to tell Dibbler he wants a "per-cent-age of the gross"? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What was Riktor the Tinkerer's nickname? Hint



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1. What is the name of Deccan's book found by Victor?

Answer: The Boke Of The Film

"This is the Chroncal of the Keeprs of the ParaMountain coppied out by me Deccan Beacuase Of the old onne it being fallin Apart."

Spelling, punctuation and grammar are all obviously optional on the Discworld.
2. The thought of what object causes Gaspode to wake up from the dream caused by the spirits of Holy Wood?

Answer: A collar

It would be a squeaky toy next, if you didn't draw the line at collars. Gaspode is certainly not a domesticated dog.
3. What do the wizards attempt to disguise themselves as when they attend the moving pictures show?

Answer: Honest merchants

Honest merchants? In Ankh-Morpork? This just shows how out of touch the wizards are with the world outside the University walls.

They put hooks over their ears to make the beards look fake. When they later try to convince someone they really are wizards, he points out that can't be wizards, he can see their fake beards.
4. Gaffer is a member of which Guild?

Answer: Guild of Handlemen

Any time a new industry pops up in Ankh-Morpork, a Guild is created almost simultaneously. Since the Guild is new, they're just handing secrets around, but give them a few years and they'll be handing them down from initiate to initiate.
5. Which of the following is NOT a belief of Mrs. Marietta Cosmopolite (3 Quirm Street, Ankh-Morpork)?

Answer: Some people just didn't have any niceness in them

In addition to the other three things, she believed that there was a bit of niceness in everyone if you knew where to look, and that it did a person good to get out and have a laugh occasionally. Most of what she believed was wrong (especially about the world being round), but by coincidence she was right about the dwarves.
6. What is the name of the outer-dimensional monster whose distinctive cry is 'Yerwhatyerwhatyerwhat'?

Answer: Yob Soddoth

This is one of the questions Victor asks Ponder while they are studying for their Finals. Tshup Aklathep, Inferal Star Toad with A Million Young tortures its victims by holding them down and showing them pictures of its children until their brains implode.

Bel Shamharoth appears in the first Discworld novel, "The Colour of Magic". Binky is, of course, Death's horse.
7. Based on the poster for "Blown Away", which of the following do the wizards NOT call the click?

Answer: Romantic

'A Sarger of Passione and Broad Staircases in Ankh-Morpork's Turbelent Histry!' - Historical
'Withe a 1,000 elephants!' - Wildliforific
'A Epic Love Story that Astoundeded Goddes and Menne!' - Religious

Yes, religious. That's what the Lecturer in Recent Runes says.
8. To what did Dibbler change the name of Silverfish's "Interesting and Instructive Films"?

Answer: Century of the Fruitbat Moving Pictures

That is not a typographical error. There really was a studio called "Untied Alchemists". Most of the Discworld books take place during the Century of the Fruitbat, which was then followed by the Century of the Anchovy. Because Holy Wood was destroyed there is no concern about changing the name.
9. According to Gaspode, when will be the right time for Victor to tell Dibbler he wants a "per-cent-age of the gross"?

Answer: When he's got a mouthful of food

We never find out if Victor gets it.
10. What was Riktor the Tinkerer's nickname?

Answer: Numbers

Archchancellor Ridcully remembers him as 'Numbers' Riktor. He built the resograph (lit.: "thingness-writer", a device for detecting and measuring disturbances in the fabric of reality) which begins terrorizing the staff at Unseen University. When the Bursar discovers what it is Riktor's writings say in serious disturbances two pellets will be expelled several inches in the course of a month in the direction of the disturbance.

While he is reading this eight pellets are expelled into the sandbags heaped around it.

This was happening every five minutes.
Source: Author orlandodaddy

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