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Sam Vimes, This is Your Life! Trivia Quiz

Sir Samuel Vimes, the Duke of Ankh and Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, here, finally, is the quiz that you deserve! As this covers your life up to 'Thud!', it will contain SPOILERS.

A multiple-choice quiz by bethkate. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
bethkate

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
252,732

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
1003

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 90 (8/10), Guest 82 (10/10), Guest 78 (9/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Let's start at the beginning. You were born in Ankh-Morpork, but in which street? Hint

Cable Street

Peach Pie Street

Cockbill Street

Treacle Street

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Question 2 of 10

2. As you grew up, you became one of the 'middle men' of a gang. Which one? Hint

Baker Street Irregulars

Shamlegger Street Rude Boys

Cockbill Street Roaring Lads

Cable Street Particulars

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Question 3 of 10

3. You joined the City Watch as a teenager. Who taught you how to be a proper, honest policeman (in Carcer's 'trouser of time')? Hint

Duke Felmet

Findthee Swing

Cecil 'Nobby' Nobbs

John Keel

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Question 4 of 10

4. A trip back even further in time now. You are descended from Suffer-Not-Injustice 'Stoneface' Vimes, an infamous killer - but who did he kill? Hint

Lord Snapcase

King Lorenzo the Kind

King Verence I of Lancre

Duke Felmet

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Question 5 of 10

5. In 'Guards! Guards!', you met a lady whom you will go on to marry, but what was her name? Hint

Rosie Palm

Sybil Ramkin

Bernice Mousefather

Esme Weatherwax

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Question 6 of 10

6. After several years of being Captain of the Night Watch, you were amazed to find that someone had actually volunteered to join the Watch. Who was this enthusiastic young man? Hint

Frederick Colon

Carrot Ironfoundersson

Cecil 'Nobby' Nobbs

Cheery Littlebottom

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Question 7 of 10

7. In 'Feet of Clay', you were told that you couldn't have something. What was it? Hint

A baby

Any more watchmen

A house

A coat of arms

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Question 8 of 10

8. In 'Night Watch', your wife had a baby boy. What did you call him? Hint

Havelock

Gwilliam

Thomas

Sam

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Question 9 of 10

9. In 'Thud!', you finally were forced to employ a member of a species that you had so far managed to avoid. What species was the new Watchwoman? Hint

Zombie

Gargoyle

Golem

Vampire

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Question 10 of 10

10. Again in 'Thud!', you were chased and confronted by the Summoning Dark. Which of these drove it away? Hint

Following Dark

Waiting Dark

Long Dark

Guarding Dark

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Let's start at the beginning. You were born in Ankh-Morpork, but in which street?

Answer: Cockbill Street

The people of not-entirely-affluent Cockbill Street are described as 'too poor to paint, too proud to whitewash'.

2. As you grew up, you became one of the 'middle men' of a gang. Which one?

Answer: Cockbill Street Roaring Lads

Willikins the butler was a member of the Rude Boys, the Cable Street Particulars were a secret police force, and the Baker Street Irregulars were from the Sherlock Holmes stories.

3. You joined the City Watch as a teenager. Who taught you how to be a proper, honest policeman (in Carcer's 'trouser of time')?

Answer: John Keel

In "Night Watch", when the Sweeper is briefing Vimes, Sweeper says, "Right. The universe doesn't work like that. *You* were indeed taken under the wing of one John Keel, a watchman from Pseudopolis who came to Ankh-Morpork because the pay was better. He was a real person. He was not you." Everyone else might remember the Sam Vimes version of John Keel, but Sam still remembers that real Keel, and so do the monks.

Thanks to player efvie.

4. A trip back even further in time now. You are descended from Suffer-Not-Injustice 'Stoneface' Vimes, an infamous killer - but who did he kill?

Answer: King Lorenzo the Kind

As is pointed out in the mutterings of several members of the aristocracy, 'Old Stoneface' was a regicide, but as you have said, 'It's not as if it was a hobby.'

5. In 'Guards! Guards!', you met a lady whom you will go on to marry, but what was her name?

Answer: Sybil Ramkin

Lady Sybil is a rather formidable lady, which is just as well, as she is a breeder of swamp dragons, which have a tendency to either burp flames or explode.

6. After several years of being Captain of the Night Watch, you were amazed to find that someone had actually volunteered to join the Watch. Who was this enthusiastic young man?

Answer: Carrot Ironfoundersson

Although he is in fact a dwarf, Carrot is more than six feet tall. He got his name from his shape, as he has a very muscular upper body. Cheery is in fact a female dwarf, and Fred and Nobby were in the Watch in the bad old days, when it was just the three of you.

7. In 'Feet of Clay', you were told that you couldn't have something. What was it?

Answer: A coat of arms

Yes, Dragon King of Arms told you that after 'Old Stoneface' killed the king, the Vimes family crest was withdrawn, so, to your relief, you did not a coat of arms.

8. In 'Night Watch', your wife had a baby boy. What did you call him?

Answer: Sam

At the insistence of Lady Sybil, you named him after yourself, not after the Patrician, your father or your grandfather.

9. In 'Thud!', you finally were forced to employ a member of a species that you had so far managed to avoid. What species was the new Watchwoman?

Answer: Vampire

Salacia von Humpeding was indeed a vampire, and a member of the Black Ribboners. It was later discovered that she was a spy for the Low King of the dwarfs, Rhys Rhysson.

10. Again in 'Thud!', you were chased and confronted by the Summoning Dark. Which of these drove it away?

Answer: Guarding Dark

The Guarding Dark, or the Watchman, answered the question, 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?' or 'Who watches the watchmen?', with the words, 'I do.'

Source: Author bethkate

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Sam Vimes, This is Your Life! Trivia Quiz

Sir Samuel Vimes, the Duke of Ankh and Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, here, finally, is the quiz that you deserve! As this covers your life up to 'Thud!', it will contain *SPOILERS*.

Sir Samuel Vimes, the Duke of Ankh and Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, here, finally, is the quiz that you deserve! As this covers your life up to 'Thud!', it will contain SPOILERS.