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This one is about 'Unseen Academicals', Sir Terry Pratchett's 37th Discworld novel. I hope you enjoy it!

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

Author
Siggi

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
358,706

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
160

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Question 1 of 10

1. What weird creature is the Faculty hunting through the halls of UU? Hint

The Megapode

The Eater of Socks

Yob Soddoth

Clinkerbell

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who is that skinny man with a big wooden duck strapped to his head, making flat honking noises? Hint

Ponder Stibbons

Mr Nutt

The Bursar

Rincewind

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Question 3 of 10

3. Behold, the Emperor! But how often does the candle that never goes out ... not go out while Mr Smeems is Candle Knave? Hint

Three times

Six times

Why, never, of course...

Nine times

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'Traitor!' roared Ridcully. Whom did he mean? Hint

Stibbons - for supporting the wrong team

Vetinari - for being too smart by half

The Librarian - for being also an honorary member of the night watch

The Dean - for leaving UU

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Question 5 of 10

5. The first time the Faculty watched a football match someone explained the basic rules to them. Who? Hint

Mr Dibbler, CMOT

Mr Ottomy, bledlow

Lord Vetinari, tyra... er... patrician

Mr Smeems, Candle Knave

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Question 6 of 10

6. The Faculty is discussing football and the building of the future UU team.
Concerning that, to what exactly should a couple of inches be added (to prevent mobbing by the ladies)? Hint

I REALLY couldn't say...

The team's short trousers

The wizards' staffs

The cheerleaders' skirts

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'Notable Wizards of our Time' is a delight for card collectors of all ages!
Which member of the UU Faculty is in it? Hint

Rincewind the Wizzard

Dr Hix, Department of Post-Mortem Communications

Mustrum Ridcully, Archchancellor

None of them

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Question 8 of 10

8. Throughout the book Mr Nutt is accompanied by cries indicating his true species. What does he hear? Hint

Gob! Gob!

Yerwhat! Yerwhat!

Nobbs! Nobbs!

Awk! Awk!

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Question 9 of 10

9. When Glenda Sugarbean needs to talk to Lord Vetinari, she bribes his guards so that they let her pass. What does she use? Hint

A Sausage in a Bun

A Jammy Devil

A Meat Pie Floater

A Doughnut Jimmy

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Question 10 of 10

10. At the end of 'Unseen Academicals' Mr Nutt is granted one favour by Lord Vetinari. Which one? Hint

He is raised to Candle Knave

He is given one of the city's Golem horses

He is granted a couple of inches, thus preventing embarassment

He may participate in the next hunt for the Megapode

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What weird creature is the Faculty hunting through the halls of UU?

Answer: The Megapode

In UU the Megapode is, by tradition, hunted once every 100 years because A) you can't have a Megapode running around loose, as anyone'll tell you, and B) it is traditional. Aho! The Megapode!

Yob Soddoth can be recognized by its widely known cry 'yerwhatyerwhatyerwhat'. ('Moving Pictures')
The Eater of Socks once haunted the laundry of UU. ('Hogfather')
Clinkerbell might be considered to be the troll equivalent of the Tooth Fairy - 'Bless dere little hearts'... ('Feet of Clay')

2. Who is that skinny man with a big wooden duck strapped to his head, making flat honking noises?

Answer: Rincewind

Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger... Yes, it's Rincewind, who can't even spell wizard. As fleeing Megapode, he is responsible for the longest chase ever recorded in the sporting game 'Hunt the Megapode'.

3. Behold, the Emperor! But how often does the candle that never goes out ... not go out while Mr Smeems is Candle Knave?

Answer: Three times

'The candle that never goes out has failed to go out three times since I've been Candle Knave, lad. It's a record!' (Mr Smeems to Mr Nutt) We don't get to know why the Emperor should never go out, it's just one of those traditions.

4. 'Traitor!' roared Ridcully. Whom did he mean?

Answer: The Dean - for leaving UU

The Dean has left UU and is now the new Archchancellor of the Brazeneck University. He did this (how dare he?) for reasons of remuneration! Ridcully is rather ... vexed.

5. The first time the Faculty watched a football match someone explained the basic rules to them. Who?

Answer: Mr Ottomy, bledlow

UU lives fairly well on Archchancellor's Preserved Bigger's Bequest. The condition to this Bequest is that the University is to enter a team in the game of foot-the-ball at least once every twenty years. Unfortunately, this condition has been forgotten for about twenty years (give or take, you know, roundabout)... Well, about time to see what football is about.

Mr Ottomy is not too happy about his role as teacher: He is used to shouting in public. Speaking in public is a different kettle of humiliation for him.

6. The Faculty is discussing football and the building of the future UU team. Concerning that, to what exactly should a couple of inches be added (to prevent mobbing by the ladies)?

Answer: The team's short trousers

After discovering that a team wears short trousers to play a game of football (about mid-knee), and determining that 'a glimpse of the male knee can drive women into a frenzy of libidinousness' (which, as we know, is true), Mustrum Ridcully pronounces this memorable rule.

7. 'Notable Wizards of our Time' is a delight for card collectors of all ages! Which member of the UU Faculty is in it?

Answer: None of them

The reason is in no way the spitefulness of the former Dean! Nay! But the Wizla tobacco, snuff and rolling paper company from Pseudopolis came up with these collectible cards. And people from Pseudopolis are rather ... patriotic in their outlook.

8. Throughout the book Mr Nutt is accompanied by cries indicating his true species. What does he hear?

Answer: Awk! Awk!

In the beginning of 'Unseen Academicals' everyone (including Mr Nutt) believes that Mr Nutt is a goblin. Later on, we (and said Nutt) find out that he is actually from the orc race. As the orc race is feared for its savagery (even more so than the elves, the Nac Mac Feegle and the, well, humans) it is generally thought wiser to claim that Mr Nutt is a goblin.

9. When Glenda Sugarbean needs to talk to Lord Vetinari, she bribes his guards so that they let her pass. What does she use?

Answer: A Jammy Devil

Glendy uses Jammy Devils, one per guard.

The infamous Meat Pie Floater was encountered (and defeated) by Rincewind. ('The Last Continent')
The Doughnut Jimmy is actually Ankh-Morpork's finest horse doctor. ('Feet of Clay')
Who (or what) could be bribed by CMOT Dibbler's Sausage in a Bun is anybody's guess.

10. At the end of 'Unseen Academicals' Mr Nutt is granted one favour by Lord Vetinari. Which one?

Answer: He is given one of the city's Golem horses

Mr Nutt borrows the Golem horse in order to take Glenda for a ride through Quirm on a warm summer's evening. She has secretly wanted to have such a ride, as Juliet had previously told Mr Nutt.

Source: Author Siggi

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