The Dance of the Seasons Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mouse

Miss Treason has long white hair and carries a perch across her shoulders on which two ravens sit on either end. Miss Treason is in fact only 111 years old, "Er...I adjusted it slightly for professional reasons," said Miss Treason. "One hundred and eleven sounds so...adolescent." She dispenses justice to her townsfolk and has made use of rumours (many of which she began herself) to gain respect from her people. Such rumours included having a demon in her cellar, eating spiders and that the mechanical clock she wears at her waist was created in place of her heart. If it stops, she dies.

All the animals mentioned in the answers have been used by Miss Treason. When Tiffany met her she was using a mouse, as her 'seeing-eye' jackdaw had died. At one point she even uses an earwig, which made certain of the Nac Mac Feegle very nervous.

"Er...aye...oooh...aarg...waily, waily, waily!" moaned Daft Wullie, and dropped to his knees. "Please dinna do somethin' horrible tae me, mistress!" he begged. "Yon earwiggy is givin' me a dreadful look!"

Answer: She joined in the dance

There are two kinds of Morris dance. The first is the traditional dance which welcomes summer, the dancers are dressed in white, wearing ribbons and bells. There are musicians and the Fool who dances between the dancers and entertains the crowd. The Dark Morris is to welcome the winter. It is danced under the moonlight sans musicians and Fool. The dancers are dressed in black and are silent except for their boots hitting the ground. Tiffany felt compelled to dance and this brought her to the Wintersmith's attention and sent the Summer Lady underground. As Granny Weatherwax says to Miss Tick:

"A witch who won't wear black. No, it's blue and green for her, like green grass under a blue sky. She calls to the strength of her hills, all the time. An' they calls to her! Hills that was once alive, Miss Tick! They feels the rhythm of the Dance, an' so in her bones does she, if she did but know it. And this shapes her life, even here! She could not help but tap her feet! The land taps its feet to the Dance of the Seasons!"

Answer: Paper thin ice roses

The Wintersmith first created the Tiffany snowflakes. He then made dozens of paper thin roses out of ice. Following that, he wrote Tiffany's name over and over on the cottage windows with frost ferns and then he created Tiffany shaped icebergs. Thankfully he did not create heart shaped hailstones, but no-one would probably have noticed anyway as with the Tiffany snowflakes. Nanny Ogg says that the Wintersmith was trying to impress Tiffany, "he wanted to show you his muscles".

Answer: You

Granny Weatherwax made a big show of not wanting the kitten, but warmed up to it. She named it 'You' as in "You! Stop that!" and "You! Get of there!". The cat ate chicken, while Granny and Miss Tick ate bacon and pease pudding where the bacon had made a short cameo and been removed and she even rode on Granny's head under her hat.

"I can't help it," Granny muttered. "If I leave the dratted thing alone, it goes under the dresser and cries and cries." She looked around at the others as if daring them to say anything. "Anyway," she added, "it keeps m' head warm."

Answer: Enough to buy a bean

The rhyme the Wintersmith learned from three little children was:

"Iron enough to make a nail,
Lime enough to paint a wall,
Water enough to drown a dog,
Sulfur enough to stop the fleas,
Poison enough to kill a cow,
Potash enough to wash a shirt,
Gold enough to buy a bean,
Silver enough to coat a pin,
Lead enough to ballast a bird,
Phosphor enough to light the town,
Strength enough to build a home,
Time enough to hold a child,
Love enough to break a heart."

He could not comprehend the last three lines though and Tiffany tells him that he could not be human.

"There were some things that I could not find," said the Wintersmith. "They made no sense. They had no substance."

Answer: Cornucopia

Thanks to her dancing in the Dark Morris dance, Tiffany now inhabits the role of the Summer Lady. The fertile feet manifest in Nanny Ogg's house and Nanny Ogg takes advantage to grow some onions very quickly. The next thing to arrive was the cornucopia which fell from the sky like a meteor.

It understands all language, even cat. You the kitten 'meeped' while everyone was sleeping and the cornucopia produced hundreds of live chickens. It was capable of producing ham sandwiches for Nanny, beer for the Feegles and Tiffany was able to use it as a strawberry shooting weapon.

Answer: Son of the Baron

Roland is the son of the Baron. The Baron owns the Chalk. Well, that is to say he possesses documents that 'say' he owns the land. Roland was rescued by Tiffany from the land of the faeries previously with the help of the Feegles and they do not have much of an opinion of him.

The Nac Mac Feegle feature in all the Tiffany Aching books. They are pictsies, a few inches tall, blue and wearing kilts. They love to fight, drink and steal and believe that they are dead. They believe that they must have been very good to allow them to come to this beautiful afterlife. This makes them absolutely fearless in the face of danger and they are extremely strong and dangerous.

Answer: Bogles

According to Rob Anybody, "This one used tae be called Limbo, ye ken, 'cuz the door was verra low". In the Underworld, the bogles are seen to be feeding off of a number of people and Roland is only able to see them if he closes his eyes. He harnesses his anger and visualises a sword which becomes real and vanquishes all the bogles in their path.

They were able to rescue the Summer Lady and escape. And much like the legend of Orpheus rescuing Eurydice from Hades, Rob Anybody warns them all to not look back.

Answer: Kiss

Tiffany was taught by Granny Weatherwax how to draw heat from one source and place it into another. She had attempted it before with heat from a fireplace to heat her toes. In order to destroy the Wintersmith, she drew heat from the sun and passed it on with a kiss. This broke the perpetual winter that the Wintersmith had created and thawed out the land.

Answer: Principles of Modern Accountancy

The Big Man of the Nac Mac Feegle, Rob Anybody, read "Where's My Cow?" in front of his whole clan. Having previously read the Abker (The ABC), he felt this was slightly more challenging. To show the Feegles what kind of hero was needed to free the Summer Lady, Granny Weatherwax had inadvertently challenged Rob Anybody to read a book with hundreds of pages with words on both sides in very small writing. Rob Anybody, not knowing the meaning of the word fear, was up for the challenge.

This was not the hero that was needed. "He must do it in fear and terror like a real Hero should", says Granny Weatherwax. To prove his heroism, he then read the "Principles of Accounting".

Although he did put lots of dragons in, just to make it interesting.