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1. Why did the Guild of Assassins take pity on Teatime?
2. At the beginning of 'Hogfather', Mustrum Ridcully is getting Modo to open a door with a sign on it reading 'Do not, under any circumstances open this door'. He's doing this 'To see why they wanted it shut'. The footnote explains that this tells us 'all we need to know about human civilisation. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still ______' what?
3. Mustrum Ridcully supplied what vital ingredient for the cure for the oh God of hangovers in 'Hogfather'?
4. What did Susan threaten would happen to Gawain if she caught him being twee again?
5. The first letter to the Hogfather we find in the book is read by the Death of Rats. In it a small child asks for 'a drum an a dolly an a teddybear an a Gharstley Omnian Inquisision Torchure Chamber with Wind-up Rack and Nearly Real Blud'. Which child wrote this?
6. When Death starts driving the sleigh (pulled by Rooter, Gouger, Tusker and Snouter, four large wild pigs), before he discovers the magic words to get them moving ('Apple Sauce'), he tries 'Giddyup' and 'Pig hoo-ey'. 'Pig Hoo-ey' is a short story by what other brilliant author?
7. Banjo 'reminded Sideney too much of Ronnie Jenks, the bully' who'd made Sideney's life a misery at school. What school?
8. When Susan was eight she'd made twenty-seven dollars from her parents by putting teeth out for the tooth fairy from a collection of animal skulls that she'd found in the attic. A molar from which animal had been the mistake that got her found out?
9. Jack Frost doesn't sleep. True or false?
10. According to the book 'Hogfather', if you wanted a small ground-to-air missile from Bergholt Stuttley Johnson, the world's 'worst inventor', what should you ask him to design?
11. Euphrasia Goat wants a pony from the Hogfather - as part of her present the 'Hogfather' gives her a 'pair of those trousers that make you look as though you have a large ______ in each pocket'. What?
12. In Crumley's, Euphrasia Goat asks for a pony and the 'Hogfather' tells her he has left one in the kitchen. Her mother is not impressed and sharply says that they live on the third floor and the Hogfather is only joking. The 'Hogfather' agrees that he was. So, did he leave Euffie a pony and, if so, where?
13. All the random belief sloshing around because the Hogfather's dead is bringing things into being. Bibulous is the Discworld's God of Wine. Who is the 'oh God of Hangovers'?
14. Another being called into life in 'Hogfather' appears in the laundry. It looks like a very small elephant with a very wide trunk. The Chair of Indefinite Studies is cross with it. What is it?
15. Little Match Girls dying in the snow is also part of what the spirit of Hogswatch is all about; so Death lets her die. True or false?
16. Who was the only one of the Wizards who'd enjoyed Hogwatch all his life?
17. 'On Dasher, on Dancer , on Cupid and Vixen...' you all know how it goes here on Earth, but who is missing from the Hogfather's sleigh pullers? Snouter, Gouger, Rooter and _______?
18. Who is the leader of the Ankh-Morpork Wassailers in 'Hogfather'?
19. After the 'Hogfather' has erm..redistributed the food, what is NOT on the menu at the posh restaurant in Ankh Morpork for Hogswatch?
20. What were the gang using to control children?
21. The things that frightened them as children come after the gang in the house where they've worked the teeth spell. What was Chickenwire's especial fear?
22. When Twyla's uncle died, they just told her that he'd 'gone'. For three weeks, Twyla believed that her uncle had been buried in 'the sad patch' 'along with Buster and Meepo and all three Bulgies'. What were the three Bulgies?
23. What does Banjo Lilywhite want to stay in the house and do the Tooth Fairy's job?
24. Hex, the Unseen University 'computer', is given a teddy bear for Hogswatch. Whenever it is taken away his response is '+++ Mine! Waaaah! +++'. None of the students want to live in a world where they have to tell the Archchancellor that Hex won't work without his bear. What do they decide to say it needs instead?
25. What extra 'toy' does Gawain have at the end of the book?
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