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Quiz about The Light Fantastic Random Questions

'The Light Fantastic' Random Questions Quiz

I have taken Terry Pratchett's 'The Light Fantastic', the second 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: 4 mins.

Author
orlandodaddy

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
223,698

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
499

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Why did Bethan feel reluctant about being saved from the sacrificial altar? Hint

She was waiting for Cohen the Barbarian to rescue her, not Twoflower.

She had volunteered for the sacrifice to save her father's life.

She had stayed a virgin so she could be with the Moon Goddess.

She was extremely devout and felt her sacrifice was needed for the land's good fortune.

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Question 2 of 10

2. When Rincewind is in the grove of talking trees, he kicks one. What does it drop on his head? Hint

An apple.

An acorn.

A pinecone.

A chipmunk.

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Question 3 of 10

3. When Rincewind is inside the Octavo, which of the following is claimed by the spells to have been "In the beginning..."? Hint

The word.

All of them.

The Great Egg of the Universe.

The Clearing of the Throat.

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Question 4 of 10

4. What kind of food does Twoflower says he has in the Luggage when he, Rincewind, Bethan and Cohen have climbed down Old Grandad and notice the horses have fled with all their food? Hint

Horse jerky

Traveller's Digestives

Five-course dinner

A rack of ribs from Harga's

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Question 5 of 10

5. When the Horse Tribe necromancer is reading the Caroc cards, which character appears on the Death card? Hint

Susan Sto Helit

Rincewind

The Luggage

Twoflower

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Question 6 of 10

6. What game does Twoflower teach Death? Hint

Chess

Three Card Monty

Cripple Mr. Onion

Bridge

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who is the wizard attempting to gain unlimited power at Unseen University? Hint

Galder Weatherwax

Wert

Trymon

Lemuel Panter

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Question 8 of 10

8. How did the wizard Greyhald Spold die? Hint

Beheading

Asphyxiation

Eaten by the Luggage

Poisoned by Trymon

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Question 9 of 10

9. Where does Cohen get the material for his false teeth? Hint

A broken set of Twoflower's dentures

Shards from the tooth of Old Grandad

The Pyramid of Tsort

The Luggage

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Question 10 of 10

10. After all the Eight Spells have been returned to the Octavo, where does it end up? Hint

Back in the cellars of Unseen University.

The Pyramid of Tsort.

Death's study.

Inside The Luggage

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Why did Bethan feel reluctant about being saved from the sacrificial altar?

Answer: She had stayed a virgin so she could be with the Moon Goddess.

"I could have been up there with the Moon Goddess by now, drinking mead out of a silver bowl. Eight years of staying home on Saturday nights right down the drain!"

2. When Rincewind is in the grove of talking trees, he kicks one. What does it drop on his head?

Answer: An acorn.

The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. "Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree, and led a clean, decent and upstanding life, could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper."

3. When Rincewind is inside the Octavo, which of the following is claimed by the spells to have been "In the beginning..."?

Answer: All of them.

Other "beginning's" they argue about are primordial slime and firmament (rather sticky, like candyfloss). "Anyway, whatever it was, we remember it distinctly."

4. What kind of food does Twoflower says he has in the Luggage when he, Rincewind, Bethan and Cohen have climbed down Old Grandad and notice the horses have fled with all their food?

Answer: Traveller's Digestives

Rincewind and Twoflower eventually find the horses and breakfast on dried horse jerky.

5. When the Horse Tribe necromancer is reading the Caroc cards, which character appears on the Death card?

Answer: The Luggage

The Luggage would follow its owner anywhere. Although Twoflower is not dead, he is later found in Death's house.

6. What game does Twoflower teach Death?

Answer: Bridge

Actually, the game is never identified as bridge, but all the clues point to that game.

Twoflower: "In your language it's called a thing you put across a river, I think."
Rincewind: "Aqueduct? Fishing Line? Weir? Dam?"
Twoflower: "Yes, possibly."

Bridgeplaying friends of mine claim that "Dam" would be a better name for the game since they use that word so often.

7. Who is the wizard attempting to gain unlimited power at Unseen University?

Answer: Trymon

Wert and Panter are among the wizards that are trapped by Trymon when he steals the Octavo. Galder Weatherwax is the head of Trymon's own order (Order of the Silver Star) who disappears when he mistakenly summons The Luggage instead of Rincewind.

8. How did the wizard Greyhald Spold die?

Answer: Asphyxiation

He was the oldest wizard on the Disc and determined to keep it that way. He built an impregnable box of curlyfern pine (which grows to a great age) protected by amulets, withing the eightfold Octogram of Withholding, surrounded by rare and rather smelly oils in complicated patterns. But he forgot about the necessity of airholes in any enterprise of this kind.

9. Where does Cohen get the material for his false teeth?

Answer: Shards from the tooth of Old Grandad

Old Grandad is a sleeping troll big as a mountain; they camp in his mouth. They escape when the Luggage breaks through his teeth which are made of diamond. Cohen uses those shards to make his dentures after learning about the concept from Twoflower. The Pyramid of Tsort is the source of the information on the power to be gained by saying all the Octavo spells.

10. After all the Eight Spells have been returned to the Octavo, where does it end up?

Answer: Inside The Luggage

"The Octavo dropped into the centre of the shouting mass. There was a snap. A decisive snap, the sort of snap made by a lid that doesn't intend to be opening in a hurry."

Source: Author orlandodaddy

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