The "Queste" of All Time Trivia Quiz

Answer: Pickled herring

Snorri doesn't want the herring at first, thinking it will remind her too much of home. But Nicko pleads with her to at least try some and she does.

Answer: Twenty-six

Merrin tries the Summons once, and then, when he can't see anything happening, he tries it again. And again. Twenty-six times, to be exact. He doesn't know that Things are invisible until you Remove their Invisibility.

Answer: Licorice snake

Merrin, who has never tasted a sweet before, can't decide which kind to pick first. Eventually he decides on the snake because it reminds him of the (real) one Simon kept-and he's always wondered what snake tasted like.

Answer: Inside the Palace garden shed

Merrin doesn't want DomDaniel's bones, so he orders the Thing to chuck them down the well. But before the Thing gets a chance to do this, Sarah comes by and "Shields the well from the Darke for a year and a day."

Answer: Herself

Marcia's birthday is coming up, and since the shoes have an "M" inscribed on them, she thought that Septimus must be ordering them as a birthday present for her. But after threatening Terry Tarsal, he finally tells her that the shoes are being made for Marcellus Pye, not Marcia.

Answer: False

It's actually the "double spin reverse whiz." Somehow he ends up facing the way he's come.

Answer: Merrin

Jenna's running through the rain to the Palace when she hurtles around a corner and knocks into Merrin, who is running to the Manuscriptorium for his job interview. The map tears in the collision and falls down into a puddle.

Answer: Books

Two books, in fact: a Darke Hex Diary and a Darke Rat Rebus from the Wild Book Store. This happened when Ephaniah was fourteen years old, so the poor man is used to the way he is by now.

Answer: Trashcan

Septimus's Projection is very complex. It has both substance and sound (the trashcan clatters very loudly), and is altogether extremely realistic. Marcia and all the other Wizards are astounded, and Septimus proudly soaks up the praise.

Answer: Yes

The Thing crouches down in the pot, ready to place the Questing Stone into Septimus's hand when he reaches in. However, Septimus cleverly does an advanced See Spell and therefore learns that there's a Thing in the Pot and Tertius Fume is cheating.

Answer: Through the Ice Tunnels

It only takes two minutes and forty-nine seconds to put the Tower under Siege, and Marcia, knowing Septimus has to get away, shoves him off with a promise to look for him once the Siege is over. Septimus meets Beetle and Jenna and the three of them go into the broom closet and escape down the Ice Tunnels, just in time - but not before the Thing-possessed Hildegarde hands the Questing Stone to Septimus.

Answer: Blue, green, yellow, orange, red, black

The rhyme goes:

Blue to get ready,
Green to go.
Yellow to guide you
Through the snow.
Orange to warn you
That over you'll go.
Then red will be the final glow.
Now seek the black; there's no going back.

Answer: Sam

Ephaniah promised Morwenna that he'd give her anything if only she would show the kids the Forest Way. But Morwenna decides that she wants Ullr, and to get him she needs Jenna. Septimus and Beetle hear the younger witches talking about this at night and know that they have to get away.

Answer: Spit Fyre

After Simon finds Merrin, Merrin thinks he'll have to leave. So he angrily packs his things and goes out to the garden shed, where he finds DomDaniel's bones. Merrin, toughening up, throws the sack out over the kitchen wall. It lands in Billy Pot's vegetable patch, where Spit Fyre later eats it for breakfast.

Answer: Merrin

Ephaniah sees the scrap of paper because Merrin is sitting with his feet up on the Front Office Clerk's desk, eating a licorice snake. At first Ephaniah is angry that Merrin treats the job so lightly and carelessly, but after he spots the paper he excitedly grabs it and runs down to the basement to ReUnite it to the rest of the map.

Answer: Rainforest

Since these are Ancient Ways, the forests behind the doors change over time. The desert was once a forest.

Answer: A snake

Jenna probably wouldn't have figured the riddles out except for Snorri's map, which helpfully had pictures of a snake, a key, and a shadow on it.

Answer: "Is that you, Catchpole?"

The companions wonder who could be so stupid as to completely disregard everything they're saying and keep on scrubbing the letters away. Septimus figures that it could only be Catchpole, so he writes, "Is that you, Catchpole?" in the hopes that maybe he'll realize the door is talking to him.

Answer: With a Projection Spell

The Guards, Fowler and Brat, are hard on Nicko's heels, but then Septimus makes a very advanced leap in Magyk and does a realistic Projection of Nicko running the opposite way than he really is. This buys them some time, which they use to escape to the lobby and bar themselves in.

Answer: Marcia, Sarah, and Spit Fyre

Just as Septimus, Beetle, Jenna, Nicko and Snorri are about to leave the House of Foryx and risk whatever Time they might step out into, there comes a loud banging on the door. Septimus knows of only one person who would ignore a serviceable doorbell and use the knocker: "'Well,' said Marcia with a broad smile, 'aren't you going to ask me in?'"