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Vol XIX: Discworld

I’ve always wanted to do a series specific quiz and since we’re running a Discworld themed game of mafia over on the RPG board I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone. Shameless self-promotion and a quiz on one of my favorite series, if you’d like to join us, just go to our Registration Thread. It probably goes without saying that this quiz contains spoilers.

This one will be broken into 3 categories, Geography, Characters, and Books

Geography – Name that place

1. This city is the most well-known from the series, and the setting for a large number of its books.

2. This small kingdom in the Ramtops is home to numerous witches, one of whom authored an erotic cookbook titled “The Joye of Snackes”.

3. This vast, dark, and foreboding land has broken into numerous smaller states ruled by vampires, werewolves, and dwarves after the breakup of the Evil Empire.

4. This large nation, ruled from its capital of Al Khlai, is featured as one of the two disputants in the book Jingo and is the home of the character known as “71-hour Ahmed”.

5. This ancient river kingdom is best known for its many pyramids.

Characters - Name that Character

1. This corporal of the Night Watch carries a signed note by the ruler of his city certifying that he is, in all probability, a human. He is also a kleptomaniac.

2. This merchant, who is known for his many adventurous and spectacularly unsuccessful business ventures typically sells meat pies in between his other doomed enterprises.

3. This witch is known and feared throughout her home in the Ramtops and beyond, and is an expert on Headology and “Borrowing”, a technique in which one puppets the body of an animal.

4. This decidedly gaunt-appearing character has appeared in virtually every book in the series and takes customer service rather seriously in spite of rarely getting repeat business.

5. This wizard is the current in a long line of ill-fated Arch-Chancellors of Unseen University, and is well known for his love of crossbows and hunting.

Books - Name that Book

1. This book, the second one focusing on the Night Watch, revolves heavily around a string of crimes committed with a new and dangerous weapon.

2. This book revolves around a confrontation between witches and some very genre-savvy vampires.

3. This book tells the story of a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter of the craftsmen he is apprenticed to.

4. This book revolves around the efforts of a city’s Postmaster switch that city from a gold standard, and hopefully make some money while he’s at it.

5. This Interesting volume tells the story of a very unskilled wizard who finds himself stuck in an ancient and vast empire in the middle of a very ineffectual rebellion.

... and again, come to the Mafia Game 33 Registration Thread if you'd like to play in a Discworld flavored game.

Previous Quizzes
Vol I: Quotes
Vol II: The Sequel
Vol III: Openers
Vol IV: Name That Toon
Vol V: The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Vol VI: Big Dumb Objects
Vol VII: Apocalypse How
Vol VIII: Time Loop
Vol IX: You Bet Your Life
Vol X: Parodies
Vol XI: Zombie Apocalypse
Vol XII: Humanitarians
Vol XIII: Scary Movies
Vol XIV: Circle Quiz 2.0 or the Scif-FI Circle Quiz
Vol XV: Comic Crossover
Vol XVI: A Novel Idea
Vol XVII: Quotes II
Vol XVIII: The Science of Sci-Fi