Q 01/05

Which Discworld hero, still fighting in his nineties, wears dentures made from a troll's diamond teeth?

A) Hrun the Barbarian

B) Truckle the Uncivil

C) Cohen the Barbarian

D) Mad Hamish

Answer · why

C) Cohen the Barbarian

Cohen the Barbarian. An echo of Conan grown very old, he leads the Silver Horde, a band of equally ancient heroes who have lasted this long by being e...

Q 02/05

On the backs of which four giant animals does the Disc rest?

A) Whales

B) Elephants

C) Dragons

D) Rhinoceroses

Answer · why

B) Elephants

Elephants. Legend on the Disc says there was once a fifth, which slipped off and crashed back onto the world, leaving the buried deposits of fat that ...

Q 03/05

What is the name of the giant turtle that carries the Discworld through space?

A) Jerakeen

B) Great T'Phon

C) Berilia

D) Great A'Tuin

Answer · why

D) Great A'Tuin

Great A'Tuin. Nobody on the Disc knows whether the turtle is male or female, so in the first novel the people of Krull build a capsule to drop over th...

Q 04/05

Which Discworld novel came last?

A) Raising Steam

B) I Shall Wear Midnight

C) The Shepherd's Crown

D) Unseen Academicals

Answer · why

C) The Shepherd's Crown

The Shepherd's Crown, the 41st, came out months after Pratchett died in 2015. He had asked that anything left unfinished be destroyed, so in 2017 his ...

Q 05/05

What was the title of the first Discworld novel, published in 1983?

A) The Light Fantastic

B) The Colour of Magic

C) Moving Pictures

D) Interesting Times

Answer · why

B) The Colour of Magic

The Colour of Magic. Pratchett called it an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns, and it ends on a l...