KNIGHTMARE UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

 

Here you must identify a particular dungeoneer’s quest as your starter for ten, and then identify which characters are responsible for three quotes from that quest as the bonuses for five points each. If you answer the starter correctly then you can have a go at the quotes, but if you get a starter wrong then the bonuses that follow it cannot count towards your total score. Keep track of your points as you work through the questions, and see how well you performed by reading the legend at end of this section.

 

1. Series 4. 2 boys, 2 girls. The first challenge of the season. (10)

a. “It’s good to know that you can display compassion.” (5)

b. “Remain true to your promise, for one cannot countenance treachery.” (5)

c. “I have come to regard your progress through my realm as something of a personal insult, so I shall now put an end to it!” (5)

 

2. Series 3. Four boys from Kent. A level three performance. (10)

a. “Here you are, bacon-features, and a boner bit of lootings it is, too.” (5)

b. “It really is pathetic to look upon the strugglings of ordinary mortals.” (5)

c. “You will just have to go back, or, perhaps, go down!” (5)

 

3. Series 5. Four Lancashire lasses. The final quest of the series. (10)

a. “I’m off to get some grub, before I dies!” (5)

b. “I still miss my mummy, you know.” (5)

c. “Why can’t women ever understand the need for haste?” (5)     

 

4. Series 8. Four St. Albans lads. A winning quest… just about! (10)

a. “I should try shouting; that’s what you humans do all the time!” (5)

b. “Wonderful! Does that mean at last we can use it for…?” (5)

c. “There’s only one way to escape Marblehead, and that is by using one of its infernal devices.” (5)

 

5. Series 2. Oxfordshire boys. Groundbreakers. (10)

a. “I can stand snakes, I can stand spooks, but I can’t stand them things!” (5)

b. “You may have heard of me perhaps, or better still, you may even have read of me.” (5)

c. “If I had wanted to live in a cathedral I would have done so!” (5)

 

 

Answers:

 

1. Helen II, with James, Rachel and Craig. (10)

a. Merlin. (5)

b. Hordriss. (5)

c. Mogdred. (5)

 

2. Leo, with Simon, Matthew and James. (10)

a. Motley. (5)

b. Mogdred. (5)

c. Hordriss. (5)

 

3. Kelly II, with Keighley, Tarin and Rachel. (10)

a. Sylvester Hands. (5)

b. Sir Hugh. (5)

c. Lord Fear. (5)    

 

4. Dunston, with Alan, Oliver and Alex. (10)

a. Smirkenorff. (5)

b. Lissard. (5)

c. Hordriss. (5)

 

5. Mark, with Jonathan, Matthew and Daniel. (10)

a. Cedric. (5)

b. Merlin. (5)

c. Lillith. (5)

 

Score:

0-45: Come on!

50-95: You might make it to the semis.

100-115: A finalist to be sure.

120-125: An ultimate Knightmare University Challenge champion.