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. Suffolk lads. A cutting end in level three. (10)

a. “I don’t suppose you’ve been educated in the matter of elf paths, have you?” (5)

b. “Silly, really, because if they have a price, they can’t be priceless, can they?” (5)

c. “With our pact redeemed I have no further interest in your progress.” (5)

2. Series 1. From all over West Yorkshire. First to reach level 3. (10)

a. “I’m along for the ride, if you’re willing!” (5)

b. “Oh, it’s a dungeoneer. How quaint. I thought they’d stopped sending them after what happened to the last one.” (5)

c. “I may have let you go, but I don’t have to like you.” (5)

3. Series 7. Staffordshire ladies. The only all-girl winners. (10)

a. “The hills and forests are my places, and I walk in this land not by choice.”

b. “You are not on the side of Fear. Well, that would make you a dungeoneer.”

c. “That puts hairs on your bottom, that does!” (5 each)      

4. Series 5. Kentish men. A golden blunder leads to capture. (10)

a. “The last time I saw something as beautiful as this, I dreamed it was me birthday!” (5)

b. “You’d best be going or it’ll soon be Autumn, and then where will you be?”

c. “Magic horn! Oh no, it’s not! I’m gonna put my irons on you!” (5)

5. Series 2. 4 from suburban Surrey. The blind leading the blind. (10)

a. “I knows what you are; you’s breakfast!” (5)

b. “Your quest is for the Sword, but you may not wield it. I scorn you!” (5)

c. “How dare you come in here pretending to be what you are not?” (5)

Answers:

1. Alistair, with Harry, Martin and James. (10)

a. Brother Mace. (5)

b. Merlin. (5)

c. Malice. (5)

2. Richard I, with Jonathan, Paul and Edward. (10)

a. Casper. (5)

b. Merlin. (5)

c. Gibbet. (5)

3. Julie II, with the two Helens and Sam. (10)

a. Grimaldine. (5)

b. Brother Strange. (5)

c. Sylvester Hands. (5)    

4. Richard II, with Darren, Daniel and James. (10)

a. Motley. (5)

b. Oakley. (5)

c. Skarkill. (5)

5. Akash, with Kirsten, Carrie and Tanya. (10)

a. Troll. (5)

b. Igneous. (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.