Knightmare QI
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Okay, here are the answers...
1. What species is the Brollachan?
Cliche: "Wall monster". Although it was able to phase through walls, it didn't appear to be a wall itself.
Treguard stated that the Brollachan was supposed to be extinct, therefore they were probably a species in their own right.
2. What was the most frequent quest killer in Knightmare?
Cliche: "Corridor of Blades". It only claimed four deaths in series history.
The most common killer was falling from a height, which happened no fewer than eighteen times (including four quests in a row in series 3)! If you want me to be more precise, the most common fall was causeway puzzles, which ended six quests.
3. What was the first spell cast in Knightmare using the standard chants?
Cliche: "FREEZER". This was the first spell cast by a team.
Treguard cast the DISMISS spell in the first episode.
4. What species is Smirkenorff?
Cliche: "Dragon". Dragons are real and come from the Far East.
Smirkenorff is a wyrm (crested green), which according to some legends is so-called because it shares a common ancestor with the lowly earthworm! Wyrms are often referred to as dragons, but for all the similarities, there is no evidence that the legend of the wyrm is based on dragons.
5. What type of wizard is Lord Fear?
Cliche: "Technomancer". While a case can be made for its legitimacy, the term was never used at any stage in series history to describe Lord Fear, although the term "Technomancy" was used once or twice.
Fear was a Technosorcerer.
- What nationality is Grimaldine the Green Wizard?
Cliche: "Celtic". Contrary to myth, the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish and the Cornish are not really Celtic. The Celts dominated most of Europe before the rise of the Roman Empire, but never reached the British Isles in any great numbers.
Grimaldine was a Broll. At a stretch, I would also accept the answer "Cornish" or even "English"; it's unclear which time Grimaldine comes from, so Cornwall might still have been a kingdom in its own right, or an English county.
7. What is the name of the palace Maldame stole from Lord Fear?
Cliche: "Linghorn". This is a mis-spelling.
The correct spelling is Linghorm.
8. What was the device that dungeon characters were incarcerated in by the neck and wrists so that passers-by could hurl rotten fruit vegetables at them?
Cliche: "Stocks". The stocks were the device that incarcerated them on the ground by their ankles.
The device that incarcerated people while they were more or less upright was a pillory.
9. What nationality is Olaf the Dead?
Cliche: "Viking". The term does not signify a nationality, but simply means, 'Raider'.
He might have been Danish, but given the Norse name, the more northern accent, and that his brother was Erik The Red, he was almost certainly a Norwegian.
10. Which is the odd one out; Cedric, Mogdred, Brother Mace or Brother Strange?
Cliche: "Mogdred, because he isn't a monk". It is highly debatable whether Mace is a monk either, even though he refers to himself as a 'Tavern monk'.
Mace is the odd one out, as he was the only one who never wore a monk's robe. Instead he wore the habit of a Franciscan Friar (which also makes him an anachronism). The idea that friars and monks are the same thing is a simplification; they are very similar in their roles, but friars are scholars and travelling missionaries, whereas monks rarely journey beyond the walls of their home monasteries.
11. In how many episodes of season 7 did the original Helmet Of Justice appear?
Cliche: "None."
Cliche: "Two: the episodes when a corpse is shown in the pillory in Level Three."
The answer is all of them. The dungeoneer is wearing the original incarnation of the Helmet in the title sequence.
12. Name the first robot to inhabit the dungeon.
Cliche: "The Automaton."
Automaton is not a name but a noun. The correct name is the Automatum.
Congratulations, EyeShield, you are the winner, and your prize is a grand total of nothing at all.
Please keep your eyes open for another KMQI quiz, which will be in the next issue of The Eye Shield, as mentioned above.
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I will
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How come you only got 3 points, then?
I hope you'll enter the next Knightmare QI in the upoming issue of TES, Pooka. I'm slightly worried that no one will.
I only got 3 because I got the spell question wrong. I was trying to be clever and assumed DISMISS would be the cliché, in that I thought advisors would be taught how to spellcast pretty much from the very start!
And yes, I'll enter.
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I've got four entrants so far. This response has been so pleasing that I have written another QI quiz for the next issue of TES - thanks for setting the ball rolling on this phenomenon, HStorm.
The next round is designed to be a bit easier than the current one, which I must admit to finding incredibly tough when HStorm first sent me the questions.
The deadline for this round is Friday April 20th 2007, so there's still plenty of time to get those entries in.
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Entries seem to have dried up a bit (well, completely) in the past week, so I've decided to post the questions on here too, in the hopes that more Knightmare fans will see them and want to answer them. Enter the competition and you could win a fabulous prize - pride! PM me your answers, or e-mail eyeshield2002@hotmail.com by Friday 20th April 2007.
The rules as explained by quiz author HStorm: If you give a correct answer, you get one point. You get up to two bonus points if you can embellish a correct answer with some Quite Interesting supplementary details. If you give a wrong, but unusual, answer, you’ll get zero points for it. Give an answer that is not only wrong, but is also clichéd and pathetically obvious, and you will lose at least ten points.
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Who was Mogdred’s lover?
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Which is the odd spell out? FIRE, FREE, FREEZE, FREEZER, SPLASH.
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What does the following code signify? MK4, JN10, DN6, BN4, BN5, JE6, BY7, DN6.
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Which is the odd one out? Blades, Spikes, Catacomb, Spears.
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Give the name of the rude cavern elf who acted as Smirkenorff's guardian for two seasons.
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Which is the odd spell out? FLIGHT, TRANSFORM, WEB, FLOAT, BIG.
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In how many seasons of Knightmare was Mogdred the arch-villain?
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What does this sequence signify? ISS, ISS, ZER, ARE, ERN, ISS, TCH, VIL, ISS, ELL, ISS, ELL, ISS.
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We now have a new leader, in the shape of my fellow member of the newly-formed "Seeing Eye spells are pointless" club, Drassil. Congratulations, Drassil, on achieving a phenomenal score of 16, which is fully two thirds of the 24 available marks. Can anyone better this feat? If you're out there, you've got less than 3 weeks to do it!
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Thank you.
Perhaps more people would enter if I offered them a T-shirt...
Quite possibly! Though the quiz is tricky, and unlikely to be everyone's cup of tea. Likewise, Knightmare and QI themselves are the kind of shows which many people love to watch but would never want to participate in. So I wouldn't take it personally. Plus, not everybody's a cat person, so winning a group of lions wouldn't... oh, hang on.
Enter the competition and you could win a fabulous prize - pride!
Oh. I thought you said a pride. My mistake. Better put the gazelles on eBay.
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