This is another one of those posts where I have to start with an apology because I was meant to publish it a long time ago.
As usual, one thing led to another, and instead of getting this done, I ended up reinforcing the notion that I'm a lazy, slack-jawed slob, stuck miles behind the times, clinging on by the skin of my teeth, desperately playing catch-up, without a hope of ever meeting any real deadlines.
As it turns out, it's a statement that is so accurate it's like a window onto my very essence. So much for internet anonymity.
Anyway this should have been posted before the seventh season of Game of Thrones aired on HBO and Sky Atlantic during the summer, because it's kind of a refresher quiz I wrote for some friends who were hosting a small party to celebrate the first episode.
This means that some of the answers might have since gone out of date, become too obvious, or even changed altogether. And that's basically my way of saying that if any Game of Thrones experts find some horribly blatant errors in my answers, then it just wasn't my fault, guv'nor.
I've misplaced the digital file that has all the questions on it (in live type), but I still have the following photos. And with a little luck everything on them should be just about legible. (EDIT: I've found the file and the more legible questions can now be found here.)
The folded A3 sheet was designed for the quizmaster (me) to read from, so it had all the answers printed directly below the questions (because my memory is about as reliable as Little Finger's word). Therefore for the sake of anyone who might be interested in reading the questions first, I've crudely redacted all the answers on the first couple of photos.
The eagle-eyed among you (or perhaps raven-eyed) may have noticed that round two, question 13 suggests you look at some cards. These are shown below. Simply narrow down the blue cards till you are left with the six correct dire wolf names, then match each wolf to its correct Stark master (as shown on the red cards). Twelve points if you get everything right.
A word of warning, no-one who has ever played this round has got all twelve points.
And then here are the questions again, but this time without me censoring the answers. Please tell me they are not too small to read.* It's probably not much fun if you've forgotten your glasses. You'll notice there are some additional questions and answers at the end. These were included on the off-chance that people were really enjoying the quiz and didn't want it to end. Kind of like a standing ovation for the quiz... And me... If only.
*If you can't make out the answers, and want to know what it says, just leave a comment below and I'll get back to you.
Oops. It's been pointed out that question 18 – the one about the publishing order – is somewhat contentious, and that my answer is probably wrong. As far as I can tell, the answer I have given is dependent upon people including the book 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' as a bona fide member of the series, and then ignoring the publishing date, and going by the in-universe chronology of the stories collected within it. Therefore you should probably only get a point if you said Game of Thrones was the first book.
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