This is indeed a trivia quiz, but not as difficult. You could probably find 30% of the answers by skimming a walkthrough. The other 70%, well, you’re on your own there. [img]tongue.gif[/img] This test will only be as honest as your answers.

There is a TotSC-related bonus question, and it can be answered by those who haven’t played the expansion, but it’s a smidge easier for those who’ve played the expansion.

Please do not post your answers on this forum. Not only will this thread become gargantuan (anybody hating Kobolds yet? ;) ), but posting your answers for everyone to see will be quite silly. You can either email your answers to me (my email address is lcarruba@hollins.edu) or send your answers to me in a private message (it’s the “pm” icon right by the edit/delete icon on this post). If you’re sending your answers to me by email, put something like “BG quiz” in the subject so I won’t delete the mail as spam by accident.

Again, please do not post your answers on this forum. Violators will be mocked with glee. Or obvious sarcasm, whichever the Ironworks moderators prefers more. ;)

Answers will be posted on my birthday. It’s in the next two weeks. Bonus points for anyone who can guess the date (1 point) and how old I’ll be (2 points). It’s not in my profile, just in case you’re thinking about looking there. ;)

Thanks to Six, GameBanshee, and Duncan Clay for providing inspiration and help.

THE QUIZ!

SUPPORTING CAST MATCHUP

Below are twenty minor BG quests and a name bank. Pick the name that fits the quests. (No names are used twice, but if you’re sharp, you’ll notice that there are more names than quests. Sneaky me! [img]smile.gif[/img] ) (1 point apiece)

1: “Get this dagger away from me!”
2: “Get a ring for my wife!”
3: “Kill the digging crew!”
4: “Retrieve my shawl!”
5: “Kill some ankhegs!”
6: “Find my brother!”
7: “Kill these rats!”
8: “Free the miners!”
9: “Find my girdle!”
10: “Kill the zombies!”
11: “Buy my special gem!”
12: “Find my boots!”
13: “Find my son!”
14: “Kill these half-ogres!”
15: “Kill the priestess!”
16: “Find my gloves!”
17: “Save my son!”
18: “Listen to my song!”
19: “Find my cloak!”
20: “Steal the telescope!”

Androuine, Baruk, Bjornin, Brevlik, Brun, Chloe, Fergus, Furret, Gerde, Golton, Gurke, Hentold, Hulrik, Jebadoh, Noralee, Poe, Reevor, Rill, Shoal, Tiber, Unshey, Wenric, Zhurlong

21: Take the three names you had leftover from the matchup and tell me where they’re from or what quests they were a part of. 2 points for each right answer.

22: Speaking about odd quests, three people on the Sword Coast want you to fetch a book for them. Who wants you to fetch it and where is each person located? (General area is fine.) I’ll give you 1 point for each answered, for a total of 6. For 2 points apiece, for a total of 6, can you tell me the titles of the three books? (That brings the total to 12 points on this question, btw.)

23: Another quest duplication! There are two people on the Sword Coast whom you can free from stone. I’ll give you 1 point if you name the obvious person and 2 points if you name the not-so-obvious person.

24: There is only one chapter in the game where one new NPC is available. Name this NPC for 1 point, name the chapter for 2, and tell me why for 3.

25: Name the gnome NPCs. (1 point each.)

26: How many NPCs ask that the party do a certain quest in order to keep the NPC in their party? (2 points.)
a - 11
b - 13
c - 17
d - 20

27: What is the name of the Priest in the Candlekeep Library that tells the time of how you ran about stark naked through Candlekeep as a child? (3 points.)

28: Name each member of the Merry Fools, for 2 points each:

29: What is the name of the group that picks a fight with the Merry Fools? (3 points):

30: There is one wand of polymorphing in the game. Tell me (for 3 points each) who has it, and how you get it.

The creators of Baldur’s Gate slipped in some modern-day references into some NPCs’s dialogue. Below are ten of those references. Name the character who belongs to the reference for 1 point apiece:
31: Snow White:
32: Hannibal Lecter:
33: Nancy Sinatra:
34: Monty Python:
35: Chia-Pet:

These are a little bit harder, so 2 points apiece for them.
36: Ren and Stimpy:
37: Jabberwocky:
38: the Predator:
39: the Simpsons:
40: Mystery Science Theater 3000:

41: 3 points apiece if you can quote at least part of lines referenced in…
question 38:
question 39:
question 40:

42: Another band of adventurers have been put together to find and kill Sarevok. Tell me…
…who put them together. (2 points)
…where you can find them. (2 more points)
…and name as many of them as you can remember. (2 points each for names, 1 point each for class, 4 points each for both name and class.)

BONUS QUESTIONS

There’s a BG original saga bonus question, and there’s a Tales of the Sword Coast bonus question. Pick one or the other, or try them both on for size--you’ll only get 5 bonus points for answering one or both correct, or no bonus points for an incorrect answer. Ready? Here goes…

BG: I’m not one for spoiling the end, but near the end of the game there’s a reference to people waaayyy back at the beginning of the game. In the Undercellar, you’ll find a mother and lover wondering about what happened to these two people from waaayyy back at the beginning of the game. I’ll give you 5 points if you can name them.

TOTSC: When you return to the Merchant League to fetch the sea charts, the building looks awfully familiar. On your first pass through Baldur’s Gate, what was different about the building? Two parts I’m looking for here. Five points if you can tell me the two things that were different about the Merchant League Counting House on your first pass through Baldur’s Gate.

Good luck!

THE RANKING SYSTEM:

0 points = Noober
1 - 10 pts = Jared
11 - 20 pts = Greywolf
21 - 30 pts = Charleston Nib
31 - 40 pts = Brage
41 - 50 pts = Berrun Ghastkill
51 - 60 pts = Keldath Ormlyr
61 - 70 pts = Scar
71 - 80 pts = Entar Silvershield
81 - 90 pts = Volothamp
91 - 100 pts = Thalantyr
101 - 110 pts = Ulraunt
111 - 120 pts = Tethtoril
120+ points = Elminster

<font color=white> Your a fan of SixOfSpades aren't you... ;)

nice work with the Quiz, if I played BG right know I would glady partake of it but it has been 2 years know since I last touched my BG cds... </font>

My god....did I just spend close to 2 hours on that thing??? I hope not. Anyway, I guess after not playing BG1 in over a year & a half I'm entitled to some extra time. Besides, I went above & beyond the call of duty in a few questions. So if I can do it after that long, Annatar, so can you! Heed the clarion call of trivial knowledge and drink deep from the font of overly flowery hyperbole! :D

GREAT QUIZ, PIRENGLE! Although I do happen to think that one of your questions was wrong, but I won't say which one here--it's in your Email. I really liked the way you turned the "leftover" names from the Matching section into a completely new question.

I'll shoot for the stars on this one: I expect to be at least a Volothamp. Now that'd be a fitting comeuppance, don't you think? ;)

I'd've gone so far as to say I'd bake him cookies and bear his children, but I always run into problems when baking cookies from scratch, and the child-bearing is reserved for my boyfriend. ;)

I respect people who know a lot but aren't beating everybody over the head with their knowledge. Someday I will know a lot, and someday I will be good enough not to lord it over everyone else, but in the meantime I will keep my holy shrines to great people of wisdom (yeah right) and drink from the font of their knowledge.

You pointed out a LOT of stuff that never even crossed my mind when making the quiz. Forget about getting the CDs back from your friend--I think you can play the game based off your own memory. Problem is, how to fit that into your CDROM tray...

my God...
I had vague recollections of some of the events in this quiz...
If I tried doing it, probabilities say that I'd fluke a few right in the first section.

I am not even going to attempt this one since I only just completed BG1 for the first time, and it will be a miracle if I get past the rank of Jared. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Maybe in a few months time.

I'll admit I used the notes I gathered for my own quiz rather than try it all from memory, but I think I did quite well. Aiming for a Scar, or at least a Keldath...

Just wondering Pirengle. did you get my PM?

Wanna hear something pathetic? I've beaten this game on multiple occasions, and I doubt I could rank any higher than a low noober. :) Must have been too many good drugs and hard blows to the head in my youth.

Yes, I did. I've been lax about checking this board, because life right now means a novella assignment and BG2. Unfortunately, you and Six are the only people brave enough to take it. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I've sent you an e-mail with my answers [img]smile.gif[/img] - hope you got it.

Don't regard that as a failure on your (or the Quiz's) part--the BG1 board simply doesn't have as much traffic as the BG2 board, and most people who enjoy BG1 (and are good at Quizzes like this one) move on to BG2, exactly as you just did. So you're feeling the negative side of the "Brain Siphon" sucking people over to the BG2 forum.

Also, a problem common to all 3 Quizzes is that if they're difficult enough to pose a real challenge to the smartest hardcore BG-geeks, they tend to scare everyone else away. An unavoidable side effect, I'm sorry to say.

Thanks for the quiz, Pirengle. The guys at Migdet Gems all had a go but we are hopeless at remembering names. Scored about a 'Brage' and boosted it up to 'Scar' because I had a party in the Undercity.

Here's a (modern) question for you: who says "Yes, ......, but don't call me Shirley!"

Leslie Nielsen, in the Naked Gun movies.

Yes I know it was Leslie Nielsen, but who says it in BG1?

The results are in, because today's my birthday! Legolas was the only one who guessed March 6th (or did he look in my profile to check the date before I unchecked the box?) but Pirengle turned the big 2-0 at 2:37 this morning. Strangely enough, I was at IHOP, wearing an onion ring on my head. But anyway...

THE ANSWERS

SUPPORTING CAST MATCHUP

Below are twenty minor BG quests and a name bank. Pick the name that fits the quests. (No names are used twice, but if you’re sharp, you’ll notice that there are more names than quests. Sneaky me! [img]smile.gif[/img] ) (1 point apiece)

1: “Get this dagger away from me!” Hentold
2: “Get a ring for my wife!” Fergus
3: “Kill the digging crew!” Golton (Although Ar-Cunin checked that his name is Gallor. In my BG1 with TotSC, it is indeed Gallor, but in my BG1 without TotSC, it’s Golton. Some other information sites list Golton as well. Hmm.)
4: “Retrieve my shawl!” Shoal
5: “Kill some ankhegs!” Gerde
6: “Find my brother!” Tiber
7: “Kill these rats!” Reevor
8: “Free the miners!” Rill
9: “Find my girdle!” Unshey
10: “Kill the zombies!” Wenric
11: “Buy my special gem!” Furret
12: “Find my boots!” Zhurlong
13: “Find my son!” Brun
14: “Kill these half-ogres!” Bjornin
15: “Kill the priestess!” Jebadoh
16: “Find my gloves!” Noralee
17: “Save my son!” Androuine (Six pointed out that it’s spelled “Ardouine” in the game.)
18: “Listen to my song!” Poe
19: “Find my cloak!” Gurke
20: “Steal the telescope!” Brevlik

21: Take the three names you had leftover from the matchup and tell me where they’re from or what quests they were a part of. 2 points for each right answer.

Baruk (also spelled Ba’ruk): On the Brage map, this is a hobgoblin who leads a band of kobold commandos (the guys who shoot fire arrows). This Ba'ruk's land and Ba'ruk say go! So GO!
Chloe: She’s the little girl who directs you to the Jovial Juggler to find Officer Vai when you return to Beregost in chapter 3.
Hulrik: He wants you to save his cow from the xvarts.

22: Speaking about odd quests, three people on the Sword Coast want you to fetch a book for them. Who wants you to fetch it and where is each person located? (General area is fine.) I’ll give you 1 point for each answered, for a total of 6. For 2 points apiece, for a total of 6, can you tell me the titles of the three books?

- Phlydia in Candlekeep wants you to get the History of Halruaa.
- Firebeard Elvenhair in Beregost wants you to get the History of the Fateful Coin.
- Rinnie in Baldur’s Gate wants you to get the History of Unicorn Run.

There are more books than just these three.

- The ghost of Ulcaster outside the Ulcaster school ruins wants you to get the History of the Sisters of Light and Darkness.
- Shaella in Baldur’s Gate wants you to get the Book of Unknowing (which is sort of a red herring, but a couple people mentioned it).
- Jalantha Mistmyr in Baldur’s Gate wants you to get the Tome of Understanding.
- Altos in Baldur’s Gate wants you to get Delorna’s spellbook. (It’s part of the Oberon estate/skyship parts/thieves guild thing.)
- Brielbara in Baldur’s Gate wants you to get Yago’s book of curses.
- (TotSC) Dradeel on shipwreck island wants you to get his spellbook.

23: Another quest duplication! There are two people on the Sword Coast whom you can free from stone. I’ll give you 1 point if you name the obvious person and 2 points if you name the not-so-obvious person.

The obvious person would be Branwen, and the not-so-obvious person would be Tamah, a fighter turned to stone on the basilisk map. Two people also mentioned the statues in Felonius Gist’s house.

24: There is only one chapter in the game where one new NPC is available. Name this NPC for 1 point, name the chapter for 2, and tell me why for 3.

That NPC is Viconia in chapter 3. She’s found in Peldvale, and, at least in my version of the game, Peldvale didn’t become visible until you spoke with Tranzig. Since you can only talk to Tranzig in chapter 3, Viconia is only available starting in chapter 3.

That is, according to my copy of BG1. I never walked off the map to find Peldvale, so when I killed Tranzig, Peldvale appeared in blue, along with the Bandit Camp. This question pretty much puzzled all of the test-takers, so I crumpled it up and threw it away. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

25: Name the gnome NPCs. (2 points.)

That would be Quayle and Tiax. (Personally, I think Tiax’s picture looks too halfling to be gnome.)

26: How many NPCs ask that the party do a certain quest in order to keep the NPC in their party? (2 points.)
a - 11
b - 13
c - 17
d - 20

The answer would be B, 13 NPCs.

Coran - kill wyverns and deliver a wyvern head to the Beregost temple
Dynaheir - find Minsc
Edwin - kill Dynaheir
Eldoth - rescue Skie
Kagain - find his caravan
Khalid and Jaheira - go to the Nashkel mines
Kivan - kill bandits
Minsc - rescue Dynaheir
Montaron and Xzar - go to the Nashkel mines
Safana - loot the cave

Think the answer’s 17? Not so! For Branwen, Garrick, Shar-Teel, and Viconia, you have to do a certain quest in order to be able to add these people to your party. The 13 mentioned above have quests you need to do in order to keep them in your party, meaning that they’ll join up unconditionally and will stay in your party once their quest is completed. I thought I was being pretty sneaky, but just about everyone caught on.

27: What is the name of the Priest in the Candlekeep Library that tells the time of how you ran about stark naked through Candlekeep as a child? (3 points.)

The monk who’s reveling in the memories is Theodon.

28: Name each member of the Merry Fools, for 2 points each:

Farluck, Nelik, Turpin, and probably the most well-known member, Gorpel Hind. They’re on the Baldur’s Gate map with Entar Silvershield’s estate.

29: What is the name of the group that picks a fight with the Merry Fools? (3 points):

They’re the Maulers of the Undermountain. (Don’t ask me about their names, even I’d have to look them up.) Someone mentioned that the Maulers pick a fight with you, not the Merry Fools, but I paraded all through that inn and the Maulers never stopped in unless I spoke with Gorpal Hind and his gang. So the Fools are involved to get the Maulers. So there. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

30: There is one wand of polymorphing in the game. Tell me (for 3 points each) who has it, and how you get it.

This is the boogeyman quest in Baldur’s Gate, on the same map as Entar Silvershield’s estate. Finish the quest, and Voltine will give you the wand. (By the way, the Peeping Tom does not show up as evil when “detect evil” is cast. A popular way to piss him off is a failed pickpocket attempt.)

The creators of Baldur’s Gate slipped in some modern-day references into some NPCs’s dialogue. Below are ten of those references. Name the character who belongs to the reference for 1 point apiece:
31: Snow White: Yeslick whistles the dwarf theme from the Disney movie. How appropriate.
32: Hannibal Lecter: One of Xzar’s out-of-the-blue statements is, “I killed him and ate his liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti.”
33: Nancy Sinatra: Another out-of-the-blue statement, and this time it’s Dynaheir’s. “These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do.”
34: Monty Python: If Garrick turns chicken (and he usually does), he’ll sing the lines that the minstrel in Monty Python and the Holy Grail sang to Sir Robin (Eric Idle): “Brave brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick led the way. Brave brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick ran away.”
35: Chia-Pet: Once in a while, Khalid will stutter out “ch-ch-ch-Chia!” (A couple people were confused by this. I didn’t think Chia-Pets were a solely American thing. A Chia-Pet is a small terra-cotta animal-shaped pot that you can sprinkle seeds in through the hole in its back and water to grow grass or sprouts. Big fad back in the 80s, along with annoying commercial with high-pitched actor singing “ch-ch-ch-Chia!”)

These are a little bit harder, so 2 points apiece for them.
36: Ren and Stimpy: Alora will say “happy happy joy joy” sometimes. Unfortunately, she doesn’t sing it.
37: Jabberwocky: If Montaron’s a bit put off, he’ll answer “I warrant your attention? Oh, frabjulous day, kaloo kaley!” (Some people mentioned the character of Palin, but that references the movie of the same title, and Palin’s not an NPC. [img]tongue.gif[/img] )
38: the Predator: Whack Shar-Teel down to less than 1/3 her hitpoints, and she says “I don’t have time to bleed.” Said by Jesse Ventura in the movie Predator.
39: the Simpsons: Quayle frequently uses this one when talking to other NPCs: “I am so smart! S-M-R-T--I mean, S-M-A-R-T!” In the Simpsons episode where Homer goes back to college, Homer utters the same line to prove how smart he is.
40: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Minsc’s line “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it! I’m huge!” is from the MST3K episode “Cave Dwellers.” A very funny episode too. (So no, Legolas, the quote did not have the word “the” in it. ;) )

(A couple people were confused by this as well. Again, Americentricism plagues the Virginian. Back in the early 90s, a couple guys from Minnesota thought it would be cool to make fun of badly-done sci-fi/fantasy/horror films, so they made a TV show. Basically, it’s about this everyday guy with robot friends who lives in a satellite in space, and he’s forced to watch bad movies sent up to him by his evil boss on Earth. The running commentary Mike, Tom Servo, and Crow have on the films is hilarious. The Sci-Fi channel picked it up around 1990, and stopped carrying it a couple years ago.)

41: 3 points apiece if you can quote at least part of lines referenced in…
question 38: “I don’t have time to bleed.”
question 39: “I am so smart! S-M-R-T--I mean, S-M-A-R-T!”
question 40: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it! I’m huge!”

42: Another band of adventurers have been put together to find and kill Sarevok. Tell me…
…who put them together: the Iron Throne
…where you can find them: in the Undercity (also gave credit for “in front of the temple of Bhaal”)
…and name as many of them as you can remember: Carston the archer, Gorf the Ogre, Haseo the fighter/mage (also took just fighter or just mage), Rahvin the archer, Shaldrissa the mage, and Wudei the druid (also took cleric).

(Six mentions that this is the only time in the game where Sarevok’s last name is spoken: Anchev.)

BONUS QUESTIONS

BG: I’m not one for spoiling the end, but near the end of the game there’s a reference to people waaayyy back at the beginning of the game. In the Undercellar, you’ll find a mother and lover wondering about what happened to these two people from waaayyy back at the beginning of the game.

These two people are none other than Shank and Carbos, the simpleminded assassins who tried to kill you back in Candlekeep. You’ll find Shank’s mother and Carbos’ girlfriend (or maybe it was the other way around…) in the Undercellar, wondering what happened to them.

(I never was able to check this in the game. While it is true that you run into one of their female relatives/friends in one of the unnamed inns in Baldur’s Gate--the sailor-filled one, I believe--you can return to the Undercellar in Chapter 7 to find the mother and girlfriend. Read it off a Network 54 clan board. I didn’t check it myself, but still gave credit.)

TOTSC: When you return to the Merchant League to fetch the sea charts, the building looks awfully familiar. On your first pass through Baldur’s Gate, what was different about the building? Two parts I’m looking for here. Five points if you can tell me the two things that were different about the Merchant League Counting House on your first pass through Baldur’s Gate.

What’s so different about the building on your first pass through Baldur’s Gate? The building is unfinished, for one, and Jacil and his blink dogs are guarding it, for another. (Gave credit if you mentioned someone and the blink dogs, but didn’t name Jacil.)

Only four people took this test! I’m surprised Lemmy, Butterfingers, Vedran, and a couple others chose to sit this one out. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

The four who did take it were: SixofSpades, Legolas, Ar-Cunin, and Midget Gems. Midget Gems already said who he was, so here’s the other three. The ranks out of a possible 122 points (after throwing out #24)…

Legolas: Tethtoril
SixofSpades: Thalantyr
Ar-Cunin: Thalantyr (Amazingly enough, not only did Six and Ar-Cunin both get the same score, but the questions one got wrong, the other got right. Amazing.)

I look forward to the challenge of Legolas and his quiz! (*begins the chant for a new quiz*)

Great work on the quiz [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] - I'm sorry that so few people took a quiz you obviouly worked hard on [img]smile.gif[/img]

It's also nice to see I did better than in SoS's BG2 quiz :D

EDIT: and you can indeed get Viconia into your party before chapter 3.

[ 03-06-2003, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: Ar-Cunin ]

Aha! I knew I didn't recognize that name! :D

Dang. So what's the name of the girl whose cat fell down the waterfall again?

Don't forget Mendas's quest to obtain the Logbook of Balduran! (ToSC)

Well, OK, the Merry Fools are involved, but if you don't talk back to Gretek, there's no fight. So there. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

:smacks himself upside da head: :D

Cave Dwellers was indeed one of their best ("Oh, my God, they couldn't even afford to hire villains!"), but if I recall correctly, the line is only "I'm huge!"

Wow! I am SO lucky! :D

Dang. Now THAT'S an impressive scoreboard. Not every day you hold a BG Trivia Quiz and 75% of the participants "meet or beat" Six's score. :D (spoken while stuffing several chickens into his ear, to avoid sounding arrogant)

So tell us what Legolas missed! We gotts know we gotta know we gotta know!

(By the way, I think I remembered the name of the "Take this necklace to my son!" Halfling in BG city: Nadine.)

Dang. So what's the name of the girl whose cat fell down the waterfall again?

Other than "brat who didn't give me enough gold/experience for all the time it took for me to figure out how to get to her to give her the #&@! cat"? It's Drienne.

Cave Dwellers was indeed one of their best ("Oh, my God, they couldn't even afford to hire villains!"), but if I recall correctly, the line is only "I'm huge!"

AFAIK, the line is "watch it, I'm HUGE!" in nearly the same inflection as Minsc. Speaking of MST3K, ever see Space Mutiny? :D

So tell us what Legolas missed! We gotts know we gotta know we gotta know!

The wrong answers of--
--Legolas: Mistook Brevlik for Furret in the matching, Khalid's Chia-Pet reference (hence my explanation), and the two MST3K questions.
--Six: Chloe, Theodon, Jabberwocky, the two MST3K questions, got 7 out of 24 possible points on the Undercity question.
--Ar-Cunin: Chloe, the NPC voice questions (hence my expalantion of MST3K).

(By the way, I think I remembered the name of the "Take this necklace to my son!" Halfling in BG city: Nadine.)

Aye, you did. ^_^

As for my own testing prowess, howzat for 2 hours late at night? [img]smile.gif[/img]

Darn! I'm so disappointed that this quiz is over. Anyway I didn't read the answers so I'll try to answer them. Just to see how much do I actually know about the game. However, happy birthday! And btw, how old are you now?

Hey cool [img]smile.gif[/img] I did a lot better than I expected :D
The birthday date was a guess, I figured it'd be in the last of the two weeks and just picked a number. Happy birthday by the way [img]smile.gif[/img]

And I guess the other half of the 6OS fanclub should post his work now... ;)