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.
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), but posting your answers for everyone to see will be quite silly. You can either email your answers to me (my email address is
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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!