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	[[Trolls]] have smashed down the door, there's a [[Banshees\|banshee]] on the roof, the river's caught fire, the [[librarian]] has turned into some kind of ape, and ''this is your starter for ten''...		[[Trolls]] have smashed down the door, there's a [[Banshees\|banshee]] on the roof, the river's caught fire, the [[librarian]] has turned into some kind of ape, and ''this is your starter for ten''...

	Questions about [[figgins]], [[Death\|DEATH]], mind-destroying footnotes, carnivorous [[The Luggage\|Luggage]] with lots of little legs, [[Quantum weather butterflies\|quantum butterflies]], the magico-numerical significance of what we must always call ''twice four'' or ''seven plus one'', and even the precise sex of the [[Great A'Tuin\|Great Turtle]] who supports Terry Pratchett's phenomenal planet (via four elephant middlemen).		Questions about [[figgins]], [[Death\|DEATH]], mind-destroying footnotes, carnivorous [[The Luggage\|Luggage]] with lots of little legs, [[Quantum weather butterflies\|quantum butterflies]], the magico-numerical significance of what we must always call [[7a\|''twice four'' or ''seven plus one'']], and even the precise sex of the [[Great A'Tuin\|Great Turtle]] who supports Terry Pratchett's phenomenal planet ([[Tubul\|via]] [[Berilia\|four]] [[Great T'Phon\|elephant]] [[Jerakeen\|middlemen]]).

	This is a quizbook for fans of fantasy and fun alike – and the ultimate challenge for all Discworld aficionados.		This is a quizbook for fans of fantasy and fun alike – and the ultimate challenge for all Discworld aficionados.

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	A compendium of eighty-five short quizzes (answers are in a separate section at the back) to test your knowledge of all things [[Discworld]], ranging from the ''relatively simple'' to ''fiendishly difficult''. Presented in the style of final exam papers from [[Unseen University]] – but ''not'' the one that was intended for [[Victor Tugelbend]], which would be pointless and silly.		A compendium of eighty-five short quizzes (answers are in a separate section at the back) to test your knowledge of all things [[Discworld]], ranging from the ''relatively simple'' to ''fiendishly difficult''. Presented in the style of final exam papers from [[Unseen University]] – but ''not'' the one that was intended for [[Victor Tugelbend]], which would be pointless and silly.

	Hitherto unpublished Discworld material comes in the form of a short "students' guide" to matriculation, and there is a short preface from Terry Pratchett in which, among other things, he gently deplores a certain Baconian tendency on the part of those given to mining the books for implausible annotations and associations.		Hitherto unpublished Discworld material comes in the form of a short "students' guide" to matriculation, and there is a [[Contributions to other works\|short preface]] from Terry Pratchett in which, among other things, he gently deplores a certain Baconian tendency on the part of those given to mining the books for implausible annotations and associations. A sequel [[Book:The Wyrdest Link\|''The Wyrdest Link'']] was released in 2002.

	:"I'm told the BBC has forbidden people to take Discworld as a subject on ''Mastermind'', which may show unusual common sense on the part of the BBC."		:"I'm told the BBC has forbidden people to take Discworld as a subject on ''Mastermind'', which may show unusual common sense on the part of the BBC."
	:—Terry Pratchett, ''The Unseen University Challenge''		:—[[Terry Pratchett]], ''The Unseen University Challenge''

			An 'Official Supplement' was added by David Langford to the ''[[The Authorised Terry Pratchett's Discworld Magazine]]'' using leftover questions.

			In 2005 a second edition of the book was released, updated with more questions.

	==Blurb==		==Blurb==
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	This is a quizbook for fans of fantasy and fun alike – and the ultimate challenge for all Discworld aficionados.		This is a quizbook for fans of fantasy and fun alike – and the ultimate challenge for all Discworld aficionados.
			[[File:UUC2005.jpg\|left\|thumb\|180px\|Reprint Cover]]

	[[Category:Peripherals\|Unseen University Challenge,The]]		[[Category:Peripherals\|Unseen University Challenge,The]]
	[[de:Buch:Das Scheibenwelt Quizbuch]]		[[de:Buch:Das Scheibenwelt Quizbuch]]

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A compendium of eighty-five short quizzes (answers are in a separate section at the back) to test your knowledge of all things [[Discworld]], ranging from the ''relatively simple'' to ''fiendishly difficult''. Presented in the style of final exam papers from [[Unseen University]] – but ''not'' the one that was intended for [[Victor Tugelbend]], which would be pointless and silly.

Hitherto unpublished Discworld material comes in the form of a short "students' guide" to matriculation, and there is a short preface from Terry Pratchett in which, among other things, he gently deplores a certain Baconian tendency on the part of those given to mining the books for implausible annotations and associations.

:"I'm told the BBC has forbidden people to take Discworld as a subject on ''Mastermind'', which may show unusual common sense on the part of the BBC."
:—Terry Pratchett, ''The Unseen University Challenge''

==Blurb==
[[Trolls]] have smashed down the door, there's a [[Banshees|banshee]] on the roof, the river's caught fire, the [[librarian]] has turned into some kind of ape, and ''this is your starter for ten''...

Questions about [[figgins]], [[Death|DEATH]], mind-destroying footnotes, carnivorous [[The Luggage|Luggage]] with lots of little legs, [[Quantum weather butterflies|quantum butterflies]], the magico-numerical significance of what we must always call ''twice four'' or ''seven plus one'', and even the precise sex of the [[Great A'Tuin|Great Turtle]] who supports Terry Pratchett's phenomenal planet (via four elephant middlemen).

This is a quizbook for fans of fantasy and fun alike – and the ultimate challenge for all Discworld aficionados.

[[Category:Peripherals|Unseen University Challenge,The]]
[[de:Buch:Das Scheibenwelt Quizbuch]]