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If y'all don't mind, I'm calibrating a pub trivia question and will use you as guinea pigs.
Without Google, given the name of the historical, fictional, or mythological sword name its wielder
1. (starting easy) Excalibur
2. Zulfiqar
3. Anduril
4. Tizona
5. Sting (mutliple valid answers)
6. Needle
7. Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi
8. Nandaka
9. Joyeuse
10. Durendal
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)unc70
(6,135 posts)Use me as a low performer.
I had 1, 9, 10 solid.
Knew 2 by context and sight, but not name of owner.
The LotR and GoT references sb fairly easy for followers. ( I got one right from LotR. Did not watch GoT.)
The remainder are hard, but not truly impossible. If this is for typical pub teams, it should give a good challenge.
That surprises me; I did not know it when I started researching the question
unc70
(6,135 posts)It was in the excerpts we read in a couple of semesters of literature in French at UNC. (The benefits of a liberal arts education. Those were required courses!) My first wife was also a Romance languages medievalist, so I was around a lot of that stuff when she was working on her graduate degrees.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)5. is the half-sword Bilbo Baggins owns. It glows when there are orcs nearby.
6. that's Arya Stark's little sword that Jon had made for her
Edit: where is Hrunting?
Wounded Bear
(58,823 posts)was Aragorn, no?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I had The Hobbit on record when I was little. Bilbo says "Sting, Sting, Stinnnnnngggg" at some point. It got embedded in my brain.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,823 posts)Haven't been into more recent fantasy stories, so anything but the LotR ones I draw a blank. So I get 3.
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