Sword trivia

[Recursion]

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]

1. Stormbringer from Michael Moorcock books

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2. I am awful at this

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.

[Recursion]

7. #10 also?

That surprises me; I did not know it when I started researching the question

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9. Basic French literature in college

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]

3. 1 is super easy: Arthur

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]

5. Pretty sure Anduril...

was Aragorn, no?

[ProudLib72]

6. I had to look that up, but, yes, it is

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]

8. Reforged from the shards of Narsil (nt)

[Wounded Bear]

4. Yeah, 1 is almost universal, I should think...

Haven't been into more recent fantasy stories, so anything but the LotR ones I draw a blank. So I get 3.

[Harker]

10. I call mine "Bob." n/t