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Game of Thrones

Question: What is Davos Seaworth’s nickname?
Answer: Davos is known as the Onion Knight for his time smuggling onions into Storm’s End to feed its besieged populace during Robert’s Rebellion.
Question: Jamie Lannister has a golden ___.
Answer: After Jamie’s sword hand is cut off by one of Roose Bolton’s men, it is replaced with a golden prosthetic, and one of the greatest swordsmen in Westeros has to learn to fight with his off-hand.
Question: How does Gregor (“the Mountain”) Clegane kill Oberyn Martell, the “Red Viper,” in their trial by combat?
Answer: Oberyn thinks that he has the foreboding Mountain defeated in their combat and gets too close to his fallen foe, who suddenly trips Oberyn, gouges his eyes out, and crushes his skull.
Question: Which former ranger of the Night’s Watch led an army of wildlings as the “King-Beyond-the-Wall”?
Answer: Mance Rayder deserted the Night’s Watch to live among the wildlings, whom he later unites and leads in an unsuccessful attack on the Wall.
Question: What’s the name of the band of assassins that Arya Stark joins in Braavos?
Answer: After fleeing to Braavos, Arya takes up with the Faceless Men, a group of hired assassins who can change their appearance.
Question: Who is Jon Snow’s mother?
Answer: While Ned Stark always claimed that Jon Snow was his illegitimate son from a prostitute, fathered while Ned was away on a campaign, it is later revealed that his parents are Rhaegar Targaryen and Ned’s sister Lyanna. Ned brought the orphaned Jon home and pretended that he was his own son to protect the child from King Robert Baratheon, who wanted to destroy the Targaryen line.
Question: Who is the youngest of Ned Stark’s children?
Answer: Rickon is Ned’s youngest son, having arrived after (in order) eldest brother Robb, sisters Sansa and Arya, and brother Bran.
Question: Which of the following is not a name of one of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons?
Answer: Daenerys’s three dragons are named Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion. Balerion was Aegon Targaryen’s dragon during his conquest of Westeros.
Question: Which character, also known as the Lightning Lord, gets continually resurrected by Thoros of Myr after he dies?
Answer: Dondarrion leads a ragtag resistance force called the Brotherhood Without Banners, and he is resurrected after his many deaths by Thoros via prayers to R’hllor, the Lord of Light.
Question: What are the “house words” of House Greyjoy?
Answer: As rulers of the desolate and barren Iron Islands, the seafaring Greyjoys do not sow crops but instead subsist on what they can raid from neighboring lands.