OK, somehow I'm Nanny Ogg...but then, she is one of my favorite characters!

http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=10962N

Next I'm Captain Carrot. Go figure.

These "Which _____ are you" tests are just the same unreliable Meyers-Briggs tests in fancy dress, they ask entirely subjective questions, telling you only what you already think of yourself.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Carrot

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'The eye can only see what the mind is prepared to accept'

The text said I am Carrot, however I got this:

Commander Samuel Vimes 81%
Carrot Ironfounderson 81%
Gytha (Nanny) Ogg 69%
Greebo 69%
Death 63%

--- I was also only 38% Rincewind!


... interestingly, this is the first time anything anywhere has associated me with a DWARF (Carrot) even if only by adoption!


Edit: I'm a little suspicious of all the "Carrots" showing up in the early results...

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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
- Goethe

Jump in with both feet!
- Me, indulging my inner eight-year-old

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"Are you a mad-hatter that just types what he wishes, or have you actually any physics training?"
Occam's Ghost to Grant Hutchison.

I'm a Commander Vimes type. And I didn't even need to take the test to figure that out.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Gytha (Nanny) Ogg
81%
Carrot Ironfounderson
75%
The Librarian
63%
Commander Samuel Vimes
50%

Hmmmm.....

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Andre

"They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!"
Mark Twain

They've got the wrong questions for Granny, because I'm assuredly not Carrot. And Susan, which is who my best friend is, isn't even a possibility. (Actually, they're missing several of my favourite characters. I'm something of a Lady Sybil, too.)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Many of this type of "who are you like" test have a selection process weighted towards the most popular or well known characters. At least that's how it's always appeared to me.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

You scored as a Death
You are death! Reaper of souls! Riding your horse, Binky, with a scythe at hand. Always working, always busy You sometimes try to socialize with the living, and ALWAYS SPEAK IN CAPITAL LETTERS.


Well this explains my social life.

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Beer, the cause of and solution to, all lifes problems

I have no idea what Discworld is, should I still take the quiz?

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

A popular book series by British author Terry Pratchett. Huge in the UK, fairly common in the US. A parody of fantasy, and indirectly a parody of sci-fi using fantasy concepts.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

If you like very good writing, funny stories, good characters and fantasy lampooning, you need to read Terry Pratchett. A cracking good story teller.

http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/

Rincewind (Heh!)

A partial list:

Rincewind 81%
Carrot Ironfounderson 63%
Death 63%
Lord Havelock Vetinari 63%
The Librarian 63%

Ach! I think I see THE LUGGAGE. Time to run.

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I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?

Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

The Leif Ericson Cruiser

Also very popular in Germany. I own at least 15 of his books. I guess it's mostly due to the fact he is very good translated. (As was the case with Douglas Adams, I will never forget the outburst of laughter I had when I read the introduction of the hitch hikers guide. And that is almost 25 years ago.You know the digital watches...).

The Colour of Magic and Thi Light Fantastic were my first Discworl Novels. I still like very much everything related with the Invisible University. The department of High Energy Magic and stuff...

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Andre

"They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!"
Mark Twain

You scored as a Carrot Ironfounderson
You are Captain Carrot Ironfounderson of the City Watch in the greatest city on the Disc – Ankh-Morprok! A truly good natured, honest guy, who knows everyone, and is liked by all. Technically a dwarf, but only by adoption. You’d rather not be reminded that you are the true heir to the throne, but that does explain why people naturally follow your orders…
Carrot Ironfounderson
63%
The Librarian
56%
Death
56%
Lord Havelock Vetinari
50%
Greebo
38%
Rincewind
31%
Cohen The Barbarian
31%
Commander Samuel Vimes
31%
Gytha (Nanny) Ogg
19%
Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax
19%

I'd go more with The Librarian, actually.

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

Those two are my least favourite, actually--they're the first ones he wrote, and the books get much, much better over the years. Thud!, for example, was excellent. (However, in English, it's "Unseen University," which is similar but different.)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

In Dutch it is the Closed University.

Very good translation also.
But puns are hard, if not impossible to do.

ETA: The identity of the Dutch translator(s) is unknown. The pseudonym Venugopalan Ittekot is used
ETA2: Apparently it is the artist/scientist/editor Ruurd Groot.
His wife Mieke translated the Dune novels under the heteronym M. K. Stuyter S.J.
Always thought that name was suspicious.

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I see. I simply re-translated the German term. I read 2 or 3 books in English. Just do not remeber which ones. Thinking about it, the translation "unsichtbar" which in deed means invisible is a good choice, because "ungesehen" or "nicht wahrgenommen" are not so handy in German.

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Andre

"They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!"
Mark Twain

Nanny Ogg.......

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But you're sure the astronauts are lying; you just don't seem to know what they're lying about: Jayutah


I are Learnding.