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101) Considering that there is at least one food item made in the name of Healthorg the Great, who has an entire festival dedicated to him, and that the Gnomes feasted for an entire week when they reacquainted themselves with the Elves, it is not a stretch to say that Gnomish cuisine is a beloved cultural trademark. One that has been milked lucratively, in terms of cultural outreach and business.

In recent years, Gnomish cooking has become an enterprise thanks to the Gianne family, who have taken cultural staples and have delivered them across the entire continent, mostly to Gnomes, but also to other races. This interest in Gnomish cuisine and culture has done wonders for tourism and has secured a steady living for families across the kingdom thanks to bolstered trade relations with various societies.

In fact, this boost in trade has allowed an increase in leisurely time for some families. Gnomish children are currently counted among the wisest in the world for their age, often found retelling riddles and philosophizing, which has been attributed to less time working and more time learning. More Gnomes in general have picked up trade skills or scholarly work in order to compete with human society.

However, it begs the question of whether this cultural and economic boom will last forever, and at what cost it came. Issues regarding encroaching human culture and ideals have gone as far back as the end of King Healthorg's reign, with then Prince Argenthorg being accused of allowing humans to trample over Gnomish culture.

That question remains a worrying one to this day, being the impetus for upscaled defenses and martial forces within the Grand Tree. Regardless, a collapse is not imminent. Families continue to thrive in the current market and will for many years.

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2) 1. I'll give this to you, but you should have said specifically how many months/days instead of saying the calendar is similar.
3) 0.5. Humans came before elves - see "Exploration" memoriam crystal
4) 0.5. Missing Ardougne, otherwise correct
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6) 0.5. You didn't really say what the D.Y.o.T "were"
7) 0.5. The other one is Kelda. Noumenon is not located on Gielinor.
8) 1. I'll be generous with this one.
9) 0.5. The last two are wishy-washy, and I won't be generous twice in a row
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12) 0. This wasn't the question.
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14) 1. I'm okay with this, but the answer I was looking for here was that the point of the ritual was to make a deal with Azacorax so that the abyss could be used.
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17) 1. Brassica is questionable, otherwise correct.
18) 0.5. Missing names.
19) 0.5. Didn't specify its real power.
20) 0. Not enough info for partial credit.
21) 0. The inventor slipped and developed amnesia, and the records were burned in a "freak fire".
22) 0.5. Missing names.
23) 0. Look at fairy tale 2 transcript
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26) 0.5. The Mahserrat primarily died because they didnt do the rituals. If you can show me where it says the Chelon-Mah killed them I may give you full credit.
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28) 1. Yep, all count.
29) 1. I must admit I never considered there were three, and thought that the one Seren made was in Daemonheim. Hmm.
30) 0.5. I don't know if I want to accept "Traitor" or not, but I'll grant this partial credit I guess.
31) 0.5. Lasthes, Taraket and Tarshak are incorrect.
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34) 0.5
35) 0.5. The answer is Humblethorn.
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37) 1. It wasn't specified where they lived I believe, but otherwise correct.
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41) 0.5. This is one of Godwine's evil questions. Guthix says in TWW that there were "many gods", and that "many [gods] died" and "many [gods] fled" - so there are gods we don't know about.
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43) 0. You got the slave bit right, but other got it wrong/didn't answer enough.
44) 0.5. I won't count the last one, sorry.
45) 1. More or less.
46) 0. Gnome propaganda, all of it!
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48) 0. See Savants dialogue on the history in Wanted!
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50) 0. Not really anything on the "relationship" and the Iorwerth thing is false. See The Voice of the Elders.
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58) 0. She didn't name them. Look at Kaigi's Journal.
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62) 1. Actually we intended this to be about the Dagon'Hai, but this is technically correct, I guess?
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65) 0.5
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67) 1. Godwine intended something specific for the second part of the question, but whatever.
68) 0.5. Not exactly what I'm looking for here - see Wizardry page on wikia. Might reword this question too.
69) 1. I am impressed you got this one.
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71) 0.5. I'll grant this, but the answers we were looking for were Iban and Solus.
72) 0.5. The temple was "dedicated to the worship of elemental flame or fire"
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76) 0. Clearly you have no taste (don't gnomes eat worms? I mean, ewww)
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82) 1. Okay, everyone knows this one. Moving on.
83) 0.5. Avernics don't eat.
84) 0. Because you are a dingleberry, that's why.
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86) 1. What do you have against Ourgs? Hm, now I'm starting to think gnomes are racist.
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88) 0. Just kidding, 1. You must be seeing things.
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92) 0. Sulla only lost his hand due to Kara-Meir, he died later. Since you only answered 3/8th of the question correctly, you don't get partial credit, sorry.
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94) 0.5 (look at fairy tale transcript for full answer)
95) 0. Nope. Shilo village cart guy.
96) 0. you must not have 99s
97) 1. More or less, whatever, I'm drunk at this point (grading turns out to take much longer than I thought)
98) 0. Thank you, they call me Eren the Terrible for a reason. You get 0 since the point of this question is if you know the Top Trump thing or not. What you gave me doesn't require knowledge of Top Trumps. Sorry.
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100) 0.5. Funny you mention the shilo guy only now
101) 1. Exquisite. Perfect. Bravimosso. I could not have answered it better myself. You will go down in history. Songs will be made thousands of years into the future about your brilliance. You will make PhD English professors cry tears of joy. Montaigne will rise from the dead just to personally thank you. Spectacular and godly, really, you deserve a round of applause. I give it a 2/10.

Okay and that's a oomlie wrap. Here's your results:

Raw Score: 53
Scaled Score: 64

You may pm me if there's some questions that you would like me to take a second look at.

1) 1st age - ~4000 years; 2nd age - ~2000 years; 3rd age - ~4000 years; 4th age - ~2000 years; 5th age - 169 years
2) 365/366 days, ten months; Fentuary, Pentober, Novtumber
3) TzHaar, Humans, Elves, Demons, Mahjarrat, Centaurs
4) Avarrocka, Faladar, Lumbridge, Ardougne, Gunnarsgrunn, Edgeville
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6) The time when Zamorakians harrassed the people of modern-day Ardougne, which ended with the Great Battle and the foundation of the Ardignas line of kings in Ardougne.
7) Lum, Salve, Elid, Dougne, Kelda, Noumenon
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10) round - globes in study and observatory
11) Zogre-disease in Jiggig, Sanguinesti affliction in Mort'ton, ripper demon infection/possession near the source of the Elid, vampyrism in Morytania, chaos mutation in the chaos dwarves near Keldagrim
12) The soul is weighed against a feather - if heavier it moves on to the afterlife; if lighter it may be reincarnated.
13) Prayer channels inner anima...or some silly explanation like that...
14) Teleportation moves one through the abyss and then back into the plane of Gielinor; Azacorax provides Gielinor's human mages with permanent access to the abyss.
15) A, B, C, D
16) From the primordial realms the elder goddesses took clay from which to mold all material things; the void is metaphorically the 'space' in which they create worlds; the abyss has been described as the trashheap, at the 'bottom' of the universe/multiverse/void - I've written a lot on these topics...
17) the elder goddesses, all living things, the natural unfolding of animate life (as opposed to warped variants of them), natural dimensional barriers belonging to worlds
18) Larissa, Viggora...so long ago...cannot remember...
19) It amplifies powers; one of the Mahjarrat, maybe Zemouregal, because it amplifies the coldness of Ghorrock - I'm guessing here...
20) - I think this is from ports - too new/high level/off the beaten path for me...
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