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Jason Cosmo Cover Quiz — UK Edition — Answers

Greetings, Loyal Reader!

Since no one apparently wants to play the Cover Quiz Game again, I may as well give you my answers. Again the challenge is to review the descriptive text from the back cover of the UK edition of Jason Cosmo and identify any errors, based on your knowledge of the book. Presuming you’ve read the book. Which you very well may have not!

If you’re now thinking “Quiz Game! I didn’t know there was a Quiz Game! I love quizzes!” here is what you must do — back out of this post (or scroll quickly past it on the front page) and read the post immediately prior, dated January 13.  Write down your answers … then come back here for my answers and see how you did!

Ready? Here we go!

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Here, if you can’t read the image, is the text:
Jason Cosmo was a humble woodcutter in the village of lower Hicksnittle on the northern fringes of Darnk,

ERROR #1: “Lower Hicksnittle” not “lower Hicksnittle” Those are two completely different places!

where a conversation about mottled pig pox in the Festering Wart Tavern was a major community event.

But the arrival of a foppish stranger who promptly tried to kill him, made Jason realize that there was more afoot in the magical Eleven Kingdoms of Arden than he’d previously suspected.

In neighboring Whiteswap, sipping carrot juice under the watchful eye of the Sanitary Police,

ERROR #2: The neighboring town is “Whiteswab” not “Whiteswap.”

Jason met the wizard Mercury Boltblaster — and learned some bad news.

The evil Dark Magic Society had placed a ten million gold crown on Jason’s head —

ERROR #3: Word omitted. Should be a ten million gold crown bounty.

and bounty hunters BlackMoon and Red Huntsman were on his trail.

ERROR #4: Usually referred to as “the Red Huntsman.” Red Huntsman alone sounds like a comedian’s name.

Was it a case of mistaken identity? Was there another Jason Cosmo? Or did he have something strangely wrong with his aura?

Ah, good questions all! If you don’t know the answers, you’ll have to read Jason Cosmo to find out!

Thanks for playing!

Best regards,

Dan McGirt

3 thoughts on “Jason Cosmo Cover Quiz — UK Edition — Answers”

  1. Question without notice – why “not for sale in Canada” ????

    Do Canadians have links with the Dark Mage Society that they don’t want anyone to know about.

    Are they offended by turnips???

    Or is it that the book contains way too much excitement that they may need to take a couple of prozacs and have a good lie down???

    Thoughts …

    • Melisende: Excellent question! Yes, we don’t want Canadians to get overstimulated.

      But the real answer is that publishers carve up territories. Canada & US are usually bundled together under “North American rights” so the U.S. edition was sold in Canada. UK edition went to the rest of the Commonwealth.

  2. This is interesting. I’m ready to read the series again. I think the first time I read it, I was just too high in my girl crush to notice many details besides the point that I really, really liked Jason Cosmo and thought he would just come into Mr. Bee’s English class and carry me away. I’m not kidding. I really had a grade-school crush on him.

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