1. The prelims contain 20 questions.2. Most of the questions are multi-pointers, totaling the maximum score to 30 points.3. Top 8 jousters qualify for the finals.4. Tie-breaking will be done by sudden death.5. No Googling allowed, if found a special meeting with the King’s Justice will be arranged.

1. What has been blanked out

here?

2. ______ __ ____ is a term used by the free folk to describe people with red hair. They consider red hair to be lucky and very attractive. It is rare among the free folk and those who have it are said to be ______ __ ____ . The spearwife Ygritte is considered common looking by Jon Snow at first but when he joins the free folk he soon learns that amongst the wildlings she is considered a great beauty due to her red hair.‘’You’re ______ __ ____, remember? Lucky.’’Jon Snow to Ygritte (ASOS, Jon II)Later however this phrase becomes literal for her in a lateral way, the phrase ?

3. Which two distant cousins(1+1) are being described here?• X >> He is a grim man, thin, with a beardless, pockmarked face. He has a deep

set of pale, colorless eyes and hollow cheeks. He was the commander of Lord Tywin Lannister's guard when he was Hand of the King for King Aerys II Targaryen. He was heard saying that it was Tywin who truly ruled the Seven Kingdoms, rather than Aerys.

‘’He made the perfect drinking companion. He never interrupted, never disagreed, never complained or asked for favors or told long pointless stories. All he did was drink and listen.’’ Jaime Lannister ( AFFC, Jaime VII).• Y >> Both in the S4E03("Walk of Punishment“), and S4E04 ("And Now His Watch

Is Ended“), his mysterious yet powerful prowess with prostitutes get mentioned. Somehow he's so proficient at with these ladies that they forego any payment which astounds both highborn and lowborn alike. One speculation among the ‘obvious’ one on which countless memes have been made, is that he is a natural master of the Lord’s Kiss.

4. What in Westeros comprises of the Green Fork, the Red Fork and the Blue Fork.The forks are represented in the arms of Houses Shawney and Strong, and the river kings from House Teague used it in their sigil. House Shawney

House Strong

5. The G1 is a harsh deity and goes hand in hand with the Old Way. It is said the G1 made the _______ to reave and rape, to carve out kingdoms and to make their names known in fire and blood and song. The G2 himself is believed to have brought flame from the sea and sailed the world with fire and sword. The G1’s eternal enemy, the G2, resides in a hall within the clouds and ravens are his creatures. It is said the two deities have been in conflict for millennia and the sea roils in anger when they engage in battle. However, much like the G1, no one aside from the _______ believe in the G2. G1,G2(1+1)?

6. X married her first cousin, Y, in a lavish ceremony in the Great Sept of Baelor. On their wedding day, the oft-grim Y smiled, a rare occurrence. At the wedding feast, Aerys drunkenly japed about how it was a pity the first night tradition was banned, and he took certain "unwonted liberties" with X in the bedding ritual when the men at the feast had to disrobe the bride.Not long thereafter, X was dismissed by Queen Rhaella Targaryen from her service in King's Landing. While Rhaella turned a blind eye towards most of her husband's infidelities, she did not approve when it concerned one of her own ladies, several of whom were sent away from court. X's marriage to Y was reportedly a happy one, and she became Y's trusted counselor and companion. X and Y?

7. ____ ____ is the seat of House Tarly in the Reach. The castle lies south of Highgarden and a hundred leagues northeast of Oldtown among the thickly-wooded foothills of the Red Mountains. The Tarlys are marcher lord of the Dornish Marches.There is a pond that lies below the castle. Given the Tarly huntsman sigil and Lord Randyll Tarly's threats to kill Samwell Tarly while hunting, it may be surmised that the woods around ____ ____ are teeming with game.Renly Baratheon is camped at ____ ____ when Lord Randyll Tarly receives Stannis Baratheon's letter claiming that the children of the late Robert Baratheon are bastards.

8. A ranger of the Shadow Tower, he often sang of Bael the Bard after returning from rangings beyond the Wall. When Lord Commander Qorgyle traveled to Winterfell to meet with Lord Eddard Stark, he rode escort and met the young Robb Stark and Jon Snow.He was attacked by a shadowcat while ranging, and was healed by a wildling woman. While he recuperated, she mended his torn cloak with swatches of red fabric. Upon returning to the Wall, Ser Denys Mallister required he to replace his mended cloak with one of uniform black. Who is he?

9. X is the only city of the Dothraki people. It is located in the northeast of the vast Dothraki sea, beneath the Mother of Mountains and near a lake, the Womb of the World. X has no walls.The city is ruled and inhabited by slaves and the Y, the wives of all the khals who have come before. It is forbidden to wear a blade or shed a free man's blood within the confines of the city. The name X means City of Riders.X and Y?

10. X was born as the eldest son of Lord Jasper ______. Not much is known about his youth or his parents. He was married three times. His first marriage was to Jeyne Royce, but she died in childbed, their daughter stillborn. His second marriage was to Rowena ______, a cousin, who died of a winter chill during a childless marriage. Because he had no children, he had appointed a number of heirs who died one after another. During Robert's Rebellion, he married a third time, this time to Y , to gain her house’s support and to secure an heir for the failing ______ line. X and Y?

11. It has been measured at three times the height of the Wall or the Hightower of Oldtown. It is almost two leagues long from west to east, and contains tunnels, dungeons, storerooms, barracks, halls, stables, stairways, courtyards, balconies, and gardens. In the bowels of it are rooms and cells for the worst prisoners. It also contains a sept.The main entry, is an enormous natural cavern reaching two hundred feet high. Its steps are now wide enough for twenty riders. Its port has docks, wharves, and shipyards and is accessible by longships and cogs. From below it thunder can be heard, where the sea comes in.

Legend says that it is named for the family that ruled it in the Age of Heroes, who no longer exist.

‘’They say there is naught but stone at the heart of _________ ____.’’ Catelyn Stark to Robb Stark (AGOT, VII)

12. X, known as the Y, was a famed and legendary knight and a member of Aerys II Targaryen's Kingsguard. Many considered him to have been the most chivalrous warrior of the Seven Kingdoms. He was Prince Rhaegar Targaryen's closest friend. According to Catelyn Stark, he was the deadliest of the seven knights of Aerys II Targaryen's Kingsguard. Ser Jaime Lannister, who idolized him, recalls that he was stronger than him. X is remembered as not only a skilled fighter but as a valiant and true knight.X and Y?(1+1)

13. C is one of the Free Cities located to the east of Westeros, also known as the the First Daughter . The southern-most and oldest of the Free Cities, it lies on the southern coast of Essos, where the mighty Rhoyne River meets the Summer Sea. It was founded as a colony of Valyria many centuries ago and is a great port.C was the first of the Free Cities founded by the Valyrian Freehold in western Essos.In the present day, C remains one of the more powerful of the Free Cities, and has the largest population of any of them. C is ruled by three Triarchs. They are elected from the noble families of old blood by the free landowners. Many of the statues in C lack heads. C is the closest Free City to Slaver's Bay, lying approximately five hundred and fifty leagues from Meereen.Which city is C?

14. The __________ is a traditional ceremony held by inhabitants of the Iron Islands in which kings were chosen by longship captains. The __________s which chose the High King of the Iron Islands were held on Nagga's Hill on Old Wyk.When a __________ is held, any captain may put his name forward as a candidate for the rule - as among the ironborn "every captain is a king on his own ship" - and name three champions and may try to sway his fellow ironborn with a speech on his prowess and gifts to show his generosity; only once a vast majority call out a candidate's name to proclaim him king does the __________ end.

15. The east is plagued with mystics who claim many dread powers but prove only one, separating the foolish from their purses. Not so with the renowned ____X1____ of ____X2____ . They demand a much dearer coin in the return of their parlor tricks. Respect. Once the ____X1____ truly were mighty, or so they would have us believe. They are an old order, and one does not obtain a seat on the Thirteen, the governing council of ____X2____, without making 12 of it’s most powerful citizens afraid to forbid it. Thankfully for ____X2____, the ____X1____ exert little influence on its’ politics. They rarely leave the confines of the _____X3______ . X1, X2,X3?(1+1+1)

16. Whose quotes?

• ‘’My order serves the realm, not the ruler. Once I counseled King Aerys as loyally as I council King Robert now, so I bear this girl child of his no ill will. Yet I ask you this- should war come again, how many soldiers will die? How many towns will burn? How many children will be ripped from their mothers to perish on the end of a spear? Is it not wiser, even kinder, that Daenerys Targaryen should die now so that tens of thousands might live? ‘’

– to the small council• How many of you betrayed , I wonder? Aerys, Eddard Stark, me... King Robert as well?

Lord Arryn, Prince Rhaegar? Where does it begin, _______? – Tyrion to _______

17. What is being described here(three word term)?

It is commonly believed it was a natural calamity caused by the eruption of the Fourteen Flames, although some septons believe the polytheistic residents delved too deep to the seven hells. Alternatively, Septon Barth and some maesters believe that the spells which controlled the Fourteen Flames faltered. Other explanation include the curse of Garin the Great, the fire of R'hllor, or infighting dragonlords assassinating fire mages.On the day, every hill for five hundred miles exploded, filling the air with ash and smoke and fire. Earthquakes destroyed palaces, temples, and towns, while lakes boiled or turned to acid. The Fourteen Flames, the fiery mountains, sent molten rock a thousand feet into the air. George R. R. Martin's inspirations include the legend of Atlantis and the fall of Rome.

18.Crownlands : A Dorne : SandIron Islands : B Reach : CStormlands : Storm Vale of Arryn : DA,B,C,D?(0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5)

19. X’s backstory in both the books and the show is pretty distressing. The warrior lost both the mother and all of the siblings and, suffered through three broken engagements. Martin has given X’s non-dainty frame tremendous new meaning. X, he announced to the Balticon (Comic-Con of sorts in Baltimore) crowd, is the descendent of Y. Though the show doesn’t have the luxury of delving into history all that often, it made some room for Y in Season 4 when Joffrey was flipping through the history of the knights of the Kingsguard. “Y. Four pages for Y. He must have been quite a man,” Joffrey sneered. “So they say,” his father/uncle Jaime replied.X and Y?(1+1)

20. What is present on the coat of arms of House Reyne ?

1. What has been blanked out

here?

1.The Iron PriceThe iron price is a concept in the culture of the ironborn, and their local religion of the Drowned God. Paying the iron price means seizing something from those one has defeated rather than paying or trading for it.

2. ______ __ ____ is a term used by the free folk to describe people with red hair. They consider red hair to be lucky and very attractive. It is rare among the free folk and those who have it are said to be ______ __ ____ . The spearwife Ygritte is considered common looking by Jon Snow at first but when he joins the free folk he soon learns that amongst the wildlings she is considered a great beauty due to her red hair.‘’You’re ______ __ ____, remember? Lucky.’’Jon Snow to Ygritte (ASOS, Jon II)Later however this phrase becomes literal for her in a lateral way, the phrase ?

2.Kissed By Fire

3. Which two distant cousins(1+1) are being described here?• X >> He is a grim man, thin, with a beardless, pockmarked face. He has a deep

set of pale, colorless eyes and hollow cheeks. He was the commander of Lord Tywin Lannister's guard when he was Hand of the King for King Aerys II Targaryen. He was heard saying that it was Tywin who truly ruled the Seven Kingdoms, rather than Aerys.

‘’He made the perfect drinking companion. He never interrupted, never disagreed, never complained or asked for favors or told long pointless stories. All he did was drink and listen.’’ Jaime Lannister ( AFFC, Jaime VII).• Y >> Both in the S4E03("Walk of Punishment“), and S4E04 ("And Now His Watch

Is Ended“), his mysterious yet powerful prowess with prostitutes get mentioned. Somehow he's so proficient at with these ladies that they forego any payment which astounds both highborn and lowborn alike. One speculation among the ‘obvious’ one on which countless memes have been made, is that he is a natural master of the Lord’s Kiss.

3.X = Illyn Payne

Y = Podrick Payne

4. What in Westeros comprises of the Green Fork, the Red Fork and the Blue Fork.The forks are represented in the arms of Houses Shawney and Strong, and the river kings from House Teague used it in their sigil. House Shawney

House Strong

4.The Trident

5. The G1 is a harsh deity and goes hand in hand with the Old Way. It is said the G1 made the _______ to reave and rape, to carve out kingdoms and to make their names known in fire and blood and song. The G2 himself is believed to have brought flame from the sea and sailed the world with fire and sword. The G1’s eternal enemy, the G2, resides in a hall within the clouds and ravens are his creatures. It is said the two deities have been in conflict for millennia and the sea roils in anger when they engage in battle. However, much like the G1, no one aside from the _______ believe in the G2. G1,G2(1+1)?

5.G1 = The Drowned God

G2 = The Storm God

6. X married her first cousin, Y, in a lavish ceremony in the Great Sept of Baelor. On their wedding day, the oft-grim Y smiled, a rare occurrence. At the wedding feast, Aerys drunkenly japed about how it was a pity the first night tradition was banned, and he took certain "unwonted liberties" with X in the bedding ritual when the men at the feast had to disrobe the bride.Not long thereafter, X was dismissed by Queen Rhaella Targaryen from her service in King's Landing. While Rhaella turned a blind eye towards most of her husband's infidelities, she did not approve when it concerned one of her own ladies, several of whom were sent away from court. X's marriage to Y was reportedly a happy one, and she became Y's trusted counselor and companion. X and Y?

6.X = Tywin LannisterY = Joanna Lannister

7. ____ ____ is the seat of House Tarly in the Reach. The castle lies south of Highgarden and a hundred leagues northeast of Oldtown among the thickly-wooded foothills of the Red Mountains. The Tarlys are marcher lord of the Dornish Marches.There is a pond that lies below the castle. Given the Tarly huntsman sigil and Lord Randyll Tarly's threats to kill Samwell Tarly while hunting, it may be surmised that the woods around ____ ____ are teeming with game.Renly Baratheon is camped at ____ ____ when Lord Randyll Tarly receives Stannis Baratheon's letter claiming that the children of the late Robert Baratheon are bastards.

7.Horn Hill

8. A ranger of the Shadow Tower, he often sang of Bael the Bard after returning from rangings beyond the Wall. When Lord Commander Qorgyle traveled to Winterfell to meet with Lord Eddard Stark, he rode escort and met the young Robb Stark and Jon Snow.He was attacked by a shadowcat while ranging, and was healed by a wildling woman. While he recuperated, she mended his torn cloak with swatches of red fabric. Upon returning to the Wall, Ser Denys Mallister required he to replace his mended cloak with one of uniform black. Who is he?

8.Mance Rayder

9. X is the only city of the Dothraki people. It is located in the northeast of the vast Dothraki sea, beneath the Mother of Mountains and near a lake, the Womb of the World. X has no walls.The city is ruled and inhabited by slaves and the Y, the wives of all the khals who have come before. It is forbidden to wear a blade or shed a free man's blood within the confines of the city. The name X means City of Riders.X and Y?

9.X = Vaes DothrakY= Dosh Khaleen

10. X was born as the eldest son of Lord Jasper ______. Not much is known about his youth or his parents. He was married three times. His first marriage was to Jeyne Royce, but she died in childbed, their daughter stillborn. His second marriage was to Rowena ______, a cousin, who died of a winter chill during a childless marriage. Because he had no children, he had appointed a number of heirs who died one after another. During Robert's Rebellion, he married a third time, this time to Y , to gain her house’s support and to secure an heir for the failing ______ line. X and Y?

10.X = Jon ArrynY = Lysa Arryn

11. It has been measured at three times the height of the Wall or the Hightower of Oldtown. It is almost two leagues long from west to east, and contains tunnels, dungeons, storerooms, barracks, halls, stables, stairways, courtyards, balconies, and gardens. In the bowels of it are rooms and cells for the worst prisoners. It also contains a sept.The main entry, is an enormous natural cavern reaching two hundred feet high. Its steps are now wide enough for twenty riders. Its port has docks, wharves, and shipyards and is accessible by longships and cogs. From below it thunder can be heard, where the sea comes in.

Legend says that it is named for the family that ruled it in the Age of Heroes, who no longer exist.

‘’They say there is naught but stone at the heart of _________ ____.’’ Catelyn Stark to Robb Stark (AGOT, VII)

11.Casterly Rock

12. X, known as the Y, was a famed and legendary knight and a member of Aerys II Targaryen's Kingsguard. Many considered him to have been the most chivalrous warrior of the Seven Kingdoms. He was Prince Rhaegar Targaryen's closest friend. According to Catelyn Stark, he was the deadliest of the seven knights of Aerys II Targaryen's Kingsguard. Ser Jaime Lannister, who idolized him, recalls that he was stronger than him. X is remembered as not only a skilled fighter but as a valiant and true knight.X and Y?(1+1)

12.X = Ser Arthur Dayne

Y = Sword of the Morning

13. C is one of the Free Cities located to the east of Westeros, also known as the the First Daughter . The southern-most and oldest of the Free Cities, it lies on the southern coast of Essos, where the mighty Rhoyne River meets the Summer Sea. It was founded as a colony of Valyria many centuries ago and is a great port.C was the first of the Free Cities founded by the Valyrian Freehold in western Essos.In the present day, C remains one of the more powerful of the Free Cities, and has the largest population of any of them. C is ruled by three Triarchs. They are elected from the noble families of old blood by the free landowners. Many of the statues in C lack heads. C is the closest Free City to Slaver's Bay, lying approximately five hundred and fifty leagues from Meereen.Which city is C?

13.Volantis

14. The __________ is a traditional ceremony held by inhabitants of the Iron Islands in which kings were chosen by longship captains. The __________s which chose the High King of the Iron Islands were held on Nagga's Hill on Old Wyk.When a __________ is held, any captain may put his name forward as a candidate for the rule - as among the ironborn "every captain is a king on his own ship" - and name three champions and may try to sway his fellow ironborn with a speech on his prowess and gifts to show his generosity; only once a vast majority call out a candidate's name to proclaim him king does the __________ end.

14.Kingsmoot

15. The east is plagued with mystics who claim many dread powers but prove only one, separating the foolish from their purses. Not so with the renowned ____X1____ of ____X2____ . They demand a much dearer coin in the return of their parlor tricks. Respect. Once the ____X1____ truly were mighty, or so they would have us believe. They are an old order, and one does not obtain a seat on the Thirteen, the governing council of ____X2____, without making 12 of it’s most powerful citizens afraid to forbid it. Thankfully for ____X2____, the ____X1____ exert little influence on its’ politics. They rarely leave the confines of the _____X3______ . X1, X2,X3?(1+1+1)

15.X1 = Warlocks

X2 = QarthX3 = House of the Undying

16. Whose quotes?

• ‘’My order serves the realm, not the ruler. Once I counseled King Aerys as loyally as I council King Robert now, so I bear this girl child of his no ill will. Yet I ask you this- should war come again, how many soldiers will die? How many towns will burn? How many children will be ripped from their mothers to perish on the end of a spear? Is it not wiser, even kinder, that Daenerys Targaryen should die now so that tens of thousands might live? ‘’

– to the small council• How many of you betrayed , I wonder? Aerys, Eddard Stark, me... King Robert as well?

Lord Arryn, Prince Rhaegar? Where does it begin, _______? – Tyrion to _______

16.Maester Pycelle

17. What is being described here(three word term)?

It is commonly believed it was a natural calamity caused by the eruption of the Fourteen Flames, although some septons believe the polytheistic residents delved too deep to the seven hells. Alternatively, Septon Barth and some maesters believe that the spells which controlled the Fourteen Flames faltered. Other explanation include the curse of Garin the Great, the fire of R'hllor, or infighting dragonlords assassinating fire mages.On the day, every hill for five hundred miles exploded, filling the air with ash and smoke and fire. Earthquakes destroyed palaces, temples, and towns, while lakes boiled or turned to acid. The Fourteen Flames, the fiery mountains, sent molten rock a thousand feet into the air. George R. R. Martin's inspirations include the legend of Atlantis and the fall of Rome.

17.Doom of Valyria

18.Crownlands : A Dorne : SandIron Islands : B Reach : CStormlands : Storm Vale of Arryn : DA,B,C,D?(0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5)

18.A = Waters B = Pyke

C = Flowers D = Stone

19. X’s backstory in both the books and the show is pretty distressing. The warrior lost both the mother and all of the siblings and, suffered through three broken engagements. Martin has given X’s non-dainty frame tremendous new meaning. X, he announced to the Balticon (Comic-Con of sorts in Baltimore) crowd, is the descendent of Y. Though the show doesn’t have the luxury of delving into history all that often, it made some room for Y in Season 4 when Joffrey was flipping through the history of the knights of the Kingsguard. “Y. Four pages for Y. He must have been quite a man,” Joffrey sneered. “So they say,” his father/uncle Jaime replied.X and Y?(1+1)

19.X = Brienne of TarthY = Duncan the Tall

20. What is present on the banners of House Reyne ?

20.A Red lion