The Keys to the Kingdom series is a vivid, dramatic adventure fantasy of dazzling scope and originality, from internationally acclaimed author Garth Nix. Take our quiz and see how well you know the world of Arthur Penhaligon! There are ten questions on each of the books.
Stainless steel
Bone china
Perspex
Plastic
Asthma
Cancer
Gangrene
Heart disease
Violet and Red
Skye and Star
Willow and Twig
Leaf and Branch
Stacy Jet Black
Suzy Turquoise Blue
Sally Emerald Green
Sarah Bright Red
The Deep Coal Cellar
The Far Reaches
The Border Sea
Hell's Kitchen
Tied to the wall with unbreakable rope
Chained to a clock face
Within a crystal orb
Behind a wall of fire
How to pick the locks on the Cellar door
How to use Ascension Wings
How to move in utter silence
How to use the Improbable Stair
The Front Door of the House
Arthur's home in the Secondary Realms
A police station
Monday's Antechamber
With salt
With iron
With steel
With music
A drainpipe
A spiderwire
A chimney
An escalator
A week
Six months
A year
Six years
Ten trillion dollars
The House's weight in silver
363 tons of gold
A thousand centuries' worth of labour
Tethera
Yan
Azer
Jakem
Silver
Salt
Iron
Gold
The Grotesques
Grim Tuesday's lost eyebrow
Grim Tuesday himself
The Old One
In the horn of a unicorn
In a stormcloud
Beneath a black mountain
In the heart of a sun
Eagle
Sun bear
Golden fish
A jewel
Helmet
Sun-goggles
Boot
Gauntlets/gloves
A lost Piper's Child
An officer in the Great & Glorious Army
One of the sons of the Architect and The Old One
None of the above
By substituting them with Nithlings
By destroying Grim Tuesday's register
By causing their chains to fall apart and unlink
By imprisoning Grim Tuesday
Rattus Navis
Kon Tiki
Dawntreader
Flying Mantis
The Moth
The Butterfly
The Cicada
The Bee
They were the pets of the Architect
They were the Piper's rats
They kept The Old One company in the Deep Coal Cellar
None of the above
Dartbristle
Monckton
Sunscorch
Ichabod
In a worldlet in Wednesday's stomach
In the heart of a star
At the bottom of the Border Sea
Inside an anchor