Domande frequenti

1. They contain words and their definitions.

Mostly, yes. But there are some mistakes:

• Blackadder mentions Jane Austen, however the show is set 10 years before she became famous

• Samuel Johnson approaches the Prince George about patronizing his English Dictionary. Johnson actually published his dictionary in 1755, seven years before the Prince was born. Johnson died in 1784, over 25 years before Prince George became Regent. Lord Byron appears as one of the romantic poets siding with Johnson in his dispute with Blackadder and Prince George but Byron wasn't born until 1788, after Johnson had died. Percy Bysshe Shelley, who also appears wasn't born until 1792. Coleridge, who also appears, was born in 1772, after the dictionary was published and only 12 years before Johnson died

• Obvious roller-coaster anachronism, when Blackadder refers to his novel as "a giant, roller-coaster of a novel"

• In the dream sequence, Blackadder asks Baldrick when he was given permission to turn into an Alsation. Alsations didn't appear in Britain until 1919. Furthermore, prior to 1919, Alsations were known as German Shepherd Dogs, but were renamed Alsations by the British in response to anti-German sentiment after the First World War

• Blackadder says sir Thomas More was burned at a stake, however he was actually beheaded

There's no "aardvark", but there is a definition for "sausage":

Sáusage. n.s. [saucisse, French; salsum, Latin.] A roll or ball made commonly of pork or veal, and sometimes of beef, minced very small, with salt and spice; sometimes it is stuffed into the guts of fowls, and sometimes only rolled in flower.

No, but she's mentioned two times; first in Potato, where she's revealed to be bedridden from the nose down. Later, she's mentioned in Money. Apparently, she owns a pie shop in that series, unlike in Blackadder the Third, where her descendant, played by Helen Atkinson-Wood, runs a coffee shop.

Those covers were drawn by Stan Kaminski, here is his website, scroll down a bit and you should see them all (except for cover for Dish and Dishonesty, which was lost): http://www.stankaminski.com/galleries/black-adder/

The illustration for Nob and Nobility was missing the old font, so they tried to fix it via Microsoft Word. At least that's what the page looked like before the redesign. Now, both the illustrations for Dish and Dishonesty and Nob and Nobilityare missing from the site.