Cracker is king Graham's last name (his surname). Though rarely mentioned.
Background[]
Cracker is the surname of Graham Family Tree (at least pre-Graham's dynasty), although the surname is usually left off of most documents instead the family usually seems to prefer the use of titles, such as of Daventry.
After his marriage it seems Graham became their dynastic surname in in official documents.
Family[]
- Sir Cracker (Graham's grandfather, Rosella's Great-Grandfather)
- Hereward Cracker (Graham's Father)
- Mother Cracker (Graham's mother)
- Graham Cracker
- Grandchildren
See also[]
- Graham family
- Graham Family (KQGS)
- Cracker family (KQGS)
- Graham Cracker (KQGS)
- Fairy Godmother (Graham's Grandma)
- Royal Family (the dynasties of Daventry including "Graham's family'.)
Behind the scenes[]
Cracker is a somewhat obscure surname that originated from King’s Quest II. If the player asks the parser what is Graham’s last name or name the game answers “Cracker.” Cracker as his surname or identity is also alluded to in KQ1SCI remake when you are killed by the witch. As well as in the Companion and as a joke reference in Quest for Glory 1 VGA.
The parser commands for reference appear in parser files as “113 last name, name”. Technically asking “what is Grahams first name” also gives the reply but this is because the game defaults to the “name” command in the parser. The “last name” is the main command phrase, while name is alternate. Though “last name” also comes alphabetically first. The hintbook also states that the proper question is “What is Grahams last name?”.
Cracker is a surname, recorded as Crack, Crake, Crayke, Creyk, Cracker, Craker, and possibly others, this is an English surname which is also associated with Scotland. There are two possible origins. The first is that it is a nickname surname from the word "crayke", meaning a crow or raven, and hence a person with the characteristics of those birds, and
the second and most likely as shown by the early recordings, that it locational from a village called Crayke in North Yorkshire. This village occupies a prominent and defensible position on a rock rising out of the Plain of York some ten miles north of the city itself. Its importance is shown by its first known recording in the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of the year 685 a.d. The derivation is from the Old British word creic meaning a rock. Like some other predominently Yorkshire surnames, for reasons unknown, many nameholders "emigrated" to Scotland in the Medieval period. Early
recordings include Henry de Crake of Dumfriesshire, who rendered homage
to the government of Scotland in 1296, Philipus de Crayk in the Poll Tax register of Yorkshire in 1379, and Andrew Craik, who in 1453 witnessd a "letter of sesing of the hold of Dumdurnach" in the records
of the shires of Aberdeen and Banff, Scotland. The spellings as Cracker
and Craker indicate a person of Crayke. The first recorded spelling of
the family name may be that of Ralph de Crake. This was dated 1273, in the "Hundred Rolls of Yorkshire", during the reign of King Edward 1st (1272 - 1307). Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.[1]