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Answers for The King William's Quiz for 2012...

1.


    1.1 – what are diamonded with panes of quaint device?
      A casement.

      From John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes (1820), stanza 24:
        A casement high and triple-arch'd there was,
        All garlanded with carven imag'ries
        Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass,
        And diamonded with panes of quaint device,
        Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes,
        As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings;
        And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries,
        And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings,
        A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.


    1.2 – what tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?
      Diamonds are Forever (1971)

    1.3 – what made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?#
      Chipmunks, in Diamond Dust and Other Stories by Anita Desai. Diamond is a dog.

    1.4 – what stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman
    Barcarolle?
      The Mazarin Stone, in "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" by Arthur Conan Doyle, a Sherlock Holmes mystery in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1921).

    1.5 – who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the
    Roman Empire?
      Jared Diamond, who wrote The Rise and fall of the Third Chimpanzee.

    1.6 – what title embraced studies, among others, of a walking talking killing
    machine, a hell fighter, the time-warp tough guy and an honourable man?
      Diamond Geezers by Kate Kray.

    1.7 – what was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal
    shooting with pearls?
      Having her throat cut with diamonds. This in The Duchess of Malfi, Act 4, scene 2:
        Duchess: ...What death?
        Bosola: Strangling. Here are your executioners.
        ... Methinks,
        The manner of your death should much afflict you;
        This cord should terrify you?

        Duchess: Not a whit.
        What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut
        With diamonds? or to be smothered
        With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls?

    1.8 – what diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?
      The Regent Diamond - from Alexander pope's 'On the use of riches'.

    1.9 – what blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis?
      Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington, according to Norman Mailer in Miami and the Siege of Chicago.

    1.10 – what was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?
      The Akbar Shah diamond.



2. - People, places and things named "Elizabeth".


    2.1 – who was known as the Queen of the Blues?
      Elizabeth Montagu, Queen of the Bluestockings (1718-1800).

    2.2 – who went from Hastings to Holland, and then to Cornwall?
      Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter (1363-1426), who married John Hastings, John Holland, and Sir John Hoolland

    2.3 – who retained the embalmed "capital" remnant of her executed husband?
      Elizabeth, Lady Raleigh, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh, known as Bess Throckmorton (1565-1647).

    2.4 – which corpulent lady was affectionately known by her family as Betty Humbug?
      Elizabeth, daughter of George III (1770-1840).

    2.5 – how is Tolhuys's creation bearing the inscriptions Victoria, Libertas and
    Scalda popularly known?
      Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol. It was a cannon.

    2.6 – which legendary serial gynaecocide was consigned to immurement, while her
    accomplices were burned at the stake?
      Elizabeth Báthory, known as the "Blood Countess" (1560-1614).

    2.7 – where is Whitehead's equine memorial to more than 2½ years of deadly
    conflict?
      Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It is a memorial to the Second Boer War.

    2.8 – who felt quickening at six months on receiving her cousin's good news?
      Elizabeth, cousin of Mary, in the Bible, Luke 1:26-38

    2.9 – who lisped her threat to repeatedly scream to the point of vomiting?
      Violet Elizabeth Bott, who used to say, "I'll thcream and thcream 'till I'm thick", in the Just William stories by William Brown.

    2.10 – which relative called "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!"?
      The daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, in the poem "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire" by Jean Ingelow (1820–97):
        I sat and spun within the doore,
        My thread brake off, I rais’d myne eyes;
        The level sun, like ruddy ore,
        Lay sinking in the barren skies;
        And dark against day’s golden death
        She moved where Lindis wandereth,
        My sonne’s faire wife, Elizabeth.

        “Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!” calling,
        Ere the early dews were falling,
        Farre away I heard her song,
        “Cusha! Cusha!” all along;
        Where the reedy Lindis floweth,
        Floweth, floweth,
        From the meads where melick groweth
        Faintly came her milking song—



3. In what work: - Operas by Giuseppe Verdi


    3.1 – does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?
      Rigoletto

    3.2 – is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?
      Falstaff

    3.3 – does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a
    monk?
      Forza del destino

    3.4 – does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the
    chief magistrate?
      Simon Boccanegra

    3.5 – does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing
    that he was the son of a gypsy?
      Il Trovatore.

    3.6 – does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following
    a meteorologically induced period of insanity?
      Nabucco.

    3.7 – does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived "affair",
    followed by uxoricide and then suicide?
      Otello.

    3.8 – is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a
    fortune-teller?
      Un ballo in maschera.

    3.9 – is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of
    Aachen?
      Ernani

    3.10 – does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?
      La Traviata.


4. Who: - The Dutch


    4.1 – held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?
      Hendrik Willem van Loon. 'The town of Veere forms the setting for "Van Loon's Lives", a book of contemporary fantasy written by Hendrik Willem Van Loon in 1942, in which the protagonists are able to magically summon the great men and women of history for weekend dinner parties, leading to often humorous incidents.'

    4.2 – is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?
      Maria van Diemen

    4.3 – built an insular wooden cabin by a sea that took his name?
      Willem Barentsz

    4.4 – is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?
      Carel Fabritius

    4.5 – was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?
      Willem Janszoon Blaeu. VOC is the Dutch East India Company, or Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie.

    4.6 – was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on
    the day of his fatal shooting?
      Rombertus van Uylenburgh

    4.7 – was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a
    cherem?
      Baruch Spinoza

    4.8 – stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?
      Erasmus

    4.9 – developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?
      Antony van Leeuwenhoek

    4.10 – removed Royal Charles from Chatham?
      The Dutch navy under Admiral De Ruyter captured the H.M.S. Royal Charles in 1667.


5. Who: - Names ending "by".


    5.1 – put Fairfax on the map?
      Fairfax Moresby.

    5.2 – wrote of guinea pigs and moles?
      Kenneth Mellanby.

    5.3 – supposedly came from Tappington?
      Thomas Ingoldsby

    5.4 – won on a Rainbow (and also Florrie)?
      George Formby, in the 1935 movie No Limit.

    5.5 – modelled for The Pitcher Goes to the Well?
      Trilby, in the book of that name by George du Maurier.

    5.6 – recognised his 20th-century Armageddon when elevated to the Lords?
      Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe.

    5.7 – was credited with the invention of IC?
      Jack Kilby, who invented the Integrated Ciruit.

    5.8 – shared with Eleanor at Plas Newydd?
      Sarah Ponsonby.

    5.9 – was neither gossip nor breadbate?
      John Rugby in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ant 1, scene 4.

        Mistress Quickly: An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant
        shall come in house withal, and, I warrant you, no
        tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is,
        that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish
        that way: but nobody but has his fault; but let
        that pass.


    5.10 – surveyed Itseqqortoormiit?
      William Scoresby, who mapped Greenland.


6. - People named "Isaac"

    6.1 – whose first pseudonym was adopted from Billy Powell?
      Karen, Baroness von Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen).

    6.2 – who wrote morbidly of the dead stretched at the crossroads?
      Isaac Rosenburg, "Dead Man's Dump".
        They left this dead with the older dead,
        Stretched at the cross roads.

    6.3 – who was successfully sued by Howe for patent infringement?
      Isaac Singer

    6.4 – who enjoyed cigale rôti with sauce à la coccinelle at Chez Pêcheur?
      Sir Isaac Newton in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher..

    6.5 – whose contemplative discourse was prefaced with a quote from St John 21:3?
      Sir Izaac Walton, The compleat angler..

    6.6 – who took unified joys from a multitude of tongues from words derived from a
    Patmos vision?
      Isaac Watts.

    6.7 – who wrote about the wisdom of Acheson, Harriman and four others?
      Water Isaacson, >i>The wise men..

    6.8 – who led the successful prosecution in a famous fly-paper case?
      SirRufus Isaacs.

    6.9 – who held a governorship and two bishoprics simultaneously?
      Isaac Barrow, who founded King William's College and was Governor of the Isle of Man..

    6.10 – which member for Harwich chose to sit for Youghal?
      Isaac Butt.


7. Where: - Towns in Derbyshire


    7.1 – in reality, was Snowfield?
      Wirksworth, Derbyshire. "Snowfield" is a town in Adam Bede by George Eliot.

    7.2 – are the branchy trees white with rime?
      Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. This is a reference to a poem by John Betjeman, “The Shivering Children Wait Their Doom”.

    7.3 – may Robin Hood's lieutenant have been buried?
      Hathersage, Derbyshire, where Little John is said to be buried.

    7.4 – appropriately, did Vigar and Smith provide a final two-ton twist?
      Chesterfield, Derbyshire, at the cricket ground at Queen's Park.

    7.5 – might the splendour of St John the Baptist earn the village city status?
      Tideswell, with its church of St. John the Baptist.

    7.6 – does the heroine who illuminated Üsküdar look down on London Road?
      London Road, Derbyshire, where there is a statue of Florence Nightingale, who lived and practised nursing in Üsküdar, Turkey.

    7.7 – did an error with the eggs and almonds spawn a famous dessert?
      Bakewell, Derbyshire, where Bakewell Pudding was first made by accident.

    7.8 – does Lent kick off with a historic two-day match?
      Ashbourne, Derbyshire, where the Royal Shrovetide Football Match is held.

    7.9 – does St Ann provide free drinks 24/7?
      St. Ann's Well in Buxton, Derbyshire.

    7.10 – is the gate free from blame?
      Repton, where the school motto is "the gate is free from blame".


8. - Shakespeare and Sea Creatures


    8.1 – of what fishes was who declared the Triton?
      Sicinius - minnows, in Coriolanus Act 3, Scene 1, when Coriolanus says, "Hear you this Triton of the minnows?"

    8.2 – who likened the haberdasher's offering to a bivalve?
      Petruchio, a cockle, in The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Act 4 scene 2:
        Haberdasher: Here is the cap your worship did bespeak.

        Petruchio: Why, this was moulded on a porringer;
        A velvet dish. Fie, fie! 'tis lewd and filthy;
        Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,
        A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap.
        Away with it. Come, let me have a bigger.

    8.3 – who was likened to which dried clupeid without his roe?
      Romeo, a herring, in Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, scene 4:

        Benvolio: Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.
        Mercutio: Without his roe, like a dried herring: O flesh,
        flesh, how art thou fishified!

    8.4 – who reminded Goodfellow of hearing a mermaid on whose back?
      Oberon; a dolphin, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2, scene 1:

        Oberon: Once I sat upon a promontory,
        And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
        Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
        That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
        And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
        To hear the sea-maid’s music.

    8.5 – who suggested that land might be purchased as cheap as what malodorous fish?
      Falstaff, a mackerel, in Henry IV, Part One, Act 2, scene 4: "You may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel."

    8.6 – who intoned about whose jaws, mixed with a poisonous root and a lupine
    tooth?
      The Third Witch, sea shark, in Macbeth, Act 4, scene 1:

        Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
        Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
        Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
        Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
        Liver of blaspheming Jew,
        Gall of goat, and slips of yew
        Silver'd in the moon's eclipse

    8.7 – who, in alluding to age, refers to what creature progressing in reverse?
      Hamlet, a crab, in Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2:
        Polonius: I mean, what do the words say?

        Hamlet: Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams—all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.

    8.8 – who chose to play the fool and alluded to a small bait-fish?
      Gratiano, a gudgeon, in A Merchant of Venice, Act 1, scene 1:

        Let me play the fool:
        With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
        And let my liver rather heat with wine
        Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
        Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
        Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
        Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice
        By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio--
        I love thee, and it is my love that speaks--
        There are a sort of men whose visages
        Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
        And do a wilful stillness entertain,
        With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
        Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
        As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,
        And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'
        O my Antonio, I do know of these
        That therefore only are reputed wise
        For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,
        If they should speak, would almost damn those ears,
        Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.
        I'll tell thee more of this another time:
        But fish not, with this melancholy bait,
        For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

    8.9 – whose face had pimples, described as what gastropods?
      Bardolph, a whelk, in Henry V, Act 3, scene 6, described by Flewellyn:

        The perdition of th' athversary hath been very
        great, reasonable great: marry, for my part, I
        think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that
        is like to be executed for robbing a church, one
        Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is
        all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o'
        fire...

    8.10 – who found that what soused fish caused flatulence?
      Sir Toby Belch, herring, in Twelfth Night, Act 1, scene 5.


9. Who: - Ancient greeks?


    9.1 – inspired Stravinsky?
      Sophocles

    9.2 – described a raptor's daily meal of liver?
      Aeschylus in Prometheus Bound:
        Nor till thou hast completed thy long term
        Shalt thou come back into the light; and then
        The hound of Zeus, the tawny eagle,
        Shall violently fall upon thy flesh
        And rend it as 'twere rags; and every day
        And all day long shall thine unbidden guest
        Sit at thy table, feasting on thy liver
        Till he hath gnawn it black.


    9.3 – inspired the forester's son from Erasbach?
      Euripides, who inspired Gluck to write Orfeo ed Euridice.

    9.4 – described a chaste form of mutual appreciation?
      Plato

    9.5 – was acknowledged specifically by the binomial pioneer?
      Theophrastus, who inspired Linnaeus.

    9.6 – described by one writer as an "equine irritant", was the victim of Conium?
      Socrates

    9.7 – wrote about 10,000 involved in a fraternal conflict?
      Xenophon

    9.8 – wrote of warring amphibians and rodents?
      Pigres of Halicarnassus, who wrote the Batrachomyomachia.

    9.9 – received a pattered mention by Stanley?
      Aristophanes

    9.10 – inspired a titled Austrian composer?
      Thucydides, who inspired Georg Rutter II


10. Where: - American towns


    10.1 – is there always snow?
      Stowe VT

    10.2 – did the hirsute hunter board the train?
      Bangor ME

    10.3 – is rail traffic enabled by a vertical descent of 41 metres?
      Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, Bourne MA

    10.4 – could you have chowder for breakfast, dinner and supper?
      The Try Pots, Nantucket MA

    10.5 – do Alvares and Rivera interchange with Abraham and Jacob?
      Newport RI

    10.6 – did the finding of wild grapes prompt the explorer to name the island after
    his daughter?
      Martha's Vineyard MA

    10.7 – does a 20th-century Stump also include features of St Giles?
      Yale University, New Haven CT

    10.8 – did an ocular phenomenon exploit low temperatures?
      Buffalo NY

    10.9 – were the cogs first motivated by Hero?
      Mount Washington NH - cog railway locomotive named 'Hero'.

    10.10 – did two Starks idle down?
      Bow, NH


11. - W. Somerset Maugham


    1 – who shot Geoff Hammond?
      Leslie Crosby (The letter)

    2 – who, on his death bed, quoted from Goldsmith's Elegy?
      Walter Fane (The painted veil)

    3 – to which firm of accountants was the club-footed orphan articled?
      Messrs Herbert Carter & Co (Of human bondage)

    4 – whose seaside suicide was greeted by six slim splashing struggling sharks?
      Mackintosh (The trembling of a leaf)

    5 – who succumbed to uncontrollable diaphragmatic spasms in the Arabian Sea?
      Mr Gallagher ("P & O", from The casuarina tree)

    6 – which Russian libertine was lost in the Borneo jungle in pursuit of the
    Assistant Curator?
      Darya Munro (Neil McAdam, from Far Eastern tales

    7 – for what, in Mrs Hodges' own private opinion, was hoak preferable to helm?
      Coffins (Liza of Lambeth)

    8 – who, having left one painter for another, ended her life with Oxalic acid?
      Blanche Stroeve (The moon and sixpence)

    9 – which diamond merchant spent £260 on a sable cape and muff ?
      Jack Kuyper (Cakes and ale)

    10 – whose final ante-mortem word was "England"?
      Miss King (Ashenden: or, The British Agent)


12. In 1912


    12.1 – who put phonetics on the stage?
      George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

    12.2 – who was promoted to glory at Hadley Wood?
      William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. He lived in Hadley Wood, London.

    12.3 – who wrote finally "For God's sake look after our people"?
      Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic explorer. The last entry in his diary, written just before he died, was on 29 March: "Last entry. For God's sake look after our people".

    12.4 – what truth was officially revealed on the anniversary of Marx's birth?
      Pravda, the Russian newspaper. "Pravda was officially started on 5 May 1912, which indeed also was the birth anniversary of Karl Marx."

    12.5 – what Barkham Manor "discovery" was revealed in Burlington House?
      Piltdown Man

    12.6 – which silver medallist was exonerated at inquiry, following an accusation of
    bribery?
      Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon

    12.7 – in what were Austria, Bohemia and Luxembourg guilty of "no show"?
      Tug of war at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden

    12.8 – whose range of manual contact was reduced from 50-65 to 18?
      Goalkeepers in association football

    12.9 – what May Day gift was secretly erected overnight?
      The Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens.

    12.10 – what addition followed Oklahoma?
      New Mexico.


13. - Pottery and porcelain.


    13.1 – who created a Circus with Dame Laura?
      Clarice Cliff

    13.2 – whose work in Chelsea "never can happen again"?
      William de Morgan

    13.3 – what factory mark represents the Sound and two Belts?
      Royal Copenhagen

    13.4 – which Bohemian produced cabbage roses for whom in the Kingdom?
      Karel Nekola for Wemyss

    13.5 – who first placed designs in silver on green pottery for which company?
      A Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg

    13.6 – the Saxon Hercules was instrumental in the establishment of what factory?
      Meissen

    13.7 – who famously painted great white birds in flight for which company?
      Charles Baldwyn for Royal Worcester

    13.8 – which Salopian firm illustrated bird-assisted Chinese fishing?
      The Caughley Porecelain Factory.

    9 – what French product is identifiable by a hunting horn?
      Chantilly-ware

    10 – which Magyar product is literally eosinophilic?
      Zsolnay from Pécs, Hungary


14. Body parts


    14.1 – what is likened to a round goblet?
      A navel, in the Bible, Song of Solomon.

    14.2 – what does the Farmer carry in his boots?
      His heart. From The Farmer by A. P .Herbert (1922)

        The farmer will never be happy again;
        He carries his heart in his boots ;
        For either the rain is destroying his grain
        Or the drought is destroying his roots.


    14.3 – of what are Poetry and Religion a product?
      The smaller intestines. Thomas Carlyle quotes the French Author Pierre Jean George Cabanis as saying this, in his 1879 essay, "Theories of Education and Life".

    14.4 – what would Steffi weep to see, burst like a cave?
      The burst stomach of her dead lover, in the poem Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas.

        But she would weep to see today
        how on his skin the swart flies move;
        the dust upon the paper eye
        and the burst stomach like a cave.


    14.5 – which organ of the tobacconist is rotted, and which is spotted?
      "the lungs are rotted, the liver spotted" - Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair

    14.6 – what might be excited by a bashful young potato or a not-too-French French
    bean?
      "your languid spleen" - Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience:
        An attachment a la Plato
        for a bashful young potato
        or a, not too French, french bean
        must excite your languid spleen.
        For, if you walk down Picadilly
        with a poppy or lily
        in your medieval hand,
        every one will say,
        as you walk your flowery way;
        "If this young man is content,
        with a vegetable love
        which would certainly not content me.
        Why, what a very pure young man
        this pure young man must be!"
        -- W.S. Gilbert, "Patience"

    14.7 – what did the Robson brothers settle for the large Bostonian?
      The duodenum in Mr Standfast by John Buchan

    14.8 – where did my mother's life make me a man?
      The womb. From John Masefield:
        In the dark womb where I began
        My mother's life made me a man.

    14.9 – what is a smoky yellow like old vellum?
      The cerebellum. From a poem by Thomas E. Brown:

        I stick this probe
        In the posterior lobe
        Behold the cerebellum
        A smoky yellow, like old vellum!

    14.10 – wherein does Hope spring eternal?
      In the human breat - Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
    .

15. - Bishops


    15.1 – who was the Bishop of Bishops?
      Jonathan Onyemelukwe

    15.2 – whose exploits at Estourmel earned him an award for valour?
      Billy Bishop

    15.3 – who likened Harry to an urtically sheltered ripening strawberry?
      The Bishop of Ely, in Shakespeare's Richard II.

    15.4 – what disguise did Mazzini adopt when confronting the Rev Lord Henry?
      The Bishop of Matabeleland, in King Hearts and Coronets.

    15.5 – who might have included preaching to beefeaters and taking care of religious
    documents in his CV?
      Thomas Proudie, Bishop of Barchester, in Anthony Trollope's Barchestser Towers

    15.6 – who, following decapitation, picked up his head and carried it for 10km,
    delivering a sermon as he walked?
      St. Denis, Bishop of Paris

    15.7 – who was killed, together with his wife, by a collapsing chimney during the
    Great Storm?
      Richard Kidder, Bishop of Bath and Wells.

    15.8 – who was murdered in east Africa 16 months after his ordination?
      James hannington, Bishop of East Africa (1847-1885).

    15.9 – which Nordic Bishop was beheaded for opposing Lutheranism?
      Bishop Jón Arason of Iceland (1484-1550).

    15.10 – which mounted warrior was recreated by Bissen?
      Absalon, Bishop of Roskilde in Denmark (1128-1201).


16. Cats


    16.1 – to whom were all places alike?
      The cat in The cat that walked by himself in Just so stories by Rudyard Kipling.

    16.2 – who was rescued by Reino and revived by Helvi?
      Tao in The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford.

    16.3 – which curious character would claim a preference for grouse?
      Rum Tum Tugger in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.

    16.4 – who pilfered and pillaged, and snitched and stole all over town?
      Slinky Malinki in Slinky Malinki by Lynley Dodd.

    16.5 – what thought experiment questioned the Copenhagen interpretation?
      Schroedinger's Cat.

    16.6 – who was revived with rum and milk after rescue from flotsam off the Dutch
    coast?
      Sinbad in We didn't mean to go to sea by Arthur Ransome.

    16.7 – who was an impudent fraud that never had any financial backing?
      Orange Billy, in Animal Heroes by Ernest Thompson Seton.

    16.8 – who learned, terminally, that "one false step is ne'er retrieved"?
      Selima, in "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" by Thomas Gray.

    16.9 – who was Mrs Ribston's cousin (who did not give credit)?
      Tabitha Twitchit, in The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan by Beatrix Potter.

    16.10 – whose pupils were lunar responsive?
      Black Minnaloushe, in The Cat and the Moon by W.B. Yeats.


17. Which spirited concoction of which House: - Perfumes


    17.1 – is an amaryllid?
      Amaryllis by Floris

    17.2 – is papaveraceous?
      Opium by Yves St Laurent

    17.3 – recalls pink-tipped pale hands?
      Shalimar by Guerlain

    17.4 – recalls a Piedmontese foundation?
      L'Occitane by Provence

    17.5 – might have been named Jolly Roger?
      Dead Sexy Perfume 06 Tokyo Milk By Margot Elena

    17.6 – shares its name with a Breton music festival?
      L'Orient by Luminescence

    17.7 – might be translated as inconsistency?
      Contradiction by Calvin Klein

    17.8 – might be derived from Taro root?
      Poison by Dior

    17.9 – suggests a raptor's grasp?
      Ma Griffe, House of Carvene

    17.10 – is a riding-habit?
      Pink by Victoria's Secret


18. During 2012:


    1 – justify 29-17-19-65.
      U.K. Olympic medals haul, gold, silver, bronze and total.

    2 – which unifying Messiah has waned irreversibly?
      Sun Myung Moon

    3 – whose passing recalled the development of an earlier 911?
      Ferdinand Porsche

    4 – what revealed Dunearnin', Indisarray, Inveruin and Rum deal?
      The Economist (14 April)

    5 – what, among many others, might have reawakened the Cumbrian burghers?
      Beacon on Skiddaw for Queens Jubilee

    6 – what event has recalled one small step for man and one giant leap for
    mankind?
      The death of Neil Armstrong

    7 – whose bigger and bigger and bigger creations have merited a bigger award?
      David Hockney

    8 – how is sadness over Erithacus bringing happiness to Rebecca?
      'Erithacus' means 'robin'. Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees and his wife found a hospice named Rebecca House before he died.

    9 – how did Rothesay deliver cold, wet and windy weather?
      Prince Charles presented the weather on BBC Scotland

    10 – where was a flame seen on Saturn?
      The Olympic torch was carried over the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal on a boat called Saturn


    With thanks to all my friends who have helped me with answers and listened to my wails!


Date: 2012-12-26 09:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 17catherines
5.9 is Dr Caius in Merry Wives of Windsor

8.10 is Sir Toby Belch, and I believe it's pickled herrings.

9.4 is surely Plato?

Too tired for more! Good luck!

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