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fajrdrakoAnswers for The King William's Quiz for 2012...
1.
2. - People, places and things named "Elizabeth".
3. In what work: - Operas by Giuseppe Verdi
4. Who: - The Dutch
5. Who: - Names ending "by".
6. - People named "Isaac"
7. Where: - Towns in Derbyshire
8. - Shakespeare and Sea Creatures
9. Who: - Ancient greeks?
10. Where: - American towns
11. - W. Somerset Maugham
12. In 1912
13. - Pottery and porcelain.
14. Body parts
15. - Bishops
16. Cats
17. Which spirited concoction of which House: - Perfumes
18. During 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?
1.3 – what made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?#
1.4 – what stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman
Barcarolle?
1.5 – who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the
Roman Empire?
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?
1.7 – what was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal
shooting 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?
1.10 – what was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?
2. - People, places and things named "Elizabeth".
2.1 – who was known as the Queen of the Blues?
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?
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?
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?
3.2 – is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?
3.3 – does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a
monk?
3.4 – does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the
chief magistrate?
3.5 – does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing
that he was the son of a gypsy?
3.6 – does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following
a meteorologically induced period of insanity?
3.7 – does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived "affair",
followed by uxoricide and then suicide?
3.8 – is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a
fortune-teller?
3.9 – is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of
Aachen?
3.10 – does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?
4. Who: - The Dutch
4.1 – held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?
4.2 – is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?
4.3 – built an insular wooden cabin by a sea that took his name?
4.4 – is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?
4.5 – was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?
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?
4.7 – was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a
cherem?
4.8 – stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?
4.9 – developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?
4.10 – removed Royal Charles from Chatham?
5. Who: - Names ending "by".
5.1 – put Fairfax on the map?
5.2 – wrote of guinea pigs and moles?
5.3 – supposedly came from Tappington?
5.4 – won on a Rainbow (and also Florrie)?
5.5 – modelled for The Pitcher Goes to the Well?
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?
5.8 – shared with Eleanor at Plas Newydd?
5.9 – was neither gossip nor breadbate?
5.10 – surveyed Itseqqortoormiit?
6. - People named "Isaac"
6.1 – whose first pseudonym was adopted from Billy Powell?
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?
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?
6.6 – who took unified joys from a multitude of tongues from words derived from a
Patmos vision?
6.7 – who wrote about the wisdom of Acheson, Harriman and four others?
6.8 – who led the successful prosecution in a famous fly-paper case?
6.9 – who held a governorship and two bishoprics simultaneously?
6.10 – which member for Harwich chose to sit for Youghal?
7. Where: - Towns in Derbyshire
7.1 – in reality, was Snowfield?
7.2 – are the branchy trees white with rime?
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?
7.5 – might the splendour of St John the Baptist earn the village city status?
7.6 – does the heroine who illuminated Üsküdar look down on London Road?
7.7 – did an error with the eggs and almonds spawn a famous dessert?
7.8 – does Lent kick off with a historic two-day match?
7.9 – does St Ann provide free drinks 24/7?
7.10 – is the gate 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?
8.4 – who reminded Goodfellow of hearing a mermaid on whose back?
8.5 – who suggested that land might be purchased as cheap as what malodorous fish?
8.6 – who intoned about whose jaws, mixed with a poisonous root and a lupine
tooth?
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?
8.9 – whose face had pimples, described as what gastropods?
8.10 – who found that what soused fish caused flatulence?
9. Who: - Ancient greeks?
9.1 – inspired Stravinsky?
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?
9.4 – described a chaste form of mutual appreciation?
9.5 – was acknowledged specifically by the binomial pioneer?
9.6 – described by one writer as an "equine irritant", was the victim of Conium?
9.7 – wrote about 10,000 involved in a fraternal conflict?
9.8 – wrote of warring amphibians and rodents?
- Pigres of Halicarnassus, who wrote the Batrachomyomachia.
9.9 – received a pattered mention by Stanley?
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?
10.9 – were the cogs first motivated by Hero?
10.10 – did two Starks idle down?
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?
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?
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?
12.10 – what addition followed Oklahoma?
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?
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?
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?
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15. - Bishops
15.1 – who was the Bishop of Bishops?
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?
15.6 – who, following decapitation, picked up his head and carried it for 10km,
delivering a sermon as he walked?
15.7 – who was killed, together with his wife, by a collapsing chimney during the
Great Storm?
15.8 – who was murdered in east Africa 16 months after his ordination?
15.9 – which Nordic Bishop was beheaded for opposing Lutheranism?
15.10 – which mounted warrior was recreated by Bissen?
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?
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?
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?
With thanks to all my friends who have helped me with answers and listened to my wails!
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Date: 2012-12-26 09:28 am (UTC)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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Date: 2012-12-26 01:11 pm (UTC)