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fajrdrakoHere I will post answers, if I come up with any, for the King William's College Quiz. I've only given it a cursory reading and so far seem unispired - help from my friends gratefully received, if you know any of the answers. (Help!) The Dunnett crowd as usual is working on it in tandem. They're good.
Warning: don't read this is you want to find answers all by yourself. My answers, when I have some, may not be right, but they might well be spoilers.
Here is a set of the answers - this note added 11.12.17.
The 106th King William's College Quiz:
General knowledge paper 2010-2011, sat by the pupils of King William's College, Isle of Man
"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est"
1. In the year 1910:
1.1 who was the victim of al-Wardani? Boutros Ghali
1.2 who began with Helen's letters to her sister? Howard's End - EM Forster.
1.3 what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?
1.4 which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives? Pluviose and Pas de Calais
1.5 who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street? Dr Crippen
1.6 whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later? Leo Tolstoy
1.7 who, having ruled which principality for 50 years, declared himself King? Nicholas I of Montenegro
1.8 whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery? Sir Henry Irving
1.9 which two unaccountable freaks went out together? Mark Twain and Halley's Comet. From Twain's biography: 'I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."'
1.10 what was set alight on the Parisian stage? Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird premiered on June 25, 1910, on the stage of Paris’ Grand Opera.
2. Who or what: People or groups named "Gordon"
2.1 blew hot and cool? Dexter Gordon, saxophonist, who had a 1955 album, "Hot and Cold".
2.2 was Mad Jack's spouse? Catherine Gordon - who married "Mad Jack Byron - they were Lord Byron's parents.
2.3 was the stuff that Smith was made of? Something to do with the Smith-Gordon Baronets? see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith-Gordon_Baronets
2.4 is an expression of surprise or indignation? Gordon Bennett
2.5 did the Emperor reward with the Yellow Jacket? Major-General Charles George Gordon, given the Order of the Yellow Jacket by the Emperor of China.
2.6 started as the 100th, but became the 92nd and was later joined by the 75th? Gordon Highlanders
2.7 is marked by the rarest dish in all the land? Clan Gordon? Gordon's Gin?
2.8 did a wartime treble on a solar vehicle? Mack Gordon [?]
2.9 was Raymond's creation? Flash Gordon
2.10 merged with Osborne?
3. Going out, what (numerically), where, suggests:
3.1 a clutch of curlew's eggs?
3.2 a beverage "Faithful to the original"?
3.3 an encounter on 13 September 1882?
3.4 an annual event initiated by James Stanley?
3.5 an earlier connection with the Morning Post?
And coming in:
3.6 is there a geographical misplacement from South Uist?
3.7 sounds like a resident of Puddleby-on-the Marsh?
3.8 is an apparent refuge for the bald?
3.9 follows Calamity?
3.10 finishes on time?
4. Danes
1 Who demonstrated phonetic pronunciation? Victor Borge - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw
4.2 Whose notes were worth one hundred crowns? Carl Nielsen - Danish composer. The issue of the 100kroner note with his pic on it went out of print in May 2010 (the new note has an architectural theme), which fits with the wording of the question "Whose
notes WERE worth one hundred crowns?"
4.3 Who footed it in Italy, Spain, Japan and Holland? Michael Laudrup - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Laudrup
4.4 Who sold Estonia and took a Baltic Island instead? Valdemar the Fourth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_IV_of_Denmark)
4.5 Who was first to cross the North-West Passage by dog-sled? Knud Rasmussen
4.6 Who died during the wedding celebrations of Tove and Gythe? Harthacnut
4.7 Who was decorated for valour following the Amiens push? Thomas Dinesen
4.8 Whose tale about a sixth daughter inspired Eriksen? Hans Christian Andersen
4.9 Who is especially associated with a supernova? Tych Brahe
4.10 Who was cuckolded by the Royal physician? Christian VII
5. Which independent school:
5.1 started in the Depot?
5.2 favours Malvolian hosiery? Christ Church Hospital
5.3 is approached by the Hundred?
5.4 sold the site to Merchant Taylors'?
5.5 possesses a relic of an epic crossing of the Scotia Sea?
5.6 had in its statutes a cryptic acknowledgement of the final chapter of St John's Gospel?
5.7 owes its foundation to Salmonella typhi?
5.8 has a boomer in the chapel tower?
5.9 was pictured by a little canal?
5.10 replaced a lofty hermitage?
6. people or things whose names begin with Ut?
6.1 What was updated by HG Wells? Utopia - Wells wrote A Modern Utopia in 1905
6.2 What might be perceived as an apiary? Utah, the Beehive State
6.3 Which island is doubly recognised on 198? Utsira, Norway? What's 198? Can't be a reference to "The 198" in X-Men, even if it did lead to the foundation of Utopia... eventually.
6.4 Who left great designs in the Gulf and New South Wales? Jørn Oberg Utzon, who designed the Sydney Opera House and the national assembly building for Kuwait - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rn_Utzon
6.5 Who, aided by wizardry, cuckolded his rival by impersonating him? Uther Pendragon
6.6 Who, being the son of Suzanne, changed his name through the benevolence of her friend Miguel? Miguel Utrello
6.7 What did hateful and rough weeds lose apart from beauty? Utility. This is from Shakespeare's Henry V:
The even mead. that erst brought sweetly forth
The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,
Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,
Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems
But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs,
Losing both beauty and utility.
6.8 What was the native city of a unique pontiff? Utrecht, home of Hadrian VI, the only Pope from Holland
6.9 What can be used instead of mahogany? Utile - a kind of African wood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipo_(timber)
6.10 Who recruited Hare for Dad's Army? Alison Uttley
7. Irish counties - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland
1 Who began with 7-43? Dominic Cork - a cricket player - he took seven wickets for 43 runs
7.2 What excluded Hall in 1856?
7.3 What did Virginia adopt instead of Jones? Mayo - American actress Virginia Mayo was born Virginia Jones
7.4 Who gained valuable experience from Gillespie?
7.5 Who knocked out Jackie to become undisputed flyweight champion? Rinty Monaghan [?]
7.6 Who looked into the disappearance of his West African GP's daughter? Wexford
7.7 What was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand? Tipperary
- It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go...
7.8 Which minstrel finished with Danny Boy? James Galway
7.9 Where is St James the highest of all? Louth, Lincolnshire - http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/louth-church-st-james-the-highest-spire-in-england-my-trip
7.10 What is a funny five-liner? Limerick
8.
- Old Testament Prophets [?] - any particular kind?
8.1 Who benefited from projectile vomiting? Jonah
8.2 Who likened the messenger to fullers' soap? Malachi 3:2
8.3 Who was a fruiterer specialising in Ficus sycomorus? Amos
8.4 Who placed the caterpillar at the end of the food chain? Joel 1:4
8.5 Whose wife, a lady of ill-repute, bore him two sons and a daughter? Hosea, married to Gomer
8.6 Whose narratives both start during the second year of the monarch's reign? Samuel
8.7 Who dreamed of a bear-like beast with three ribs between its teeth? Daniel 7:5
8.8 Whose broken yoke was replaced by one made of iron? Jeremiah 28:12
8.9 Who alluded twice to Leo becoming a vegetarian? Isaiah - 11:6 and 65:25 - "the lion shall lie down with the lamb"
8.10 Who found himself in an open-air ossuary?
9. Who or what: Berts
9.1 is Hazel's cousin? filbert
9.2 was crowned in Dublin Cathedral? Lambert Simnel
9.3 eponymous water bird has long been bedded down? Cuthbert Duck (cf. eiderdown)
9.4 gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line? Benjamin Gimbert - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Gimbert
9.5 died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on 16 November, 1952? Humbert Humbert in Lolita - November 16, 1952: Humbert dies of coronary thrombosis, "a few days before his trial was scheduled to start." - http://www.shmoop.com/lolita/humbert-humbert-timeline.html
9.6 wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality? Gustave Flaubert - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
9.7 carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances? ? Mrs. Fitzherbert - reference to George IV, married to Caroline of Brunswick, had an affair with Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey
9.8 put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook? Dogbert
9.9 tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth? Franz Schubert (his Unfinished Symphony was the Eighth)
9.10 created William and Maudie? Osbert Lancaster - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbert_Lancaster
10. Which musician might have been:
10.1 in SW3?
10.2 a mongrel?
10.3 an ottoman?
10.4 a hurried exit?
10.5 a plumbous abdomen? Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter)
10.6 more specifically, Atropos?
10.7 emulsified by bile? Fats Domino [?]
10.8 a fit of pique?
10.9 coniferous?
10.10 lignified? Sir Henry Wood?
11. Letters
11.1 What was izzard? Z
11.2 When did Neptune begin? D-Day
11.3 What gave way to 18 in 83?
11.4 What is a feature of aerial punctuation?
11.5 Which food substance can adversely affect the embryo? Vitamin A
11.6 What convinced Benedict of the suitability of the Florentine master?
11.7 Where did Jane lodge for two guineas a week?
11.8 What, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC? Tungsten W(highest melting point
of any metal.)
11.9 Who is a sharp know-all?
11.10 What is a zoonotic? Q-fever
12. Patrick O'Brian books
12.1 What is perhaps the equal of roly-poly? boiled baby
12.2 What epidemic was survived by Sarah and Emily? Smallpox (Patrick
O'Brian)
12.3 What is made from hog's lard, mutton suet and quicksilver? Blue ointment in The Hundred Days
12.4 Upon whom had the captain's steward poured boiling jam juice?
12.5 Which ancient bibulous Dane with pale red-rimmed eyes, was presented with a case of Priorato?
12.6 Where, more than once, was a dead orphan child brought back for dissection and kept in a cupboard?
12.7 Where did the small apothecary display the skeleton of an aardvark in his window? Stockholm, in The Letter Of Marque
12.8 Translate 'Les bouts-dehors des bonnettes du petit perroquet'.
12.9 What was the ultimate fate of the Armenian polyglot? Hairabedian the dragoman was eaten by sharks in the Red Sea, in Treason's Harbour
12.10 Who found a Frenchman's ring finger in his bowl? Lieutenant West of the Surprise, in Clarissa Oakes
13. Elephants
13.1 Who rescued John Galt? Aurunculeia the elephant in House of the Four Winds
13.2 Who was No 1, of No 1 Company of the XIVth Army? Jim 'Elephant Bill' Williams
13.3 What entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name? Christine Magnusson is a member of the Order of the Elephant
13.4 Who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse? Hawai
13.5 Whose son had served the Indian government in every way for 47 years? Radha Pyari
13.6 Who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio? Hannibal's elephant, Surus
13.7 Who, being the gift of a Mesopotamian ruler, was to perish on Lüneburger Heide?
13.8 Who was presented to a Habsburg Prince by the King of Portugal? Soliman
13.9 Who was presented to a Pope by the King of Portugal? Hanno
13.10 Who set off for their honeymoon in a yellow balloon? Babar and Céleste
14. Which elevated conduit: Aquaducts
14.1 rotates for tall vessels? The Swing Bridge at Newcastle-on-Tyne
14.2 might suggest marzipan?
14.3 is suspended from two open-web ribs?
14.4 is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly?
14.5 features at the V&A museum, without its taller and younger companion?
14.6 although a few weeks younger than Holmes, proved greatly more durable?
14.7 took its name from the Honourable Member for Berkshire?
14.8 bears the inscription "To Public Prosperity"? Lune Aquaduct
14.9 provides an outlet for Trevor?
14.10 straddles Watling Street?
15. Where:
15.1 does one come off the rails?
15.2 might there be a quarryman's shelter?
15.3 does the hairpin recall Loch and his successors?
15.4 must one look in vain for Noble's Peel and Derby?
15.5 does a dwelling at barely 30m seem seriously misplaced?
15.6 might one be excused for wrongly supposing a link with Camilla's great grandmother?
15.7 is there a possible source for the winner's garland?
15.8 did a party from Grange Hill cause a disturbance?
15.9 is there a suggestion of a subterranean spirit?
15.10 is there a fraction over the glass?
16. Where:
- Opera - maybe some particular type of opera? Or the Italian city where the opera is set?
16.1 did Robinson settle for the elder sister? Robinson Crusoé by Offenbach [?]
16.2 was the master tailor interrupted in his reading of The Divine Comedy?
16.3 did apparent Benedictine hatred change, with assistance from friends, to love? Messina - Much Ado About Nothing by Stanford - or maybe Béatrice et Bénédict by Berlioz
16.4 did the seemingly simple sister of the Hungarian Captain end up marrying his landlord?
16.5 did the beloved offspring of opposing feuding families commit suicidefollowing the Friar's ruse? Verona - Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz or I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Bellini
16.6 did a Sicilian knight defeat the Duke in a duel and learn from the Saracen that his loved one was innocent?
16.7 did the rejected hunchback reveal the identity of his wife's real lover to the troupe leader? Trovatore [?]
16.8 did the dragoon gain the innkeeper's daughter in spite of a diabolical intrusion?
16.9 did the accursed jester unexpectedly find that his daughter had been bagged? Rigoletto by Verdi
16.10 did the General's wife stab herself after being ravished by the Prince?
17. Which author concluded what with these words?
17.1 "Assist."
17.2 "All the papers on the subject are there in my safe."
17.3 "As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on." Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
17.4 "At any moment, it seemed, there could be surprises, huge upsets, even the end of small lizard worlds."
17.5 "The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears." The Manxman by Hall Caine
17.6 "He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her." Flying Colours by C. S. Forester
17.7 "I can't reconcile my mind to their taking up with kanakas, and I'd like to know where I'm to find them whites."
17.8 "And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel" Bhowani Junction by John Master
17.9 "Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep."
17.10 "'Steer north,' said he."
18. During 2010:
18.1 where did Joy uncover Fletch?
18.2 which city honoured a 1945 hero with its Große Siegel?
18.3 which Wizard Rose wilted towards the end of summer?
18.4 who finally achieved a victory by 417 days over Sinclair?
18.5 who was finally ousted by a Scottish philosopher and economist on 30 June? Edward Elgar - the British £20 note had his image on it but was
replaced by one of Adam Smith - the phase-out was completed in the
summer.
18.6 which joint, showing a philatelic fracture, required a proper replacement before release?
18.7 where did Schadow's figure receive a multicoloured multiplication?
18.8 which leo-aquiline promoter missed out on afternoon tea? Nick Griffin
18.9 who found that three coppers did not fool two coppers?
18.10 where did the tallest last the longest?
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Date: 2010-12-24 09:15 pm (UTC)- Estonia, well, what was at that time the Duchy of Estonia and nowadays corresponds to Northern Estonia, was in the 14th century sold by Denmark to the Teutonic Order, and Wikipedia assures me the Danish King responsible for selling was Valdemar the Fourth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_IV_of_Denmark)
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Date: 2010-12-24 09:16 pm (UTC)I want to say Amundsen, but I'm not sure on that.
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Date: 2010-12-24 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-24 10:10 pm (UTC)Question 5.9
Date: 2014-12-24 05:00 pm (UTC)http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/eton-college-114546
Question 5.4
Date: 2014-12-24 05:27 pm (UTC)"In 1866, following reasoned argument from Hessey and the report of the Commission, the Company bought 5.5 acres (22,000 m2) of estate in Goswell Street for £90,000 from the Governors of the Charterhouse."
Http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Taylors%27_School,_Northwood
Question 5.5
Date: 2014-12-24 06:50 pm (UTC)It has Shackleton's boat he crossed from Elephant Island to South Georgia. He was an Old Alleynian.
http://www.dulwich.org.uk/college/about/history/the-james-caird