fajrdrako | The King William's College Quiz for 2012...

1.

1 – what are diamonded with panes of quaint device?
2 – what tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?
3 – what made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?
4 – what stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman
Barcarolle?

5 – who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the
Roman Empire?

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?

7 – what was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal
shooting with pearls?

8 – what diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?
9 – what blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis?
10 – what was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?

2.

1 – who was known as the Queen of the Blues?
2 – who went from Hastings to Holland, and then to Cornwall?
3 – who retained the embalmed "capital" remnant of her executed husband?
4 – which corpulent lady was affectionately known by her family as Betty Humbug?

5 – how is Tolhuys's creation bearing the inscriptions Victoria, Libertas and
Scalda popularly known?

6 – which legendary serial gynaecocide was consigned to immurement, while her
accomplices were burned at the stake?

7 – where is Whitehead's equine memorial to more than 2½ years of deadly
conflict?

8 – who felt quickening at six months on receiving her cousin's good news?
9 – who lisped her threat to repeatedly scream to the point of vomiting?
10 – which relative called "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!"?

3 In what work:

1 – does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?
2 – is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?

3 – does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a
monk?

4 – does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the
chief magistrate?

5 – does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing
that he was the son of a gypsy?

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

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

8 – is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a
fortune-teller?

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

10 – does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?

4. Who:

1 – held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?
2 – is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?
3 – built an insular wooden cabin by a sea that took his name?
4 – is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?

5 – was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?
6 – was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on
the day of his fatal shooting?

7 – was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a
cherem?

8 – stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?
9 – developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?
10 – removed Royal Charles from Chatham?

5. Who:

1 – put Fairfax on the map?
2 – wrote of guinea pigs and moles?
3 – supposedly came from Tappington?
4 – won on a Rainbow (and also Florrie)?
5 – modelled for The Pitcher Goes to the Well?
6 – recognised his 20th-century Armageddon when elevated to the Lords?
7 – was credited with the invention of IC?
8 – shared with Eleanor at Plas Newydd?
9 – was neither gossip nor breadbate?
10 – surveyed Itseqqortoormiit?

6.

1 – whose first pseudonym was adopted from Billy Powell?
2 – who wrote morbidly of the dead stretched at the crossroads?
3 – who was successfully sued by Howe for patent infringement?
4 – who enjoyed cigale rôti with sauce à la coccinelle at Chez Pêcheur?
5 – whose contemplative discourse was prefaced with a quote from St John 21:3?
6 – who took unified joys from a multitude of tongues from words derived from a
Patmos vision?

7 – who wrote about the wisdom of Acheson, Harriman and four others?
8 – who led the successful prosecution in a famous fly-paper case?
9 – who held a governorship and two bishoprics simultaneously?
10 – which member for Harwich chose to sit for Youghal?

7. Where:

1 – in reality, was Snowfield?
2 – are the branchy trees white with rime?
3 – may Robin Hood's lieutenant have been buried?
4 – appropriately, did Vigar and Smith provide a final two-ton twist?
5 – might the splendour of St John the Baptist earn the village city status?
6 – does the heroine who illuminated Üsküdar look down on London Road?
7 – did an error with the eggs and almonds spawn a famous dessert?
8 – does Lent kick off with a historic two-day match?
9 – does St Ann provide free drinks 24/7?
10 – is the gate free from blame?

8.

1 – of what fishes was who declared the Triton?
2 – who likened the haberdasher's offering to a bivalve?
3 – who was likened to which dried clupeid without his roe?
4 – who reminded Goodfellow of hearing a mermaid on whose back?
5 – who suggested that land might be purchased as cheap as what malodorous fish?

6 – who intoned about whose jaws, mixed with a poisonous root and a lupine
tooth?

7 – who, in alluding to age, refers to what creature progressing in reverse?
8 – who chose to play the fool and alluded to a small bait-fish?
9 – whose face had pimples, described as what gastropods?
10 – who found that what soused fish caused flatulence?

9. Who:

1 – inspired Stravinsky?
2 – described a raptor's daily meal of liver?
3 – inspired the forester's son from Erasbach?
4 – described a chaste form of mutual appreciation?
5 – was acknowledged specifically by the binomial pioneer?
6 – described by one writer as an "equine irritant", was the victim of Conium?
7 – wrote about 10,000 involved in a fraternal conflict?
8 – wrote of warring amphibians and rodents?
9 – received a pattered mention by Stanley?
10 – inspired a titled Austrian composer?

10. Where:

1 – is there always snow?
2 – did the hirsute hunter board the train?
3 – is rail traffic enabled by a vertical descent of 41 metres?
4 – could you have chowder for breakfast, dinner and supper?
5 – do Alvares and Rivera interchange with Abraham and Jacob?
6 – did the finding of wild grapes prompt the explorer to name the island after
his daughter?

7 – does a 20th-century Stump also include features of St Giles?
8 – did an ocular phenomenon exploit low temperatures?
9 – were the cogs first motivated by Hero?
10 – did two Starks idle down?

11.

1 – who shot Geoff Hammond?
2 – who, on his death bed, quoted from Goldsmith's Elegy?
3 – to which firm of accountants was the club-footed orphan articled?
4 – whose seaside suicide was greeted by six slim splashing struggling sharks?
5 – who succumbed to uncontrollable diaphragmatic spasms in the Arabian Sea?
6 – which Russian libertine was lost in the Borneo jungle in pursuit of the
Assistant Curator?

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?
9 – which diamond merchant spent £260 on a sable cape and muff ?
10 – whose final ante-mortem word was "England"?

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?
12.7 – in what were Austria, Bohemia and Luxembourg guilty of "no show"?
12.8 – whose range of manual contact was reduced from 50-65 to 18?
12.9 – what May Day gift was secretly erected overnight?
12.10 – what addition followed Oklahoma?

13.

1 – who created a Circus with Dame Laura?
2 – whose work in Chelsea "never can happen again"?
3 – what factory mark represents the Sound and two Belts?
4 – which Bohemian produced cabbage roses for whom in the Kingdom?
5 – who first placed designs in silver on green pottery for which company?
6 – the Saxon Hercules was instrumental in the establishment of what factory?
7 – who famously painted great white birds in flight for which company?
8 – which Salopian firm illustrated bird-assisted Chinese fishing?
9 – what French product is identifiable by a hunting horn?
10 – which Magyar product is literally eosinophilic?

14.

14.1 – what is likened to a round goblet?
14.2 – what does the Farmer carry in his boots?
14.3 – of what are Poetry and Religion a product?
14.4 – what would Steffi weep to see, burst 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