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fajrdrakoI decided I might as well list my answers so far to the King William's College General Knowledge Paper 2007 that I've been working on. Not that I have them all. Not that I understand all the answers - and I didn't come up with all of them myself, least of all the ones I don't understand. Many thanks to the Dunnett lists and other helpful friends. I'll put an asterisk beside those - if anyone can explain, I'd appreciate it!
Also, some of my answers might be wrong. Corrections welcome!
Some answers:
1. Category: During the year 1907:
1. Oklahoma (the 46th State in the US)
2. the theft of the Irish crown jewels
3. Henkel's detergent (Persil)
4. Lord Baden-Powell
5. Rudyard Kipling
6. "The Playboy of the Western World" by J.M. Synge
7. Horace Rayner
8. The Thomas W. Lawson
9. Colin Blythe
10. The Isle of Man TT races (TT= Tourist Trophy - motorcycle races)
2. Category: Fictitious schools:
1. Saint Dominic's, from The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's by Talbot Baines Reed
2. Lowood Institute, from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
3. Beardsley School, from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4. Dotheboys Hall, from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
5. Fernhurst, from The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh
6. The Marcia Blaine School for Girls, from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
7. St. Custard's, from Down With Skool by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
8. Roslyn School, in Eric, or Little by Little by Frederic W. Farrar
9. Hogwarts, from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling.
10. Greyfriar's School, from the stories by Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton)
3. Category: Forgeries:
1. William Henry Ireland
2. Eric Hebborn
3. Zinonviev
4. Gerd Heidemain and Konrad Kujau
5. Hans Van Meegeren
6. Alceo Dossena
7. George Psalmanazar
8. Piltdown Man
9. Tom Keating
10. Lothar Malskat
4. Category: South Africa:
1. Rorke's Drift (1879)
2. Graham's Town in Kipling's story, The Elephant's Child
3. Tchaka
4. Basil D'Oliveira
5. Sol Plaatje
6. The Bushman, from The Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens van der Post.8
7. Cecil Rhodes1
8. Hendrik Verwoerd
9. Drommedaris
10. Ramatlabama*
5. Category: Names with "end":
1. Land's End
2. Jim Laker's 19 out of 20 wickets from Stretford End of Old Trafford 19562
3. End game by Samuel Beckett
4. Turnip Townshend
5. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
6. Manhood End, from Eddi's Service by Rudyard Kipling
7. Mile-end, in A Young Thief by Daniel Defoe
8. Howard's End by EM Forster
9. Southend-on-Sea
10. Great End
6. Category: Russian names:
1. Nikodim3
2. Molotov
3. Chekov
4. Tschaikovsky
5. Tsar Ivan IV
6. Orlov*
7. Pushkin
8. Mendeleev
9. Yuri Gagarin
10. Pavlov
7. Category: Duels:
1. Lenski
2. Hamlet and Claudius
3. Col. Fowcett
4. George Tierney*
5. Moriarty
6. Liszt
7. Sohrab*
8. Lord Mohun
9. Earl of Shrewsbury
10. Goliath
8. Category: Pirates:
1. John Gow
2. Captain Hook, in Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
3. Captain Sharkey
4. Radio Caroline North
5. Ann Bonney
6. Captain Billy Barnes
7. Frederick in the Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan
8. Francois L'Ollonais*
9. Captain Blood
10. Byron's Corsair4
9. Category: Farms: (This category is really difficult!)
1. "a little farm down at the bottom of Arkansaw" from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Talbothays Dairy from Tess of the d'Urbervilles
4. Salt Lake Farm, in Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
5. Hill Farm in "Tarka the Otter"8
6. Philip's farm in Tennyson's poem The Brook.
7. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
8. From Kerstin:"the farm where Selma Lagerlöf's Nils Holgersson lives, but I can't find the name of the farm, just the town, West Vemmenhög, in Skane."
9. From Sue: "Blaweary - Dickson McCunn's farm in Buchan's Castle Gay".
10. Renshent from Tommy Big-Eyes by T.E. Brown
10. Category: Chesters:
1. Winchester Light Automatic Rifle
2. Grantchester
3. Mr. Rochester, in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
4. Melchester
5. G.K. Chesterton
6. Sir Francis Chichester (The Gypsy Moth - compared to Sir Francis Drake's The Golden Hind)5
7. Silchester
8. Chesterfield
9. Barchester
10. Manchester
11. Category: Hearts:
1. Hole in the heart (Ventricular Septal Defect)
2. The Heart of the Matter
3. Kind Hearts and Coronets
4. purple hearts
5. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
6. heartsease
7. Sick Heart River by John Buchan
8. Heartbeat
9. The Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
10. The Heart of Midlothian
12. Category: Hymns:
1. Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
2. I Vow to Thee My Country
3. O Jesus I have promised
4. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
5. Come Down, O Love Divine
6. Bread of Heaven
7. Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
8. The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, is Over
9. Let Us With a Gladsome Mind
10. In the Bleak Midwinter
13. Category: Military Ranks:
1. Sgt. Pepper
2. Lt. Godet
3. Colonel Bramble in The Silence of Colonel Bramble by Andre Maurois8
4. Sgt. Major Williams
5. Major Jonquier in CS Forester's The Gun6
6. Sgt. Havermeyer in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
7. Major-General Stanley
8. Sgt. Himmelstross from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
9. Private Mulvaney
10. Brigadier Gerard (Arhur Conan Doyle)
14. Category: Martins:
1. Dean Martin
2. St. Martin of Tours
3. Martingale
4. Freemartin
5. Martinique
6. Martinware Pottery
7. sand martins (birds)
8. "Julian Pemartin – his Palacio de Las Cadenas was built next to Parque Sandeman from plans by Charels Garnier (work started 1860)"10
9. Martin's Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences by Patrick J. Sinko.6
10. Martin Chuzzlewit, in the book by Charles Dickens
15. Category: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome:
1. Peter Duck
2. George Owden, in The Big Six
3. The Margoletta, in Coot Club
4. Mastodon, in Secret Water
5. The Wild Cat, in Missee Lee
6. Great Northern Diver, in Great Northern
7. In the cairn on top of "Killamanjaro" after they'd climbed the mountain while staying in Swallowdale.5
8. mumps, in Winter Holiday
9. in Racundra's First Cruise5
10. Timothy, in Pigeon Post
16. Category: Universities:
1. University of Coimbra, Portugal
2. University of Leiden, the Netherlands
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Tartu8
4. University of Salamanca, Spain
5. Oxford University
6. University of Helsinki8
7. Christ College, Cambridge
8. University of Padua8
9. Columbia University
10. University of New South Wales
17. Category: London:
1. Paddington
2. Little Venice
3. Bart Simpson11
4. Whitechapel
5. The Embankment (Cleopatra's Needle)
6. like the Royals who switched to Windsor and Mountbatten, the Coburg Hotel was renamed the Connaught at the start of the Great War5
7. jack Straw's Castle*
8. Victoria Station
9. Hyde Park Corner9
10. Lambeth
18. Category: During 2007:
1. Jelly beans
2. Smashing Pumplkins. 7
3. From Sue: "Lady Thatcher, nicknamed the Iron Lady, had her statue unveiled at the House of Commons." Thatcher said, "I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on." - 22 February 2007. (See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher)
4. Death of Bob Woolmer in Jamaica
5. Alan Coren – Sage of Cricklewood, author of Cricklewood diet10
6. Sir Ian Botham is also known as "Beefy" - reminiscent of ?King
James I knighting the beef he'd enjoyed as "Sir Loin". Think Botham
made some joke along these lines on the day he was knighted.5
7. The Great Court at Trinity college, Cambridge
8. Prince Harry
9. Kevin Rudd the 26th Prime Minister of Australia
10. Oleg Gordevsky*
We're down to only 4 missing answers, though I need to spend some time putting in source references and links for some of the other answers.
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1 "So little done, so much to do" - this was said to be Cecil Rhodes' dying words in 1902. This fits the South African context, but the same words are said to be the last words of Alexander Graham Bell. (I prefer Oscar Wilde: "Either those curtains go, or I do.")
2 With thanks to Sue in Sheffield's husband. The subject, I believe, is cricket.
3 The Metropolitan Bishop of Leningrad, died shortly after having coffee and biscuits with Pope John Paul I (bolstering
conspiracy theories of poisoning).
4 "Feared, shunned, belied, ere youth had lost her force
He hated man too much to feel remorse"
5 From Sue in Sheffield.
6 From Margaret.
7 From Buster and Sue.
8 With thanks to
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e_leni9 With thanks to
research_girl10 From his site, answered by Penguin.
11 From this site, answer by Providence.
Bart Simpson. St. Bart's (St. Bartholomew's) is a hospital in Smithfield. Simpson's is an old and famous restaurant located in the Strand.
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no subject
Date: 2007-12-24 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-24 06:37 pm (UTC)Quiz Answer
Date: 2007-12-24 07:00 pm (UTC)Re: Quiz Answer
Date: 2007-12-25 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-24 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-25 02:52 am (UTC)answer for some of the asterisks
Date: 2007-12-24 07:29 pm (UTC)As to your starred items:
Lothar Malskat did a Renaissance thingie for the town of Lubeck - it was believed to date to the Renaissance, except Lothar put a turkey on some of the designs - which were not prevelant in the Old World at the time the designs were dated from (supposedly).
Francois what'sis will show up with a google search
Sohrab - from "Sohrab and Rustem"
Oleg Gordievsky is a double agent - worked for MI5 while employed by the KGB - recently awarded the CMG for his work.
The other two, I didn't find, so you'll have to ask Olive about those.
George Tierney was born in Gibralter in the 1700's - had a duel with Pitt. No one was injured.
Buster
Re: answer for some of the asterisks
Date: 2007-12-25 02:53 am (UTC)Re the Turkey: heh. Big oops.
I think I remember the duel from a bio I once read of Pitt - but I've forgotten all the details.
Thanks for the comments.
no subject
Date: 2007-12-24 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-25 02:59 am (UTC)Only if you have a photographic memory, astronomical intelligence, and an extensive education! Admittedly it's very UK-oriented but even the British born and bred have trouble with it. I find the title misleading: it isn't meant to be stuff we already know, but stuff we can puzzle out or look up (with some difficulty). In other words - not meant to be easy at all!
I only knew the answer to 13-1 (Sgt.Pepper) and 8-2 (Captain Hook) and that was it!
Those were two I knew too! And Mr. Rochester, and Harry Potter.
Good luck in your research.
2. Fictional Schools
Date: 2007-12-24 10:16 pm (UTC)10. The Billy Bunter stories were written by Hamilton under the pen-name 'Frank Richards'
Re: 2. Fictional Schools
Date: 2007-12-25 02:48 am (UTC)Section 3 Forgeries
Date: 2007-12-24 10:22 pm (UTC)10. I have the surname as 'Malskat' - and the 'anachronistic fowl' is the turkey he painted into a supposedly medieval fresco (i.e. before the turkey was introduced to Europe)
I have the answers for 5 and 9 if you want them
Julia - off to Midnight Mass, so comments on the other sections will have to wait, probably until Boxing Day
Happy Christmas!!
Re: Section 3 Forgeries
Date: 2007-12-25 03:00 am (UTC)Oops! Fixed.
I have the surname as 'Malskat'
Well - a typo in the name would explain why I couldn't find any info on him! Thank you.
Re 5 and 9: Yes, please.
Have a wonderful Christmas.
Re: Section 3 Forgeries
From:Re: Section 3 Forgeries
From:not uppsala
Date: 2007-12-25 02:34 am (UTC)16-6 "transferred to the new national capital following a conflagration" is Helsinki. It burned down in 1827 and was rebuilt in a different city.
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Don
Re: not uppsala
Date: 2007-12-25 02:41 am (UTC)Hmmph. That looked like a good guess. Okay, back tor the drawing board.
Thanks for adding Helsinki!
Section 1 - 1907
Date: 2007-12-25 09:31 pm (UTC)31.1 Overs - 14 Maiden Overs (no runs scored) - 48 runs - 17 wickets
10. The Isle of Man TT races (TT= Tourist Trophy - motorcycle races)
Julia - who enjoyed the Dr Who Christmas special
Re: Section 1 - 1907
Date: 2007-12-25 10:50 pm (UTC)Many thanks!
I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed the Doctor Who Christmas Special. I'm hoping to see it soon!
Section 4
Date: 2007-12-25 10:04 pm (UTC)I don't have 6 or 7
I don't understand 10 either (and I think it is usually spelt *Ramatlabama*) unless it is something to do with either the Jameson Raid or The Siege of Mafeking
Julia
Re: Section 4
Date: 2007-12-25 10:54 pm (UTC)Section 5
Date: 2007-12-25 10:13 pm (UTC)7. Should be *Mile*-End
Julia
Re: Section 5
Date: 2007-12-25 10:54 pm (UTC)Quiz Answers
Date: 2007-12-30 10:58 pm (UTC)14.8 ("Martins") is Martindale (see http://home2.btconnect.com/civas/bookshop.htm) . Also, you have the answer to 9.8 (re Martin, the young gander, in "Farms") entered in 18.9 .
Margaret
Re: Quiz Answers
Date: 2007-12-31 02:27 am (UTC)Thanks for 14.8!
9.3: Talbothays Dairy from Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Date: 2007-12-31 02:40 am (UTC)Phase the Third: The Rally (16-24)
More than two years have passed since the Trantridge debacle and Tess, now twenty, is ready to make a new start. She seeks employment outside the village, where her past is not known, and secures a job as a milkmaid at Talbothays Dairy in a fertile valley some miles off. There, she befriends three of her fellow milkmaids, Izz, Retty, and Marian, and reencouters Angel Clare, who is now an apprentice farmer and has come to Talbothays to learn dairy management. Although the other three milkmaids are sick with love for him, Angel soon singles out Tess from among them and the two gradually fall in love.
Re: 9.3: Talbothays Dairy from Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Date: 2007-12-31 03:10 am (UTC)16.3: University of Tartu
Date: 2007-12-31 04:00 am (UTC)The University of Tartu (Estonian: Tartu Ülikool; Russian: Тартуский университет; German: Universität Dorpat) is a classical university in the city of Tartu, Estonia. Regarded by many Estonians as the country's "national university", it is a member of the Coimbra Group and was established by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1632.
At different times during its history the University of Tartu was known as Academia Gustaviana, University of Dorpat, Universität (zu) Dorpat, University of Yuryev, and Tartu State University (Tartu Riiklik Ülikool).
Re: 16.3: University of Tartu
Date: 2007-12-31 04:21 am (UTC)16.6: University of Helsinki?
Date: 2007-12-31 04:06 am (UTC)In 1809, Finland became an autonomous grand duchy in subjugation to imperial Russia, wherefore the name of the academy in Turku was modified to be Imperial Academy of Turku. Following the great city fire of Turku in 1827 and the move of the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland, under Russian rule since 1809, to Helsinki, the university was relocated there starting from 1829 and Nicholas I re-named it Imperial Alexander University of Finland in honor of his late brother and predecessor Czar Alexander I of Russia, who had given new resources to the academy. This university was the practical center of Finnish culture in 19th century, and a remarkable cradle of nationalist movements, liberalization demands, political parties, collections of cultural materials, and student activities. It was named the University of Helsinki after Finland became independent in 1917.
Re: 16.6: University of Helsinki?
Date: 2007-12-31 04:14 am (UTC)16.8: University of Padua
Date: 2007-12-31 04:15 am (UTC)Originally, the site of the historical seat of the University was occupied by an inn, at the “sign of the Ox” (Bo), which had been given to a butcher by Francesco da Carrara, Lord of Padua, in repayment for the meat supplied during the 1405 siege of the city. In 1539 the building became the property of the University, and ever since then it has housed the main seat of the Institute, though the name by which it is familiarly known has maintained that reference to the "sign of the Ox".
Eleni
Re: 16.8: University of Padua
Date: 2007-12-31 04:21 am (UTC)Re: 16.8: University of Padua
From:Re: 16.8: University of Padua
From:18.4 Death of Bob Woolmer in Jamaica?
Date: 2007-12-31 05:42 am (UTC)http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cricketworldcup2007/story/0,,2101696,00.html
Eleni
Re: 18.4 Death of Bob Woolmer in Jamaica?
Date: 2007-12-31 08:16 pm (UTC)18.9 Kevin Rudd the 26th Prime Minister of Australia
Date: 2007-12-31 05:55 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rudd
Eleni
Re: 18.9 Kevin Rudd the 26th Prime Minister of Australia
Date: 2007-12-31 08:14 pm (UTC)9.5 ? Farm from Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
Date: 2007-12-31 07:36 am (UTC)http://books.google.com.au/books?id=blUOAAAAIAAJ&q=his+gin+sprung+with+three+toes&dq=his+gin+sprung+with+three+toes&lr=&pgis=1
but I've no idea what the farm is called. This book is an anthology and I think it's from the story "Tarka the Otter".
Eleni
P.S. Found http://www.hillfarmcottages.co.uk/ so maybe it's Hill Farm???
Re: 9.5 ? Farm from Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
Date: 2007-12-31 08:11 pm (UTC)13.3 Colonel Bramble?
Date: 2008-01-01 04:45 am (UTC)http://books.google.com.au/books?lr=&q=%2B%22speed+61%22+%2Bgramophone&btnG=Search+Books
Eleni
Re: 13.3 Colonel Bramble?
Date: 2008-01-01 04:48 am (UTC)Section 17
Date: 2008-01-01 01:24 pm (UTC)see http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-938527-details/Wellington+on+the+march+again/article.do
for details
Julia
Re: Section 17
Date: 2008-01-01 01:28 pm (UTC)Section 18
Date: 2008-01-01 01:30 pm (UTC)see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6924184.stm
18.7 is the Great Court at Trinity college, Cambridge
see:
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=378
Julia
Re: Section 18
Date: 2008-01-04 10:15 am (UTC)I think I have all the answers now - I'm working on links and explanations to finish off.
Section 15
Date: 2008-01-01 01:31 pm (UTC)Julia
Re: Section 15
Date: 2008-01-01 01:33 pm (UTC)Pharmacy
Date: 2008-01-01 10:38 pm (UTC)http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780781750271&z=y
And I'm betting that the answer to No 3 of the hymns one is "O Jesus I have promised" rather than "Our Father, by Whose Servants", because that seems to be the prime British usage of this tune (I know it from London, Derbyshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire). Though of course KWC may have a different local tradition.
Re: Pharmacy
Date: 2008-01-04 10:17 am (UTC)Rest of the Answers
Date: 2008-01-04 08:41 am (UTC)http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=9473&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
They found the answer for the above. It's from a book called "The Lost World of the Kalahari" by Laurens van der Post. The book is searchable on amazon.com. See link
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=9473&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
The question quotes a sentence that is on page 16.
Eleni
Re: Rest of the Answers
Date: 2008-01-04 09:15 am (UTC)