King William's College's Diabolical Quiz...Follow-Up

[fajrdrako]

I 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 e_leni

⁹ With thanks to research_girl

¹⁰ 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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16.3: University of Tartu

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Tartu

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

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This one - I didn't even find. Well done.