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<p>Davidehibbert: /* 7) (Irish counties) */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 106th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (26 December 2010 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1910:==<br /> # who was the victim of al-Wardani?<br /> # who began with Helen's letters to her sister?<br /> # what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?<br /> # which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?<br /> # who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?<br /> # whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?<br /> # who, having ruled which principality for fifty years, declared himself King?<br /> # whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?<br /> # which two unaccountable freaks went out together?<br /> # what was set alight on the Parisian stage?<br /> <br /> ==2) Who or what:==<br /> # blew hot and cool?<br /> # was Mad Jack's spouse?<br /> #* Lilly the mermaid - deH<br /> # was the stuff that Smith was made of?<br /> # is an expression of surprise or indignation?<br /> #*Gordon Bennett (Balloon race, sadly two people died) - JSH<br /> # did the Emperor reward with the Yellow Jacket?<br /> # started as the 100th, but became the 92nd and was later joined by the 75th?<br /> # is marked by the rarest dish in all the land?<br /> # did a wartime treble on a solar vehicle?<br /> # was Raymond's creation?<br /> # merged with Osborne?<br /> <br /> ==3) Going out, what (numerically), where suggests:==<br /> # a clutch of curlew's eggs?<br /> # a beverage 'Faithful to the original'?<br /> # an encounter on 13 September 1882?<br /> # an annual event initiated by James Stanley?<br /> # an earlier connection with the Morning Post?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'''And coming in:'''<br /> # is there a geographical misplacement from South Uist?<br /> # sounds like a resident of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh?<br /> # is an apparent refuge for the bald?<br /> # follows Calamity?<br /> # finishes on time?<br /> <br /> ==4) ?:==<br /> # who demonstrated phonetic pronunciation?<br /> # whose notes were worth one hundred crowns?<br /> # who footed it in Italy, Spain, Japan and Holland?<br /> # who sold Estonia and took a Baltic Island instead?<br /> # who was first to cross the North-West Passage by dog-sled?<br /> # who died during the wedding celebrations of Tove and Gythe?<br /> # who was decorated for valour following the Amiens push?<br /> # whose tale about a sixth daughter inspired Eriksen?<br /> # who is especially associated with a supernova?<br /> # who was cuckolded by the Royal physician?<br /> #* Christian VII of Denmark - CPU<br /> <br /> ==5) Which independent school:==<br /> # started in the Depot?<br /> # favours Malvolian hosiery?<br /> # is approached by the Hundreds?<br /> # sold the site to Merchant Taylors'?<br /> # possesses a relic of an epic crossing of the Scotia Sea?<br /> # had in its statutes a cryptic acknowledgement of the final chapter of St John's Gospel?<br /> # owes its foundation to ''Salmonella typhi''?<br /> # has a boomer in the chapel tower?<br /> # was pictured by a little canal?<br /> # replaced a lofty hermitage?<br /> <br /> ==6) ?:==<br /> # what was updated by H G Wells?<br /> # what might be perceived as an apiary?<br /> # which island is doubly recognised on 198?<br /> # who left great designs in the Gulf and New South Wales?<br /> # who, aided by wizardry, cuckolded his rival by impersonating him?<br /> #* Uther Pendragon (EBH)<br /> # who, being the son of Suzanne, changed his name through the benevolence of her friend Miguel?<br /> # what did hateful and rough weeds lose apart from beauty?<br /> # what was the native city of a unique pontiff?<br /> # what can be used instead of mahogany?<br /> # who recruited Hare for Dad's Army?<br /> <br /> ==7) (Irish counties)==<br /> # who began with 7-43?<br /> # what excluded Hall in 1856?<br /> #* Clare (Cambridge) - deH<br /> # what did Virginia adopt instead of Jones?<br /> # who gained valuable experience from Gillespie?<br /> # who knocked out Jackie to become undisputed flyweight champion?<br /> # who looked into the disappearance of his West African GP's daughter?<br /> #*Wexford (Ruth Rendall detective) -deH<br /> # what was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand?<br /> #* Tipperary - CPU<br /> # which minstrel finished with Danny Boy?<br /> #* James Galway (probably) - CPU<br /> # where is St James the highest of all?<br /> # what is a funny five-liner?<br /> #* Limerick - CPU<br /> <br /> ==8) ?:==<br /> # who benefitted from projectile vomiting?<br /> # who likened the messenger to fullers' soap?<br /> # who was a fruiterer specialising in ''Ficus sycomorus''?<br /> # who placed the caterpillar at the end of the food chain?<br /> # whose wife, a lady of ill-repute, bore him two sons and a daughter?<br /> # whose narratives both start during the second year of the monarch's reign?<br /> # who dreamed of a bear-like beast with three ribs between its teeth?<br /> # whose broken yoke was replaced by one made of iron?<br /> # who alluded twice to Leo becoming a vegetarian?<br /> # who found himself in an open-air ossuary?<br /> <br /> ==9) Who or what:==<br /> # is Hazel's cousin?<br /> # was crowned in Dublin Cathedral?<br /> # eponymous water bird has long been bedded down?<br /> # gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line?<br /> # died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on November 16, 1952?<br /> # wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality?<br /> # carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances?<br /> # put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook?<br /> # tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth?<br /> # created William and Maudie?<br /> <br /> ==10) Which musician might have been:==<br /> # in SW3?<br /> # a mongrel?<br /> # an ottoman?<br /> # a hurried exit?<br /> # a plumbous abdomen?<br /> # more specifically, Atropos?<br /> # emulsified by bile?<br /> # a fit of pique?<br /> # coniferous?<br /> # lignified?<br /> #* Woody Allen? - clarinetist (woodwind) - JSH<br /> #* Woody Herman? - clarinetist - JSH<br /> <br /> ==11) ?:==<br /> # what was izzard?<br /> # when did Neptune begin?<br /> # what gave way to 18 in 83?<br /> # what is a feature of aerial punctuation?<br /> # which food substance can adversely affect the embryo?<br /> # what convinced Benedict of the suitability of the Florentine master?<br /> #* Giotto's freehand perfect circle<br /> # where did Jane lodge for 2 guineas a week?<br /> # what, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC?<br /> #* W (Tungsten) - TJCS<br /> # who is a sharp know-all?<br /> # what is a zoonotic?<br /> #* H1N1? (swine 'flu') - JSH<br /> <br /> ==12) ?:==<br /> # what is perhaps the equal of roly-poly?<br /> # what epidemic was survived by Sarah and Emily?<br /> # what is made from hog's lard, mutton suet and quicksilver?<br /> # upon whom had the captain's steward poured boiling jam juice?<br /> # which ancient bibulous Dane with pale red-rimmed eyes, was presented with a case of Priorato?<br /> # where, more than once, was a dead orphan child brought back for dissection and kept in a cupboard?<br /> # where did the small apothecary display the skeleton of an aardvark in his window?<br /> # translate 'Les bouts-dehors des bonnettes du petit perroquet'.<br /> # what was the ultimate fate of the Armenian polyglot?<br /> # who found a Frenchman's ring finger in his bowl?<br /> <br /> ==13) ?:==<br /> # who rescued John Galt?<br /> # who was No. 1, of No. 1 Company of the XIVth Army?<br /> # what entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name?<br /> # who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse?<br /> # whose son had served the Indian Government in every way for forty-seven years?<br /> # who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio?<br /> # who, being the gift of a Mesopotamian ruler, was to perish on Lüneburger Heide?<br /> # who was presented to a Habsburg Prince by the King of Portugal?<br /> # who was presented to a Pope by the King of Portugal?<br /> # who set off for their honeymoon in a yellow balloon?<br /> <br /> ==14) Which elevated conduit:==<br /> # rotates for tall vessels?<br /> #* Barton Swing Aqueduct - TJCS<br /> # might suggest marzipan?<br /> # is suspended from two open-web ribs?<br /> # is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly?<br /> #* Huddersfield Narrow Canal? - JSH<br /> #* Standedge Tunnel? both by railway line Manchester to Huddersfield - JSH<br /> # features at the V &amp; A, without its taller and younger companion?<br /> # although a few weeks younger than Holmes, proved greatly more durable?<br /> # took its name from the Honourable Member for Berkshire?<br /> # bears the inscription 'To Public Prosperity'?<br /> # provides an outlet for Trevor?<br /> #* Pontcysyllte Aqueduct - TJCS<br /> # straddles Watling Street?<br /> <br /> ==15) Where:==<br /> # does one come off the rails?<br /> # might there be a quarryman's shelter?<br /> # does the hairpin recall Loch and his successors?<br /> # must one look in vain for Noble's Peel and Derby?<br /> # does a dwelling at barely 30m. seem seriously misplaced?<br /> # might one be excused for wrongly supposing a link with Camilla's great grandmother?<br /> # is there a possible source for the winner's garland?<br /> # did a party from Grange Hill cause a disturbance?<br /> # is there a suggestion of a subterranean spirit?<br /> # is there a fraction over the glass?<br /> <br /> ==16) Where:==<br /> # did Robinson settle for the elder sister?<br /> # was the master tailor interrupted in his reading of The Divine Comedy?<br /> # did apparent Benedictine hatred change, with assistance from friends, to love?<br /> #* Messina (Much Ado About Nothing) - CPU<br /> # did the seemingly simple sister of the Hungarian Captain end up marrying his landlord?<br /> # did the beloved offspring of opposing feuding families commit suicide following the Friar's ruse?<br /> #* Verona (Romeo and Juliet) - CPU<br /> # did a Sicilian knight defeat the Duke in a duel and learn from the Saracen that his loved one was innocent?<br /> # did the rejected hunchback reveal the identity of his wife's real lover to the troupe leader?<br /> # did the dragoon gain the innkeeper's daughter in spite of a diabolical intrusion?<br /> # did the accursed jester unexpectedly find that his daughter had been bagged?<br /> # did the General's wife stab herself after being ravished by the Prince?<br /> <br /> ==17) Which author concluded what with these words:==<br /> # &quot;Assist.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;All the papers on the subject are there in my safe.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;At any moment, it seemed, there could be surprises, huge upsets, even the end of small lizard worlds.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her.&quot;?<br /> #* C S Forester &quot;Flying Colours&quot; R A H<br /> # &quot;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.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel&quot;?<br /> # &quot;Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep.&quot;?<br /> # &quot; 'Steer north,' said he.&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2010:==<br /> # where did Joy uncover Fletch?<br /> # which city honoured a 1945 hero with its Große Siegel?<br /> # which Wizard Rose wilted towards the end of summer?<br /> # who finally achieved a victory by 417 days over Sinclair?<br /> # who was finally ousted by a Scottish philosopher and economist on 30th June?<br /> # which joint, showing a philatelic fracture, required a proper replacement before release?<br /> # where did Schadow's figure receive a multicoloured multiplication?<br /> # which leo-aquiline promoter missed out on afternoon tea?<br /> # who found that three coppers did not fool two coppers?<br /> # where did the tallest last the longest?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[King William College Quiz 2009-10]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2010-11&diff=1316 2010-12-27T17:44:20Z

<p>Davidehibbert: </p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 106th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (26 December 2010 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1910:==<br /> # who was the victim of al-Wardani?<br /> # who began with Helen's letters to her sister?<br /> # what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?<br /> # which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?<br /> # who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?<br /> # whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?<br /> # who, having ruled which principality for fifty years, declared himself King?<br /> # whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?<br /> # which two unaccountable freaks went out together?<br /> # what was set alight on the Parisian stage?<br /> <br /> ==2) Who or what:==<br /> # blew hot and cool?<br /> # was Mad Jack's spouse?<br /> #* Lilly the mermaid - deH<br /> # was the stuff that Smith was made of?<br /> # is an expression of surprise or indignation?<br /> #*Gordon Bennett (Balloon race, sadly two people died) - JSH<br /> # did the Emperor reward with the Yellow Jacket?<br /> # started as the 100th, but became the 92nd and was later joined by the 75th?<br /> # is marked by the rarest dish in all the land?<br /> # did a wartime treble on a solar vehicle?<br /> # was Raymond's creation?<br /> # merged with Osborne?<br /> <br /> ==3) Going out, what (numerically), where suggests:==<br /> # a clutch of curlew's eggs?<br /> # a beverage 'Faithful to the original'?<br /> # an encounter on 13 September 1882?<br /> # an annual event initiated by James Stanley?<br /> # an earlier connection with the Morning Post?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'''And coming in:'''<br /> # is there a geographical misplacement from South Uist?<br /> # sounds like a resident of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh?<br /> # is an apparent refuge for the bald?<br /> # follows Calamity?<br /> # finishes on time?<br /> <br /> ==4) ?:==<br /> # who demonstrated phonetic pronunciation?<br /> # whose notes were worth one hundred crowns?<br /> # who footed it in Italy, Spain, Japan and Holland?<br /> # who sold Estonia and took a Baltic Island instead?<br /> # who was first to cross the North-West Passage by dog-sled?<br /> # who died during the wedding celebrations of Tove and Gythe?<br /> # who was decorated for valour following the Amiens push?<br /> # whose tale about a sixth daughter inspired Eriksen?<br /> # who is especially associated with a supernova?<br /> # who was cuckolded by the Royal physician?<br /> #* Christian VII of Denmark - CPU<br /> <br /> ==5) Which independent school:==<br /> # started in the Depot?<br /> # favours Malvolian hosiery?<br /> # is approached by the Hundreds?<br /> # sold the site to Merchant Taylors'?<br /> # possesses a relic of an epic crossing of the Scotia Sea?<br /> # had in its statutes a cryptic acknowledgement of the final chapter of St John's Gospel?<br /> # owes its foundation to ''Salmonella typhi''?<br /> # has a boomer in the chapel tower?<br /> # was pictured by a little canal?<br /> # replaced a lofty hermitage?<br /> <br /> ==6) ?:==<br /> # what was updated by H G Wells?<br /> # what might be perceived as an apiary?<br /> # which island is doubly recognised on 198?<br /> # who left great designs in the Gulf and New South Wales?<br /> # who, aided by wizardry, cuckolded his rival by impersonating him?<br /> #* Uther Pendragon (EBH)<br /> # who, being the son of Suzanne, changed his name through the benevolence of her friend Miguel?<br /> # what did hateful and rough weeds lose apart from beauty?<br /> # what was the native city of a unique pontiff?<br /> # what can be used instead of mahogany?<br /> # who recruited Hare for Dad's Army?<br /> <br /> ==7) (Irish counties)==<br /> # who began with 7-43?<br /> # what excluded Hall in 1856?<br /> # what did Virginia adopt instead of Jones?<br /> # who gained valuable experience from Gillespie?<br /> # who knocked out Jackie to become undisputed flyweight champion?<br /> # who looked into the disappearance of his West African GP's daughter?<br /> #*Wexford (Ruth Rendall detective) -deH<br /> # what was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand?<br /> #* Tipperary - CPU<br /> # which minstrel finished with Danny Boy?<br /> #* James Galway (probably) - CPU<br /> # where is St James the highest of all?<br /> # what is a funny five-liner?<br /> #* Limerick - CPU<br /> <br /> ==8) ?:==<br /> # who benefitted from projectile vomiting?<br /> # who likened the messenger to fullers' soap?<br /> # who was a fruiterer specialising in ''Ficus sycomorus''?<br /> # who placed the caterpillar at the end of the food chain?<br /> # whose wife, a lady of ill-repute, bore him two sons and a daughter?<br /> # whose narratives both start during the second year of the monarch's reign?<br /> # who dreamed of a bear-like beast with three ribs between its teeth?<br /> # whose broken yoke was replaced by one made of iron?<br /> # who alluded twice to Leo becoming a vegetarian?<br /> # who found himself in an open-air ossuary?<br /> <br /> ==9) Who or what:==<br /> # is Hazel's cousin?<br /> # was crowned in Dublin Cathedral?<br /> # eponymous water bird has long been bedded down?<br /> # gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line?<br /> # died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on November 16, 1952?<br /> # wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality?<br /> # carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances?<br /> # put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook?<br /> # tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth?<br /> # created William and Maudie?<br /> <br /> ==10) Which musician might have been:==<br /> # in SW3?<br /> # a mongrel?<br /> # an ottoman?<br /> # a hurried exit?<br /> # a plumbous abdomen?<br /> # more specifically, Atropos?<br /> # emulsified by bile?<br /> # a fit of pique?<br /> # coniferous?<br /> # lignified?<br /> #* Woody Allen? - clarinetist (woodwind) - JSH<br /> #* Woody Herman? - clarinetist - JSH<br /> <br /> ==11) ?:==<br /> # what was izzard?<br /> # when did Neptune begin?<br /> # what gave way to 18 in 83?<br /> # what is a feature of aerial punctuation?<br /> # which food substance can adversely affect the embryo?<br /> # what convinced Benedict of the suitability of the Florentine master?<br /> #* Giotto's freehand perfect circle<br /> # where did Jane lodge for 2 guineas a week?<br /> # what, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC?<br /> #* W (Tungsten) - TJCS<br /> # who is a sharp know-all?<br /> # what is a zoonotic?<br /> #* H1N1? (swine 'flu') - JSH<br /> <br /> ==12) ?:==<br /> # what is perhaps the equal of roly-poly?<br /> # what epidemic was survived by Sarah and Emily?<br /> # what is made from hog's lard, mutton suet and quicksilver?<br /> # upon whom had the captain's steward poured boiling jam juice?<br /> # which ancient bibulous Dane with pale red-rimmed eyes, was presented with a case of Priorato?<br /> # where, more than once, was a dead orphan child brought back for dissection and kept in a cupboard?<br /> # where did the small apothecary display the skeleton of an aardvark in his window?<br /> # translate 'Les bouts-dehors des bonnettes du petit perroquet'.<br /> # what was the ultimate fate of the Armenian polyglot?<br /> # who found a Frenchman's ring finger in his bowl?<br /> <br /> ==13) ?:==<br /> # who rescued John Galt?<br /> # who was No. 1, of No. 1 Company of the XIVth Army?<br /> # what entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name?<br /> # who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse?<br /> # whose son had served the Indian Government in every way for forty-seven years?<br /> # who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio?<br /> # who, being the gift of a Mesopotamian ruler, was to perish on Lüneburger Heide?<br /> # who was presented to a Habsburg Prince by the King of Portugal?<br /> # who was presented to a Pope by the King of Portugal?<br /> # who set off for their honeymoon in a yellow balloon?<br /> <br /> ==14) Which elevated conduit:==<br /> # rotates for tall vessels?<br /> #* Barton Swing Aqueduct - TJCS<br /> # might suggest marzipan?<br /> # is suspended from two open-web ribs?<br /> # is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly?<br /> #* Huddersfield Narrow Canal? - JSH<br /> #* Standedge Tunnel? both by railway line Manchester to Huddersfield - JSH<br /> # features at the V &amp; A, without its taller and younger companion?<br /> # although a few weeks younger than Holmes, proved greatly more durable?<br /> # took its name from the Honourable Member for Berkshire?<br /> # bears the inscription 'To Public Prosperity'?<br /> # provides an outlet for Trevor?<br /> #* Pontcysyllte Aqueduct - TJCS<br /> # straddles Watling Street?<br /> <br /> ==15) Where:==<br /> # does one come off the rails?<br /> # might there be a quarryman's shelter?<br /> # does the hairpin recall Loch and his successors?<br /> # must one look in vain for Noble's Peel and Derby?<br /> # does a dwelling at barely 30m. seem seriously misplaced?<br /> # might one be excused for wrongly supposing a link with Camilla's great grandmother?<br /> # is there a possible source for the winner's garland?<br /> # did a party from Grange Hill cause a disturbance?<br /> # is there a suggestion of a subterranean spirit?<br /> # is there a fraction over the glass?<br /> <br /> ==16) Where:==<br /> # did Robinson settle for the elder sister?<br /> # was the master tailor interrupted in his reading of The Divine Comedy?<br /> # did apparent Benedictine hatred change, with assistance from friends, to love?<br /> #* Messina (Much Ado About Nothing) - CPU<br /> # did the seemingly simple sister of the Hungarian Captain end up marrying his landlord?<br /> # did the beloved offspring of opposing feuding families commit suicide following the Friar's ruse?<br /> #* Verona (Romeo and Juliet) - CPU<br /> # did a Sicilian knight defeat the Duke in a duel and learn from the Saracen that his loved one was innocent?<br /> # did the rejected hunchback reveal the identity of his wife's real lover to the troupe leader?<br /> # did the dragoon gain the innkeeper's daughter in spite of a diabolical intrusion?<br /> # did the accursed jester unexpectedly find that his daughter had been bagged?<br /> # did the General's wife stab herself after being ravished by the Prince?<br /> <br /> ==17) Which author concluded what with these words:==<br /> # &quot;Assist.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;All the papers on the subject are there in my safe.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;At any moment, it seemed, there could be surprises, huge upsets, even the end of small lizard worlds.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her.&quot;?<br /> #* C S Forester &quot;Flying Colours&quot; R A H<br /> # &quot;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.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel&quot;?<br /> # &quot;Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep.&quot;?<br /> # &quot; 'Steer north,' said he.&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2010:==<br /> # where did Joy uncover Fletch?<br /> # which city honoured a 1945 hero with its Große Siegel?<br /> # which Wizard Rose wilted towards the end of summer?<br /> # who finally achieved a victory by 417 days over Sinclair?<br /> # who was finally ousted by a Scottish philosopher and economist on 30th June?<br /> # which joint, showing a philatelic fracture, required a proper replacement before release?<br /> # where did Schadow's figure receive a multicoloured multiplication?<br /> # which leo-aquiline promoter missed out on afternoon tea?<br /> # who found that three coppers did not fool two coppers?<br /> # where did the tallest last the longest?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[King William College Quiz 2009-10]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2010-11&diff=1315 2010-12-27T17:29:40Z

<p>Davidehibbert: </p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 106th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (26 December 2010 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1910:==<br /> # who was the victim of al-Wardani?<br /> # who began with Helen's letters to her sister?<br /> # what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?<br /> # which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?<br /> # who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?<br /> # whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?<br /> # who, having ruled which principality for fifty years, declared himself King?<br /> # whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?<br /> # which two unaccountable freaks went out together?<br /> # what was set alight on the Parisian stage?<br /> <br /> ==2) Who or what:==<br /> # blew hot and cool?<br /> # was Mad Jack's spouse?<br /> # was the stuff that Smith was made of?<br /> # is an expression of surprise or indignation?<br /> #*Gordon Bennett (Balloon race, sadly two people died) - JSH<br /> # did the Emperor reward with the Yellow Jacket?<br /> # started as the 100th, but became the 92nd and was later joined by the 75th?<br /> # is marked by the rarest dish in all the land?<br /> # did a wartime treble on a solar vehicle?<br /> # was Raymond's creation?<br /> # merged with Osborne?<br /> <br /> ==3) Going out, what (numerically), where suggests:==<br /> # a clutch of curlew's eggs?<br /> # a beverage 'Faithful to the original'?<br /> # an encounter on 13 September 1882?<br /> # an annual event initiated by James Stanley?<br /> # an earlier connection with the Morning Post?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'''And coming in:'''<br /> # is there a geographical misplacement from South Uist?<br /> # sounds like a resident of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh?<br /> # is an apparent refuge for the bald?<br /> # follows Calamity?<br /> # finishes on time?<br /> <br /> ==4) ?:==<br /> # who demonstrated phonetic pronunciation?<br /> # whose notes were worth one hundred crowns?<br /> # who footed it in Italy, Spain, Japan and Holland?<br /> # who sold Estonia and took a Baltic Island instead?<br /> # who was first to cross the North-West Passage by dog-sled?<br /> # who died during the wedding celebrations of Tove and Gythe?<br /> # who was decorated for valour following the Amiens push?<br /> # whose tale about a sixth daughter inspired Eriksen?<br /> # who is especially associated with a supernova?<br /> # who was cuckolded by the Royal physician?<br /> #* Christian VII of Denmark - CPU<br /> <br /> ==5) Which independent school:==<br /> # started in the Depot?<br /> # favours Malvolian hosiery?<br /> # is approached by the Hundreds?<br /> # sold the site to Merchant Taylors'?<br /> # possesses a relic of an epic crossing of the Scotia Sea?<br /> # had in its statutes a cryptic acknowledgement of the final chapter of St John's Gospel?<br /> # owes its foundation to ''Salmonella typhi''?<br /> # has a boomer in the chapel tower?<br /> # was pictured by a little canal?<br /> # replaced a lofty hermitage?<br /> <br /> ==6) ?:==<br /> # what was updated by H G Wells?<br /> # what might be perceived as an apiary?<br /> # which island is doubly recognised on 198?<br /> # who left great designs in the Gulf and New South Wales?<br /> # who, aided by wizardry, cuckolded his rival by impersonating him?<br /> #* Uther Pendragon (EBH)<br /> # who, being the son of Suzanne, changed his name through the benevolence of her friend Miguel?<br /> # what did hateful and rough weeds lose apart from beauty?<br /> # what was the native city of a unique pontiff?<br /> # what can be used instead of mahogany?<br /> # who recruited Hare for Dad's Army?<br /> <br /> ==7) (Irish counties)==<br /> # who began with 7-43?<br /> # what excluded Hall in 1856?<br /> # what did Virginia adopt instead of Jones?<br /> # who gained valuable experience from Gillespie?<br /> # who knocked out Jackie to become undisputed flyweight champion?<br /> # who looked into the disappearance of his West African GP's daughter?<br /> #*Wexford (Ruth Rendall detective) -deH<br /> # what was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand?<br /> #* Tipperary - CPU<br /> # which minstrel finished with Danny Boy?<br /> #* James Galway (probably) - CPU<br /> # where is St James the highest of all?<br /> # what is a funny five-liner?<br /> #* Limerick - CPU<br /> <br /> ==8) ?:==<br /> # who benefitted from projectile vomiting?<br /> # who likened the messenger to fullers' soap?<br /> # who was a fruiterer specialising in ''Ficus sycomorus''?<br /> # who placed the caterpillar at the end of the food chain?<br /> # whose wife, a lady of ill-repute, bore him two sons and a daughter?<br /> # whose narratives both start during the second year of the monarch's reign?<br /> # who dreamed of a bear-like beast with three ribs between its teeth?<br /> # whose broken yoke was replaced by one made of iron?<br /> # who alluded twice to Leo becoming a vegetarian?<br /> # who found himself in an open-air ossuary?<br /> <br /> ==9) Who or what:==<br /> # is Hazel's cousin?<br /> # was crowned in Dublin Cathedral?<br /> # eponymous water bird has long been bedded down?<br /> # gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line?<br /> # died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on November 16, 1952?<br /> # wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality?<br /> # carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances?<br /> # put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook?<br /> # tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth?<br /> # created William and Maudie?<br /> <br /> ==10) Which musician might have been:==<br /> # in SW3?<br /> # a mongrel?<br /> # an ottoman?<br /> # a hurried exit?<br /> # a plumbous abdomen?<br /> # more specifically, Atropos?<br /> # emulsified by bile?<br /> # a fit of pique?<br /> # coniferous?<br /> # lignified?<br /> #* Woody Allen? - clarinetist (woodwind) - JSH<br /> #* Woody Herman? - clarinetist - JSH<br /> <br /> ==11) ?:==<br /> # what was izzard?<br /> # when did Neptune begin?<br /> # what gave way to 18 in 83?<br /> # what is a feature of aerial punctuation?<br /> # which food substance can adversely affect the embryo?<br /> # what convinced Benedict of the suitability of the Florentine master?<br /> #* Giotto's freehand perfect circle<br /> # where did Jane lodge for 2 guineas a week?<br /> # what, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC?<br /> #* W (Tungsten) - TJCS<br /> # who is a sharp know-all?<br /> # what is a zoonotic?<br /> #* H1N1? (swine 'flu') - JSH<br /> <br /> ==12) ?:==<br /> # what is perhaps the equal of roly-poly?<br /> # what epidemic was survived by Sarah and Emily?<br /> # what is made from hog's lard, mutton suet and quicksilver?<br /> # upon whom had the captain's steward poured boiling jam juice?<br /> # which ancient bibulous Dane with pale red-rimmed eyes, was presented with a case of Priorato?<br /> # where, more than once, was a dead orphan child brought back for dissection and kept in a cupboard?<br /> # where did the small apothecary display the skeleton of an aardvark in his window?<br /> # translate 'Les bouts-dehors des bonnettes du petit perroquet'.<br /> # what was the ultimate fate of the Armenian polyglot?<br /> # who found a Frenchman's ring finger in his bowl?<br /> <br /> ==13) ?:==<br /> # who rescued John Galt?<br /> # who was No. 1, of No. 1 Company of the XIVth Army?<br /> # what entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name?<br /> # who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse?<br /> # whose son had served the Indian Government in every way for forty-seven years?<br /> # who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio?<br /> # who, being the gift of a Mesopotamian ruler, was to perish on Lüneburger Heide?<br /> # who was presented to a Habsburg Prince by the King of Portugal?<br /> # who was presented to a Pope by the King of Portugal?<br /> # who set off for their honeymoon in a yellow balloon?<br /> <br /> ==14) Which elevated conduit:==<br /> # rotates for tall vessels?<br /> #* Barton Swing Aqueduct - TJCS<br /> # might suggest marzipan?<br /> # is suspended from two open-web ribs?<br /> # is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly?<br /> #* Huddersfield Narrow Canal? - JSH<br /> #* Standedge Tunnel? both by railway line Manchester to Huddersfield - JSH<br /> # features at the V &amp; A, without its taller and younger companion?<br /> # although a few weeks younger than Holmes, proved greatly more durable?<br /> # took its name from the Honourable Member for Berkshire?<br /> # bears the inscription 'To Public Prosperity'?<br /> # provides an outlet for Trevor?<br /> #* Pontcysyllte Aqueduct - TJCS<br /> # straddles Watling Street?<br /> <br /> ==15) Where:==<br /> # does one come off the rails?<br /> # might there be a quarryman's shelter?<br /> # does the hairpin recall Loch and his successors?<br /> # must one look in vain for Noble's Peel and Derby?<br /> # does a dwelling at barely 30m. seem seriously misplaced?<br /> # might one be excused for wrongly supposing a link with Camilla's great grandmother?<br /> # is there a possible source for the winner's garland?<br /> # did a party from Grange Hill cause a disturbance?<br /> # is there a suggestion of a subterranean spirit?<br /> # is there a fraction over the glass?<br /> <br /> ==16) Where:==<br /> # did Robinson settle for the elder sister?<br /> # was the master tailor interrupted in his reading of The Divine Comedy?<br /> # did apparent Benedictine hatred change, with assistance from friends, to love?<br /> #* Messina (Much Ado About Nothing) - CPU<br /> # did the seemingly simple sister of the Hungarian Captain end up marrying his landlord?<br /> # did the beloved offspring of opposing feuding families commit suicide following the Friar's ruse?<br /> #* Verona (Romeo and Juliet) - CPU<br /> # did a Sicilian knight defeat the Duke in a duel and learn from the Saracen that his loved one was innocent?<br /> # did the rejected hunchback reveal the identity of his wife's real lover to the troupe leader?<br /> # did the dragoon gain the innkeeper's daughter in spite of a diabolical intrusion?<br /> # did the accursed jester unexpectedly find that his daughter had been bagged?<br /> # did the General's wife stab herself after being ravished by the Prince?<br /> <br /> ==17) Which author concluded what with these words:==<br /> # &quot;Assist.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;All the papers on the subject are there in my safe.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;At any moment, it seemed, there could be surprises, huge upsets, even the end of small lizard worlds.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her.&quot;?<br /> #* C S Forester &quot;Flying Colours&quot; R A H<br /> # &quot;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.&quot;?<br /> # &quot;And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel&quot;?<br /> # &quot;Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep.&quot;?<br /> # &quot; 'Steer north,' said he.&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2010:==<br /> # where did Joy uncover Fletch?<br /> # which city honoured a 1945 hero with its Große Siegel?<br /> # which Wizard Rose wilted towards the end of summer?<br /> # who finally achieved a victory by 417 days over Sinclair?<br /> # who was finally ousted by a Scottish philosopher and economist on 30th June?<br /> # which joint, showing a philatelic fracture, required a proper replacement before release?<br /> # where did Schadow's figure receive a multicoloured multiplication?<br /> # which leo-aquiline promoter missed out on afternoon tea?<br /> # who found that three coppers did not fool two coppers?<br /> # where did the tallest last the longest?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[King William College Quiz 2009-10]]</div>

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<p>Davidehibbert: /* 17) What eponymous word owes its origin to: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> #* Six young lapwings ringed by ornithologist Arthur L Thomson - CJB<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> #* the pH scale deH<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> #* Cologne: can't remember the book but it's by Grahame Greene - CJB<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> #*Dorothea Douglass Chambers v Dora Boothby 6-0 6-0 in 1911 - MJK<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> #*Manuel Santana v Dennis Ralston 6-4 11-9 6-4 in 1966 - MJK <br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> #*Margaret Smith Court v Billie Jean King 14-12 11-9 in 1970 - MJK<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> #*Fred Perry - MJK<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> #*Bob Falkenburg in 1948 - MJK<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> #*Willie Renshaw defeated Ernest in 1882, 1883 and 1889 - MJK<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *Breads<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> #*Breadfruit deH (on the Bounty)<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> #*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - SS<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> #*Jean Van der Velde at Carnoustie - MJK<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> #* antelope - SS<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> #* Ptarmigan Ale from Harviestoun Brewery - MJK<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> #*10th (Pope Pius X) - JEC<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> #* Could this be self-referential? This is the 105th KWC General Knowledge paper. CPU<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> #* 3rd (The Third Man) - JEC<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> #* Catherine of Valois wife of Henry V - SS<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> #* Queen Caroline wife of George II - SS<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> #* Ely Cathedral - John Alcock deH<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> #* Lords, cricket (cuckoo pint aka Lords and Ladies) CPU<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> #* Macula CPU<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* Obvious -ula to be bridged is the Vistula? CPU<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> #* Scrofula deH<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> * Red Monopoly squares<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> #* B-dul Kogalniceanu (Romania) - TJCS<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> #* Børsgade (Denmark) - TJCS<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> #* Collyer Quay (Singapore) - TJCS<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> #* Palisády (Slovakia) - TJCS<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> #* Hamngatan (Sweden) - TJCS<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> #* Avenue Matignon (France) - TJCS<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> #* Calle Fontanella (Spain) - TJCS<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> #* Narva maantee (Estonia) - TJCS<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> #* Abbey Street (Ireland) - TJCS<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> #* Annankatu (Finland) - TJCS<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> #* Chateaubriand steak deH<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> #*Melba (Dame Nellie M's real name was Helen Porter Mitchell) - JEC<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> #* Mercator Projection of maps deH<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> #*Soubise (Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise) - JEC<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> #*Sandwich (John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) - JEC<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> #*David Haye - JEC<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1042 2009-12-29T13:31:45Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 17) What eponymous word owes its origin to: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> #* Six young lapwings ringed by ornithologist Arthur L Thomson - CJB<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> #* the pH scale deH<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> #* Cologne: can't remember the book but it's by Grahame Greene - CJB<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> #*Dorothea Douglass Chambers v Dora Boothby 6-0 6-0 in 1911 - MJK<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> #*Manuel Santana v Dennis Ralston 6-4 11-9 6-4 in 1966 - MJK <br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> #*Margaret Smith Court v Billie Jean King 14-12 11-9 in 1970 - MJK<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> #*Fred Perry - MJK<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> #*Bob Falkenburg in 1948 - MJK<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> #*Willie Renshaw defeated Ernest in 1882, 1883 and 1889 - MJK<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *Breads<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> #*Breadfruit deH (on the Bounty)<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> #*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - SS<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> #*Jean Van der Velde at Carnoustie - MJK<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> #* antelope - SS<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> #* Ptarmigan Ale from Harviestoun Brewery - MJK<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> #*10th (Pope Pius X) - JEC<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> #* Could this be self-referential? This is the 105th KWC General Knowledge paper. CPU<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> #* 3rd (The Third Man) - JEC<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> #* Catherine of Valois wife of Henry V - SS<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> #* Queen Caroline wife of George II - SS<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> #* Ely Cathedral - John Alcock deH<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> #* Lords, cricket (cuckoo pint aka Lords and Ladies) CPU<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> #* Macula CPU<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* Obvious -ula to be bridged is the Vistula? CPU<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> #* Scrofula deH<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> * Red Monopoly squares<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> #* B-dul Kogalniceanu (Romania) - TJCS<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> #* Børsgade (Denmark) - TJCS<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> #* Collyer Quay (Singapore) - TJCS<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> #* Palisády (Slovakia) - TJCS<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> #* Hamngatan (Sweden) - TJCS<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> #* Avenue Matignon (France) - TJCS<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> #* Calle Fontanella (Spain) - TJCS<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> #* Narva maantee (Estonia) - TJCS<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> #* Abbey Street (Ireland) - TJCS<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> #* Annankatu (Finland) - TJCS<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> #* Chateaubriand (steak) deH<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> #*Melba (Dame Nellie M's real name was Helen Porter Mitchell) - JEC<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> #* Mercator Projection of maps deH<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> #*Soubise (Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise) - JEC<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> #*Sandwich (John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) - JEC<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> #*David Haye - JEC<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1027 2009-12-28T20:45:39Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 13) Which English cathedral: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> #* the pH scale deH<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *Breads<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> #*Breadfruit deH (on the Bounty)<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> #*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - SS<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> #* antelope - SS<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> #* Ptarmigan Ale from Harviestoun Brewery - MJK<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> #*10th (Pope Pius X) - JEC<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> #* Could this be self-referential? This is the 105th KWC General Knowledge paper. CPU<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> #* 3rd (The Third Man) - JEC<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> #* Catherine of Valois wife of Henry V - SS<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> #* Queen Caroline wife of George II - SS<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> #* Ely Cathedral - John Alcock deH<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> #* Lords, cricket (cuckoo pint aka Lords and Ladies) CPU<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> #* Macula CPU<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* Obvious -ula to be bridged is the Vistula? CPU<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> #* Scrofula deH<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> #*Melba (Dame Nellie M's real name was Helen Porter Mitchell) - JEC<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> #* Mercator Projection of maps deH<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> #*Soubise (Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise) - JEC<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> #*Sandwich (John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) - JEC<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> #*David Haye - JEC<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

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<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> #* the pH scale deH<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *Breads<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> #*Breadfruit deH (on the Bounty)<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> #*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - SS<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> #* antelope - SS<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> #* Ptarmigan Ale from Harviestoun Brewery - MJK<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> #*10th (Pope Pius X) - JEC<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> #* Could this be self-referential? This is the 105th KWC General Knowledge paper. CPU<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> #* 3rd (The Third Man) - JEC<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> #* Catherine of Valois wife of Henry V - SS<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> #* Queen Caroline wife of George II - SS<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> #* Lords, cricket (cuckoo pint aka Lords and Ladies) CPU<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> #* Macula CPU<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* Obvious -ula to be bridged is the Vistula? CPU<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> #* Scrofula deH<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> #*Melba (Dame Nellie M's real name was Helen Porter Mitchell) - JEC<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> #* Mercator Projection of maps deH<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> #*Soubise (Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise) - JEC<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> #*Sandwich (John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) - JEC<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> #*David Haye - JEC<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1025 2009-12-28T20:03:23Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 17) What eponymous word owes its origin to: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> #* the pH scale deH<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *Breads<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> #*Breadfruit deH (on the Bounty)<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> #*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - SS<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> #* antelope - SS<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> #* Ptarmigan Ale from Harviestoun Brewery - MJK<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> #*10th (Pope Pius X) - JEC<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> #* Could this be self-referential? This is the 105th KWC General Knowledge paper. CPU<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> #* 3rd (The Third Man) - JEC<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> #* Catherine of Valois wife of Henry V - SS<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> #* Queen Caroline wife of George II - SS<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> #* Lords, cricket (cuckoo pint aka Lords and Ladies) CPU<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> #* Macula CPU<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List THIS NEEDS LOOKING AT IT SHOULD END IN &quot;ULA&quot;-deH<br /> #* Obvious -ula to be bridged is the Vistula? CPU<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> #* Scrofula deH<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> #*Melba (Dame Nellie M's real name was Helen Porter Mitchell) - JEC<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> #* Mercator Projection of maps deH<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> #*Soubise (Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise) - JEC<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> #*Sandwich (John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) - JEC<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> #*David Haye - JEC<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1009 2009-12-28T17:34:54Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 1) During the year 1909: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> #* the pH scale deH<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> #*Breadfruit deH<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> #*10th (Pope Pius X)<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> #* 3rd (The Third Man)<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List THIS NEEDS LOOKING AT IT SHOULD END IN &quot;ULA&quot;-deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> #* Scrofula deH<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> #*Melba (Dame Nellie M's real name was Helen Porter Mitchell) - JEC<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> #*Soubise (Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise) - JEC<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> #*Sandwich (John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) - JEC<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> #*David Haye - JEC<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

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<p>Davidehibbert: /* 6) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> #*Breadfruit deH<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List THIS NEEDS LOOKING AT IT SHOULD END IN &quot;ULA&quot;-deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> #* Scrofula deH<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> #*Melba (Dame Nellie M's real name was Helen Porter Mitchell) - JEC<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> #*Soubise (Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise) - JEC<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> #*Sandwich (John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) - JEC<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> #*David Haye - JEC<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1005 2009-12-28T17:21:26Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List THIS NEEDS LOOKING AT IT SHOULD END IN &quot;ULA&quot;-deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> #* Scrofula deH<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> #*Melba (Dame Nellie M's real name was Helen Porter Mitchell) - JEC<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> #*Soubise (Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise) - JEC<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> #*Sandwich (John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) - JEC<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> #*David Haye - JEC<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1003 2009-12-28T17:20:02Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List -deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> #* Scrofula deH<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> #*Melba (Dame Nellie M's real name was Helen Porter Mitchell) - JEC<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> #*Soubise (Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise) - JEC<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> #*Sandwich (John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) - JEC<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=999 2009-12-28T17:08:08Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> *-ula CPU<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List -deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> #* i.e. Dracula CPU<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> #* or more specifically its chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula CPU<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> #* Furcula deH<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> #*Sten gun - JEC<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> #*bacitracin - JEC<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=993 2009-12-28T15:54:48Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List -deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> #* Fistula deH<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=992 2009-12-28T15:53:20Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> #*Neil Hamilton (lost his Tatton seat to &quot;a Bell in a white suit&quot;)<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List -deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> #* The tarantula deH<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=990 2009-12-28T15:36:56Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> #* Degania Aleph, Israel's oldest kibbutz - SS<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List -deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> #* The Tower of London deH<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=988 2009-12-28T15:32:34Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List -deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> #* This is another name for the Puffin so Fratercula - deH<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=987 2009-12-28T15:31:36Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> #* The Egyptian dynasties via the King List -deH<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=986 2009-12-28T15:30:46Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 15) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> #*Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - SS<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> #*Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> #* Mrs C F Alexander (All things bright and beautiful) CPU<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> #* Lincoln (Bishop's Eye and Dean's Eye rose windows) CPU<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> #* Norwich (a pelican) CPU<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> #* Kingsholm, rugby (Gloucester) CPU<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> #* Vlad the Impaler deH<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=981 2009-12-28T14:55:34Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 10) ? */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> *Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith deH<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=980 2009-12-28T14:55:20Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 10) ? */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> *Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> #*Alexander the coppersmith<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=979 2009-12-28T14:53:39Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 10) ? */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> #* Hubert Latham - TN<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> #* Hamelin - TN<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> #* Breadalbane - TN<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> #* Parrot bread - TN<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> #* The Breadbasket (of Europe) - TN<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> *Naan or Hallah - SS<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> #* Pieter van der Faes (Peter Lely) - TN <br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> #* Hydrangea - TN<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> #* Witney (Wychwood brewery's The Dog's Bollocks) - TJCS<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> #*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> #* 38th (parallel) - TN<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> #* 137th (psalm) - TN<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> #*Michael Martin (not too sure about the disgrace, though) - JEC<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> #*Ellan Vannin - SMC<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=964 2009-12-28T12:17:35Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 10) ? */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> #* Alexander Fleming (different types of Penicillin) deH<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> #* Eleanor - TN<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=962 2009-12-28T12:13:50Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 9. Where does the brewer: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> #* Garlic Bread - TJCS<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> #* Blandford St Mary (Hall &amp; Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> #* Shropshire (Hanby Ales does a Nutcracker Ale) deH<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> #* Malvern (Malvern Hills Brewery &quot;Swedish Nightingale&quot;) - TN<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> #* Allendale (Allendale Brewery &quot;Curlew's Return&quot;) - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> #* Hazel Blears - TJCS<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=956 2009-12-28T12:04:30Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 6) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven deH<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> #*(The best thing since) sliced bread deH<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

Davidehibbert https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=955 2009-12-28T12:03:53Z

<p>Davidehibbert: /* 6) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> #* Bread of Heaven<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

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<p>Davidehibbert: /* 6) Who or what: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the 105th King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (27 December 2009 on). Please add your answer below the question, with any relevant explanation in parantheses followed by your initials. Prefix the answer with #* to indent the answer without messing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1909:==<br /> # what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?<br /> # what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?<br /> # who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?<br /> # which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?<br /> # who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?<br /> # whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?<br /> # who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?<br /> # which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?<br /> # whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?<br /> # which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?<br /> <br /> ==2) Which politician:==<br /> <br /> # was brought down by arachnoid largesse?<br /> # was expelled as Speaker following bribery by the Corporation?<br /> # in a constituency renowned for its RHS Show, succumbed to Campanula vestimenta alba?<br /> # enriched himself as PMG and provided a suitable surname for one of Disraeli's fictional characters?<br /> # was impeached, but not convicted, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 5,000 guineas from the East India Company?<br /> #*Warren Hastings - JEC<br /> # continued to draw an annual income of £25,000 from moneys which were not his, for 15 years after resigning as PMG?<br /> # transferred his nontransferable vouchers for his wife to travel from Glamorgan on the Great Western Railway?<br /> # similarly provided, inappropriately, first-class tickets for his mistress to travel to Yorkshire?<br /> # was impeached on bribery charges shortly after his elevation to a viscountcy?<br /> # used a Guest List for awarding Orders and other honours?<br /> <br /> ==3) In which city:==<br /> <br /> # did Dizzy Mabel get drunk on gin?<br /> # did George confuse the words for cushion and kiss?<br /> # did Peregrinus bring Christmas presents to the poor bookbinder's family?<br /> # did the enormous Olga address her guest, inappropriately, as her little turtle-dove?<br /> # was the Cardinal encouraged to forsake celibacy in favour of a Lutheran union to solve a financial crisis?<br /> # did the dinner guests of the extended family include poet, physician, broker, wine-merchant, lumber-merchant and pastor?<br /> # did the disguised head groom cause a fire to reduce 42 houses to rubble and ashes?<br /> # was the annual subscription for the Blue Diamond 175 (in pre-euro money)?<br /> # was the bearer of a pound of Raven mixture expected at 9.34pm?<br /> # did the people proclaim their Mayor a noddy?<br /> <br /> ==4) In the finals of the AELT &amp; CC's championships:==<br /> <br /> # which runner-up won 29 games?<br /> # which match was decided after 12 games?<br /> # who required 40 games for his three-set victory?<br /> # which two-set match was decided after 46 games?<br /> # which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?<br /> # in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?<br /> # which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?<br /> # what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?<br /> # who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?<br /> # who defeated his brother three times?<br /> <br /> ==5) ? ==<br /> <br /> # Where did 13 go to the scaffold on Friday 13th?<br /> # Who carried out the last public execution in Britain?<br /> #*William Calcraft - JEC<br /> # Whose controversial execution by firing squad was alluded to by Voltaire?<br /> #*Admiral Byng - JEC<br /> # Which tailor, under sentence of death, was reprieved and elevated to Headsman?<br /> #*Ko-Ko (in 'The Mikado') - JEC<br /> # Which sexagenarian was chased around the scaffold and needed 11 blows with the axe?<br /> # Which teenager was hanged for rape and murder, but revived while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall?<br /> # Who was burned alive, without prior garrotting, owing to bungling by the executioner?<br /> # Which trooper's swollen purple throat and stark and staring eyes were mocked?<br /> #* &quot;C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards&quot; (&quot;The Ballad of Reading Gaol&quot;) - JEC<br /> # How was the poisoner cook from John Fisher's household executed?<br /> #* He was boiled alive - TJCS<br /> # Who survived three attempts at hanging at Exeter?<br /> <br /> ==6) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # are endocrine?<br /> #* Sweetbreads deH<br /> # invested in the Goat?<br /> # is overlooked by Calum's Hill?<br /> # is repetitious (and inspiring) at Cardiff?<br /> # is neither brightly coloured nor feathered?<br /> # were placed in 774 pots, 39 tubs and 24 boxes?<br /> # nickname has been applied to the Ukraine?<br /> # emphasises enthusiasm for a new idea?<br /> # is flavoured with cloves?<br /> # is palindromic?<br /> <br /> ==7) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # was watched at eye level?<br /> # found room at one end for Victoria?<br /> # is not trusted for the way he parts his hair?<br /> # tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker?<br /> # painted an ecclesiastical decoration for a Flanders-based Florentine banker?<br /> # under a changed name, was allegedly instructed to include all facial blemishes?<br /> # turned to architecture following a relapse and provocation of the wife?<br /> # took his name from the city of Sint-Janskathedraal?<br /> # had a costly wetting in the Barry Burn?<br /> # revealed lives by invitation?<br /> <br /> ==8) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is tragelaphine?<br /> # is also a humming bird?<br /> # was considered better than best?<br /> # has a contrary reaction to that of litmus?<br /> # reverted to its former name following caprine slaughter?<br /> # retained his virtuosity despite accidental conversion to syndactyly?<br /> # had a facial expression likened to a fireside utensil?<br /> # is garnished with eggs and crustaceans?<br /> # is black and fork-tailed?<br /> # stepped out from BA?<br /> <br /> ==9. Where does the brewer:==<br /> <br /> # recall 4468?<br /> #* Nottingham (Mallard Brewery) or Horsham (WJ King's &quot;Mallard&quot; ale) - TN<br /> # produce a preserved gamebird? <br /> # start his product with a silent &quot;P&quot;?<br /> # provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br /> #* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery &quot;Hairy Canary&quot;) - TN<br /> # remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br /> # remind us of a battle with a heptacephalic rodent?<br /> # produce evidence of canine appreciation?<br /> # commemorate Joanna Maria Lind?<br /> # appear to condone avian greed?<br /> # recognise a recurved bill?<br /> <br /> ==10) ?==<br /> <br /> # Who did Paul much evil?<br /> # Who extended his realm into the Irish Sea?<br /> # Who attributed the cold winter wind to the Almighty?<br /> # Who confused rubrum and notatum when making his epic discovery?<br /> # Who shot himself following annihilation of the Second Army by the Eighth?<br /> # Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br /> # Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br /> # Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br /> # Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br /> # Who was mistaken for a match?<br /> <br /> ==11) Which ordinal:==<br /> <br /> # is metronomic?<br /> # is liable to neuralgia?<br /> # was secured by MacArthur?<br /> # may forecast persistent precipitation?<br /> # was applied to Sarto, the village postman's son?<br /> # recalls tearful memories of the Tigris and Euphrates?<br /> # is associated with an annual brainteaser?<br /> # was used by Wraysford in his Diary?<br /> # signalled a peaceful trio?<br /> # was applied to Lime?<br /> <br /> ==12) Which Queen of England or Great Britain:==<br /> <br /> # battled for Lancaster?<br /> # was the first to be kissed by Pepys?<br /> # was the consort of two Kings of England?<br /> # made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?<br /> # numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?<br /> # on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?<br /> # escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?<br /> # died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?<br /> # regretted the jettisoning of this for that?<br /> # corresponded with Mrs Freeman?<br /> <br /> ==13) Which English cathedral:==<br /> <br /> # is built on the highest ground?<br /> # has both a Bishop and a Dean with a glass eye?<br /> # contains a medieval lectern representing a large water bird?<br /> # has accommodated a pilgrim and his family annually since 2002?<br /> # achieved its current lofty status through meteorological intervention in 1584?<br /> # has a gallinaceous motif commemorating the founder of a Cambridge college?<br /> # possesses a plurality of plumbous receptacles for baptismal water?<br /> # houses the tomb of the founder, in 1264, of an Oxford college?<br /> #* Rochester - TN<br /> # has a pulpit accessed by an intramural staircase?<br /> # houses the only equestrian statue?<br /> <br /> ==14) Name the venue and the activity:==<br /> <br /> # Royal flood-plain.<br /> # A half of cuckoo pint.<br /> # The headsman's victim.<br /> # Simmonite, lacking a vowel.<br /> # A glorious shire relocated by the sea.<br /> # A shortened and outdated underground carriage.<br /> # The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.<br /> # Milne's joey by the river.<br /> # Calverley's alternative.<br /> # An ox cart perhaps.<br /> <br /> ==15) Who or what:==<br /> <br /> # is perifoveal?<br /> # is bridged by a memorial to Pepi?<br /> # was a notoriously cruel Wallachian prince?<br /> # overlooks the burial ground of Anne, Catherine and Jane?<br /> # was thought, through its bite, to cause an extreme impulse to dance?<br /> # was a probable tuberculous infection, so named after a breeding sow?<br /> # is an abnormal passage connecting two epithelial surfaces?<br /> # broken bone is associated with an unspoken wish?<br /> # was Linné's name for the sea parrot?<br /> # is the Hill of the Fords?<br /> <br /> ==16) Having got into the red, complete:==<br /> <br /> # B-dul Carol – ........... – B-dul Eroiler.<br /> # Holmens Kanal – ........... – Torvgade.<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> # Lönnrotinkatu – ........... – Simonkatu.<br /> <br /> ==17) What eponymous word owes its origin to:==<br /> <br /> # F René?<br /> # JD Scotus?<br /> #* Dunce - TN<br /> # HP Mitchell?<br /> # Gerhard Kremer?<br /> # Charles de Rohan?<br /> # RV Shepherd and HJ Turpin?<br /> # John Montague?<br /> # Haile Selassie?<br /> #* Rastafarian - TN<br /> # C Cardoni?<br /> # M Tracy?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2009:==<br /> <br /> # who mischievously rocked the boat?<br /> # whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?<br /> # which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?<br /> # what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?<br /> # who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?<br /> # which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically<br /> # what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?<br /> # who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?<br /> # who will never stir again, however much he is shaken<br /> # what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?<br /> <br /> =See Also=<br /> <br /> [[King William College Quiz 2008-9]]</div>

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