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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 />
#* Robert Perry reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909; whereas Frederick Cook claimed to have been there a year earlier - GACJ<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 />
#* Sao Tome (customer Cadburys) - SS<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 "a Bell in a white suit")<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 non transferable 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 />
#* Hamburg in Smiley's People - CJB<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 & 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 />
#* "C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards" ("The Ballad of Reading Gaol") - 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 />
#* John Babbacombe Lee - CJB<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 />
*Van<br />
<br />
# was watched at eye level?<br />
#*Van der Valk (name of title music) CPU<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 />
#*Rip Van Winkle - CJB<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 />
#* Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken (Hieronymus Bosch) CPU<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 />
#* Black Kite - GACJ<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 "Mallard" ale) - TN<br />
# produce a preserved gamebird? <br />
#* Blandford St Mary (Hall & Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br />
# start his product with a silent "P"?<br />
#* Ptarmigan Ale from Harviestoun Brewery - MJK<br />
# provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br />
#* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery "Hairy Canary") - TN<br />
# remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br />
#* Ross-shire (Black Isle Brewery, Goldeneye Pale Ale) CPU<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 "Swedish Nightingale") - TN<br />
# appear to condone avian greed?<br />
# recognise a recurved bill?<br />
#* Allendale (Allendale Brewery "Curlew's Return") - 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 />
#*King Alexander III of Scotland - JEC<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 />
#*General Alexander Samsonov - JEC<br />
# Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br />
#*Tsar Alexander I of Russia - JEC<br />
# Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br />
#*King Alexander I of Yugoslavia - JEC<br />
# Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br />
#*Alexander Pope - JEC<br />
# Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br />
#*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br />
# Who was mistaken for a match?<br />
#*Alexander Beetle (Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne) - JEC<br />
<br />
==11) Which ordinal:==<br />
<br />
# is metronomic?<br />
# *5th (trigeminal) is liable to neuralgia? MK<br />
# was secured by MacArthur?<br />
#* 38th (parallel) - TN<br />
# may forecast persistent precipitation?<br />
#* 15th (July, St Swithin's Day) - CJB<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?f<br />
#* Marguerite d'Anjou (wife of Henry VI) - SS<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 />
#* Ymma (Emma) married to Ethelred the Unready and Canute - SS<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 />
#* Anne - TN<br />
<br />
==13) Which English cathedral:==<br />
<br />
# is built on the highest ground?<br />
#* Birmingham - RAH<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 />
#* Benbecula CPU<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? Fake blood balloon at Twickenham - MK<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>Marykhttps://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1068King William College Quiz 2009-102010-01-15T13:21:00Z<p>Maryk: /* 11) Which ordinal: */</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 />
#* Robert Perry reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909; whereas Frederick Cook claimed to have been there a year earlier - GACJ<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 />
#* Sao Tome (customer Cadburys) - SS<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 "a Bell in a white suit")<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 non transferable 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 />
#* Hamburg in Smiley's People - CJB<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 & 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 />
#* "C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards" ("The Ballad of Reading Gaol") - 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 />
#* John Babbacombe Lee - CJB<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 />
*Van<br />
<br />
# was watched at eye level?<br />
#*Van der Valk (name of title music) CPU<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 />
#*Rip Van Winkle - CJB<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 />
#* Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken (Hieronymus Bosch) CPU<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 />
#* Black Kite - GACJ<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 "Mallard" ale) - TN<br />
# produce a preserved gamebird? <br />
#* Blandford St Mary (Hall & Woodhouse's Pickled Partridge ale) - TJCS<br />
# start his product with a silent "P"?<br />
#* Ptarmigan Ale from Harviestoun Brewery - MJK<br />
# provide a label for a hirsute cage bird? <br />
#* Diss (Old Chimney Brewery "Hairy Canary") - TN<br />
# remember the birthplace of 007's adventures?<br />
#* Ross-shire (Black Isle Brewery, Goldeneye Pale Ale) CPU<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 "Swedish Nightingale") - TN<br />
# appear to condone avian greed?<br />
# recognise a recurved bill?<br />
#* Allendale (Allendale Brewery "Curlew's Return") - 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 />
#*King Alexander III of Scotland - JEC<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 />
#*General Alexander Samsonov - JEC<br />
# Who, following his death, may have re-emerged as a hermit, living for a further 39 years?<br />
#*Tsar Alexander I of Russia - JEC<br />
# Which monarch was shot, together with the French foreign minister?<br />
#*King Alexander I of Yugoslavia - JEC<br />
# Who perceived his life as a protracted period of infirmity?<br />
#*Alexander Pope - JEC<br />
# Who was challenged by Gray over his patent?<br />
#*Alexander Graham Bell deH<br />
# Who was mistaken for a match?<br />
#*Alexander Beetle (Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne) - JEC<br />
<br />
==11) Which ordinal:==<br />
<br />
# is metronomic?<br />
# *5th (trigeminal) is liable to neuralgia? MK<br />
# was secured by MacArthur?<br />
#* 38th (parallel) - TN<br />
# may forecast persistent precipitation?<br />
#* 15th (July, St Swithin's Day) - CJB<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?f<br />
#* Marguerite d'Anjou (wife of Henry VI) - SS<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 />
#* Ymma (Emma) married to Ethelred the Unready and Canute - SS<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 />
#* Anne - TN<br />
<br />
==13) Which English cathedral:==<br />
<br />
# is built on the highest ground?<br />
#* Birmingham - RAH<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 />
#* Benbecula CPU<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 />
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=See Also=<br />
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