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<p>Sjf: /* 9) Journeying on what, between which termini, might one's thoughts turn to: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (28 December 2008 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 screwing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1908:==<br /> # who announced T?<br /> #*Henry Ford - TJCS<br /> # who finished at 59 with 15 and 25?<br /> #*WG Grace - CMP<br /> # what confectionery was inspired by Shaw?<br /> #*Chocolate soldier - DL<br /> # who gained her second first at an old east-coast fort?<br /> # where did the Thomas Flyer arrive on the Asiatic mainland?<br /> #*Vladivostok - RAH<br /> # whose birthday present was cut into nine pieces for the family headdress and other equipment?<br /> #* Edward VII (Cullinan diamond) - PPB<br /> # whose resignation pre-empted his demise by just 16 days?<br /> #* Henry Campbell-Bannerman - TN<br /> # which tale launched a nouveau riche boy-racer?<br /> #*Wind in the Willows - TJCS<br /> # for whom was Lord Hugh best man?<br /> #*Winston Churchill - TJCS<br /> # what event elevated Manuel?<br /> #*The assassination of his father and brother - CMP<br /> <br /> ==2) Who began what by: [Literary Openings] ==<br /> # recalling unusual citrous abundance?<br /> # describing his subject's physiognomy with a succession of v's?<br /> # justifying the creation of a short palindromic nickname for &quot;himself&quot;?<br /> # describing the emergence at dawn of a moustached little man with bowlegs?<br /> # recalling melancholy inspiration from early evening sights and sounds in a rural churchyard?<br /> #*Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) - Ted<br /> # suggesting that it was generally accepted that a well-heeled loner must be looking for a lady?<br /> #*Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) - Ted<br /> # describing a studio filled with the scents of roses, lilac and pink-flowered thorn?<br /> # describing his hero facing execution and recalling the –discovery of ice?<br /> # recalling a send-off from family and friends at Charing Cross?<br /> # providing an alibi for the white kitten?<br /> #*Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-glass) - JEC<br /> <br /> ==3)[Telegrams] ==<br /> # Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?<br /> #* Samuel Morse (First public telegraph message, 24/5/1844: &quot;What hath God wrought&quot;) - TN<br /> # Who wired who confirming worst fears and requesting gumboots?<br /> # Whose telegram caused Dew to hasten westward on the Laurentic?<br /> #*Captain Henry George Kendall (SS Montrose) - RAH<br /> # Who, on sighting the enemy, urgently requested a firearm and 300 bullets?<br /> # Whose expression of delight was accompanied by a request for a patent oil cooking stove?<br /> # With what single word did the defeated Governor allegedly advise cancellation of the papal travel arrangements?<br /> # Who described a suave, Bohemian, elderly, storekeeper in the Commercial Road?<br /> # Which repetitious message prompted the query &quot;Does that mean Yes?&quot;<br /> #* Better drowned than duffers if not duffers wont drown, Swallows and Amazons - DPG<br /> # Who discovered a crumpled telegram reading &quot;Suivez à Bokhare Saronov&quot;?<br /> # On what occasion was the royal wrath not expressed in code?<br /> <br /> ==4)[Scottish Islands] ==<br /> # What is the Island of Sheep?<br /> #* Soay (an island off the coast of either Skye or Hirta depending which Soay is meant) - RAS<br /> # Where did the sea cave inspire Op 26?<br /> #* Staffa (Hebrides - Fingal's Cave) - deH<br /> # Where was Magnus Erlendsson executed?<br /> #* Egilsay, Orkney - PPB<br /> # What was David's gift to the Berkshire monks?<br /> #* The monastery that he, King David had founded on the Isle of May, given to the abbey at Reading - Ted<br /> # Where did an amputated digit earn its owner the right to build a monastery?<br /> # Where did the great grandson of King John III make his first British landfall?<br /> # Where is the unique mutton derived from a diet of Laminaria?<br /> #* North Ronaldsay - Ted<br /> # Where was quarantine enforced for 48 years?<br /> #* Gruinard Island (Anthrax contamination) - deH<br /> # To what was Meg's deafness compared?<br /> #* Ailsa Craig (Robert Burns) - Hippo<br /> # Where was Andie Dale the prefect?<br /> <br /> ==5) Travelling from Nordic lands, try unravelling: [-ling] ==<br /> # the eponymous traitor,<br /> #*Quisling - CPU<br /> # then Merrill's famed fisherman partner<br /> # and a misplaced cygnet,<br /> #*The Ugly Duckling - CPU<br /> # contrasting with a little anser,<br /> #*Gosling - CPU<br /> # thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,<br /> #*Terschelling - CPU<br /> # while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,<br /> #* Memling - PPB<br /> # and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport<br /> #*Angling - CPU<br /> # and try to catch a little trout<br /> #* Tickling - PPB<br /> # or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative<br /> #*Grayling - Ted<br /> # before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality<br /> #*Riesling - CPU<br /> <br /> ==6) Who: [Regnal number VI] ==<br /> # was Foolish?<br /> #* Charles VI of France - PPB<br /> # was Rodrigo de Borja y Borja?<br /> #* Pope Alexander VI - PPB<br /> # invested Henry Sinclair as Earl of Orkney?<br /> #*Haakon VI of Norway - CPU<br /> # had a half-sister sired by his –father's physician?<br /> # founded a Siamese school, which was later named in his honour?<br /> #* Rama VI of Siam (Thailand)- DPG<br /> # was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?<br /> #* George VI - DPG<br /> # was the offspring of parents sharing the same grandmother?<br /> # was the 36th and last in a line started in 1299?<br /> #* Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire - RAS<br /> # was blinded by his mother Irene?<br /> #* Constantine VI - PPB<br /> # was tripartite?<br /> #*Henry VI (Shakespeare plays) - CPU<br /> <br /> ==7)[Languages] ==<br /> # Which language was developed by a Polish ophthalmologist?<br /> #* Esperanto - RAS<br /> # Which language of the Romance group has a definite article suffix?<br /> # Of which European language is the origin unknown, even to the experts?<br /> #* Basque - RAS<br /> # Which geographically Scandinavian language is not linguistically Scandinavian?<br /> #*Finnish - DL<br /> # Which European language is the only survivor of its branch of the Indo-European group?<br /> #* Greek - RAS<br /> # Which Slavonic language is spoken in a country whose national language is not Slavonic?<br /> #*Wendish - DL<br /> # Which European language is spoken by about 1% of the population of Switzerland?<br /> #* Romansh - RAS<br /> # Which European language has a past tense form which looks like a future?<br /> # Which Slavonic language has done away with the case forms of nouns?<br /> #* Bulgarian - MBD<br /> # Which European national language still retains the dual number?<br /> #* Scots Gaelic - RAS<br /> #* Greek - DL<br /> #* Slovene - MBD<br /> #* Manx - Ernie<br /> <br /> ==8) What: [Shellfish] ==<br /> # is also a game using 28 marbles?<br /> #* Abalone - Hippo<br /> # formed part of a linear horti–cultural decoration?<br /> #*Cockle shells (Mary, Mary, quite contrary) - CPU<br /> # are typically preserved in seasoned butter in Lancashire?<br /> #*Potted shrimps - Mo<br /> # when released in America, suggested involvement with Christine Keeler?<br /> # are geographically confusing names of what is neither one thing nor the other?<br /> # pelecypod was perhaps familiar to the pupils (and their successors) of Rev Thomas Langhorne?<br /> #*Mussels (he founded Loretto School in Musselburgh) - CPU<br /> # did the man from the Borough regard as the invariable accompaniment of poverty?<br /> #* Oysters (The Pickwick Papers) - Hippo<br /> # legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?<br /> #* Crabs (Under Milk Wood) - Hippo<br /> # nominally, has blue representatives in another kingdom?<br /> # when baked too brown, must sugar his hair?<br /> #* The Lobster (Alice in Wonderland) - GZ<br /> <br /> ==9) Journeying on what, between which termini, might one's thoughts turn to:==<br /> # sleepwalking?<br /> # elliptical orbits?<br /> #* Johannes Kepler, Prague Main to Wiesbaden (overnight train) - SJF<br /> # the quintessential libertine?<br /> #* Casanova, Ljubljana - Venice (train) - SJF<br /> # a soldier without a passport?<br /> # the founding father of the EU?<br /> #* Jean Monnet, Bruxelles Midi - Basel (train) - SJF<br /> # the royal prisoner of Sönderborg?<br /> # Judith and three mute wives?<br /> # clothed and naked versions?<br /> # the mount of Bellerophon?<br /> #* Flying Horse (Pegasus, from Earth to Mount Olympus) - GACJ<br /> # melting clocks?<br /> #* Train from Kunming to Dali? - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) Which river:==<br /> # received the defeated Aunus?<br /> # floats laden barges by banks of myosote? <br /> #* Thames DPG <br /> # was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?<br /> #* Weser (Pied Piper of Hamelin) - TN<br /> # was identified without doubt by the discovery of the initials AD<br /> # saw Captain Schenk acquire an engineer to replace the deceased Walter?<br /> #*The Danube (Greenmantle by J Buchan) - TJCS<br /> # despite being in flood, could be crossed dry-shod following clerical plantar immersion?<br /> #*The Jordan (Joshua 3) - CPU<br /> # provided drinks for kine, and horses, and little humorous donkeys?<br /> # along with Cairo was passed unnoticed by the raft in the fog?<br /> #*Ohio (Mark Twain, &quot;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&quot;) - SJF<br /> # was a source of shelly snails and green lettuces?<br /> #* The Amazon. (Kipling, &quot;The Beginning of the Armadillos&quot;).<br /> # witnessed a case of unwitting filicide?<br /> <br /> ==11) Who or what: [Stanleys]==<br /> # had instinct?<br /> # reds started as Villa?<br /> #* Accrington Stanley - Hippo<br /> # uniquely, got three in whose match?<br /> #* Stan Mortensen, in Stanley Matthews' final - Hippo<br /> # claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?<br /> #* Stanley Kubrick? (Eyes wide shut) - TN<br /> # was formerly William and succeeded Louis?<br /> # in repetitive utterances, anticipated Glyn Daniel et al?<br /> # described a small arm accident on 17/6/15?<br /> # was executed at Bolton after Worcester?<br /> #* Lord Derby. (After The Battle of Worcester. Ted<br /> # was targeted by Nat and Dermot?<br /> # was presumptuous?<br /> #* Henry Morton Stanley (on finding Dr Livingstone) - Hippo<br /> <br /> ==12) Where: [Charles Dickens Pubs]==<br /> # was the mistress leguminous?<br /> #*The Blue Dragon Inn (Martin Chuzzlewit) - GACJ<br /> # were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?<br /> #*The Sol's Arms (Bleak House) - TJCS<br /> # was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?<br /> #*The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters (Our Mutual Friend) - GACJ<br /> # did the circus manager point out that &quot;People must be amuthed&quot;?<br /> #*Coketown (Hard Times) - TJCS<br /> # did the curate speak for one hour and 25 minutes at an anti-slavery meeting?<br /> #* The Goat and Boots (Sketches by Boz) - DPG<br /> # did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?<br /> #* The Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers) - DPG<br /> # did the landlord report that Phil was so drunk that a boy might take him?<br /> # did the Yorkshire schoolmaster interview tutors and pupils?<br /> #*The Saracens Head (Nicholas Nickleby) - GACJ<br /> # did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?<br /> #* Three Jolly Bargemen (Great Expectations) - DPG<br /> # did the hangman bind the old man to his chair?<br /> <br /> ==13)[US presidents] ==<br /> # Who remained a bachelor?<br /> #* James Buchanan (1857-1861) - RAH<br /> # Who had been ADC to Mad Anthony?<br /> #* William Henry Harrison (who only lasted for 31 days as president in 1841) - RAH<br /> # Who was described as a withered little apple-john?<br /> #* James Madison DPG<br /> # Whose nickname was perfect for a slogan of approval?<br /> # Who enlisted as a private, but came out as a brevet major?<br /> # Who maintained that silence ensured no need for repetition?<br /> #* Calvin Coolidge<br /> # Who, in his youth, admitted to cutting down a cherry tree?<br /> #*George Washington - TJCS<br /> # Who compared his strength to that of a male cervid?<br /> # Who is remembered, nominally, in West Africa?<br /> #* Monroe - PPB<br /> # Which two died on the same day?<br /> #* John Adams (second President), Thomas Jefferson (third President). July 4, 1826 - MSD<br /> <br /> ==14) Within the capital of which member state of the United Nations will you find:==<br /> # calluna?<br /> #* New Zealand (Wel*ling*ton) - GZ<br /> # 3.14159?<br /> #* A*pi*a (Samoa) - MBD<br /> # that its alright?<br /> #* Japan (T*ok*yo) - GZ<br /> #* Thailand (Bangk*ok*) - Hippo<br /> # a Windermere resident?<br /> # a West Country watercourse?<br /> #* Canada (Ot*taw*a) - GZ<br /> # a pudding distinguished by –ladies' fingers?<br /> #* US Virgin Is (*Charlotte* Amalie) - PPB - isn't a member state of the UN (Hippo)<br /> #* Belgium (B*russe*ls) - Hippo<br /> # a simian representative?<br /> #* Hungary (Bud*ape*s)t - GZ<br /> # a Tibetan monk?<br /> #* Pakistan (Is*lama*bad) - GZ<br /> # a semi-metal?<br /> #* Botswana (Ga*boron*e) - PPB<br /> #* Bahamas (N*as*sau - As is Arsenic)? Boron is not a semi-metal, should be Arsenic(As), Antimony(Sb), or Bismuth(Bi) - GACJ<br /> # nothing?<br /> #* Philippines (Ma*nil*a) - GACJ<br /> <br /> ==15) Who: [Birds]==<br /> # was morally pure in EC2?<br /> # shot Buffalo Bill at Belvedere, Ohio?<br /> #*Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs) - GACJ<br /> # went to the wrong church for her wedding?<br /> #*Fanny Robin (Far from the Madding Crowd) - GACJ<br /> # believed, erroneously, that –Byron murdered Ezra Chater?<br /> #*Bernard Nightingale (Arcadia) - GACJ<br /> # killed Lord Frederick in a duel, following his return from Belgium?<br /> #*Sir Mulberry Hawk (Nicholas Nickleby) - GACJ<br /> # possessed nothing but the –contents of his wallet, the clothes he stood up in, the hare-lip, the automatic he should have left behind?<br /> #*Philip Raven (A Gun for Sale) - GACJ<br /> # was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?<br /> # wore white for her immolation on October 27?<br /> # advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?<br /> #* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ<br /> # posed as Doctor Copernicus?<br /> <br /> ==16) Following my leader, who or what:==<br /> # is a Hampshire jewel?<br /> # decorated Findlater's label?<br /> # is meteorologically striking?<br /> # houses Colum Cille's shrine?<br /> # could be wild duck washed down with Ch. Latour?<br /> # might refer to poor Sarah's biliary obstruction?<br /> # is absolutely necessary to a ram?<br /> # was Anastasia's great aunt?<br /> # could have been a crusader?<br /> # is a –musteline appendage?<br /> <br /> ==17) In which town:==<br /> # did prisoner 24601 steal the episcopal silver?<br /> #*Digne (Les Miserables) - GACJ<br /> # did Lady de Winter poison the novice at the convent?<br /> # was the cathedral like a vast boudoir prepared for Emma?<br /> # did Jake, dining alone, drink a bottle of Ch. Margaux for company?<br /> # did Duhamel ask that the crayfish should be very lightly boiled just seized?<br /> # did la Baronne de la Chalonnière encounter Alexander Duggan at the Hôtel du Cerf?<br /> #* Gap (Day of the Jackal) DPG<br /> # did Holmes spend some months in a research into coal-tar derivatives?<br /> #*Montpelier - EBH<br /> # were plum-coloured shoes removed to expose red stockings?<br /> # did Harry urge his uncle to enter and fortify the town?<br /> # did Hannay receive hellish news from Laidlaw?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2008:==<br /> # which gartered kiwi was laid to rest?<br /> #*Sir Edmund Hillary - AMK / Clarrie<br /> # which fine food has gained PGS in Leicestershire?<br /> #*Melton Mowbray Pork Pie - TJCS<br /> #*Stilton - DL<br /> # who, following 2nd at 2K with 3 others, got 1st at 3K alone?<br /> # which sometime bulbous plant would seem to be involved with &quot;arthrology&quot;?<br /> #*Garlic - EBH<br /> # who made successive day trips to Abergele, Fountains Abbey and Mugdock?<br /> #*Ian Botham - CMP<br /> # where has the pancake bell ceased to signal the start of a race owing to health and safety issues?<br /> #*Olney - AMK<br /> #*Ripon - MSD<br /> # where did a giant arachnid briefly invade an apparently –coleopteran habitat?<br /> #*Liverpool - CPU<br /> # what legendary diamond fell to the successors of the fictitious Misson?<br /> # who got six months for dis–honesty at White Plains? <br /> #* Marion Jones<br /> # whose jobcentre manager fetched £17.2m?<br /> #*Lucian Freud - GACJ</div>

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<p>Sjf: /* 9) Journeying on what, between which termini, might one's thoughts turn to: */</p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (28 December 2008 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 screwing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1908:==<br /> # who announced T?<br /> #*Henry Ford - TJCS<br /> # who finished at 59 with 15 and 25?<br /> #*WG Grace - CMP<br /> # what confectionery was inspired by Shaw?<br /> #*Chocolate soldier - DL<br /> # who gained her second first at an old east-coast fort?<br /> # where did the Thomas Flyer arrive on the Asiatic mainland?<br /> #*Vladivostok - RAH<br /> # whose birthday present was cut into nine pieces for the family headdress and other equipment?<br /> #* Edward VII (Cullinan diamond) - PPB<br /> # whose resignation pre-empted his demise by just 16 days?<br /> #* Henry Campbell-Bannerman - TN<br /> # which tale launched a nouveau riche boy-racer?<br /> #*Wind in the Willows - TJCS<br /> # for whom was Lord Hugh best man?<br /> #*Winston Churchill - TJCS<br /> # what event elevated Manuel?<br /> #*The assassination of his father and brother - CMP<br /> <br /> ==2) Who began what by: [Literary Openings] ==<br /> # recalling unusual citrous abundance?<br /> # describing his subject's physiognomy with a succession of v's?<br /> # justifying the creation of a short palindromic nickname for &quot;himself&quot;?<br /> # describing the emergence at dawn of a moustached little man with bowlegs?<br /> # recalling melancholy inspiration from early evening sights and sounds in a rural churchyard?<br /> #*Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) - Ted<br /> # suggesting that it was generally accepted that a well-heeled loner must be looking for a lady?<br /> #*Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) - Ted<br /> # describing a studio filled with the scents of roses, lilac and pink-flowered thorn?<br /> # describing his hero facing execution and recalling the –discovery of ice?<br /> # recalling a send-off from family and friends at Charing Cross?<br /> # providing an alibi for the white kitten?<br /> #*Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-glass) - JEC<br /> <br /> ==3)[Telegrams] ==<br /> # Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?<br /> #* Samuel Morse (First public telegraph message, 24/5/1844: &quot;What hath God wrought&quot;) - TN<br /> # Who wired who confirming worst fears and requesting gumboots?<br /> # Whose telegram caused Dew to hasten westward on the Laurentic?<br /> #*Captain Henry George Kendall (SS Montrose) - RAH<br /> # Who, on sighting the enemy, urgently requested a firearm and 300 bullets?<br /> # Whose expression of delight was accompanied by a request for a patent oil cooking stove?<br /> # With what single word did the defeated Governor allegedly advise cancellation of the papal travel arrangements?<br /> # Who described a suave, Bohemian, elderly, storekeeper in the Commercial Road?<br /> # Which repetitious message prompted the query &quot;Does that mean Yes?&quot;<br /> #* Better drowned than duffers if not duffers wont drown, Swallows and Amazons - DPG<br /> # Who discovered a crumpled telegram reading &quot;Suivez à Bokhare Saronov&quot;?<br /> # On what occasion was the royal wrath not expressed in code?<br /> <br /> ==4)[Scottish Islands] ==<br /> # What is the Island of Sheep?<br /> #* Soay (an island off the coast of either Skye or Hirta depending which Soay is meant) - RAS<br /> # Where did the sea cave inspire Op 26?<br /> #* Staffa (Hebrides - Fingal's Cave) - deH<br /> # Where was Magnus Erlendsson executed?<br /> #* Egilsay, Orkney - PPB<br /> # What was David's gift to the Berkshire monks?<br /> #* The monastery that he, King David had founded on the Isle of May, given to the abbey at Reading - Ted<br /> # Where did an amputated digit earn its owner the right to build a monastery?<br /> # Where did the great grandson of King John III make his first British landfall?<br /> # Where is the unique mutton derived from a diet of Laminaria?<br /> #* North Ronaldsay - Ted<br /> # Where was quarantine enforced for 48 years?<br /> #* Gruinard Island (Anthrax contamination) - deH<br /> # To what was Meg's deafness compared?<br /> #* Ailsa Craig (Robert Burns) - Hippo<br /> # Where was Andie Dale the prefect?<br /> <br /> ==5) Travelling from Nordic lands, try unravelling: [-ling] ==<br /> # the eponymous traitor,<br /> #*Quisling - CPU<br /> # then Merrill's famed fisherman partner<br /> # and a misplaced cygnet,<br /> #*The Ugly Duckling - CPU<br /> # contrasting with a little anser,<br /> #*Gosling - CPU<br /> # thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,<br /> #*Terschelling - CPU<br /> # while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,<br /> #* Memling - PPB<br /> # and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport<br /> #*Angling - CPU<br /> # and try to catch a little trout<br /> #* Tickling - PPB<br /> # or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative<br /> #*Grayling - Ted<br /> # before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality<br /> #*Riesling - CPU<br /> <br /> ==6) Who: [Regnal number VI] ==<br /> # was Foolish?<br /> #* Charles VI of France - PPB<br /> # was Rodrigo de Borja y Borja?<br /> #* Pope Alexander VI - PPB<br /> # invested Henry Sinclair as Earl of Orkney?<br /> #*Haakon VI of Norway - CPU<br /> # had a half-sister sired by his –father's physician?<br /> # founded a Siamese school, which was later named in his honour?<br /> #* Rama VI of Siam (Thailand)- DPG<br /> # was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?<br /> #* George VI - DPG<br /> # was the offspring of parents sharing the same grandmother?<br /> # was the 36th and last in a line started in 1299?<br /> #* Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire - RAS<br /> # was blinded by his mother Irene?<br /> #* Constantine VI - PPB<br /> # was tripartite?<br /> #*Henry VI (Shakespeare plays) - CPU<br /> <br /> ==7)[Languages] ==<br /> # Which language was developed by a Polish ophthalmologist?<br /> #* Esperanto - RAS<br /> # Which language of the Romance group has a definite article suffix?<br /> # Of which European language is the origin unknown, even to the experts?<br /> #* Basque - RAS<br /> # Which geographically Scandinavian language is not linguistically Scandinavian?<br /> #*Finnish - DL<br /> # Which European language is the only survivor of its branch of the Indo-European group?<br /> #* Greek - RAS<br /> # Which Slavonic language is spoken in a country whose national language is not Slavonic?<br /> #*Wendish - DL<br /> # Which European language is spoken by about 1% of the population of Switzerland?<br /> #* Romansh - RAS<br /> # Which European language has a past tense form which looks like a future?<br /> # Which Slavonic language has done away with the case forms of nouns?<br /> #* Bulgarian - MBD<br /> # Which European national language still retains the dual number?<br /> #* Scots Gaelic - RAS<br /> #* Greek - DL<br /> #* Slovene - MBD<br /> #* Manx - Ernie<br /> <br /> ==8) What: [Shellfish] ==<br /> # is also a game using 28 marbles?<br /> #* Abalone - Hippo<br /> # formed part of a linear horti–cultural decoration?<br /> #*Cockle shells (Mary, Mary, quite contrary) - CPU<br /> # are typically preserved in seasoned butter in Lancashire?<br /> #*Potted shrimps - Mo<br /> # when released in America, suggested involvement with Christine Keeler?<br /> # are geographically confusing names of what is neither one thing nor the other?<br /> # pelecypod was perhaps familiar to the pupils (and their successors) of Rev Thomas Langhorne?<br /> #*Mussels (he founded Loretto School in Musselburgh) - CPU<br /> # did the man from the Borough regard as the invariable accompaniment of poverty?<br /> #* Oysters (The Pickwick Papers) - Hippo<br /> # legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?<br /> #* Crabs (Under Milk Wood) - Hippo<br /> # nominally, has blue representatives in another kingdom?<br /> # when baked too brown, must sugar his hair?<br /> #* The Lobster (Alice in Wonderland) - GZ<br /> <br /> ==9) Journeying on what, between which termini, might one's thoughts turn to:==<br /> # sleepwalking?<br /> # elliptical orbits?<br /> #* Johannes Kepler, Prague Main to Wiesbaden (overnight train) - SJF<br /> # the quintessential libertine?<br /> # a soldier without a passport?<br /> # the founding father of the EU?<br /> # the royal prisoner of Sönderborg?<br /> # Judith and three mute wives?<br /> # clothed and naked versions?<br /> # the mount of Bellerophon?<br /> #* Flying Horse (Pegasus, from Earth to Mount Olympus) - GACJ<br /> # melting clocks?<br /> #* Train from Kunming to Dali? - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) Which river:==<br /> # received the defeated Aunus?<br /> # floats laden barges by banks of myosote? <br /> #* Thames DPG <br /> # was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?<br /> #* Weser (Pied Piper of Hamelin) - TN<br /> # was identified without doubt by the discovery of the initials AD<br /> # saw Captain Schenk acquire an engineer to replace the deceased Walter?<br /> #*The Danube (Greenmantle by J Buchan) - TJCS<br /> # despite being in flood, could be crossed dry-shod following clerical plantar immersion?<br /> #*The Jordan (Joshua 3) - CPU<br /> # provided drinks for kine, and horses, and little humorous donkeys?<br /> # along with Cairo was passed unnoticed by the raft in the fog?<br /> #*Ohio (Mark Twain, &quot;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&quot;) - SJF<br /> # was a source of shelly snails and green lettuces?<br /> #* The Amazon. (Kipling, &quot;The Beginning of the Armadillos&quot;).<br /> # witnessed a case of unwitting filicide?<br /> <br /> ==11) Who or what: [Stanleys]==<br /> # had instinct?<br /> # reds started as Villa?<br /> #* Accrington Stanley - Hippo<br /> # uniquely, got three in whose match?<br /> #* Stan Mortensen, in Stanley Matthews' final - Hippo<br /> # claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?<br /> #* Stanley Kubrick? (Eyes wide shut) - TN<br /> # was formerly William and succeeded Louis?<br /> # in repetitive utterances, anticipated Glyn Daniel et al?<br /> # described a small arm accident on 17/6/15?<br /> # was executed at Bolton after Worcester?<br /> #* Lord Derby. (After The Battle of Worcester. Ted<br /> # was targeted by Nat and Dermot?<br /> # was presumptuous?<br /> #* Henry Morton Stanley (on finding Dr Livingstone) - Hippo<br /> <br /> ==12) Where: [Charles Dickens Pubs]==<br /> # was the mistress leguminous?<br /> #*The Blue Dragon Inn (Martin Chuzzlewit) - GACJ<br /> # were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?<br /> #*The Sol's Arms (Bleak House) - TJCS<br /> # was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?<br /> #*The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters (Our Mutual Friend) - GACJ<br /> # did the circus manager point out that &quot;People must be amuthed&quot;?<br /> #*Coketown (Hard Times) - TJCS<br /> # did the curate speak for one hour and 25 minutes at an anti-slavery meeting?<br /> #* The Goat and Boots (Sketches by Boz) - DPG<br /> # did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?<br /> #* The Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers) - DPG<br /> # did the landlord report that Phil was so drunk that a boy might take him?<br /> # did the Yorkshire schoolmaster interview tutors and pupils?<br /> #*The Saracens Head (Nicholas Nickleby) - GACJ<br /> # did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?<br /> #* Three Jolly Bargemen (Great Expectations) - DPG<br /> # did the hangman bind the old man to his chair?<br /> <br /> ==13)[US presidents] ==<br /> # Who remained a bachelor?<br /> #* James Buchanan (1857-1861) - RAH<br /> # Who had been ADC to Mad Anthony?<br /> #* William Henry Harrison (who only lasted for 31 days as president in 1841) - RAH<br /> # Who was described as a withered little apple-john?<br /> #* James Madison DPG<br /> # Whose nickname was perfect for a slogan of approval?<br /> # Who enlisted as a private, but came out as a brevet major?<br /> # Who maintained that silence ensured no need for repetition?<br /> #* Calvin Coolidge<br /> # Who, in his youth, admitted to cutting down a cherry tree?<br /> #*George Washington - TJCS<br /> # Who compared his strength to that of a male cervid?<br /> # Who is remembered, nominally, in West Africa?<br /> #* Monroe - PPB<br /> # Which two died on the same day?<br /> #* John Adams (second President), Thomas Jefferson (third President). July 4, 1826 - MSD<br /> <br /> ==14) Within the capital of which member state of the United Nations will you find:==<br /> # calluna?<br /> #* New Zealand (Wel*ling*ton) - GZ<br /> # 3.14159?<br /> #* A*pi*a (Samoa) - MBD<br /> # that its alright?<br /> #* Japan (T*ok*yo) - GZ<br /> #* Thailand (Bangk*ok*) - Hippo<br /> # a Windermere resident?<br /> # a West Country watercourse?<br /> #* Canada (Ot*taw*a) - GZ<br /> # a pudding distinguished by –ladies' fingers?<br /> #* US Virgin Is (*Charlotte* Amalie) - PPB - isn't a member state of the UN (Hippo)<br /> #* Belgium (B*russe*ls) - Hippo<br /> # a simian representative?<br /> #* Hungary (Bud*ape*s)t - GZ<br /> # a Tibetan monk?<br /> #* Pakistan (Is*lama*bad) - GZ<br /> # a semi-metal?<br /> #* Botswana (Ga*boron*e) - PPB<br /> #* Bahamas (N*as*sau - As is Arsenic)? Boron is not a semi-metal, should be Arsenic(As), Antimony(Sb), or Bismuth(Bi) - GACJ<br /> # nothing?<br /> #* Philippines (Ma*nil*a) - GACJ<br /> <br /> ==15) Who: [Birds]==<br /> # was morally pure in EC2?<br /> # shot Buffalo Bill at Belvedere, Ohio?<br /> #*Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs) - GACJ<br /> # went to the wrong church for her wedding?<br /> #*Fanny Robin (Far from the Madding Crowd) - GACJ<br /> # believed, erroneously, that –Byron murdered Ezra Chater?<br /> #*Bernard Nightingale (Arcadia) - GACJ<br /> # killed Lord Frederick in a duel, following his return from Belgium?<br /> #*Sir Mulberry Hawk (Nicholas Nickleby) - GACJ<br /> # possessed nothing but the –contents of his wallet, the clothes he stood up in, the hare-lip, the automatic he should have left behind?<br /> #*Philip Raven (A Gun for Sale) - GACJ<br /> # was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?<br /> # wore white for her immolation on October 27?<br /> # advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?<br /> #* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ<br /> # posed as Doctor Copernicus?<br /> <br /> ==16) Following my leader, who or what:==<br /> # is a Hampshire jewel?<br /> # decorated Findlater's label?<br /> # is meteorologically striking?<br /> # houses Colum Cille's shrine?<br /> # could be wild duck washed down with Ch. Latour?<br /> # might refer to poor Sarah's biliary obstruction?<br /> # is absolutely necessary to a ram?<br /> # was Anastasia's great aunt?<br /> # could have been a crusader?<br /> # is a –musteline appendage?<br /> <br /> ==17) In which town:==<br /> # did prisoner 24601 steal the episcopal silver?<br /> #*Digne (Les Miserables) - GACJ<br /> # did Lady de Winter poison the novice at the convent?<br /> # was the cathedral like a vast boudoir prepared for Emma?<br /> # did Jake, dining alone, drink a bottle of Ch. Margaux for company?<br /> # did Duhamel ask that the crayfish should be very lightly boiled just seized?<br /> # did la Baronne de la Chalonnière encounter Alexander Duggan at the Hôtel du Cerf?<br /> #* Gap (Day of the Jackal) DPG<br /> # did Holmes spend some months in a research into coal-tar derivatives?<br /> #*Montpelier - EBH<br /> # were plum-coloured shoes removed to expose red stockings?<br /> # did Harry urge his uncle to enter and fortify the town?<br /> # did Hannay receive hellish news from Laidlaw?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2008:==<br /> # which gartered kiwi was laid to rest?<br /> #*Sir Edmund Hillary - AMK / Clarrie<br /> # which fine food has gained PGS in Leicestershire?<br /> #*Melton Mowbray Pork Pie - TJCS<br /> #*Stilton - DL<br /> # who, following 2nd at 2K with 3 others, got 1st at 3K alone?<br /> # which sometime bulbous plant would seem to be involved with &quot;arthrology&quot;?<br /> #*Garlic - EBH<br /> # who made successive day trips to Abergele, Fountains Abbey and Mugdock?<br /> #*Ian Botham - CMP<br /> # where has the pancake bell ceased to signal the start of a race owing to health and safety issues?<br /> #*Olney - AMK<br /> #*Ripon - MSD<br /> # where did a giant arachnid briefly invade an apparently –coleopteran habitat?<br /> #*Liverpool - CPU<br /> # what legendary diamond fell to the successors of the fictitious Misson?<br /> # who got six months for dis–honesty at White Plains? <br /> #* Marion Jones<br /> # whose jobcentre manager fetched £17.2m?<br /> #*Lucian Freud - GACJ</div>

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<p>Sjf: </p> <hr /> <div>__NOTOC__<br /> This is a collaborative attempt at the King William's College Quiz by subscribers of ringing-chat (28 December 2008 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 screwing up the numbering.<br /> <br /> ==1) During the year 1908:==<br /> # who announced T?<br /> #*Henry Ford - TJCS<br /> # who finished at 59 with 15 and 25?<br /> #*WG Grace - CMP<br /> # what confectionery was inspired by Shaw?<br /> #*Chocolate soldier - DL<br /> # who gained her second first at an old east-coast fort?<br /> # where did the Thomas Flyer arrive on the Asiatic mainland?<br /> #*Vladivostok - RAH<br /> # whose birthday present was cut into nine pieces for the family headdress and other equipment?<br /> #* Edward VII (Cullinan diamond) - PPB<br /> # whose resignation pre-empted his demise by just 16 days?<br /> #* Henry Campbell-Bannerman - TN<br /> # which tale launched a nouveau riche boy-racer?<br /> #*Wind in the Willows - TJCS<br /> # for whom was Lord Hugh best man?<br /> #*Winston Churchill - TJCS<br /> # what event elevated Manuel?<br /> #*The assassination of his father and brother - CMP<br /> <br /> ==2) Who began what by: [Literary Openings] ==<br /> # recalling unusual citrous abundance?<br /> # describing his subject's physiognomy with a succession of v's?<br /> # justifying the creation of a short palindromic nickname for &quot;himself&quot;?<br /> # describing the emergence at dawn of a moustached little man with bowlegs?<br /> # recalling melancholy inspiration from early evening sights and sounds in a rural churchyard?<br /> #*Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) - Ted<br /> # suggesting that it was generally accepted that a well-heeled loner must be looking for a lady?<br /> #*Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) - Ted<br /> # describing a studio filled with the scents of roses, lilac and pink-flowered thorn?<br /> # describing his hero facing execution and recalling the –discovery of ice?<br /> # recalling a send-off from family and friends at Charing Cross?<br /> # providing an alibi for the white kitten?<br /> #*Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-glass) - JEC<br /> <br /> ==3)[Telegrams] ==<br /> # Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?<br /> #* Samuel Morse (First public telegraph message, 24/5/1844: &quot;What hath God wrought&quot;) - TN<br /> # Who wired who confirming worst fears and requesting gumboots?<br /> # Whose telegram caused Dew to hasten westward on the Laurentic?<br /> #*Captain Henry George Kendall (SS Montrose) - RAH<br /> # Who, on sighting the enemy, urgently requested a firearm and 300 bullets?<br /> # Whose expression of delight was accompanied by a request for a patent oil cooking stove?<br /> # With what single word did the defeated Governor allegedly advise cancellation of the papal travel arrangements?<br /> # Who described a suave, Bohemian, elderly, storekeeper in the Commercial Road?<br /> # Which repetitious message prompted the query &quot;Does that mean Yes?&quot;<br /> #* Better drowned than duffers if not duffers wont drown, Swallows and Amazons - DPG<br /> # Who discovered a crumpled telegram reading &quot;Suivez à Bokhare Saronov&quot;?<br /> # On what occasion was the royal wrath not expressed in code?<br /> <br /> ==4)[Scottish Islands] ==<br /> # What is the Island of Sheep?<br /> #* Soay (an island off the coast of either Skye or Hirta depending which Soay is meant) - RAS<br /> # Where did the sea cave inspire Op 26?<br /> #* Staffa (Hebrides - Fingal's Cave) - deH<br /> # Where was Magnus Erlendsson executed?<br /> #* Egilsay, Orkney - PPB<br /> # What was David's gift to the Berkshire monks?<br /> #* The monastery that he, King David had founded on the Isle of May, given to the abbey at Reading - Ted<br /> # Where did an amputated digit earn its owner the right to build a monastery?<br /> # Where did the great grandson of King John III make his first British landfall?<br /> # Where is the unique mutton derived from a diet of Laminaria?<br /> #* North Ronaldsay - Ted<br /> # Where was quarantine enforced for 48 years?<br /> #* Gruinard Island (Anthrax contamination) - deH<br /> # To what was Meg's deafness compared?<br /> #* Ailsa Craig (Robert Burns) - Hippo<br /> # Where was Andie Dale the prefect?<br /> <br /> ==5) Travelling from Nordic lands, try unravelling: [-ling] ==<br /> # the eponymous traitor,<br /> #*Quisling - CPU<br /> # then Merrill's famed fisherman partner<br /> # and a misplaced cygnet,<br /> #*The Ugly Duckling - CPU<br /> # contrasting with a little anser,<br /> #*Gosling - CPU<br /> # thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,<br /> #*Terschelling - CPU<br /> # while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,<br /> #* Memling - PPB<br /> # and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport<br /> #*Angling - CPU<br /> # and try to catch a little trout<br /> #* Tickling - PPB<br /> # or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative<br /> #*Grayling - Ted<br /> # before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality<br /> #*Riesling - CPU<br /> <br /> ==6) Who: [Regnal number VI] ==<br /> # was Foolish?<br /> #* Charles VI of France - PPB<br /> # was Rodrigo de Borja y Borja?<br /> #* Pope Alexander VI - PPB<br /> # invested Henry Sinclair as Earl of Orkney?<br /> #*Haakon VI of Norway - CPU<br /> # had a half-sister sired by his –father's physician?<br /> # founded a Siamese school, which was later named in his honour?<br /> #* Rama VI of Siam (Thailand)- DPG<br /> # was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?<br /> #* George VI - DPG<br /> # was the offspring of parents sharing the same grandmother?<br /> # was the 36th and last in a line started in 1299?<br /> #* Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire - RAS<br /> # was blinded by his mother Irene?<br /> #* Constantine VI - PPB<br /> # was tripartite?<br /> #*Henry VI (Shakespeare plays) - CPU<br /> <br /> ==7)[Languages] ==<br /> # Which language was developed by a Polish ophthalmologist?<br /> #* Esperanto - RAS<br /> # Which language of the Romance group has a definite article suffix?<br /> # Of which European language is the origin unknown, even to the experts?<br /> #* Basque - RAS<br /> # Which geographically Scandinavian language is not linguistically Scandinavian?<br /> #*Finnish - DL<br /> # Which European language is the only survivor of its branch of the Indo-European group?<br /> #* Greek - RAS<br /> # Which Slavonic language is spoken in a country whose national language is not Slavonic?<br /> #*Wendish - DL<br /> # Which European language is spoken by about 1% of the population of Switzerland?<br /> #* Romansh - RAS<br /> # Which European language has a past tense form which looks like a future?<br /> # Which Slavonic language has done away with the case forms of nouns?<br /> #* Bulgarian - MBD<br /> # Which European national language still retains the dual number?<br /> #* Scots Gaelic - RAS<br /> #* Greek - DL<br /> #* Slovene - MBD<br /> #* Manx - Ernie<br /> <br /> ==8) What: [Shellfish] ==<br /> # is also a game using 28 marbles?<br /> #* Abalone - Hippo<br /> # formed part of a linear horti–cultural decoration?<br /> #*Cockle shells (Mary, Mary, quite contrary) - CPU<br /> # are typically preserved in seasoned butter in Lancashire?<br /> #*Potted shrimps - Mo<br /> # when released in America, suggested involvement with Christine Keeler?<br /> # are geographically confusing names of what is neither one thing nor the other?<br /> # pelecypod was perhaps familiar to the pupils (and their successors) of Rev Thomas Langhorne?<br /> #*Mussels (he founded Loretto School in Musselburgh) - CPU<br /> # did the man from the Borough regard as the invariable accompaniment of poverty?<br /> #* Oysters (The Pickwick Papers) - Hippo<br /> # legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?<br /> #* Crabs (Under Milk Wood) - Hippo<br /> # nominally, has blue representatives in another kingdom?<br /> # when baked too brown, must sugar his hair?<br /> #* The Lobster (Alice in Wonderland) - GZ<br /> <br /> ==9) Journeying on what, between which termini, might one's thoughts turn to:==<br /> # sleepwalking?<br /> # elliptical orbits?<br /> # the quintessential libertine?<br /> # a soldier without a passport?<br /> # the founding father of the EU?<br /> # the royal prisoner of Sönderborg?<br /> # Judith and three mute wives?<br /> # clothed and naked versions?<br /> # the mount of Bellerophon?<br /> #* Flying Horse (Pegasus, from Earth to Mount Olympus) - GACJ<br /> # melting clocks?<br /> #* Train from Kunming to Dali? - TN<br /> <br /> ==10) Which river:==<br /> # received the defeated Aunus?<br /> # floats laden barges by banks of myosote? <br /> #* Thames DPG <br /> # was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?<br /> #* Weser (Pied Piper of Hamelin) - TN<br /> # was identified without doubt by the discovery of the initials AD<br /> # saw Captain Schenk acquire an engineer to replace the deceased Walter?<br /> #*The Danube (Greenmantle by J Buchan) - TJCS<br /> # despite being in flood, could be crossed dry-shod following clerical plantar immersion?<br /> #*The Jordan (Joshua 3) - CPU<br /> # provided drinks for kine, and horses, and little humorous donkeys?<br /> # along with Cairo was passed unnoticed by the raft in the fog?<br /> #*Ohio (Mark Twain, &quot;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&quot;) - SJF<br /> # was a source of shelly snails and green lettuces?<br /> #* The Amazon. (Kipling, &quot;The Beginning of the Armadillos&quot;).<br /> # witnessed a case of unwitting filicide?<br /> <br /> ==11) Who or what: [Stanleys]==<br /> # had instinct?<br /> # reds started as Villa?<br /> #* Accrington Stanley - Hippo<br /> # uniquely, got three in whose match?<br /> #* Stan Mortensen, in Stanley Matthews' final - Hippo<br /> # claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?<br /> #* Stanley Kubrick? (Eyes wide shut) - TN<br /> # was formerly William and succeeded Louis?<br /> # in repetitive utterances, anticipated Glyn Daniel et al?<br /> # described a small arm accident on 17/6/15?<br /> # was executed at Bolton after Worcester?<br /> #* Lord Derby. (After The Battle of Worcester. Ted<br /> # was targeted by Nat and Dermot?<br /> # was presumptuous?<br /> #* Henry Morton Stanley (on finding Dr Livingstone) - Hippo<br /> <br /> ==12) Where: [Charles Dickens Pubs]==<br /> # was the mistress leguminous?<br /> #*The Blue Dragon Inn (Martin Chuzzlewit) - GACJ<br /> # were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?<br /> #*The Sol's Arms (Bleak House) - TJCS<br /> # was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?<br /> #*The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters (Our Mutual Friend) - GACJ<br /> # did the circus manager point out that &quot;People must be amuthed&quot;?<br /> #*Coketown (Hard Times) - TJCS<br /> # did the curate speak for one hour and 25 minutes at an anti-slavery meeting?<br /> #* The Goat and Boots (Sketches by Boz) - DPG<br /> # did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?<br /> #* The Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers) - DPG<br /> # did the landlord report that Phil was so drunk that a boy might take him?<br /> # did the Yorkshire schoolmaster interview tutors and pupils?<br /> #*The Saracens Head (Nicholas Nickleby) - GACJ<br /> # did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?<br /> #* Three Jolly Bargemen (Great Expectations) - DPG<br /> # did the hangman bind the old man to his chair?<br /> <br /> ==13)[US presidents] ==<br /> # Who remained a bachelor?<br /> #* James Buchanan (1857-1861) - RAH<br /> # Who had been ADC to Mad Anthony?<br /> #* William Henry Harrison (who only lasted for 31 days as president in 1841) - RAH<br /> # Who was described as a withered little apple-john?<br /> #* James Madison DPG<br /> # Whose nickname was perfect for a slogan of approval?<br /> # Who enlisted as a private, but came out as a brevet major?<br /> # Who maintained that silence ensured no need for repetition?<br /> #* Calvin Coolidge<br /> # Who, in his youth, admitted to cutting down a cherry tree?<br /> #*George Washington - TJCS<br /> # Who compared his strength to that of a male cervid?<br /> # Who is remembered, nominally, in West Africa?<br /> #* Monroe - PPB<br /> # Which two died on the same day?<br /> #* John Adams (second President), Thomas Jefferson (third President). July 4, 1826 - MSD<br /> <br /> ==14) Within the capital of which member state of the United Nations will you find:==<br /> # calluna?<br /> #* New Zealand (Wel*ling*ton) - GZ<br /> # 3.14159?<br /> #* A*pi*a (Samoa) - MBD<br /> # that its alright?<br /> #* Japan (T*ok*yo) - GZ<br /> #* Thailand (Bangk*ok*) - Hippo<br /> # a Windermere resident?<br /> # a West Country watercourse?<br /> #* Canada (Ot*taw*a) - GZ<br /> # a pudding distinguished by –ladies' fingers?<br /> #* US Virgin Is (*Charlotte* Amalie) - PPB - isn't a member state of the UN (Hippo)<br /> #* Belgium (B*russe*ls) - Hippo<br /> # a simian representative?<br /> #* Hungary (Bud*ape*s)t - GZ<br /> # a Tibetan monk?<br /> #* Pakistan (Is*lama*bad) - GZ<br /> # a semi-metal?<br /> #* Botswana (Ga*boron*e) - PPB<br /> #* Bahamas (N*as*sau - As is Arsenic)? Boron is not a semi-metal, should be Arsenic(As), Antimony(Sb), or Bismuth(Bi) - GACJ<br /> # nothing?<br /> #* Philippines (Ma*nil*a) - GACJ<br /> <br /> ==15) Who: [Birds]==<br /> # was morally pure in EC2?<br /> # shot Buffalo Bill at Belvedere, Ohio?<br /> #*Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs) - GACJ<br /> # went to the wrong church for her wedding?<br /> #*Fanny Robin (Far from the Madding Crowd) - GACJ<br /> # believed, erroneously, that –Byron murdered Ezra Chater?<br /> #*Bernard Nightingale (Arcadia) - GACJ<br /> # killed Lord Frederick in a duel, following his return from Belgium?<br /> #*Sir Mulberry Hawk (Nicholas Nickleby) - GACJ<br /> # possessed nothing but the –contents of his wallet, the clothes he stood up in, the hare-lip, the automatic he should have left behind?<br /> #*Philip Raven (A Gun for Sale) - GACJ<br /> # was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?<br /> # wore white for her immolation on October 27?<br /> # advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?<br /> #* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ<br /> # posed as Doctor Copernicus?<br /> <br /> ==16) Following my leader, who or what:==<br /> # is a Hampshire jewel?<br /> # decorated Findlater's label?<br /> # is meteorologically striking?<br /> # houses Colum Cille's shrine?<br /> # could be wild duck washed down with Ch. Latour?<br /> # might refer to poor Sarah's biliary obstruction?<br /> # is absolutely necessary to a ram?<br /> # was Anastasia's great aunt?<br /> # could have been a crusader?<br /> # is a –musteline appendage?<br /> <br /> ==17) In which town:==<br /> # did prisoner 24601 steal the episcopal silver?<br /> #*Digne (Les Miserables) - GACJ<br /> # did Lady de Winter poison the novice at the convent?<br /> # was the cathedral like a vast boudoir prepared for Emma?<br /> # did Jake, dining alone, drink a bottle of Ch. Margaux for company?<br /> # did Duhamel ask that the crayfish should be very lightly boiled just seized?<br /> # did la Baronne de la Chalonnière encounter Alexander Duggan at the Hôtel du Cerf?<br /> #* Gap (Day of the Jackal) DPG<br /> # did Holmes spend some months in a research into coal-tar derivatives?<br /> #*Montpelier - EBH<br /> # were plum-coloured shoes removed to expose red stockings?<br /> # did Harry urge his uncle to enter and fortify the town?<br /> # did Hannay receive hellish news from Laidlaw?<br /> <br /> ==18) During 2008:==<br /> # which gartered kiwi was laid to rest?<br /> #*Sir Edmund Hillary - AMK / Clarrie<br /> # which fine food has gained PGS in Leicestershire?<br /> #*Melton Mowbray Pork Pie - TJCS<br /> #*Stilton - DL<br /> # who, following 2nd at 2K with 3 others, got 1st at 3K alone?<br /> # which sometime bulbous plant would seem to be involved with &quot;arthrology&quot;?<br /> #*Garlic - EBH<br /> # who made successive day trips to Abergele, Fountains Abbey and Mugdock?<br /> #*Ian Botham - CMP<br /> # where has the pancake bell ceased to signal the start of a race owing to health and safety issues?<br /> #*Olney - AMK<br /> #*Ripon - MSD<br /> # where did a giant arachnid briefly invade an apparently –coleopteran habitat?<br /> #*Liverpool - CPU<br /> # what legendary diamond fell to the successors of the fictitious Misson?<br /> # who got six months for dis–honesty at White Plains? <br /> #* Marion Jones<br /> # whose jobcentre manager fetched £17.2m?<br /> #*Lucian Freud - GACJ</div>

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