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<p>TerryStreeter: /* 18) During 2010: */</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 /> #* Eider Duck - R A H<br /> # gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line?<br /> #* Benjamin Gimbert and James William Nightall - R A H<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 /> #* Maria Fitzherbert - R A H<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 /> #* Shaggy - R A H<br /> # an ottoman?<br /> # a hurried exit?<br /> # a plumbous abdomen?<br /> #* Leadbelly - R A H<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 /> #* Akbar mounted on the elepahant Hawa'i - R A H<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 (Bridgewater canal) - TJCS<br /> # might suggest marzipan?<br /> #* Almond Aqueduct (Union Canal) - R A H<br /> # is suspended from two open-web ribs?<br /> #* Stanley Ferry Aqueduct - R A H<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 /> #* Marple Aqueduct - R A H<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 /> #* Dundas Aqueduct - R A H<br /> # bears the inscription 'To Public Prosperity'?<br /> #* Lune Aqueduct (Lancaster canal) - TJCS<br /> # provides an outlet for Trevor?<br /> #* Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (Llangollen canal) - TJCS<br /> # straddles Watling Street?<br /> #* Stretton Aqueduct (Shropshire Union canal) - TJCS<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 /> #* John Masters &quot;Bhowani Junction&quot; - R A H<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 /> #* Aylesbury (Ronnie Barker's widow, Joy, unveiled a statue of Fletcher in September) - TJCS<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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2010-11&diff=1320 2010-12-28T14:35:06Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 14) Which elevated conduit: */</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 (Bridgewater canal) - 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 /> #* Lune Aqueduct (Lancaster canal) - TJCS<br /> # provides an outlet for Trevor?<br /> #* Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (Llangollen canal) - TJCS<br /> # straddles Watling Street?<br /> #* Stretton Aqueduct (Shropshire Union canal) - TJCS<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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2010-11&diff=1319 2010-12-28T09:51:40Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 14) Which elevated conduit: */</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 (Bridgewater canal) - 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 (Llangollen canal) - TJCS<br /> # straddles Watling Street?<br /> #* Stretton Aqueduct (Shropshire Union canal) - TJCS<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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2010-11&diff=1318 2010-12-28T09:51:21Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 14) Which elevated conduit: */</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 *Bridgewater canal) - 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 (Llangollen canal) - TJCS<br /> # straddles Watling Street?<br /> #* Stretton Aqueduct (Shropshire Union canal) - TJCS<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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2010-11&diff=1299 2010-12-26T21:31:08Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 11) ?: */</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?<br /> == And coming in: (Questions 6-10 of Section 3)==<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> <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 /> # 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 /> <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 /> # 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 /> # &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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2010-11&diff=1292 2010-12-26T20:28:46Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 14) Which elevated conduit: */</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 /> # 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?<br /> == And coming in: (Questions 6-10 of Section 3)==<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 /> <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 /> # 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) ?:==<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 /> # what was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand?<br /> # which minstrel finished with Danny Boy?<br /> # where is St James the highest of all?<br /> # what is a funny five-liner?<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 /> <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 /> # where did Jane lodge for 2 guineas a week?<br /> # what, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC?<br /> # who is a sharp know-all?<br /> # what is a zoonotic?<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # &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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2010-11&diff=1291 2010-12-26T20:28:22Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 14) Which elevated conduit: */</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 /> # 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?<br /> == And coming in: (Questions 6-10 of Section 3)==<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 /> <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 /> # 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) ?:==<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 /> # what was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand?<br /> # which minstrel finished with Danny Boy?<br /> # where is St James the highest of all?<br /> # what is a funny five-liner?<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 /> <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 /> # where did Jane lodge for 2 guineas a week?<br /> # what, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC?<br /> # who is a sharp know-all?<br /> # what is a zoonotic?<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<br /> # might suggest marzipan?<br /> # is suspended from two open-web ribs?<br /> # is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly?<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<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # &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>TerryStreeter: Created page with '__NOTOC__ 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…'</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 /> # 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?<br /> == And coming in: (Questions 6-10 of Section 3)==<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 /> <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 /> # 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) ?:==<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 /> # what was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand?<br /> # which minstrel finished with Danny Boy?<br /> # where is St James the highest of all?<br /> # what is a funny five-liner?<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 /> <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 /> # where did Jane lodge for 2 guineas a week?<br /> # what, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC?<br /> # who is a sharp know-all?<br /> # what is a zoonotic?<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 /> # might suggest marzipan?<br /> # is suspended from two open-web ribs?<br /> # is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly?<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # &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>TerryStreeter: /* 16) Having got into the red, complete: */</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 /> * 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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1031 2009-12-28T21:51:31Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 16) Having got into the red, complete: */</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 /> #* 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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1030 2009-12-28T21:40:53Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 16) Having got into the red, complete: */</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 /> #* 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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1029 2009-12-28T21:40:28Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 16) Having got into the red, complete: */</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 /> #* 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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=1028 2009-12-28T21:29:58Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 16) Having got into the red, complete: */</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 /> #* Børsgade (Denmark) - TJCS<br /> # Robinson Road – Shenton Way – ...........<br /> #* Collyer Quay (Singapore) - TJCS<br /> # Sancová ulica – Vajnorská ulica – ...........<br /> # Strandvägen – Kungsträdgårdsgatan – ...........<br /> #* Hamngatan (Sweden) - TJCS<br /> # ........... – Boulevard Malesherbes – Avenue Henri-Martin.<br /> # Plaza Urquinaona – ........... – Ronda San Pedro.<br /> # ........... – Tartu maantee – Pärnu maantee.<br /> # ........... – Capel Street – Henry Street<br /> #* Abbey Street (Ireland) - TJCS<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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=982 2009-12-28T15:07:20Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 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 /> #* 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=971 2009-12-28T13:54:04Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 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 /> #* 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 /> <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 /> <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 /> #* 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 /> # 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 /> #*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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=959 2009-12-28T12:09:04Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 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 /> #* 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 /> # 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 /> #* 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=958 2009-12-28T12:06:30Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 18) During 2009: */</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 /> #* 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 /> # 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 /> #* 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=957 2009-12-28T12:05:50Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 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 /> # 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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2009-10&diff=953 2009-12-28T12:03:08Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 5) ? */</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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2008-9&diff=530 2009-01-03T18:06:56Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 13)[US presidents] */</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 /> #* Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (first female mayor, also first female with a medical qualification) - Hippo<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 /> #* Charles Dickens (Great Expectations) - deH<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 /> #* The Consul in Solitas to the US Government (in &quot;Cabbages and Kings&quot; - he requested gunboats and they sent gumboots) - TN<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 /> #* Lismore - TN<br /> # Where did the great grandson of King John III make his first British landfall?<br /> #* Eriskay (Bonnie Prince Charlie) - CPU<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 /> #* The Bass Rock (Catriona) - deH<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 /> #* Frederick VI of Denmark - CPU<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 /> #* James VI and I (the grandmother being Margaret Tudor) - CPU<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 /> #* Tuulos - TN<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 /> #* The Oise - DPG<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 /> #* Stanley Weller. Pinter's &quot;The Birthday Party&quot; Ted<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 /> #* The Three Cripples (oliver Twist) - DPG<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 /> #*Abraham Lincoln? (Honest Abe) - TJCS<br /> # Who enlisted as a private, but came out as a brevet major?<br /> #* Ronald Reagan RAH<br /> # Who maintained that silence ensured no need for repetition?<br /> #* Calvin Coolidge - TN<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 /> #* Theodore Roosevelt (&quot;strong as a bull moose&quot;) - TN<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 /> #* 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 /> #* Shearwater - DPG<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:[Flies, as in fishing] == <br /> # is a Hampshire jewel?<br /> # decorated Findlater's label?<br /> #* A dry fly (fishing). Ted<br /> # is meteorologically striking?<br /> #* Thunder and lightning - TN<br /> # houses Colum Cille's shrine?<br /> # could be wild duck washed down with Ch. Latour?<br /> #* Mallard and Claret - TN<br /> # might refer to poor Sarah's biliary obstruction?<br /> # is absolutely necessary to a ram?<br /> #* Tup's Indispensible - TN<br /> # was Anastasia's great aunt?<br /> # could have been a crusader?<br /> #* Soldier Palmer - TN<br /> # is a –musteline appendage?<br /> #* Stoat's Tail Ted<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 /> #* Bethune (The Three Musketeers) - Hippo<br /> # was the cathedral like a vast boudoir prepared for Emma?<br /> #* Rouen (Madame Bovary) - Hippo<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 /> #* Rebecca Romero (silver 2004 rowing quad sculls, gold 2008 cycling)- Hippo<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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2008-9&diff=451 2008-12-29T18:26:49Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 12) Where: Dickens] */</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 /> # 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 /> ==3)[Telegrams] ==<br /> # Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?<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 /> # 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 /> ==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 /> # 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 /> # was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?<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 /> ==8) What: [Shellfish] ==<br /> # is also a game using 28 marbles?<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 /> # legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?<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 /> ==10) Which river:==<br /> # received the defeated Aunus?<br /> # floats laden barges by banks of myosote?<br /> # was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?<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 /> # 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:==<br /> # had instinct?<br /> # reds started as Villa?<br /> # uniquely, got three in whose match?<br /> # claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?<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 /> ==12) Where: [Charles Dickens]==<br /> # was the mistress leguminous?<br /> # were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?<br /> #*The Sol's Arms (Bleak House) - TJCS<br /> # was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?<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 /> # did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?<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 /> # did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?<br /> # wore white for her immolation on October 27?<br /> #* Joan of Arc. Ted<br /> # advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?<br /> #* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ<br /> # posed as Doctor Copernicus?<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 /> ==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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2008-9&diff=450 2008-12-29T18:23:30Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 12) Where: */</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 /> # 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 /> ==3)[Telegrams] ==<br /> # Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?<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 /> # 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 /> ==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 /> # 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 /> # was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?<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 /> ==8) What: [Shellfish] ==<br /> # is also a game using 28 marbles?<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 /> # legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?<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 /> ==10) Which river:==<br /> # received the defeated Aunus?<br /> # floats laden barges by banks of myosote?<br /> # was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?<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 /> # 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:==<br /> # had instinct?<br /> # reds started as Villa?<br /> # uniquely, got three in whose match?<br /> # claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?<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 /> ==12) Where: Dickens]==<br /> # was the mistress leguminous?<br /> # were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?<br /> #*The Sol's Arms (Bleak House) - TJCS<br /> # was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?<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 /> # did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?<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 /> # did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?<br /> # wore white for her immolation on October 27?<br /> #* Joan of Arc. Ted<br /> # advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?<br /> #* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ<br /> # posed as Doctor Copernicus?<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 /> ==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 /> # 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>TerryStreeter: /* 12) Where: */</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 /> # 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 /> ==3)[Telegrams] ==<br /> # Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?<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 /> # 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 /> ==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 /> # 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 /> # was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?<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 /> ==8) What: [Shellfish] ==<br /> # is also a game using 28 marbles?<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 /> # legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?<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 /> ==10) Which river:==<br /> # received the defeated Aunus?<br /> # floats laden barges by banks of myosote?<br /> # was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?<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 /> # 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:==<br /> # had instinct?<br /> # reds started as Villa?<br /> # uniquely, got three in whose match?<br /> # claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?<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 /> ==12) Where:==<br /> # was the mistress leguminous?<br /> # were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?<br /> #*The Sol's Arms (Bleak House - Charles Dickens) - TJCS<br /> # was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?<br /> # did the circus manager point out that &quot;People must be amuthed&quot;?<br /> # did the curate speak for one hour and 25 minutes at an anti-slavery meeting?<br /> # did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?<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 /> # did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?<br /> # wore white for her immolation on October 27?<br /> #* Joan of Arc. Ted<br /> # advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?<br /> #* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ<br /> # posed as Doctor Copernicus?<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 /> ==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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2008-9&diff=447 2008-12-29T17:50:28Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 10) Which river: */</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 /> # 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 /> ==3)[Telegrams] ==<br /> # Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?<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 /> # 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 /> ==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 /> # 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 /> # was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?<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 /> ==8) What: [Shellfish] ==<br /> # is also a game using 28 marbles?<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 /> # legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?<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 /> ==10) Which river:==<br /> # received the defeated Aunus?<br /> # floats laden barges by banks of myosote?<br /> # was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?<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 /> # provided drinks for kine, and horses, and little humorous donkeys?<br /> # along with Cairo was passed unnoticed by the raft in the fog?<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:==<br /> # had instinct?<br /> # reds started as Villa?<br /> # uniquely, got three in whose match?<br /> # claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?<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 /> ==12) Where:==<br /> # was the mistress leguminous?<br /> # were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?<br /> # was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?<br /> # did the circus manager point out that &quot;People must be amuthed&quot;?<br /> # did the curate speak for one hour and 25 minutes at an anti-slavery meeting?<br /> # did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?<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 /> # did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?<br /> # did the hangman bind the old man to his chair?<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?<br /> # wore white for her immolation on October 27?<br /> #* Joan of Arc. Ted<br /> # advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?<br /> #* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ<br /> # posed as Doctor Copernicus?<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 /> ==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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2008-9&diff=446 2008-12-29T17:49:49Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 10) Which river: */</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 /> # 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 /> ==3)[Telegrams] ==<br /> # Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?<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 /> # 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 /> ==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 /> # 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 /> # was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?<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 /> ==8) What: [Shellfish] ==<br /> # is also a game using 28 marbles?<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 /> # legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?<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 /> ==10) Which river:==<br /> # received the defeated Aunus?<br /> # floats laden barges by banks of myosote?<br /> # was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?<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)<br /> # despite being in flood, could be crossed dry-shod following clerical plantar immersion?<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 /> # 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:==<br /> # had instinct?<br /> # reds started as Villa?<br /> # uniquely, got three in whose match?<br /> # claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?<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 /> ==12) Where:==<br /> # was the mistress leguminous?<br /> # were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?<br /> # was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?<br /> # did the circus manager point out that &quot;People must be amuthed&quot;?<br /> # did the curate speak for one hour and 25 minutes at an anti-slavery meeting?<br /> # did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?<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 /> # did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?<br /> # did the hangman bind the old man to his chair?<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?<br /> # wore white for her immolation on October 27?<br /> #* Joan of Arc. Ted<br /> # advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?<br /> #* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ<br /> # posed as Doctor Copernicus?<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 /> ==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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=King_William_College_Quiz_2008-9&diff=439 2008-12-29T17:05:29Z

<p>TerryStreeter: /* 1) During the year 1908: */</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 /> # whose resignation pre-empted his demise by just 16 days?<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 /> ==3)[Telegrams] ==<br /> # Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?<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 /> # 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 /> ==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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?<br /> # was the offspring of parents sharing the same grandmother?<br /> # was the 36th and last in a line started in 1299?<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 /> ==8) What: [Shellfish] ==<br /> # is also a game using 28 marbles?<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 /> # legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?<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 /> ==10) Which river:==<br /> # received the defeated Aunus?<br /> # floats laden barges by banks of myosote?<br /> # was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?<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 /> # despite being in flood, could be crossed dry-shod following clerical plantar immersion?<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 /> # 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 /> ==11) Who or what:==<br /> # had instinct?<br /> # reds started as Villa?<br /> # uniquely, got three in whose match?<br /> # claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?<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 /> # was targeted by Nat and Dermot?<br /> # was presumptuous?<br /> ==12) Where:==<br /> # was the mistress leguminous?<br /> # were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?<br /> # was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?<br /> # did the circus manager point out that &quot;People must be amuthed&quot;?<br /> # did the curate speak for one hour and 25 minutes at an anti-slavery meeting?<br /> # did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?<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 /> # did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?<br /> # did the hangman bind the old man to his chair?<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 /> # 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 /> # 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 /> # 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<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 /> # nothing?<br /> #* Philippines (Ma*nil*a) - GACJ<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 /> # was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?<br /> # wore white for her immolation on October 27?<br /> #* Joan of Arc. Ted<br /> # advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?<br /> #* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ<br /> # posed as Doctor Copernicus?<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 /> ==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 /> # 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>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Ode_to_Lance_Wherry&diff=351 2008-12-07T20:40:33Z

<p>TerryStreeter: </p> <hr /> <div> ''' Ode to Lance Wherry'''<br /> by<br /> ''' Elizabeth Hibbert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''Published May 3, 2002'''<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Lance Wherry is a mystery man: he's called The List Enigma - &lt;br&gt;<br /> For he's a master of disguise; resides in Venezuela.&lt;br&gt;<br /> He's the bafflement of ringing-chat; he's Jean Edouard's despair:&lt;br&gt;<br /> For when they try to email back - Lance Wherry is not there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Lance Wherry. Yes! Lance Wherry. That hoaxer of humanity.&lt;br&gt;<br /> He breaks through every list device, he breaks the law of gravity.&lt;br&gt;<br /> His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Yet when you try to email back, Lance Wherry is not there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> You may try the r-c digest, call up websites here and there - &lt;br&gt;<br /> But I tell you once and once again, Lance Wherry is not there.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Lance Wherry's a pale eminence, his stature vaguely known.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would you know him if you met him? - such persona, all its own.&lt;br&gt;<br /> His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed;&lt;br&gt;<br /> His garb is understated and his whiskers neatly combed.&lt;br&gt;<br /> He watches quite intently though his eyes no movement make&lt;br&gt;<br /> And when you think he's half asleep he's always wide awake.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Lance Wherry: prestidigitateur extraordinary - &lt;br&gt;<br /> For he's a fiend in email form and quite illusionary.&lt;br&gt;<br /> You may see him in the street, you may see him in the square&lt;br&gt;<br /> But when his email reaches us, Lance Wherry is not there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> He's outwardly respectable (Yet has he rung a peal?);&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compositions in the Ringing World? - or yet Campanophile?&lt;br&gt;<br /> And when the Admin's out at work and protocol is breached&lt;br&gt;<br /> And innocent subscribers to this list are then impeached&lt;br&gt;<br /> With having worn the mantle of this chimeral debonair - &lt;br&gt;<br /> Ay - that's the wonder of the thing - Lance Wherry is not there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> And when the Foreign Office find that passports have been forged&lt;br&gt;<br /> And Customs man the barricades for flights from Ecuador - &lt;br&gt;<br /> The scourge has &quot;gone to Mexico&quot; - or Kabul (What's he doing there?&quot;)&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's useless asking questions for Lance Wherry is no longer there.&lt;br&gt;<br /> And when the &quot;coup&quot; has been deposed the Secret Service say:&lt;br&gt;<br /> It must have been Lance Wherry - but he's half a world away!&lt;br&gt;<br /> You'll be sure to find him resting when the mischief has been done&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a pint of Young's, a curry and a large Peshwari naan.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Lance Wherry. Yes! Lance Wherry has hoodwinked our fraternity.&lt;br&gt;<br /> There never was a ringer of such virtual versatility.&lt;br&gt;<br /> He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare.&lt;br&gt;<br /> At whatever time the deed took place, Lance Wherry wasn't there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> And they say that all the chaps whose wicked deeds are widely known&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Such as Tibbetts ringing methods with appallingly long names)&lt;br&gt;<br /> Are nothing more than agents of the Admin who, the while,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Just controls their operations - the Napoleon of guile!&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Ringing Poems]]</div>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Ode_to_Lance_Wherry&diff=350 2008-12-07T20:24:02Z

<p>TerryStreeter: New page: Lance Wherry is a mystery man: he's called The List Enigma - &lt;br&gt; For he's a master of disguise; resides in Venezuela.&lt;br&gt; He's the bafflement of ringing-chat; he's Jean Edouard's despair...</p> <hr /> <div>Lance Wherry is a mystery man: he's called The List Enigma - &lt;br&gt;<br /> For he's a master of disguise; resides in Venezuela.&lt;br&gt;<br /> He's the bafflement of ringing-chat; he's Jean Edouard's despair:&lt;br&gt;<br /> For when they try to email back - Lance Wherry is not there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Lance Wherry. Yes! Lance Wherry. That hoaxer of humanity.&lt;br&gt;<br /> He breaks through every list device, he breaks the law of gravity.&lt;br&gt;<br /> His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Yet when you try to email back, Lance Wherry is not there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> You may try the r-c digest, call up websites here and there - &lt;br&gt;<br /> But I tell you once and once again, Lance Wherry is not there.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Lance Wherry's a pale eminence, his stature vaguely known.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would you know him if you met him? - such persona, all its own.&lt;br&gt;<br /> His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed;&lt;br&gt;<br /> His garb is understated and his whiskers neatly combed.&lt;br&gt;<br /> He watches quite intently though his eyes no movement make&lt;br&gt;<br /> And when you think he's half asleep he's always wide awake.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Lance Wherry: prestidigitateur extraordinary - &lt;br&gt;<br /> For he's a fiend in email form and quite illusionary.&lt;br&gt;<br /> You may see him in the street, you may see him in the square&lt;br&gt;<br /> But when his email reaches us, Lance Wherry is not there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> He's outwardly respectable (Yet has he rung a peal?);&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compositions in the Ringing World? - or yet Campanophile?&lt;br&gt;<br /> And when the Admin's out at work and protocol is breached&lt;br&gt;<br /> And innocent subscribers to this list are then impeached&lt;br&gt;<br /> With having worn the mantle of this chimeral debonair - &lt;br&gt;<br /> Ay - that's the wonder of the thing - Lance Wherry is not there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> And when the Foreign Office find that passports have been forged&lt;br&gt;<br /> And Customs man the barricades for flights from Ecuador - &lt;br&gt;<br /> The scourge has &quot;gone to Mexico&quot; - or Kabul (What's he doing there?&quot;)&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's useless asking questions for Lance Wherry is no longer there.&lt;br&gt;<br /> And when the &quot;coup&quot; has been deposed the Secret Service say:&lt;br&gt;<br /> It must have been Lance Wherry - but he's half a world away!&lt;br&gt;<br /> You'll be sure to find him resting when the mischief has been done&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a pint of Young's, a curry and a large Peshwari naan.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> Lance Wherry. Yes! Lance Wherry has hoodwinked our fraternity.&lt;br&gt;<br /> There never was a ringer of such virtual versatility.&lt;br&gt;<br /> He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare.&lt;br&gt;<br /> At whatever time the deed took place, Lance Wherry wasn't there!&lt;br&gt;<br /> And they say that all the chaps whose wicked deeds are widely known&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Such as Tibbetts ringing methods with appallingly long names)&lt;br&gt;<br /> Are nothing more than agents of the Admin who, the while,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Just controls their operations - the Napoleon of guile!&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Ringing Poems]]</div>

TerryStreeter https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Holly_Week&diff=349 2008-12-07T19:50:32Z

<p>TerryStreeter: </p> <hr /> <div>Holly week is defined to be the week leading up to Christmas Day.<br /> <br /> In this week it is traditional to cram in as much ringing as possible - fully-unmuffled ringing is preferred, although some religious types have decreed that half-muffled ringing is more suitable as &quot;we are mourning the fact that an event that has already happened has not occured yet...&quot; &lt;ref&gt;See [[Ringing in Lent]] for further examples of this logic.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Special methods such as Holly Surprise Maximus should be rung to peals. If you are unable to achieve these methods then a close substitute is having a member of the band called Holly.<br /> <br /> Holly can be wrapped around the sally for an authentic holly week experience. Legend has it that this was the way original ringers were punished for muffling/unmuffling the bells during this most sacred of weeks.<br /> ==Notes==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;<br /> [[Category:Ringing Fun]]</div>

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