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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.

==1) During the year 1908:==
# who announced T?
#*Henry Ford - TJCS
# who finished at 59 with 15 and 25?
#*WG Grace - CMP
# what confectionery was inspired by Shaw?
#*Chocolate soldier - DL
# who gained her second first at an old east-coast fort?
#* Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (first female mayor, also first female with a medical qualification) - Hippo
# where did the Thomas Flyer arrive on the Asiatic mainland?
#*Vladivostok - RAH
# whose birthday present was cut into nine pieces for the family headdress and other equipment?
#* Edward VII (Cullinan diamond) - PPB
# whose resignation pre-empted his demise by just 16 days?
#* Henry Campbell-Bannerman - TN
# which tale launched a nouveau riche boy-racer?
#*Wind in the Willows - TJCS
# for whom was Lord Hugh best man?
#*Winston Churchill - TJCS
# what event elevated Manuel?
#*The assassination of his father and brother - CMP

==2) Who began what by: [Literary Openings] ==
# recalling unusual citrous abundance?
# describing his subject's physiognomy with a succession of v's?
# justifying the creation of a short palindromic nickname for "himself"?
#* Charles Dickens (Great Expectations) - deH
# describing the emergence at dawn of a moustached little man with bowlegs?
# recalling melancholy inspiration from early evening sights and sounds in a rural churchyard?
#*Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) - Ted
# suggesting that it was generally accepted that a well-heeled loner must be looking for a lady?
#*Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) - Ted
# describing a studio filled with the scents of roses, lilac and pink-flowered thorn?
# describing his hero facing execution and recalling the –discovery of ice?
# recalling a send-off from family and friends at Charing Cross?
# providing an alibi for the white kitten?
#*Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-glass) - JEC

==3)[Telegrams] ==
# Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?
#* Samuel Morse (First public telegraph message, 24/5/1844: "What hath God wrought") - TN
# Who wired who confirming worst fears and requesting gumboots?
#* The Consul in Solitas to the US Government (in "Cabbages and Kings" - he requested gunboats and they sent gumboots) - TN
# Whose telegram caused Dew to hasten westward on the Laurentic?
#*Captain Henry George Kendall (SS Montrose) - RAH
# Who, on sighting the enemy, urgently requested a firearm and 300 bullets?
# Whose expression of delight was accompanied by a request for a patent oil cooking stove?
# With what single word did the defeated Governor allegedly advise cancellation of the papal travel arrangements?
# Who described a suave, Bohemian, elderly, storekeeper in the Commercial Road?
# Which repetitious message prompted the query "Does that mean Yes?"
#* Better drowned than duffers if not duffers wont drown, Swallows and Amazons - DPG
# Who discovered a crumpled telegram reading "Suivez à Bokhare Saronov"?
# On what occasion was the royal wrath not expressed in code?

==4)[Scottish Islands] ==
# What is the Island of Sheep?
#* Soay (an island off the coast of either Skye or Hirta depending which Soay is meant) - RAS
# Where did the sea cave inspire Op 26?
#* Staffa (Hebrides - Fingal's Cave) - deH
# Where was Magnus Erlendsson executed?
#* Egilsay, Orkney - PPB
# What was David's gift to the Berkshire monks?
#* The monastery that he, King David had founded on the Isle of May, given to the abbey at Reading - Ted
# Where did an amputated digit earn its owner the right to build a monastery?
#* Lismore - TN
# Where did the great grandson of King John III make his first British landfall?
# Where is the unique mutton derived from a diet of Laminaria?
#* North Ronaldsay - Ted
# Where was quarantine enforced for 48 years?
#* Gruinard Island (Anthrax contamination) - deH
# To what was Meg's deafness compared?
#* Ailsa Craig (Robert Burns) - Hippo
# Where was Andie Dale the prefect?
#* The Bass Rock (Catriona) - deH

==5) Travelling from Nordic lands, try unravelling: [-ling] ==
# the eponymous traitor,
#*Quisling - CPU
# then Merrill's famed fisherman partner
# and a misplaced cygnet,
#*The Ugly Duckling - CPU
# contrasting with a little anser,
#*Gosling - CPU
# thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,
#*Terschelling - CPU
# while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,
#* Memling - PPB
# and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport
#*Angling - CPU
# and try to catch a little trout
#* Tickling - PPB
# or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative
#*Grayling - Ted
# before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality
#*Riesling - CPU

==6) Who: [Regnal number VI] ==
# was Foolish?
#* Charles VI of France - PPB
# was Rodrigo de Borja y Borja?
#* Pope Alexander VI - PPB
# invested Henry Sinclair as Earl of Orkney?
#*Haakon VI of Norway - CPU
# had a half-sister sired by his –father's physician?
# founded a Siamese school, which was later named in his honour?
#* Rama VI of Siam (Thailand)- DPG
# was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?
#* George VI  -  DPG
# was the offspring of parents sharing the same grandmother?
# was the 36th and last in a line started in 1299?
#* Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire - RAS
# was blinded by his mother Irene?
#* Constantine VI - PPB
# was tripartite?
#*Henry VI (Shakespeare plays) - CPU

==7)[Languages] ==
# Which language was developed by a Polish ophthalmologist?
#* Esperanto - RAS
# Which language of the Romance group has a definite article suffix?
# Of which European language is the origin unknown, even to the experts?
#* Basque - RAS
# Which geographically Scandinavian language is not linguistically Scandinavian?
#*Finnish - DL
# Which European language is the only survivor of its branch of the Indo-European group?
#* Greek - RAS
# Which Slavonic language is spoken in a country whose national language is not Slavonic?
#*Wendish - DL
# Which European language is spoken by about 1% of the population of Switzerland?
#* Romansh - RAS
# Which European language has a past tense form which looks like a future?
# Which Slavonic language has done away with the case forms of nouns?
#* Bulgarian - MBD
# Which European national language still retains the dual number?
#* Scots Gaelic - RAS
#* Greek - DL
#* Slovene - MBD
#* Manx - Ernie

==8) What: [Shellfish] ==
# is also a game using 28 marbles?
#* Abalone - Hippo
# formed part of a linear horti–cultural decoration?
#*Cockle shells (Mary, Mary, quite contrary) - CPU
# are typically preserved in seasoned butter in Lancashire?
#*Potted shrimps - Mo
# when released in America, suggested involvement with Christine Keeler?
# are geographically confusing names of what is neither one thing nor the other?
# pelecypod was perhaps familiar to the pupils (and their successors) of Rev Thomas Langhorne?
#*Mussels (he founded Loretto School in Musselburgh) - CPU
# did the man from the Borough regard as the invariable accompaniment of poverty?
#* Oysters (The Pickwick Papers) - Hippo
# legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?
#* Crabs (Under Milk Wood) - Hippo
# nominally, has blue representatives in another kingdom?
# when baked too brown, must sugar his hair?
#* The Lobster (Alice in Wonderland) - GZ

==9) Journeying on what, between which termini, might one's thoughts turn to:==
# sleepwalking?
# elliptical orbits?
#* Johannes Kepler, Prague Main to Wiesbaden (overnight train) - SJF
# the quintessential libertine?
#* Casanova, Ljubljana - Venice (train) - SJF
# a soldier without a passport?
# the founding father of the EU?
#* Jean Monnet, Bruxelles Midi - Basel (train) - SJF
# the royal prisoner of Sönderborg?
# Judith and three mute wives?
# clothed and naked versions?
# the mount of Bellerophon?
#* Flying Horse (Pegasus, from Earth to Mount Olympus) - GACJ
# melting clocks?
#* Train from Kunming to Dali?  - TN

==10) Which river:==
# received the defeated Aunus?
#* Tuulos - TN
# floats laden barges by banks of myosote?  
#* Thames DPG 
# was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?
#* Weser (Pied Piper of Hamelin) - TN
# was identified without doubt by the discovery of the initials AD
# saw Captain Schenk acquire an engineer to replace the deceased Walter?
#*The Danube (Greenmantle by J Buchan) - TJCS
# despite being in flood, could be crossed dry-shod following clerical plantar immersion?
#*The Jordan (Joshua 3) - CPU
# provided drinks for kine, and horses, and little humorous donkeys?
#* The Oise  - DPG
# along with Cairo was passed unnoticed by the raft in the fog?
#*Ohio (Mark Twain, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn") - SJF
# was a source of shelly snails and green lettuces?
#* The Amazon. (Kipling, "The Beginning of the Armadillos").
# witnessed a case of unwitting filicide?

==11) Who or what: [Stanleys]==
# had instinct?
# reds started as Villa?
#* Accrington Stanley - Hippo
# uniquely, got three in whose match?
#* Stan Mortensen, in Stanley Matthews' final - Hippo
# claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?
#* Stanley Kubrick? (Eyes wide shut) - TN
# was formerly William and succeeded Louis?
# in repetitive utterances, anticipated Glyn Daniel et al?
# described a small arm accident on 17/6/15?
# was executed at Bolton after Worcester?
#* Lord Derby. (After The Battle of Worcester. Ted
# was targeted by Nat and Dermot?
#* Stanley Weller. Pinter's "The Birthday Party" Ted
# was presumptuous?
#* Henry Morton Stanley (on finding Dr Livingstone) - Hippo

==12) Where: [Charles Dickens Pubs]==
# was the mistress leguminous?
#*The Blue Dragon Inn (Martin Chuzzlewit) - GACJ
# were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?
#*The Sol's Arms (Bleak House) - TJCS
# was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?
#*The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters (Our Mutual Friend) - GACJ
# did the circus manager point out that "People must be amuthed"?
#*Coketown (Hard Times) - TJCS
# did the curate speak for one hour and 25 minutes at an anti-slavery meeting?
#*  The Goat and Boots (Sketches by Boz) - DPG
# did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?
#* The Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers) - DPG
# did the landlord report that Phil was so drunk that a boy might take him?
#* The Three Cripples (oliver Twist) - DPG
# did the Yorkshire schoolmaster interview tutors and pupils?
#*The Saracens Head (Nicholas Nickleby) - GACJ
# did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?
#* Three Jolly Bargemen (Great Expectations) - DPG
# did the hangman bind the old man to his chair?

==13)[US presidents] ==
# Who remained a bachelor?
#* James Buchanan (1857-1861) - RAH
# Who had been ADC to Mad Anthony?
#* William Henry Harrison (who only lasted for 31 days as president in 1841) - RAH
# Who was described as a withered little apple-john?
#* James Madison DPG
# Whose nickname was perfect for a slogan of approval?
# Who enlisted as a private, but came out as a brevet major?
# Who maintained that silence ensured no need for repetition?
#* Calvin Coolidge - TN
# Who, in his youth, admitted to cutting down a cherry tree?
#*George Washington - TJCS
# Who compared his strength to that of a male cervid?
#* Theodore Roosevelt ("strong as a bull moose") - TN
# Who is remembered, nominally, in West Africa?
#* Monroe - PPB
# Which two died on the same day?
#* John Adams (second President), Thomas Jefferson (third President). July 4, 1826 - MSD

==14) Within the capital of which member state of the United Nations will you find:==
# calluna?
#* New Zealand (Wel*ling*ton) - GZ
# 3.14159?
#* A*pi*a (Samoa) - MBD
# that its alright?
#* Japan (T*ok*yo) - GZ
#* Thailand (Bangk*ok*) - Hippo
# a Windermere resident?
# a West Country watercourse?
#* Canada (Ot*taw*a) - GZ
# a pudding distinguished by –ladies' fingers?
#* US Virgin Is (*Charlotte* Amalie) - PPB - isn't a member state of the UN (Hippo)
#* Belgium (B*russe*ls) - Hippo
# a simian representative?
#* Hungary (Bud*ape*s)t - GZ
# a Tibetan monk?
#* Pakistan (Is*lama*bad) - GZ
# a semi-metal?
#* Botswana (Ga*boron*e) - PPB
#* Bahamas (N*as*sau - As is Arsenic)? Boron is not a semi-metal, should be Arsenic(As), Antimony(Sb), or Bismuth(Bi) - GACJ
# nothing?
#* Philippines (Ma*nil*a) - GACJ

==15) Who: [Birds]==
# was morally pure in EC2?
# shot Buffalo Bill at Belvedere, Ohio?
#*Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs) - GACJ
# went to the wrong church for her wedding?
#*Fanny Robin (Far from the Madding Crowd) - GACJ
# believed, erroneously, that –Byron murdered Ezra Chater?
#*Bernard Nightingale (Arcadia) - GACJ
# killed Lord Frederick in a duel, following his return from Belgium?
#*Sir Mulberry Hawk (Nicholas Nickleby) - GACJ
# possessed nothing but the –contents of his wallet, the clothes he stood up in, the hare-lip, the automatic he should have left behind?
#*Philip Raven (A Gun for Sale) - GACJ
# was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?
#* Shearwater - DPG
# wore white for her immolation on October 27?
# advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?
#* Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - GZ
# posed as Doctor Copernicus?

==16) Following my leader, who or what:[Flies, as in fishing] ==   
# is a Hampshire jewel?
# decorated Findlater's label?
#* A dry fly (fishing). Ted
# is meteorologically striking?
#* Thunder and lightning - TN
# houses Colum Cille's shrine?
# could be wild duck washed down with Ch. Latour?
#* Mallard and Claret - TN
# might refer to poor Sarah's biliary obstruction?
# is absolutely necessary to a ram?
# was Anastasia's great aunt?
# could have been a crusader?
#* Soldier Palmer - TN
# is a –musteline appendage?
#* Stoat's Tail  Ted

==17) In which town:==
# did prisoner 24601 steal the episcopal silver?
#*Digne (Les Miserables) - GACJ
# did Lady de Winter poison the novice at the convent?
#* Bethune (The Three Musketeers) - Hippo
# was the cathedral like a vast boudoir prepared for Emma?
#* Rouen (Madame Bovary) - Hippo
# did Jake, dining alone, drink a bottle of Ch. Margaux for company?
# did Duhamel ask that the crayfish should be very lightly boiled just seized?
# did la Baronne de la Chalonnière encounter Alexander Duggan at the Hôtel du Cerf?
#* Gap (Day of the Jackal) DPG
# did Holmes spend some months in a research into coal-tar derivatives?
#*Montpelier - EBH
# were plum-coloured shoes removed to expose red stockings?
# did Harry urge his uncle to enter and fortify the town?
# did Hannay receive hellish news from Laidlaw?

==18) During 2008:==
# which gartered kiwi was laid to rest?
#*Sir Edmund Hillary - AMK / Clarrie
# which fine food has gained PGS in Leicestershire?
#*Melton Mowbray Pork Pie - TJCS
#*Stilton - DL
# who, following 2nd at 2K with 3 others, got 1st at 3K alone?
#* Rebecca Romero (silver 2004 rowing quad sculls, gold 2008 cycling)- Hippo
# which sometime bulbous plant would seem to be involved with "arthrology"?
#*Garlic - EBH
# who made successive day trips to Abergele, Fountains Abbey and Mugdock?
#*Ian Botham - CMP
# where has the pancake bell ceased to signal the start of a race owing to health and safety issues?
#*Olney - AMK
#*Ripon - MSD
# where did a giant arachnid briefly invade an apparently –coleopteran habitat?
#*Liverpool - CPU
# what legendary diamond fell to the successors of the fictitious Misson?
# who got six months for dis–honesty at White Plains?  
#* Marion Jones
# whose jobcentre manager fetched £17.2m?
#*Lucian Freud - GACJ