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==1) During the year 1910:== | ==1) During the year 1910:== | ||
# who was the victim of al-Wardani? | # who was the victim of al-Wardani? | ||
+ | Boutros Boutros Ghali | ||
+ | |||
# who began with Helen's letters to her sister? | # who began with Helen's letters to her sister? | ||
# what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays? | # what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays? | ||
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# was Mad Jack's spouse? | # was Mad Jack's spouse? | ||
#* Lilly the mermaid - deH | #* Lilly the mermaid - deH | ||
+ | Rosamund Margaret Denny | ||
# was the stuff that Smith was made of? | # was the stuff that Smith was made of? | ||
# is an expression of surprise or indignation? | # is an expression of surprise or indignation? | ||
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# started in the Depot? | # started in the Depot? | ||
# favours Malvolian hosiery? | # favours Malvolian hosiery? | ||
+ | Christchurch | ||
+ | |||
# is approached by the Hundreds? | # is approached by the Hundreds? | ||
# sold the site to Merchant Taylors'? | # sold the site to Merchant Taylors'? | ||
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# was crowned in Dublin Cathedral? | # was crowned in Dublin Cathedral? | ||
# eponymous water bird has long been bedded down? | # eponymous water bird has long been bedded down? | ||
+ | #* Eider Duck - R A H | ||
# gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line? | # gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line? | ||
+ | #* Benjamin Gimbert and James William Nightall - R A H | ||
# died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on November 16, 1952? | # died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on November 16, 1952? | ||
# wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality? | # wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality? | ||
# carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances? | # carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances? | ||
+ | #* Maria Fitzherbert - R A H | ||
# put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook? | # put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook? | ||
# tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth? | # tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth? | ||
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# in SW3? | # in SW3? | ||
# a mongrel? | # a mongrel? | ||
+ | #* Shaggy - R A H | ||
# an ottoman? | # an ottoman? | ||
# a hurried exit? | # a hurried exit? | ||
# a plumbous abdomen? | # a plumbous abdomen? | ||
+ | #* Leadbelly - R A H | ||
# more specifically, Atropos? | # more specifically, Atropos? | ||
# emulsified by bile? | # emulsified by bile? | ||
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# what entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name? | # what entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name? | ||
# who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse? | # who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse? | ||
+ | #* Akbar mounted on the elepahant Hawa'i - R A H | ||
# whose son had served the Indian Government in every way for forty-seven years? | # whose son had served the Indian Government in every way for forty-seven years? | ||
# who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio? | # who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio? | ||
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#* Barton Swing Aqueduct (Bridgewater canal) - TJCS | #* Barton Swing Aqueduct (Bridgewater canal) - TJCS | ||
# might suggest marzipan? | # might suggest marzipan? | ||
+ | #* Almond Aqueduct (Union Canal) - R A H | ||
# is suspended from two open-web ribs? | # is suspended from two open-web ribs? | ||
+ | #* Stanley Ferry Aqueduct - R A H | ||
# is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly? | # is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly? | ||
#* Huddersfield Narrow Canal? - JSH | #* Huddersfield Narrow Canal? - JSH | ||
#* Standedge Tunnel? both by railway line Manchester to Huddersfield - JSH | #* Standedge Tunnel? both by railway line Manchester to Huddersfield - JSH | ||
+ | #* Marple Aqueduct - R A H | ||
# features at the V & A, without its taller and younger companion? | # features at the V & A, without its taller and younger companion? | ||
# although a few weeks younger than Holmes, proved greatly more durable? | # although a few weeks younger than Holmes, proved greatly more durable? | ||
# took its name from the Honourable Member for Berkshire? | # took its name from the Honourable Member for Berkshire? | ||
+ | #* Dundas Aqueduct - R A H | ||
# bears the inscription 'To Public Prosperity'? | # bears the inscription 'To Public Prosperity'? | ||
#* Lune Aqueduct (Lancaster canal) - TJCS | #* Lune Aqueduct (Lancaster canal) - TJCS | ||
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# "The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears."? | # "The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears."? | ||
# "He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her."? | # "He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her."? | ||
− | #* C S Forester "Flying Colours" R A H | + | #* C S Forester "Flying Colours" - R A H |
# "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."? | # "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."? | ||
# "And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel"? | # "And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel"? | ||
+ | #* John Masters "Bhowani Junction" - R A H | ||
# "Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep."? | # "Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep."? | ||
# " 'Steer north,' said he."? | # " 'Steer north,' said he."? | ||
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==18) During 2010:== | ==18) During 2010:== | ||
# where did Joy uncover Fletch? | # where did Joy uncover Fletch? | ||
+ | #* Aylesbury (Ronnie Barker's widow, Joy, unveiled a statue of Fletcher in September) - TJCS | ||
# which city honoured a 1945 hero with its Große Siegel? | # which city honoured a 1945 hero with its Große Siegel? | ||
# which Wizard Rose wilted towards the end of summer? | # which Wizard Rose wilted towards the end of summer? |
Latest revision as of 20:06, 4 January 2011
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.
1) During the year 1910:
- who was the victim of al-Wardani?
Boutros Boutros Ghali
- who began with Helen's letters to her sister?
- what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?
- which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?
- who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?
- whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?
- who, having ruled which principality for fifty years, declared himself King?
- whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?
- which two unaccountable freaks went out together?
- what was set alight on the Parisian stage?
2) Who or what:
- blew hot and cool?
- was Mad Jack's spouse?
- Lilly the mermaid - deH
Rosamund Margaret Denny
- was the stuff that Smith was made of?
- is an expression of surprise or indignation?
- Gordon Bennett (Balloon race, sadly two people died) - JSH
- did the Emperor reward with the Yellow Jacket?
- started as the 100th, but became the 92nd and was later joined by the 75th?
- is marked by the rarest dish in all the land?
- did a wartime treble on a solar vehicle?
- was Raymond's creation?
- merged with Osborne?
3) Going out, what (numerically), where suggests:
- a clutch of curlew's eggs?
- a beverage 'Faithful to the original'?
- an encounter on 13 September 1882?
- an annual event initiated by James Stanley?
- an earlier connection with the Morning Post?
And coming in: - is there a geographical misplacement from South Uist?
- sounds like a resident of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh?
- is an apparent refuge for the bald?
- follows Calamity?
- finishes on time?
4) ?:
- who demonstrated phonetic pronunciation?
- whose notes were worth one hundred crowns?
- who footed it in Italy, Spain, Japan and Holland?
- who sold Estonia and took a Baltic Island instead?
- who was first to cross the North-West Passage by dog-sled?
- who died during the wedding celebrations of Tove and Gythe?
- who was decorated for valour following the Amiens push?
- whose tale about a sixth daughter inspired Eriksen?
- who is especially associated with a supernova?
- who was cuckolded by the Royal physician?
- Christian VII of Denmark - CPU
5) Which independent school:
- started in the Depot?
- favours Malvolian hosiery?
Christchurch
- is approached by the Hundreds?
- sold the site to Merchant Taylors'?
- possesses a relic of an epic crossing of the Scotia Sea?
- had in its statutes a cryptic acknowledgement of the final chapter of St John's Gospel?
- owes its foundation to Salmonella typhi?
- has a boomer in the chapel tower?
- was pictured by a little canal?
- replaced a lofty hermitage?
6) ?:
- what was updated by H G Wells?
- what might be perceived as an apiary?
- which island is doubly recognised on 198?
- who left great designs in the Gulf and New South Wales?
- who, aided by wizardry, cuckolded his rival by impersonating him?
- Uther Pendragon (EBH)
- who, being the son of Suzanne, changed his name through the benevolence of her friend Miguel?
- what did hateful and rough weeds lose apart from beauty?
- what was the native city of a unique pontiff?
- what can be used instead of mahogany?
- who recruited Hare for Dad's Army?
7) (Irish counties)
- who began with 7-43?
- what excluded Hall in 1856?
- Clare (Cambridge) - deH
- what did Virginia adopt instead of Jones?
- who gained valuable experience from Gillespie?
- who knocked out Jackie to become undisputed flyweight champion?
- who looked into the disappearance of his West African GP's daughter?
- Wexford (Ruth Rendall detective) -deH
- what was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand?
- Tipperary - CPU
- which minstrel finished with Danny Boy?
- James Galway (probably) - CPU
- where is St James the highest of all?
- what is a funny five-liner?
- Limerick - CPU
8) ?:
- who benefitted from projectile vomiting?
- who likened the messenger to fullers' soap?
- who was a fruiterer specialising in Ficus sycomorus?
- who placed the caterpillar at the end of the food chain?
- whose wife, a lady of ill-repute, bore him two sons and a daughter?
- whose narratives both start during the second year of the monarch's reign?
- who dreamed of a bear-like beast with three ribs between its teeth?
- whose broken yoke was replaced by one made of iron?
- who alluded twice to Leo becoming a vegetarian?
- who found himself in an open-air ossuary?
9) Who or what:
- is Hazel's cousin?
- was crowned in Dublin Cathedral?
- eponymous water bird has long been bedded down?
- Eider Duck - R A H
- gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line?
- Benjamin Gimbert and James William Nightall - R A H
- died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on November 16, 1952?
- wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality?
- carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances?
- Maria Fitzherbert - R A H
- put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook?
- tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth?
- created William and Maudie?
10) Which musician might have been:
- in SW3?
- a mongrel?
- Shaggy - R A H
- an ottoman?
- a hurried exit?
- a plumbous abdomen?
- Leadbelly - R A H
- more specifically, Atropos?
- emulsified by bile?
- a fit of pique?
- coniferous?
- lignified?
- Woody Allen? - clarinetist (woodwind) - JSH
- Woody Herman? - clarinetist - JSH
11) ?:
- what was izzard?
- when did Neptune begin?
- what gave way to 18 in 83?
- what is a feature of aerial punctuation?
- which food substance can adversely affect the embryo?
- what convinced Benedict of the suitability of the Florentine master?
- Giotto's freehand perfect circle
- where did Jane lodge for 2 guineas a week?
- what, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC?
- W (Tungsten) - TJCS
- who is a sharp know-all?
- what is a zoonotic?
- H1N1? (swine 'flu') - JSH
12) ?:
- what is perhaps the equal of roly-poly?
- what epidemic was survived by Sarah and Emily?
- what is made from hog's lard, mutton suet and quicksilver?
- upon whom had the captain's steward poured boiling jam juice?
- which ancient bibulous Dane with pale red-rimmed eyes, was presented with a case of Priorato?
- where, more than once, was a dead orphan child brought back for dissection and kept in a cupboard?
- where did the small apothecary display the skeleton of an aardvark in his window?
- translate 'Les bouts-dehors des bonnettes du petit perroquet'.
- what was the ultimate fate of the Armenian polyglot?
- who found a Frenchman's ring finger in his bowl?
13) ?:
- who rescued John Galt?
- who was No. 1, of No. 1 Company of the XIVth Army?
- what entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name?
- who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse?
- Akbar mounted on the elepahant Hawa'i - R A H
- whose son had served the Indian Government in every way for forty-seven years?
- who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio?
- who, being the gift of a Mesopotamian ruler, was to perish on Lüneburger Heide?
- who was presented to a Habsburg Prince by the King of Portugal?
- who was presented to a Pope by the King of Portugal?
- who set off for their honeymoon in a yellow balloon?
14) Which elevated conduit:
- rotates for tall vessels?
- Barton Swing Aqueduct (Bridgewater canal) - TJCS
- might suggest marzipan?
- Almond Aqueduct (Union Canal) - R A H
- is suspended from two open-web ribs?
- Stanley Ferry Aqueduct - R A H
- is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly?
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal? - JSH
- Standedge Tunnel? both by railway line Manchester to Huddersfield - JSH
- Marple Aqueduct - R A H
- features at the V & A, without its taller and younger companion?
- although a few weeks younger than Holmes, proved greatly more durable?
- took its name from the Honourable Member for Berkshire?
- Dundas Aqueduct - R A H
- bears the inscription 'To Public Prosperity'?
- Lune Aqueduct (Lancaster canal) - TJCS
- provides an outlet for Trevor?
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (Llangollen canal) - TJCS
- straddles Watling Street?
- Stretton Aqueduct (Shropshire Union canal) - TJCS
15) Where:
- does one come off the rails?
- might there be a quarryman's shelter?
- does the hairpin recall Loch and his successors?
- must one look in vain for Noble's Peel and Derby?
- does a dwelling at barely 30m. seem seriously misplaced?
- might one be excused for wrongly supposing a link with Camilla's great grandmother?
- is there a possible source for the winner's garland?
- did a party from Grange Hill cause a disturbance?
- is there a suggestion of a subterranean spirit?
- is there a fraction over the glass?
16) Where:
- did Robinson settle for the elder sister?
- was the master tailor interrupted in his reading of The Divine Comedy?
- did apparent Benedictine hatred change, with assistance from friends, to love?
- Messina (Much Ado About Nothing) - CPU
- did the seemingly simple sister of the Hungarian Captain end up marrying his landlord?
- did the beloved offspring of opposing feuding families commit suicide following the Friar's ruse?
- Verona (Romeo and Juliet) - CPU
- did a Sicilian knight defeat the Duke in a duel and learn from the Saracen that his loved one was innocent?
- did the rejected hunchback reveal the identity of his wife's real lover to the troupe leader?
- did the dragoon gain the innkeeper's daughter in spite of a diabolical intrusion?
- did the accursed jester unexpectedly find that his daughter had been bagged?
- did the General's wife stab herself after being ravished by the Prince?
17) Which author concluded what with these words:
- "Assist."?
- "All the papers on the subject are there in my safe."?
- "As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on."?
- "At any moment, it seemed, there could be surprises, huge upsets, even the end of small lizard worlds."?
- "The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears."?
- "He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her."?
- C S Forester "Flying Colours" - R A H
- "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."?
- "And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel"?
- John Masters "Bhowani Junction" - R A H
- "Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep."?
- " 'Steer north,' said he."?
18) During 2010:
- where did Joy uncover Fletch?
- Aylesbury (Ronnie Barker's widow, Joy, unveiled a statue of Fletcher in September) - TJCS
- which city honoured a 1945 hero with its Große Siegel?
- which Wizard Rose wilted towards the end of summer?
- who finally achieved a victory by 417 days over Sinclair?
- who was finally ousted by a Scottish philosopher and economist on 30th June?
- which joint, showing a philatelic fracture, required a proper replacement before release?
- where did Schadow's figure receive a multicoloured multiplication?
- which leo-aquiline promoter missed out on afternoon tea?
- who found that three coppers did not fool two coppers?
- where did the tallest last the longest?
See Also
King William College Quiz 2008-9
King William College Quiz 2009-10