That time of the year again!

[clanwilliam]

Here we go again - the King William's College quiz. As per usual, it's quite okay to look up answers, so long as you have an idea of where to find them - straightforward Googling is cheating. Thus "ooh, I know, it's in The Big Six" and subsequently looking up the character's name is fine, typing a phrase into Google is not

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[aligoestonz]

5.3 The Ugly Duckling
7.1 Esperanto
17.10 will get back to you on this on later this evening :-)

[legionseagle]

1. 7) is Henry Campbell-Bannerman, I think.

[aquila1nz]

18) 1 is Edmund Hillary
2) 3 is Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
2) 6 is Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
2) 10 Lewis Carroll, through the Looking Glass
7)4 Finnish

[legionseagle]

8. 2) is probably cockle shells (silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row)
8, 3) is shrimps
8. 10) is the lobster

18. 1) is Sir Edmund Hillary

[aquila1nz]

If 8 is sea creatures, then 8. 9) might be anenomes

[legionseagle]

Are you sure about 13? because I think the common thread is US presidents and the answer to 13. 7 is Monroe (Monrovia, capital of Liberia) and 6. might well be Coolidge. And one of the US Presidents certainly remained a bachelor, because Dolly Madison was First Lady to two presidents; the bachelor one and then to her own husband, who had been his vice-P

[clanwilliam]

I think you're right.

[akicif]

And 13.4 is "Old Kinderhook" - Martin van Buren