It's Christmas!
King William's College quiz time!
You know the rules - check previous posts for them.
1 In the year 1911:
1 what disaster befell the Asch House?
2 what was removed from the Salon Carré?
The Mona Lisa (legionseagle)
3 whose stencilled letters included A, B, C, D, O & L?
4 where were the twin clocks started at George's crowning moment?
The Liver Building, Liverpool
5 who wrote of a multitalented peer and the Warden's granddaughter?
Max Beerbohm (legionseagle)
6 who explained how the squaws caused pallor in the Jesuit preachers?
7 who shot to fame during a performance of The Tale of Tsar Saltan?
Dmitry Bogrov
8 who took pole position ahead of British opposition?
Amundsen
9 who silently portrayed Marguerite Gauthier?
Sarah Bernhardt
10 who agreed to receive £400 per annum?
The Prime Minister (Asquith)
2
1 who designed forty-four maps for a 120m long corridor?
2 in which map is a cross-legged Caesar Augustus wearing the triregnum?
3 whose original map of old Gwynned shows Neptune embracing a naked lady?
4 who first used continuous and broken lines to indicate fenced and unfenced roads?
5 whose map can be seen in different paintings by the Delft master in the Rijksmuseum and the Frick Collection?
Balthasar Florisz van Berckenrode
6 whose map of the British Isles was decorated with portraits of post-conquest monarchs up to and including James I and Anne of Denmark?
Joan Blaeu
7 who placed an ostrich and an elephant on the map which he presented to Selim I?
Piri Reis (gmh)
8 which OS competitors included a vignette of Appleby among their county maps?
Bartholomews
9 whose name was adopted for a cartographic museum in the Land de Waas?
10 who made a presentation of a giant atlas to the king on his restoration?
The Royal Society
3 (I think this is all Iberian peninsula, btw)
1 who found a cut above in coping with melancholy?
Philip V (legionseagle)
2 which of Bolingbroke's nephews was the celebrated patron of early exploration?
Henry the Navigator (clanwilliam)
3 who wrote about a harpsichordist and a pioneer aviator and won gold in Stockholm?
José Saramago
4 who, by virtue of his marriage, was required to expel all Jews who failed to convert to 'New Christians'?
Ferdinand of Aragon?
5 who allied his army with that of the deposed Sultan, but died in his attempt to conquer the Moorish infidels?
El Cid (gmh)
6 which theologian, although numerically misplaced, was an authority on both ophthalmology and gynaecology?
Averroes (gmh)
7 who had the captain of the Concepción decapitated, then drawn and quartered, for mutiny at Puerto San Julian?
Magellan (gmh)
8 whose support of Pedro in his tussle with his brother necessitated escape in a wine barrel?
9 who, as Queen Dowager of one country, became Regent in the country of her birth?
Catherine of Braganza
10 who disobeyed his Prime Minister and surrendered on 19 December?
4 Which tale or tales: (This seems to be colours)
1 is all about Hester's badge of shame?
The Scarlet Letter
2 investigates the murder of Robert Ablett?
The Red House Mystery, AA Milne
3 describes Lamb's problems in the Banda Orientál?
4 relates the heroic story of the survivor from Charybdis?
Roger Lancelyn Green
5 describes the criminal activities of Alex, Dim, Georgie and Pete?
A Clockwork Orange (gominokouhai)
6 describes a prize fight between the gamekeeper and the coxswain at the Dripping Pan?
7 considers the murder of an expat philanderer in East Africa?
White Mischief
8 tells of how Dick and the outlaw dress up as friars?
The Black Arrow (the0lady)
9 are set in the moorlands above Tweedsmuir?
Grey Weather
10 reveals the ghost of a don at All Saints'?
5 What: (elements)
1 brings light?
phosphorus (gmh)
2 is named for its inactivity?
argon (nanila)
3 has a malodorous tetroxide?
osmium (gmh)
4 has a particularly frustrating resistance to corrosion?
tantalum (hobnobs)
5 Skärgård settlement has shared its name with four examples?
Ytterby (vatine)
6 was named as the daughter of 4, but only shed its alternative name in 1949?
niobium/columbium (miss_corrine)
7 was alleged by some to be a pun on its discoverer's name?
gallium
8 sounds like some sort of hobgoblin?
cobalt (gmh)
9 was identified in Lochaber?
strontium (gmh)
10 quite simply stinks?
Sulphur (nanila)
Bromine
6 What: (fungi?)
1 is a deadly oxymoron?
Bittersweet Nightshade
2 has insecticide properties?
fly agaric
3 could be a cheap form of confectionery?
Jelly Baby fungus
4 grotesque body has achieved a girth of 64 inches?
Giant puffball
5 two names, applied to a firelighter suggest muscle relaxation and recall kitchen negligence?
Daldinia concentrica (King Alfred’s Cake, cramp balls, coal fungus)
6 better known as one of Rainier's features, is the most common source of what favourite hallucinogen?
Liberty cap, psilcybin (gmh)
7 sinister form of headgear probably accounted for a Holy Roman Emperor?
death cap
8 parasite is nominally associated with Iscariot?
Auricularia auricula-judae (Jew's Ear)
9 precious stone is deceitful?
Beozar (gmh)
10 is also a lamellibranch?
Oyster mushrooms
7 (I think this is middle stuff)
1 where is Maddison's Golden Boy?
2 what was named, literally, Salt-pans by the Romans?
Middlewich
3 where do a few surviving hedges keep alive our lost Elysium?
Middlesex (legionseagle)
4 as what did an American President describe the Libyan dictator?
mad dog of the middle east
5 where did close neighbours claim the invention of a device for observing at a distance?
Middleburg
6 where can a little-changed double row of trees still be seen 322 years after its capture on canvas?
Middleharnis
7 in which Study did Sir James, disappointingly, marry Celia instead of her sister?
A Study in Provincial Life (Middlemarch) (rosathome)
8 what on first sight was thought to be a classically educated crotalid?
9 whence did the Spitfires fly during The Battle of Britain?
Middle Wallop (gmh)
10 who dramatised a notorious cutter of purses?
Thomas Middleton
8 I'm guessing this is rabbits
1 who started off as Nijntje?
Miffy (caulkhead)
2 who played patty-cake with Acme?
Bugs Bunny Jessica Rabbit (gominokouhai)
3 who was the tyrannical leader of the Efrafans?
General Woundwort
4 as what did the Australian dog perceive the gentleman dancing on an ashpit?
a cat rabbit
5 which swamp-dweller sustained auricular damage prior to rescue from the Black Serpent?
raggylug, cottontail rabbit
6 whose marital violence led indirectly to the accidental drowning of his baby daughter Rebecca June?
Rabbit Angstrom (burkesworks)
7 what popular design was started by an Augustinian Canoness of the Lateran?
Royal Doulton bunnykins
8 who put on spectacles and was directed to begin at the beginning?
The White Rabbit (gominokouhai)
9 who brewed very good ale for gentlemen?
Cecily Parsley (uitlander)
10 what is essentially cheese on toast?
Welsh Rarebirt/Rabbit
9 What:
1 distinguishes armillata?
Red garters (red-gartered coot)
2 title was inaugurated before Agincourt?
the Order of the Garter
3 else did he end apart from PM, CH and OM?
an Earl and a Knight of the Garter (Clement Atlee)
4 action did his inamorata take prior to the duet?
Adjusted her garter (caulkhead)
5 did fat-guts command that Harry should use to hang himself?
Heir-apparent garters
6 function was required of Bertha's garter during the trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back?
Pressed into service to insulate a wire
7 sartorial feature earned comment from Lear's Fool?
cruel garters
8 was dangling from Buckingham's death bed?
9 does make some obstruction of the blood?
Cross-garters (the0lady)
10 might I have as a threat of punishment?
Guts for garters (the0lady)
10 Where: (Norfolk, thanks Sillymouse!)
1 does the train stop in silence?
2 did Hilda extract a badly mauled shrimp?
Husntanton
3 is an execution remembered annually in October?
4 did the town nominally suffer episcopal deprivation?
King's Lynn (sillymouse)
5 was a village store opened which would become the world's largest?
Wroxham (sillymouse)
6 did Sir John entrust his foundation to one of the Livery Companies?
Gresham's school, North Walsham (sillymouse)
7 is there a fully clothed life-sized wax effigy of Sarah?
Holy Trinity Church, Stow Bardolph
8 did the doctor use an old bream as a weathercock?
Horning(legionseagle)
9 did the bishopric exist for just nineteen years?
Thetford (sillymouse)
10 is there a statue to the corn deity?
Holkham Hall
11 This seems to be Catherines/Katherines
1 who took on three regencies?
Catherine de Medici (rosathome)
2 which consort outlived the King by 61 years?
Catherine Stenbock of Sweden
3 who steered behind the umbrella on Lake Maggiore?
4 who received details of the School of Pain from her invalid cousin?
Katy Carr
5 whose love for one was like the foliage in the woods, but for the other resembled the eternal rocks beneath?
Catherine Earnshaw (rionaleonhart)
6 whose love letter included the words "I wode you war wythe me now that you mouthe se wat pane I take yn wryteg to you"?
Catherine Howard
7 what request received the response "what, in the midst of the street?"?
Come on and kiss me, Kate (caulkhead)
8 whose canine collection included items about clouds and sky?
Kate Bush
9 whose dancing is likened to a jelly on a plate?
My sister Kate
10 who recently excluded obedience?
Kate Middleton (legionseagle)
12 Where: (Wales?)
1 is the aluminium Majestas?
2 has the gondola been suspended since 1906?
Newport transporter bridge
3 can the bells be heard ringing beneath the water?
The Drowned Hundreds (caulkhead)
4 where could thirty candles be lit across a flat stone?
5 was there a fatal derailment on the first day of service?
Snowdon mountain railway
6 was the iron-work protected from corrosion with linseed oil and not, as Alice was told, with wine?
The Menai Bridge (caulkhead)
7 did the polyglot Victorian traveller try out his Arabic?
8 did Babs lie buried in the dunes for forty-two years?
Pendine Sands
9 did Baldwin meet Rhys for the second time?
10 did the French surrender at the Royal Oak?
Fishguard
13 Which patriot of which country:
1 was eulogized by Harry?
William Wallace, Scotland
2 died at the hand of one who had started life as Ramachandra?
Gandhi, India
3 was declared innocent following a retrial 25 years after execution?
4 wrote about the execution of Gerhard and was murdered by the Gestapo?
5 anticipated Latimer and Ridley by 140 years and uttered in Latin "Holy Simplicity"?
Jan Hus, Bohemia/Czech Republic (sillymouse)
6 founded a journal in London, which would have been translated as Thought and Action?
7 the son of a general and senator, shot the Governor General and then himself?
Eugen Schauman, Finland
8 was hanged publicly 28 months after the start of the January Uprising?
Stanisław Brzóska of Poland
9 was defrocked and later executed following betrayal by Elizondo?
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla of Mexico
10 was reburied 31 years after his secret execution?
Imre Nagy, Hungary
14 Unmask: (These may all be Buchan books as well - yes it is!)
1 Rosa
2 Aymer
3 Reinmar
4 Clarence Donne
Graf Otto von Schwabing, Mr Standfast
5 Alexander Thomson
6 Captain Theophilus Digby
Franklin P. Scudder, The 39 Steps
7 Andrew Watson
8 James Smith
9 Newsom
Prince John, House of the Four Winds
10 Tuke
Routh, The Power-House
15 (courts)
1 what were Uasini Maconoa?
The Morning Courts
2 what mixture is favoured by the poacher?
Court Bouillon
3 where did York and Suffolk have a bloody embrace?
Agincourt
4 what is the annual award for the best imaginary prose writer?
Prix Goncourt
5 what heavenly body became synonymous with the abuse of Royal power?
The Court of the Star Chamber
6 where did the little gentleman in black velvet cause a clavicular fracture?
Hampton Court
7 where were paired cast iron lighthouses erected on the beach?
8 whose name was used by Lugard for a new coal outlet?
9 from where is it only a mile over the hill to Esnes?
10 what, where is juglandaceous?
16 (a load of cock)
1 what is viscivorus?
Mistle thrush (stormcock)
2 who was the victim of Bowman Passer?
3 what name was given to 9903 and 2001?
Cock o’the North
4 what imposter combines engraulids with scrambled egg?
Scotch woodcock
5 what alludes to two losses and uncertainty about the way forward?
6 whose wife was likened by his friend to a white antelope from Snowdonia?
7 who directed the disappearance of a spinster in Mandrika?
Alfred Hitchcock
8 what operation cleared a Limburg geometrical feature?
9 who got 4 in 4, 5 in 6, 6 in 9 and 7 in 11?
Pat Pocock (burkesworks)
10 what characterises Jock Scott's cheeks?
Jungle cock feathers
17 Which character rhymed:
1 tussle and muscle?
2 knowledge, he and apology?
3 Chamberlain and moral stain?
4 kindred soul and sausage-roll?
5 everybody earns and income-tax returns?
6 wrote of Queen Anne and Sodor and Man?
7 Parliamentary hive and or Conservative?
8 been acuter and simple pewter?
9 lots o' news and hypoteneuse?
Major-General Stanley (rionaleonhart)
10 Horace and Morris?
18 During 2011:
1 who looked a million dollars?
2 which white mouse has left the Star and Garter?
Nancy Wake
3 where did Kid Cassidy get over a very nasty shock?
4 which obdurate crustacean has very sadly had to call "Over"?
Trevor “Barnacle” Bailey
5 which sometime successor to Isaac Barrow found his position untenable?
Graham Knowles
6 where was it admitted that with the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently, or not at all?
Ireland
7 why will Col. Reynolds and Lord Meldrum never be the same?
8 whose killing thrust heralded a monumental redundancy?
9 who crawled charitably through Bablock Hythe?
10 which head was axed at the Tower?
I'll update the various answers later on - anything unattributed is me, as per usual.
ETA: Also, if you're doing multiple responses, would you mind replying to your own previous response? Makes it easier for me!
Discussions are, of course, open to all.
Also, any attributions go to the person with the earliest time stamp giving the answer in either set of comments.
ETA2: Also, I'm going to have to stop with the attributions. There's just too many emails coming in for me to be able to check!
You know the rules - check previous posts for them.
1 In the year 1911:
1 what disaster befell the Asch House?
2 what was removed from the Salon Carré?
The Mona Lisa (legionseagle)
3 whose stencilled letters included A, B, C, D, O & L?
4 where were the twin clocks started at George's crowning moment?
The Liver Building, Liverpool
5 who wrote of a multitalented peer and the Warden's granddaughter?
Max Beerbohm (legionseagle)
6 who explained how the squaws caused pallor in the Jesuit preachers?
7 who shot to fame during a performance of The Tale of Tsar Saltan?
Dmitry Bogrov
8 who took pole position ahead of British opposition?
Amundsen
9 who silently portrayed Marguerite Gauthier?
Sarah Bernhardt
10 who agreed to receive £400 per annum?
The Prime Minister (Asquith)
2
1 who designed forty-four maps for a 120m long corridor?
2 in which map is a cross-legged Caesar Augustus wearing the triregnum?
3 whose original map of old Gwynned shows Neptune embracing a naked lady?
4 who first used continuous and broken lines to indicate fenced and unfenced roads?
5 whose map can be seen in different paintings by the Delft master in the Rijksmuseum and the Frick Collection?
Balthasar Florisz van Berckenrode
6 whose map of the British Isles was decorated with portraits of post-conquest monarchs up to and including James I and Anne of Denmark?
Joan Blaeu
7 who placed an ostrich and an elephant on the map which he presented to Selim I?
Piri Reis (gmh)
8 which OS competitors included a vignette of Appleby among their county maps?
Bartholomews
9 whose name was adopted for a cartographic museum in the Land de Waas?
10 who made a presentation of a giant atlas to the king on his restoration?
The Royal Society
3 (I think this is all Iberian peninsula, btw)
1 who found a cut above in coping with melancholy?
Philip V (legionseagle)
2 which of Bolingbroke's nephews was the celebrated patron of early exploration?
Henry the Navigator (clanwilliam)
3 who wrote about a harpsichordist and a pioneer aviator and won gold in Stockholm?
José Saramago
4 who, by virtue of his marriage, was required to expel all Jews who failed to convert to 'New Christians'?
Ferdinand of Aragon?
5 who allied his army with that of the deposed Sultan, but died in his attempt to conquer the Moorish infidels?
El Cid (gmh)
6 which theologian, although numerically misplaced, was an authority on both ophthalmology and gynaecology?
Averroes (gmh)
7 who had the captain of the Concepción decapitated, then drawn and quartered, for mutiny at Puerto San Julian?
Magellan (gmh)
8 whose support of Pedro in his tussle with his brother necessitated escape in a wine barrel?
9 who, as Queen Dowager of one country, became Regent in the country of her birth?
Catherine of Braganza
10 who disobeyed his Prime Minister and surrendered on 19 December?
4 Which tale or tales: (This seems to be colours)
1 is all about Hester's badge of shame?
The Scarlet Letter
2 investigates the murder of Robert Ablett?
The Red House Mystery, AA Milne
3 describes Lamb's problems in the Banda Orientál?
4 relates the heroic story of the survivor from Charybdis?
Roger Lancelyn Green
5 describes the criminal activities of Alex, Dim, Georgie and Pete?
A Clockwork Orange (gominokouhai)
6 describes a prize fight between the gamekeeper and the coxswain at the Dripping Pan?
7 considers the murder of an expat philanderer in East Africa?
White Mischief
8 tells of how Dick and the outlaw dress up as friars?
The Black Arrow (the0lady)
9 are set in the moorlands above Tweedsmuir?
Grey Weather
10 reveals the ghost of a don at All Saints'?
5 What: (elements)
1 brings light?
phosphorus (gmh)
2 is named for its inactivity?
argon (nanila)
3 has a malodorous tetroxide?
osmium (gmh)
4 has a particularly frustrating resistance to corrosion?
tantalum (hobnobs)
5 Skärgård settlement has shared its name with four examples?
Ytterby (vatine)
6 was named as the daughter of 4, but only shed its alternative name in 1949?
niobium/columbium (miss_corrine)
7 was alleged by some to be a pun on its discoverer's name?
gallium
8 sounds like some sort of hobgoblin?
cobalt (gmh)
9 was identified in Lochaber?
strontium (gmh)
10 quite simply stinks?
Sulphur (nanila)
Bromine
6 What: (fungi?)
1 is a deadly oxymoron?
Bittersweet Nightshade
2 has insecticide properties?
fly agaric
3 could be a cheap form of confectionery?
Jelly Baby fungus
4 grotesque body has achieved a girth of 64 inches?
Giant puffball
5 two names, applied to a firelighter suggest muscle relaxation and recall kitchen negligence?
Daldinia concentrica (King Alfred’s Cake, cramp balls, coal fungus)
6 better known as one of Rainier's features, is the most common source of what favourite hallucinogen?
Liberty cap, psilcybin (gmh)
7 sinister form of headgear probably accounted for a Holy Roman Emperor?
death cap
8 parasite is nominally associated with Iscariot?
Auricularia auricula-judae (Jew's Ear)
9 precious stone is deceitful?
Beozar (gmh)
10 is also a lamellibranch?
Oyster mushrooms
7 (I think this is middle stuff)
1 where is Maddison's Golden Boy?
2 what was named, literally, Salt-pans by the Romans?
Middlewich
3 where do a few surviving hedges keep alive our lost Elysium?
Middlesex (legionseagle)
4 as what did an American President describe the Libyan dictator?
mad dog of the middle east
5 where did close neighbours claim the invention of a device for observing at a distance?
Middleburg
6 where can a little-changed double row of trees still be seen 322 years after its capture on canvas?
Middleharnis
7 in which Study did Sir James, disappointingly, marry Celia instead of her sister?
A Study in Provincial Life (Middlemarch) (rosathome)
8 what on first sight was thought to be a classically educated crotalid?
9 whence did the Spitfires fly during The Battle of Britain?
Middle Wallop (gmh)
10 who dramatised a notorious cutter of purses?
Thomas Middleton
8 I'm guessing this is rabbits
1 who started off as Nijntje?
Miffy (caulkhead)
2 who played patty-cake with Acme?
Bugs Bunny Jessica Rabbit (gominokouhai)
3 who was the tyrannical leader of the Efrafans?
General Woundwort
4 as what did the Australian dog perceive the gentleman dancing on an ashpit?
a cat rabbit
5 which swamp-dweller sustained auricular damage prior to rescue from the Black Serpent?
raggylug, cottontail rabbit
6 whose marital violence led indirectly to the accidental drowning of his baby daughter Rebecca June?
Rabbit Angstrom (burkesworks)
7 what popular design was started by an Augustinian Canoness of the Lateran?
Royal Doulton bunnykins
8 who put on spectacles and was directed to begin at the beginning?
The White Rabbit (gominokouhai)
9 who brewed very good ale for gentlemen?
Cecily Parsley (uitlander)
10 what is essentially cheese on toast?
Welsh Rarebirt/Rabbit
9 What:
1 distinguishes armillata?
Red garters (red-gartered coot)
2 title was inaugurated before Agincourt?
the Order of the Garter
3 else did he end apart from PM, CH and OM?
an Earl and a Knight of the Garter (Clement Atlee)
4 action did his inamorata take prior to the duet?
Adjusted her garter (caulkhead)
5 did fat-guts command that Harry should use to hang himself?
Heir-apparent garters
6 function was required of Bertha's garter during the trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back?
Pressed into service to insulate a wire
7 sartorial feature earned comment from Lear's Fool?
cruel garters
8 was dangling from Buckingham's death bed?
9 does make some obstruction of the blood?
Cross-garters (the0lady)
10 might I have as a threat of punishment?
Guts for garters (the0lady)
10 Where: (Norfolk, thanks Sillymouse!)
1 does the train stop in silence?
2 did Hilda extract a badly mauled shrimp?
Husntanton
3 is an execution remembered annually in October?
4 did the town nominally suffer episcopal deprivation?
King's Lynn (sillymouse)
5 was a village store opened which would become the world's largest?
Wroxham (sillymouse)
6 did Sir John entrust his foundation to one of the Livery Companies?
Gresham's school, North Walsham (sillymouse)
7 is there a fully clothed life-sized wax effigy of Sarah?
Holy Trinity Church, Stow Bardolph
8 did the doctor use an old bream as a weathercock?
Horning(legionseagle)
9 did the bishopric exist for just nineteen years?
Thetford (sillymouse)
10 is there a statue to the corn deity?
Holkham Hall
11 This seems to be Catherines/Katherines
1 who took on three regencies?
Catherine de Medici (rosathome)
2 which consort outlived the King by 61 years?
Catherine Stenbock of Sweden
3 who steered behind the umbrella on Lake Maggiore?
4 who received details of the School of Pain from her invalid cousin?
Katy Carr
5 whose love for one was like the foliage in the woods, but for the other resembled the eternal rocks beneath?
Catherine Earnshaw (rionaleonhart)
6 whose love letter included the words "I wode you war wythe me now that you mouthe se wat pane I take yn wryteg to you"?
Catherine Howard
7 what request received the response "what, in the midst of the street?"?
Come on and kiss me, Kate (caulkhead)
8 whose canine collection included items about clouds and sky?
Kate Bush
9 whose dancing is likened to a jelly on a plate?
My sister Kate
10 who recently excluded obedience?
Kate Middleton (legionseagle)
12 Where: (Wales?)
1 is the aluminium Majestas?
2 has the gondola been suspended since 1906?
Newport transporter bridge
3 can the bells be heard ringing beneath the water?
The Drowned Hundreds (caulkhead)
4 where could thirty candles be lit across a flat stone?
5 was there a fatal derailment on the first day of service?
Snowdon mountain railway
6 was the iron-work protected from corrosion with linseed oil and not, as Alice was told, with wine?
The Menai Bridge (caulkhead)
7 did the polyglot Victorian traveller try out his Arabic?
8 did Babs lie buried in the dunes for forty-two years?
Pendine Sands
9 did Baldwin meet Rhys for the second time?
10 did the French surrender at the Royal Oak?
Fishguard
13 Which patriot of which country:
1 was eulogized by Harry?
William Wallace, Scotland
2 died at the hand of one who had started life as Ramachandra?
Gandhi, India
3 was declared innocent following a retrial 25 years after execution?
4 wrote about the execution of Gerhard and was murdered by the Gestapo?
5 anticipated Latimer and Ridley by 140 years and uttered in Latin "Holy Simplicity"?
Jan Hus, Bohemia/Czech Republic (sillymouse)
6 founded a journal in London, which would have been translated as Thought and Action?
7 the son of a general and senator, shot the Governor General and then himself?
Eugen Schauman, Finland
8 was hanged publicly 28 months after the start of the January Uprising?
Stanisław Brzóska of Poland
9 was defrocked and later executed following betrayal by Elizondo?
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla of Mexico
10 was reburied 31 years after his secret execution?
Imre Nagy, Hungary
14 Unmask: (These may all be Buchan books as well - yes it is!)
1 Rosa
2 Aymer
3 Reinmar
4 Clarence Donne
Graf Otto von Schwabing, Mr Standfast
5 Alexander Thomson
6 Captain Theophilus Digby
Franklin P. Scudder, The 39 Steps
7 Andrew Watson
8 James Smith
9 Newsom
Prince John, House of the Four Winds
10 Tuke
Routh, The Power-House
15 (courts)
1 what were Uasini Maconoa?
The Morning Courts
2 what mixture is favoured by the poacher?
Court Bouillon
3 where did York and Suffolk have a bloody embrace?
Agincourt
4 what is the annual award for the best imaginary prose writer?
Prix Goncourt
5 what heavenly body became synonymous with the abuse of Royal power?
The Court of the Star Chamber
6 where did the little gentleman in black velvet cause a clavicular fracture?
Hampton Court
7 where were paired cast iron lighthouses erected on the beach?
8 whose name was used by Lugard for a new coal outlet?
9 from where is it only a mile over the hill to Esnes?
10 what, where is juglandaceous?
16 (a load of cock)
1 what is viscivorus?
Mistle thrush (stormcock)
2 who was the victim of Bowman Passer?
3 what name was given to 9903 and 2001?
Cock o’the North
4 what imposter combines engraulids with scrambled egg?
Scotch woodcock
5 what alludes to two losses and uncertainty about the way forward?
6 whose wife was likened by his friend to a white antelope from Snowdonia?
7 who directed the disappearance of a spinster in Mandrika?
Alfred Hitchcock
8 what operation cleared a Limburg geometrical feature?
9 who got 4 in 4, 5 in 6, 6 in 9 and 7 in 11?
Pat Pocock (burkesworks)
10 what characterises Jock Scott's cheeks?
Jungle cock feathers
17 Which character rhymed:
1 tussle and muscle?
2 knowledge, he and apology?
3 Chamberlain and moral stain?
4 kindred soul and sausage-roll?
5 everybody earns and income-tax returns?
6 wrote of Queen Anne and Sodor and Man?
7 Parliamentary hive and or Conservative?
8 been acuter and simple pewter?
9 lots o' news and hypoteneuse?
Major-General Stanley (rionaleonhart)
10 Horace and Morris?
18 During 2011:
1 who looked a million dollars?
2 which white mouse has left the Star and Garter?
Nancy Wake
3 where did Kid Cassidy get over a very nasty shock?
4 which obdurate crustacean has very sadly had to call "Over"?
Trevor “Barnacle” Bailey
5 which sometime successor to Isaac Barrow found his position untenable?
Graham Knowles
6 where was it admitted that with the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently, or not at all?
Ireland
7 why will Col. Reynolds and Lord Meldrum never be the same?
8 whose killing thrust heralded a monumental redundancy?
9 who crawled charitably through Bablock Hythe?
10 which head was axed at the Tower?
I'll update the various answers later on - anything unattributed is me, as per usual.
ETA: Also, if you're doing multiple responses, would you mind replying to your own previous response? Makes it easier for me!
Discussions are, of course, open to all.
Also, any attributions go to the person with the earliest time stamp giving the answer in either set of comments.
ETA2: Also, I'm going to have to stop with the attributions. There's just too many emails coming in for me to be able to check!