King William's College quiz 2016
Usual rules, please put your answers in the appropriate thread, which I'll be setting up now.
1 In the year 1916:
1 who won 277-254?
2 which aristocrat fell prey to an eagle?
3 who released a story involving the mysterious ‘v. I’?
John Buchan (white_hart)
4 whose 4th was completed but could not be extinguished?
5 who experienced what would later be listed as his funniest moment?
6 what well-remembered observation followed explosions on Indefatigable and Queen Mary?
"There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today" - Admiral Beattie (machiavelli-jr)
7 whose prosecution was aided by an adjustment of punctuation?
Sir Roger Casement (legionseagle)
8 where, uniquely, was an elephant hanged for murder?
9 how was Vermouth the toast of Sussex?
10 how did Ali Baba resurface?
2
1 what started off as a fluke?
2 where did the names of four Frisian Islands reappear?
3 between which ports did the ‘Devil Boat’ carry cattle?
4 which fictional island witnessed a wartime Transit of Venus?
5 on which island did the fruit-drop-addicted evangelist sprout wings and horns?
Sark (mrslant)
6 which Lieut. Governor, misled by disinformation, was courtmartialled for surrendering?
7 which ‘tailor-made’ Victorian siblings were decorated ‘FOR VALOUR’?
Generals Sir Charles and Sir Hugh Gough (desperance)
8 where does midnight mask the reared heads of seven rocks?
9 where did Superb founder on a sight-seeing diversion?
10 who is nominally represented in NC and NJ?
3 (Kipling, thanks machiavelli-jr)
1 who was ‘alted by ‘is coffin?
Danny Deever (machiavelli-jr)
2 what does She know, with unfailing instincts?
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male (machiavelli-jr)
3 in what does ‘everywhere’ appear to mean everything?
4 what struggled with a cargo of rails from Sunderland to Bilbao?
The Bolivar (machiavelli-jr)
5 which two Amazonian creatures’ capacity to curl and swim are compared?
The hedgehog and the tortoise (machiavelli-jr)
6 what forces me to lie all day, disturbed by noisy traffic, in a narrow garden?
7 which sometime Simla resident was flattered by a depraved journalist?
Delilah Aberystwth (machiavelli-jr)
8 what warn maritime traffic of Weser, Forth and Humber?
9 who is the image of an organ-grinder’s monkey?
10 who preached to a donkey and a bullock?
Eddi (machiavelli-jr)
4 (Soup)
1 what, confusingly, is not sincomorphic?
2 what was served at all meals at the Try Pots?
3 what soup was liked by the offal-loving Bloom?
Thick giblet soup
4 what was stored in flat wooden cases of thirty-six slabs apiece?
Portable soup (caulkhead)
5 what did the hairy twin receive in exchange for his inheritance?
Red pottage (sillymouse)
6 what was Master Linklater cooking when Moniplies demanded to see him?
7 what did Phemie offer Jaikie if he came indoors about midday?
A plate o'broth (sillymouse)
8 what salivary delicacy is popular in the Far East?
Birds nest soup (caulkhead)
9 who sang of Beautiful Soup, so rich and green?
The Mock Turtle (sillymouse)
10 what did the Bucket family have for supper?
Cabbage soup
5 In which encounter(s): (I think this is football)
1 were Bluebirds cut down by Blades?
Cardiff City v Sheffield United (machiavelli-jr)
2 did which milliners get lost in the Forest?
3 did hooting get the better of Mavis’s song?
Sheffield Wednesday v West Bromwich Albion
4 did canines emulate Godwinson at the second attempt?
5 did discoloured felines fix the game birds, by then out of season?
6 did military ordnance surprisingly prove no match for farm machinery?
Arsenal v Ipswich Town (machiavelli-jr)
7 was the flock well and truly shaken in palatial surroundings?
Crystal Palace v Norwich
8 were vulpes vanquished by their larger relatives?
Leicester v Wolverhampton Wanderers (machiavelli-jr)
9 did magpies make an unlikely citrous meal?
10 was the web twice successfully escaped?
6 (Roses, caulkhead)
1 for whom am I lonely tonight?
2 what preacher is a twitcher’s ‘tick’?
Rosy starling
3 who played Ludwig and later Manfred?
4 what was Barberini’s gift to Charles’s consort at Amiens?
5 where do the challenged start at Scott’s and finish at Abbotsford?
Melrose
6 by whom was Laurie seduced under a haywagon after drinking alcohol?
Rosie (caulkhead)
7 with what deathbed word did Welles’s greatest production begin?
Rosebud (caulkhead)
8 what foundered when confronted by d’Annebault’s fleet?
The Mary Rose
9 what label depicts a Vila Real palace?
10 what is the exanthem of HHV-6B?
7 (Venice, caulkhead)
1 in what building did 007 find time to fix Chang?
Venini
2 where did Richard and Renata drink Montgomerys?
3 for which orphanage did il Prete Rosso write much of his music?
Ospedale della Pieta (caulkhead)
4 from what striking eminence would Maleficio signal an execution?
5 which edifice was decorated with a great biblical cycle over 24 years by the Little Dyer?
6 what was compared unfavourably with Westminster and Blackfriars by the classical tourist?
Rialto Bridge?
7 into what did Cross leap from his hotel balcony during his honeymoon?
8 what has, appropriately, risen from the ashes on three occasions?
La Fenice (caulkhead)
9 where is the hiding place of Leonardo’s encircled quadruped?
Gallerie dell'Accademia
10 what was Francesconi’s ‘triumphant’ foundation?
8 Locate Ellan Vannin: (places with Man in the name)
1 in Kola (no ice!)
Murmansk
2 where the early pumpkins blow.
The coast of Coromandel (antisoppist)
3 among the spättburgunder vineyards.
Mannheim (thisleingrey)
4 under the crest of the red-handed badgers.
Fermanagh?
5 in a university city, home to a ‘Royal’ seminary for Scottish seculars.
Salamanca
6 within a region whose littoral achieved historical significance on the feast day of St Norbert.
Normandy
7 at the crossroads between Devana and Ermine.
Godmanchester
8 in the home of a carnivorous marsupial.
Tasmania
9 within the landform beneath Uhuru.
Kilimanjaro
10 in the land of the Dayak.
Kalimantan
9 (Shakespeare Edit: Shakespearean kings, caulkhead)
1 who knew how to locate rubiginosa and moschata?
Oberon
2 which monarch witnessed the statue of his late consort coming to life?
Leontes
3 who regretted the trip to North Africa, believing his son to have perished?
Alonso, King of Naples (lilliburlero)
4 who resolved with fellow-scholars to diet and remain celibate for a triennium?
Ferdinand, King of Navarre (caulkhead)
5 whose murder was signalled by the screaming of an owl and the crying of crickets?
Duncan
6 whose ambassador urged the King of England to stand down in favour of his nephew?
7 who received conflicting pleas from Edward’s representative and from Margaret?
8 which vanquished monarch agreed to present his daughter to the victor?
King of France (Charles VI)
9 which monarch accidentally poisoned his wife instead of his nephew?
Claudius
10 who devised a riddle regarding his own incestuous relationship?
Antiochus
10 (Brazil)
1 whose martyrdom is remembered on 21st April?
Tiradentes (Joaquin Jose da Silva Xavier)
2 what great edifice bears Liverpudlian similarities?
3 which physician was a founder of Corinthian Democracy?
Socrates
4 where was Dacosta reprieved through solution of Ortega’s cryptogram?
Manaos
5 in which city did the leprous ‘little cripple’ create Isaiah and eleven others?
Congonhas
6 which once premier peak had to be relegated to No. 3 in the pecking order?
Pico de Bandeira
7 which leader ‘serenely’ hastened his departure from life ‘to enter history’?
Getulio Vargas
8 where did James I surrender to the British prior to a diplomatic resolution?
Trinidad (the one you've not heard of!)
9 with what does the vexillologist associate Spica?
Para (Brazilian flag)
10 what owes its name to a Savoyard chemist?
11 (PG Wodehouse?)
1 whose nom de plume was Rex West?
Percy Gorringe
2 which red-head was likened to Ahab’s wife?
Bobbie Wickham
3 who were sent down for squirting soda-water at the Senior Tutor?
Claude and Eustace Wooster
4 who was adjudged the winner of the Jubilee Stakes following a feline incursion?
5 to which courting gentleman was it proposed to give the alpine hat rather than burning it?
6 who got 14 days for searching fully-clothed for amphibians in the fountain beneath Nelson’s Column?
Gussie Fink-Nottle
7 whose repertoire was apparently confined to a single-digit rendering of The Rosary?
Freddie Meadowes
8 which marksman scored six consecutive direct hits on the game pie?
9 who was sent to bed for putting sherbet in the ink?
10 who masqueraded as George Wilson?
12
1 what provided exemption for eight in 1825?
Window tax
2 who appeared for a moment at a window as Pippa passed? -
3 what might have made a bishop vandalise a stained glass window?
A blonde (caulkhead)
4 what might have enabled Mackay to observe the activities of Fletcher in his cell?
5 where does the constant sound of flushing run from windows during airing of the toothbrush?
6 who wrote of the pleasure of batting baseballs through the windows of the Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza?
7 who looked out through a window and bewailed the delay in the chariots’ arrival?
8 who waited at the window, wearing the face that she kept in a jar by the door?
Eleanor Rigby
9 who regarded a window opening of more than six inches vulgar?
10 what did George earn when cleaning windows?
An honest bob (white_hart)
13
1 who combined with Terboven?
2 who developed a way to deal with Jarlsberg?
3 whose 32 holes can secure entry for hotel guests?
4 whose head-turning tool is favoured by some accoucheurs?
Kielland (sillymouse)
5 who succeeded with Gjøa, where Terror and Erberus had failed?
Roald Amundsen, North-West Passage (antisoppist)
6 who travelled from el Callao to French Polynesia with assistance from Humboldt?
Thor Heyerdahl (legionseagle)
7 who was in conflict with Neisser over his eponymous disease?
8 who, according to Snorri, fell to a thrust from the Hound?
King Olaf of Norway (sillymouse)
9 who was the first, and was succeeded by Dag?
Trygve Lie UN Secretary General (antisoppist)
10 who has been worth 100 crowns since 1997?
Kirsten Flagstad (antisoppist)
14 Which library, where:
1 is named after an algebraic logician?
2 owes its foundation to Tam O’Shanter?
3 is a Royal foundation now dedicated to Divinity?
4 was founded by the Cuban widow of a captain of industry?
John Rylands Library, Manchester (legionseagle)
5 was re-established by a returning diplomat from the United Provinces?
6 was designed by a Professor of Astronomy at the request of one of Mary’s 114 grandchildren?
Wren Library, Lincoln
7 was founded by the GOM but named after a 6th century Bishop?
8 was named after a Westmorland orphan and future Bishop?
9 has a close association with time-eating?
10 is named after a Blue Funnel partner?
15
1 of what does Fenton smell?
2 in what odour did the thieving Jim Crow die?
Sanctity (legionseagle)
3 what inaccurate name is applied to the ursine foot?
4 who are compared to fish in beginning to smell after three days?
Visitors/guests (white_hart)
5 what are similar to chemicals, in that closer analysis results in a worsening odour?
6 whose recently discovered Sense of Smell, now just leaves Taste unaccounted for?
Rembrandt (ossmenta)
7 what fragrance did the lovers inhale within Prince Eugen’s collection?
8 what smell fills the air in the absence of the Electrician?
9 what smells characterised Camberley at 9 o’clock?
Mushroomy, pine-woody, evergreen (white_hart)
10 what is ubiquitous, invisible and odourless?
16 (Jims?)
1 which young tricyclist, made lunch for Ponto ?
Jim
2 whose delivery on Merrie England was marred by intoxication?
Lucky Jim Dixon (antisoppist)
3 who worried his wife episodically for twenty-one years in Parkwood Hill ?
Jim Dale (white_hart)
4 described by a poet laureate, who reluctantly joined the night-riders of Devon ?
Jim Davis (desperance)
5 who, after losing two days and a boat, discharged himself from an East Anglian hospital ?
Jim Brading (caulkhead and white_hart)
6 whose well-meant ministerial flounderings were treated by his staff with both deference and duplicity?
Jim Hacker (caulkhead)
7 who dealt with Israel, Abraham and Benjamin, and had bad dreams of booming surf ?
Jim Hawkins (legionseagle)
8 who, in a maritime emergency, ungrammatically recommended cannibalism?
9 who had a hairy breast and was fixed up prime in Miss Watson’s will ?
Jim from Huckleberry Finn (legionseagle)
10 which PI kept his mobile home on Beach Road?
Jim Rockford
17
1 how is life if you just smile?
2 what was charmed with smiles and soap?
The Snark (white_hart)
3 what subterranean objects displayed a lipless grin?
4 if every fascist has a communist smile, what does every communist have?
5 who faced the firing squad with that faint fleeting smile, playing about his lips?
Walter Mitty (megpie71)
6 who compared the spontaneity of Molotov’s smile to that of a mechanical feline?
7 who received a smile from the blonde which he could feel in his hip pocket?
8 what two adjectives have been applied to the grin of Esox Lucius?
9 who, in futile pursuit, grinned like a rodent trap?
10 how often do squat citizens smile?
Seldom (legionseagle)
18 During 2016:
1 who, by his own admission, is no longer the future?
2 who has described perfection on both sides of the shell?
3 of whom is there not a lot left apart from illusionary memories?
Paul Daniels
4 what representation of the Hague littoral was recovered from a Neapolitan suburb?
View of the Sea at Scheveningen, Van Gogh
5 whose observations regarding spectators’ cleanliness and temper were counterproductive?
6 which unrepentant Chilean exile, perceived as a Witch, who had established a repressive Saxon lager, has departed?
7 whose shared award was the 14th for the unique binomial foundation?
8 who borrowed a title from Gerald, substituting dogs for animals?
Monty Don (sillymouse)
9 from what Bath container were seven weighty Sharks rescued?
10 how has Jove renewed his association with his consort?
Juno probe
This entry was originally posted at http://clanwilliam.dreamwidth.org/236198.html. Please comment there using OpenID.