King William's College Annual Quiz

King William's College Annual Quiz - 2006

This page is run by members of The Gunroom of HMSSurprise.org, a mailing list devoted to Patrick O'Brian (and everything else). Other years' questions and answers are to be found here.
A public (private) school in the Isle of Man, named after King William IV (POB connections galore, Stephen's patient, Hanson's father, naval officer etc. etc.) sets an annual quiz requiring a great deal of esoteric knowledge (POB content). Although it doesn't cover the works of POB, as far as I can tell from a quick review, it does emphatically cover the other topic of "everything else".
Here it is again. Since she was such a keen participant in the past two years, this year we are dedicating the Gunroom's presentation to Mary Stolzi:
"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est"
— Adam Quinan
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A.	In the year 1906:
1.	which bedstefar was mourned multinationally?
	King Christian IX of Denmark Known as Europas Bedstefar (Grandfather)	Bill Nyden
2.	which fruity concoction rivalled the first all-big-gun ship?
	IJN Satsuma Laid down before the British HMS Dreadnought, but not completed until afterwords; the name means mandarin orange	Doug Essinger-Hileman
3.	who benefited, through his far-eastern mediation, from a Nordic inventor's bequest?
	Theodore Roosevelt Won Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in Russian-Japanese War	Martin Watts
4.	who emerged for a journey that would eventually take him to join the Iron Age dead?
	Leonard Palmer Minoan and Mycenean Greece; Professor of Greek, KCL (1945-52); Professor of Comparative Philology and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford (1952-71)	Kerry Webb
	John Betjeman see By the Ninth Green, St Enodoc	Answers from Guardian
5.	which emasculated beverage received 1,3,7 trimethylxanthine as an alternative stimulant?
	Coca Cola Caffeine instead of cocaine	Martin Watts
6.	what named vehicle, having set off from Paris, arrived victoriously on the North York Moors?
	Gunevere from the eponymous 1950s film starring Kenneth Moore	Ray Martin
	Genevieve The eponymous car (a Darracq?) from the film	Philip Johnson
	United States A balloon that won the Gordon Bennet cup	Jim Attrill
	Balloon United States winner of first international balloon race	Answers from Guardian
7.	what addition to the English language was introduced by a popular daily on January 10?
	Suffragette In the Daily Mail	Tassie Tigers
8.	which vessel paid the ultimate penalty for cutting the corner off the coast of Murcia?
	Sirio, Italian steamship Wrecked off Cartagena Aug 4, more than 400 died	Don Seltzer
9.	who was reinstated and decorated following the annulment of his guilty verdict?
	Captain Dreyfus His 2nd conviction was annulled on 12th July 1906	Martin Watts
10.	which association agreed on a downsizing to 13?
	The Northern Union (English Rugby League) "Aptly, the decision by the Northern Union (English Rugby League) in 1906 to introduce the 13-a-side and play-the-ball rules, was made at The George Hotel in Huddersfield - the same rooms where the code was formed in 1895."	Kerry Webb
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B.	Who is, or was:
1.	the guy who went for his entire bundle on Apparition?
	Emperor Jones	Tassie Tigers
	Nicely Nicely Jones (Damon Runyon – Guys and Dolls)	Official answer
2.	the clubman found at Blimp's when game is in season?
	Buster Jones from Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town by TS Eliot	Don Seltzer
3.	the foundling, whose amorous adventures finally led him to Wisdom?
	Tom Jones Married Sophia in Henry Fielding's novel	Martin Watts
4.	the actress, having a familial connection with Douglas and parts of Kirkmichael?
	Catherine Zeta Jones Married Michael Douglas	Martin Watts
5.	the painter who introduced The Sleeping Beauty into a country- house salon with the aid of four thorny scenes?
	Edward Burne-Jones 4 paintings	Adam Quinan
6.	the player who started, but later terminally departed from, a Sisyphean project, which proverbially failed to accumulate?
	Brian Jones Late member of the Rolling Stones (with no moss)	Jim Attrill
7.	the clothmaker's son who built a barn and an eating house which was later the scene of a public execution?
	Inigo Jones The "barn" was Covent Garden; the eating house was Banqueting House in Whitehall, where Charles I was executed.	Kerry Webb
8.	the very stout, portly man, credited by the Standard with energy and sagacity?
	Athelney Jones Holmes' police detective rival in Conan Doyle's Sign of Four	Adam Quinan
9.	the diarist, for whom consumption was a matter of daily concern
	Bridget Jones In Helen Fielding's novels	Martin Watts
10.	the composer who wrote an opera eponymously featuring one of the above, but made himself ineligible to appear here?
	German Edward Jones Composer of opera about Tom Jones, renamed himself Edward German	Adam Quinan
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C.	Chronologically:
1.	which man in holy orders had a first edition of his own revolutionary theory of the heavens presented to him on his deathbed?
	Copernicus	Martin Watts
2.	whose 17th-century sidereal herald did Rome find unwelcome?
	Galileo Galilei	Martin Watts
3.	whose Jovian satellite timekeeping led him to a measurement of the ultimate speed?
	Chgristian Huygens	Martin Watts
	Ole Römer Measured the speed of light by finding the differences between observed and calculated eclipses of Jupiter's satellites in 1676
4.	who gained posthumous and eponymous recognition for his prediction of a return visit?
	Edmund Halley And his comet	Martin Watts
5.	whose puzzlement at 19th-century darkness was explained by a 20th-century American stargazer?
	Heinrich Olber Paradoxof why the sky is dark, explanation is Hubble's expanding universe	Adam Quinan
6.	which Anglo-French duo helped find a heavenly incarnation of a sea god?
	Adams and Leverrier Predicted location of planet Neptune.	Martin Watts
7.	which, apparently unreliable, wanderer made two crossings within the space of eight years during the 19th century, none at all in the 20th, but is expected to complete another two in the 21st ?
	Venus Transits of Venus (across sun)	EB
8.	in which year did a seven-part wartime composition become incomplete.
	2006 Pluto ceased to be a planet. Gustav Holst: The Planets	Jim Attrill
	1930 Discovery of Pluto (re Holst's Planet Suite)	Don Seltzer
	1930	Offical answer
9.	which two telephonists were at first irritated, but later gratified, by the background noise from an explosion?
	Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson Heard static from Big Bang	EB
10.	which gravitational phenomenon has recently provided a focus on new worlds?
	Gravitational lens Abell 2218 was used as a gravitational lens in 2004 to discover the most distant known object in the universe	Don Seltzer
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D.	What:
1.	is the drain?
	The Waterloo and City Line London Underground Line nickname	Jim Attrill
2.	is a mighty good road?
	The Rock Island Line Song	Martin Watts
3.	has restricted loads for 130 years?
	The Plimsoll Line Ship loading	Martin Watts
4.	might a dentist see in copper poisoning?
	A green line along the gums One of the symptoms if teeth not brushed well	Jim Attrill
	Clapton's Line Name given to the green line along in gums.	Tassie Tigers
5.	was the third and better-known name of Wilhelmine Dorothea?
	Caroline Caroline Wilhelmina Dorothea; Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland (1727-37) as wife of King George II	Bob Nyden
6.	embraces Cheshire, Kent, Lancashire and Oxfordshire under three legs?
	The Danelaw Line The Danalaw was the area north-west of a line from Kent to the Mersey and was occupied by the Vikings or Danes. About this time the Isle of Man was occupied by vikings and may have adopted the three legged symbol on the coat of arms from them.	Tassie Tigers
	Bibby Line Manx Flag	Answers from Guardian
7.	generated a false sense of Gallic security?
	The Maginot Line	Martin Watts
8.	separated the free and the enslaved?
	The Mason-Dixon Line	Martin Watts
9.	secures a non-slip loop?
	A bowline a type of knot	Jacquie Milner
10.	was breached by Haig?
	Siegfried Line Line of German fortifications in WWI	EB
	Hindenberg Line WWI German Fortified line (Siegfried was WWII)	Philip Johnson
	Hindenburg Line Not to be pedantic, but that is how the gentleman wrote his name	Jaap Fabriek
	separation of powers when he claimed to be in charge after assassin. attempt on Reagan	RC Grady
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E.	Where:
1.	did scissors counter subsidence?
	Wells Cathedral The scissors vault was a 14th century attempt to shore up the foundations of the central tower.	Martin Watts
2.	does a phoenix oversee my rising again?
	St Pauls The phoenix is a symbol of Wren's cathjedral	Martin Watts
3.	is a divorcee's grave marked with pomegranates?
	Peterborough Cathedral Emblem of Catherine of Aragon who is buried there.	Martin Watts
4.	do the lines 'Repentance is the Station then Where Passengers are taken in' appear?
	"The Spiritual Train" Victorian allegorical religious song C 1850s	Ray Martin
	Ely cathedral Inscription on a memorial at Ely to two railwaymen who were killed in an accident in 1845	Bob Nyden
5.	did Sue frequently attend the fictionalised Cathedral church?
	Barchester Anthony Trollope	Jim Attrill
	Oxford cathedral Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure	Answers from Guardian
6.	does a surrealist's creation depict praise with various instruments?
	Gaudi's Sagrada Familia "According to Antoni Gaudi, who worked over its grand plan, the Cathedral was supposed to be a huge musical instrument as a whole in the event of completion."	Kerry Webb
	Chichester cathedral Stained glass window designed by Marc Chagall	Answers from Guardian
7.	does he remain, unspoken to, for days and days and days?
	Coventry (as in sent to Coventry) I think this section is all of cathedral towns...	Jim Attrill
	Worcester cathedral King John's tomb. Ref. AA Milne - Now We Are Six	Answers from Guardian
8.	is a cross-legged gnome found among the angels?
	Lincoln Cathedral imp A statue in Lincoln Cathedral	Adam Quinan
9.	might eider ducks have joined the pilgrims?
	Durham Known as St Cuthbert's ducks after the saint whose remains are at Durham cathedral	Martin Watts
10.	was she called to praise and pray . . . while the choir sang Stanford in A?
	Exeter Poem by John Betjeman	Adam Quinan
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F.	Where:
1.	is there a through-otherness?
	Armagh Poem by W. R. Rogers	Martin Watts
2.	does a cold old black wind blow?
	Cummen Strand Yeats "Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland" The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand, Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left hand;	Bob Nyden
3.	did Napper receive his death sentence?
	Lifford, Co. Donegal Napper Tandy was a United Irishman sentenced to death for 1798 but reprieved	Adam Quinan
4.	do the donkeys equate to the unpaid flunkeys?
	Castle Grand Betjeman poem "An Impoverished Irish Peer "	Adam Quinan
	Finnea John Betjeman - An Impoverished Irish Peer	Answers from Guardian
5.	have the fair maids left, in a body, their woebegone swains?
	Cavan Percy French - Song of William Inspector of Drains	Answers from Guardian
6.	should the lost comet be visible at sunset like a glimmer of haws and rose hips?
	Wicklow Poem by Seamus Heaney	Adam Quinan
7.	was the dredger grumbling all night in the harbour?
	Galway Louis MacNeice	Answers from Guardian
8.	do the sons defy Pope, traitor or defender?
	Derry Orange song, but it should be "pretender" not defender who is defied	Adam Quinan
9.	was the town famed for lovely Kitty?
	Tralee The rose of ....	Jim Attrill
	Derry Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna	Answers from Guardian
	Coleraine - Derry was the answer above (Thackeray – Peg of Limavady)	Official answer
10.	did feline combat end in a draw?
	Kilkenny The Kilkenny Cats	EB
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G.	Which:
1.	first was a loathsome Lackwit?
	James I Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Notebook	Answers from Guardian
2.	second is sans everything?
	Little Piggy This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none, etc.	Bill Nyden
	childhood Jacques in As You Like It	Tassie Tigers
3.	third is also first?
	Trinity College, Cambridge, Boat Club	Tassie Tigers
4.	fourth would be breached by Aurora?
	The Fourth Protocol Frederick Forsythe novel	Tassie Tigers
5.	fifth suffered episcopal impugnment of his pedigree?
	Edward V Heir to Edward IV. One of the Princes in the Tower.	Philip Johnson
6.	sixth involved the location of China in Snowdonia?
	The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 1950s film	Ray Martin
7.	seventh enters the aqueductus fallopii?
	7th nerve	Don Seltzer
8.	eighth is wholly philatelic?
	8th hole at Royal Troon links Known as "The Postage Stamp"	Bob Nyden
9.	ninth was for Victoire?
	Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major, K. 271 ("JENAMY") Written for pianist Louise Victoire Jenamy	Bob Nyden
10.	tenth was Too?
	Brahms' 1st symphony Referred to as Beethoven's 10th, too.	Tassie Tigers
	10th President of the US, John Tyler Tippecanoe and Tyler Too	Answers from Guardian
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H.
1.	Who saw the light?
	Saul, on the road to Damascus Bible quote	Tim Elliot
	Orpheus Saw the light of the world, turned to look at his bride Eurydice, and lost her back to Hades	Bob Nyden
	Orfeo To keep the start and finish Os	Adam
	Orinoco Womble	Answers from Guardian
2.	What folds to make 36 pages?
	octodecimo or 18mo	Rowen
	Octavo an octavo of 16 pages is folded to make a 32 page sixteenmo	Don Seltzer
	but the question asks for 36 pages	Rowen
3.	What might be described as florless?
	Oloroso a sherry in which the flor yeast is not allowed to develop	Don Seltzer
4.	Who was a noble duke, in nature as in name?
	Orsino Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"	Doug Essinger-Hileman
5.	Who, in modern parlance, was a hideous giant, all horrible and high?
	Orgoglio who imprisons the Redcrosse knight in Spenser's Faerie Queene	Bob Nyden
6.	What did Conrad describe as an Arab steed in a string of carthorses?
	Otago His first ship. From 'The Shadow Line'	Jim Attrill
	Otago the barque Otago was Conrad's only sea-going command	Don Seltzer
7.	In which city did Signorelli depict The Last Judgment?
	Orvieto Fresco in the cathedral	Adam Quinan
8.	To which city did the Chaste transfer his court?
	Oviedo Alfonso II	Don Seltzer
9.	What was formerly Urbis Tellus?
	Orbetello A town on the Tuscan coast, famous for its lagoon	Anna Ravano
10.	Who was the voice?
	Roy Orbison	Tassie Tigers
	Okolo Gabriel Okara - The Voice	Answers from Guardian
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I.	Where:
1.	did the ass-cart fail to turn up?
	Near Castlebar In "Playboy of the Western World"	Tassie Tigers
	Tallow Road station John Betjeman - A Lament for Moira McCavendish	Answers from Guardian
2.	was Sixpenny warned to keep down the blind?
	Belgrade Cecil Roberts - Victoria Four Thirty	Answers from Guardian
3.	did Lady Diana give Prince Séliman a last kiss?
	Gare de l'Est	Don Seltzer
4.	was a fat fool called Bhansi Lall the station master?
	Bhowani Junction? Novel by John Masters	Martin Watts
	Pathoda John Masters - Bhowani Junction	Answers from Guardian
5.	did I get a luncheon-basket, which I shared with the fat woman?
	Leeds station Thirty Nine Steps	Adam Quinan
6.	did a line of stiff sedate men in black broadcloth, and women in black veils, wait along the platform?
	Liège Graham Greene - Stamboul Train	Answers from Guardian
7.	did the narrator buy a pocket ordnance map of Friesland?
	Emden In Childers' Riddle of the Sands	Adam Quinan
8.	was "native rabbit" later described as "jungle rabbit"?
	Bombay station Phileas Fogg is fed it in Round the World in 80 Days	Adam Quinan
9.	is the station master greeted with feline elation?
	Carlisle from Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat by T. S. Eliot	Don Seltzer
10.	did the narrator accidentally steal a bicycle?
	Carlsruhe Station Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome	Philip Johnson
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J.	Which decorative plant owes its name to:
1.	an Essex rector?
	Buddleia/Buddleja After the Rev. Adam Buddle, 1660 - 1715	Martin Watts
2.	King James I's physician?
	Primrose	Tassie Tigers
	Lobelia Matthias de Lobel	Answers from Guardian
3.	a royal commissioner in Santo Domingo?
	Fuchsia Named by Charles Plumier after Leonhart Fuchs	Martin Watts
	Begonia Michel Bégon	Answers from Guardian
4.	a Quaker professor of anatomy, albeit misspelt?
	Wisteria "The genus was named after Dr. Caspar Wistar (1761-1818), a professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania"	Kerry Webb
5.	Linnaeus's honouring of which Moravian Jesuit missionary?
	Camellia After Georg Josef Kamel	Adam Quinan
6.	the recognition by a Danish botanist of the gardener to a Hanoverian King?
	Aitonia William Aiton was gardener at Kew for George III, Danish botanist J Lenga named a liverwort after Aiton.	Tassie Tigers
	Forsythia William Forsyth, George III's gardener	Answers from Guardian
7.	a Spanish abbot's memorial to which Swedish botanist?
	Dahlia after Anders Dahl	Martin Watts
8.	a pioneer, who discovered the lymphatic system?
	Rudbeckia fulgida (black-eyed susan family) named for Olaus Rudbeck	Don Seltzer
9.	his country's first round-the-world sailor?
	Bougainvillea named for French Admiral Bouganville	Don Seltzer
10.	an ophthalmic anatomist?
	The Iris	Jim Attrill
	Zinnia Johann Gottfried Zinn	Answers from Guardian
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K.
1.	Who found the breath of Jupiter sulphurous?
	Sicilius Leonatus Ghostly father of Posthumus Leonatus, in Cymbline Act5,IV	Bob Nyden
2.	Who had more of gravy than of grave about him?
	Marley's Ghost quote from Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol	Ray Martin
3.	What Indian souvenir brought £200 and a fatal industrial accident?
	a mummified monkey's paw from the eponymous short story by WW Jacobs (1902)	Ray Martin
4.	What had particular qualities of silence, power and trustworthiness?
	Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost	Answers from Guardian
5.	Which invited dinner guest returned the invitation before guiding his host to Hell?
	The Cammandatore In Mozart's "Don Giovanni"	Philip Johnson
6.	Who, following a terminal fever, now offers shellfish from streets of varied dimensions?
	Sweet Molly Malone Irish ballad	Ray Martin
7.	Who appeared as a gaunt vision, with icy glare and stern relentless brow?
	Spectre of Sir Roderic Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore	Adam Quinan
8.	Who broke his arm, wrestling with a slippery, oozy, horrible thing?
	Beowulf Grendel or his mother	Martin Watts
	Brisbane The Upper Berth ghost story	Adam Quinan
9.	What grey, now ghastly white, appears in cold, windy weather?
	Ghost of Tom Pearce's grey mare Widdecombe Fair	Adam Quinan
10.	Who do the sentries confuse with Alec James?
	Ann Boleyn Song - with her head tucked underneath her arm	Martin Watts
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L.	What:
1.	was mark'd with permanent ink?
	The Cardinal's hat in "The Jackdaw of Rheims"	Martin Watts
2.	shared its fate with an auld body astride of a gate?
	Lum Hat From "The Lum Hat Wantin' The Croon," 19thC Scottish song by David Rorie	Bob Nyden
3.	was produced as evidence of Wallace's impromptu meal?
	Albert's cap In the monlogue "Albert and the Lion"	Philip Johnson
	Albert's cap From 'The Lion and Albert' (to be pedantical)	Jim Attrill
4.	provided nesting opportunities for the rodents of Lower Saxony?
	Ladies' Sunday hats Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"	Philip Johnson
	Men's Sunday hats Robert Browning - The Pied Piper of Hamelin	Answers from Guardian
5.	was worn by the woman with the slender jewelled hand when greeting the narrator in Constantinople?
	Mantilla of black lace In "Greenmantle" by John Buchan, Chapter 14	Bob Nyden
6.	was the receptacle in which the narrator placed a stone, following a meal of Bologna sausage and chocolate, washed down with neat brandy?
	Straw Hat Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey	Adam Quinan
7.	Amazonian apparel was worn with brown shirts and blue knickerbockers?
	Red knitted caps Swallows and Amazons	Adam Quinan
8.	did Mr Alexander Holder take as security for a £50,000 loan?
	A beryl coronet In the eponymous Sherlock Holmes Adventure	Kerry Webb
9.	do the simple creatures hope to see impaled upon a tree?
	The Englishman's solar topi Noel Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"	Philip Johnson
10.	are in contrast to a stiff upper lip?
	Baggy Green Caps "Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps" is a book by Simon Briggs, chronicling the most notorious episdoes of The Ashes.	Kerry Webb
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M.	Who or what:
1.	is Hydrargyrum?
	Mercury Latin name for the element	Bill Nyden
	Quicksilver or Mercury Silver is a theme of these answers	Adam Quinan
2.	lost out to Bubo at Castle Frank?
	Redruff, a ?silver partridge. In Ernest Seton Thompson's Lobe, Rag and Vixen.	Tassie Tigers
	Redruff was killed, finally, by a horned owl or bubo	Tassie Tigers
	Silverspot Ernest Thompson Seton	Answers from Guardian
3.	was formerly farmed by Sigewulf?
	The silverfield Sigewulf was granted land at Water Newton, Hunts. In 1975a hoard of Roman silver was discovered in a ploughed field, possibly now called the silverfield.	Tassie Tigers
	Silverstone Old English	Answers from Guardian
4.	is the bristletail of the kitchen cupboard?
	Silverfish	Adam Quinan
5.	are seen as a harvest mouse goes scampering by?
	Doves in a silver-feathered sleep Walter de la Mere	T

	Silver claws and a silver eye Walter de la Mare - Silver	Answers from Guardian
6.	was rusticated for painting the Dean's house red?
	Lord Silverbridge Anthony Trollope - The Duke's Children	Answers from Guardian
7.	did I catch when moths were on the wing?
	A little silver trout "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats	Philip Johnson
8.	was commemorated with a £1 blue?
	Silver Wedding Anniversary of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1948	Kerry and Judith
9.	was frustratingly unwheedlable?
	Long John Silver "Treasure Island" by R.L. Stevenson	Philip Johnson
	A Silver Churn WS Gilbert - Patience	Answers from Guardian
10.	was Harry Heegan's reward?
	The Silver tassie Cup in an opera	Adam Quinan
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N.
1.	who imposed a levy on beards?
	Peter the Great wanting to make his Russians more "European"	Charlezzzzz
2.	who described a multinidal growth?
	Edward Lear There was an Old Man with a beard,	Adam Quinan
3.	whose father had pigmented dentition?
	Sveyn Forkbeard Son of Harald Bluetooth	Adam Quinan
4.	what is also identified by Jack's midday bedtime?
	Goat's Beard Tragopogon pratensis; also known as Jack Go to Bed at Noon	Adam Quinan
5.	which bearded and bright-eyed old tar delayed a wedding guest?
	The Ancient Mariner	EB
6.	who suffered his beard to grow until it was about a quarter of a yard long?
	Robinson Crusoe	Tassie Tigers
7.	what indignity did Hunan inflict on the suspected spies?
	He had the men's beards shaved off on one side of their faces and their clothes cut off at the waist. 2nd Samuel 10: 1-5	Lee Ann
8.	how did an old Grenadier address his statistician?
	The Bearded Wonder Brian Johnston - Bill Frindall	Answers from Guardian
9.	who had a beard of burnt-up black?
	Svengali	Adam Quinan
10.	what was ignobly done by Regan?
	Plucked out Gloucester's beard in King Lear Glou. ...'tis most ignobly done/to pluck me by the beard	Charlezzzzz
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O.	Who:
1.	claimed to eat cowdung for salads?
	Edgar as Poot Tom in King Lear	Tassie Tigers
2.	was offered a pigeon dish by the clown's father?
	Shylock by Old Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice	Tassie Tigers
3.	was described as the sweet marjoram of the salad?
	Helena, wife of Bertram, Count of Roussillon In "All's Well That Ends Well"	Kerry Webb
4.	had a bill amounting to 2s 6d for a capon and sauce?
	Falstaff Henry IV Part I	EB
5.	threatened his daughter's suitor with a diet of bivalves?
	Prospero - The Tempest Threatened to feed Ferdinand fresh-water mussels.	Martin Watts
6.	asked the quarrelsome captain to eat the emblem on his cap?
	Pistol bid Fluellen eat his leek. Henry V, Act 5, scene 1 Theme is Shakespeare characters	Bill Nyden
7.	urged against eating certain bulbs to avoid halitosis?
	Bottom In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act IV, Scene 2	Kerry Webb
8.	expounded on the virtues of pancakes and mustard?
	Touchstone As You Like It	Tassie Tigers
9.	required crocus stamens to flavour the pear pies?
	Clown Winter's Tale, Act 4 Scene 3	Adam Quinan
10.	indicated a preference for conserve of beef?
	Leontes A Winters Tale, calf jelly is conserve of beef	Tassie Tigers
	Christopher Sly The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, ii. 7	Answers from Guardian
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P.	Which manufacturer's product is:
1.	waxed?
	Barbour Waxed jackets	Philip Johnson
	Cerato Kia model, means waxed	Tassie Tigers
2.	a whorl of petals?
	Lotus Lotus flower	Bob Nyden
	Corolla Botanical name for a whorl of petals, and the name of the product not the manufacturer	Tassie Tigers
3.	a Brahmin genealogist?
	Fiat Panda	Answers from Guardian
4.	a pendulant tropical climber?
	Liana Suzuki's name in Europe	Tassie Tigers
5.	surely of very limited horsepower?
	Ford Mustang A mustang would usually run about one hp...	Martin Watts
	Volkswagen Phaeton	Answers from Guardian
6.	a blessed lottery of beauty, wisdom and modesty?
	BMW the first letters	Jim Attrill
	Octavia Quote is from Antony and Cleopatra. Skoda make the Octavia.	Tassie Tigers
	Skoda Octavia - Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra	Answers from Guardian
7.	an American jazz saxophonist?
	Parker pens Charlie Parker	Jim Attrill
	Hyundai Getz. Stan Getz	Jim Attrill
	Getz but made by Hyundai	Tassie Tigers
8.	by the same token marsupial
	Kangoo (Renault) Kangaroo without AR, like marsupial without AR	Tassie Tigers
	The spelling in the origininal is 'msupial'	Tassie Tigers
9.	an absurd pretence?
	Infiniti?	Bob Nyden
	Charade (Daihatsu)	Tassie Tigers
10.	palindromic?
	A Toyota	Jim Attrill
	Oxo Beef cube	Adam Quinan
	Civic (Honda) Avoids the extra "A" in A Toyota	Tassie Tigers
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Q.	Who:
1.	was nicknamed Toddy?
	Doctor McFarlane - story "The Body Snatcher" by RLS From the story (and later film) "The Body Snatcher" by RLS	Martin Watts
2.	had a bottled Arabian dormouse in his holster?
	Dr Stephen Maturin Post Captain - Chapter 3	Bill Nyden
3.	gave Clara a pair of sunglasses from Gruber's?
	Herr Doctor Classen from Heidi	Rowen
	Dr Edouardo Plarr Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul	Answers from Guardian
4.	was accused of improper behaviour during a cave trip?
	Aziz Passage to India	EB
5.	had never heard of Bernard Shaw, but supposed he was a Methodist preacher?
	Sir Patrick In Shaw's Doctor's Dilemma	Adam Quinan
6.	was mollified with a donation of a lightweight aluminium collapsible garden chair?
	Dr Daneeka From Catch 22, Joseph Heller	Tassie Tigers
7.	used astrology to choose a favourable time for treatment?
	Doctor of Phisik In Chauser's prologue to Canterbury Tales	Tassie Tigers
8.	was brought to safety by Murray on a packhorse?
	Dr Watson Watson's orderly rescued him after he was wounded at Maiwand.	Martin Watts
9.	threatened to cut the throat of a Welsh parson?
	Dr Caius In Sir John in Love by Ralph Vaughan Williams	Tassie Tigers
10.	assisted Clarice in her search for Gumb?
	Dr. Hannibal Lecter Silence of the Lambs	Bill Nyden
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R.	During 2006:
1.	who won at 16 despite losing a 9 at 7?
	Tiger Woods v Robert Karlsson in the 2006 Ryder Cup He won 3 and 2, and lost his 9 iron in the water at the 7th hole.	Kerry and Judith
2.	which Voice in the Wilderness is now silent?
	Steve Irwin Killed by a stingray - Crikey!	Tassie Tigers
	PW Botha Autobiography - Voice in the Wilderness	Answers from Guardian
3.	what has been dwarfed through orbital overlapping?
	Pluto Reclassified as dwarf planet	EB
4.	where was the result decided by glass balls ringing bells?
	The Gambia presidential election	Answers from Guardian
5.	whose suggestion of a golden handshake was speedily revealed?
	Darrell Hair Controversial cricket umpire	Adam Quinan
6.	which exceptionally hardy annual has finally been gathered after 27 years?
	Desert Orchid	Answers from Guardian
7.	who pronounced herself ready for Mr Prescott at Scunthorpe?
	Tracey Temple?	Tassie Tigers
	Pam Ayres	Answers from Guardian
8.	where was the theft of an Elizabethan reticule enacted?
	Buckingham Palace	Answers from Guardian
9.	where was revealed, a Day to remember at 1450?
	The Old Vicarage at Grantchester? Stands the church clock at 14:50?	Martin Watts
	Grantchester Rupert Brooke statue by Paul Day	Answers from Guardian
10.	whose anniversary recalled a 60s hit?
	Paul McCartney June 18 - 64th birthday - "When I'm 64"	Bill Nyden