King William's College Annual Quiz

King William's College Annual Quiz - 2007

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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".
"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est"
— Adam Quinan
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A.	During the year 1907:
1.	what became the 46th?
	Oklahoma Entered the union and because the 46th state	Jack Marr
2.	what theft denied Castletown his investiture?
	That of the Irish Crown Jewels Stolen from Dublin Castle between 11 June and 6 July 1907, just before a state visit by King Edward VII during which he was to have used the regalia in an investiture ceremony for Lord Castletown. The incident remains an unsolved mystery	Oliver Mundy
3.	what revolutionary washing product came from Düsseldorf?
	Persil 1st "automatic" detergent	AGB
4.	who brought bulls, wolves, curlews and ravens to Poole Harbour?
	Baden Powell First scout camp on Brownsea Island	Martin Watts
5.	who, despite his inferiority to his bhisti, gained the highest award in his field?
	Rudyard Kipling Awarded Nobel prize for literature	Martin Watts
6.	what 'vile and inhuman story told in the foulest language' precipitated riots in the capital?
	"The Playboy of the Western World" - a play by John Millington Synge Reference to the "Playboy Riots" that occurred in January 1907 during and following the opening performance of the play.	Pawel Golik
7.	who was the first to receive a death sentence at the Old Bailey for murder?
	Horace Rayner	Jack Marr
8.	which unique seven-master came to grief on Hellweather's Reef?
	Thomas W Lawson 7 masted schooner wrecked on the Scillies 14/12/1907	Martin Watts
	The 'Thomas W. Lawson' 14 Dec 1907 - Two of 18 crew survived.	Bill Nyden
9.	whose return for 1st June was 31.1 - 14 - 48 - 17?
	Colin Blythe He took 17 wickets for 48 runs playing for Kent against Northamptonshire on that day.	Kerry Webb
10.	what started on Tuesday 28th May at 10 am?
	First TT Motorcycle race on Isle of Man thanks to other lissuns, that answer is now 100% confirmed	AGB
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B.	Which fictitious school:
1.	was convenient for the Cockchafer at Maltby?
	St Dominic's Reed's "The 5th Form at St Dominic's"	AGB
2.	lay in a cradle of fog and fog-bound pestilence?
	Lowood Institute Jane Eyre	Jack Marr
3.	stressed the four D's: Dramatics, Dance, Debating and Dating?
	Beardsley School Lolita's finishing school (Nabokov)	AGB
4.	was a long and cold-looking house, one story high, with a few straggling outbuildings behind, and a barn and stable adjoining?
	Dotheboys Hall 'Oliver Twist' (Dickens) (As I remember, Mr. Squeers very nearly says "We only call it a Hall . . .")	Oliver Mundy
	Nicholas Nickleby rather than Oliver Twist	Martin Watts
5.	was founded in the eighth century by a Saxon saint and was the abode of monks until the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
	Fernhurst School Alec Waugh's "Loom of Youth"	AGB
6.	had been partially endowed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the wealthy widow of a bookbinder, who had been an admirer of Garibaldi before she died?
	The Marcia Blaine School "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", Muriel Spark	AGB
7.	boasted an observatory to study worms, the fortifications to pot at gamekeepers and that round thing which hav no use at all?
	St Custard's Nigel Molesworth's alma mater	Adam Q
8.	towered behind the crumbling fragment of a picturesque fort, which rose high above the beach?
	Roslyn School in Farrar's "Eric, or Little by Little"	AGB
9.	allowed students to bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad?
	Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Harry Potter, of course	Bill Nyden
10.	accommodated The Fat Owl of the Remove?
	Greyfriars School Billy Bunter	Adam Q
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C.
1.	who 'discovered' Vortigern?
	William Henry Ireland Wrote "Shakespeare's" Vortgern	Bill Nyden
2.	which Old Borstalian was unmasked by Oberhuber?
	Eric Hebborn A very successful art forger	Bill Nyden
3.	which epistle, allegedly from Grigori, helped Stanley to defeat Ramsay?
	The Zinoviev letter Grigori Evseyevich Zinoviev - Soviet Comintern Chief did not write it. But it caused the Labour party to be defeated in 1924.	Bill Nyden
4.	who created documents covering an 11-year period, supposedly found in a hayloft in the DDR?
	Konrad Kujau The Hitler Diaries	Adam Q
5.	who produced a group of physicians to prove his innocence, but laid himself open to alternative charges?
	Han van Meegeren Van Meegeren painted copies of famous painitngs to prove that the ones that he sold to Georing and others during WW2 were not genuine. One of the ones he painted in public was Vermeer's "Jesus among the Doctors".	Kerry Webb
6.	who was able, through his own work, to convince experts that the painter Martini was also a sculptor?
	Alceo Dossena modern copyist / forger who made a famous sculture based on a painting by Simone Martini, a 14th centruy painter	AGB
7.	which self-styled Japanese heathen described an island where broiled serpents were a favourite dish?
	George Psalmanazar (1679-1763) French-born literary forger, author of 'An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa' (1704), a professed account of the island now called Taiwan, whose contents were almost entirely his own fabrication.	Oliver Mundy
8.	in what was the mandible of pygmaeus equipped with the dentition of troglodytes?
	Piltdown Man Forged fossil with the jaw bone of an orang utan (pygmaeus and POB content) and the teeth of a chimpanzee	Adam Q
9.	who palmed off depictions of a Brighton suburb, but later owned up?
	Tom Keating? He painted forgeriesof works by Samuel Palmer, but it was Shoreham in Kent, not Sussex that was the location.	Adam Q
10.	who provided Lübeck with an anachronistic fowl?
	Lothar Malskat Forger of medieval art and it was a New World Turkey that he put in a very Old World forgery	AGB
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D.
1.	after which action were eleven decorated for valour?
	Roarke's Drift, 1879 Eleven Victoria Crosses awarded - most for a single action.	Bill Nyden
2.	where did the Tidy Pachyderm start his journey to the Limpopo?
	Graham's Town Kipling: Just So Stories - "The Elephant's Child"	Bill Nyden
3.	who was described by James Arcoll as a sort of black Napoleon?
	John Laputa Buchan's book Prester John	Adam Q
	Tchaka (Shaka Zulu) from Buchan's 'Prester John'. "You have heard of Tchaka. He was a sort of black Napoleon early in the last century...'	Susan B
4.	who replaced Cartwright and caused a quarter of a century's isolation?
	Basil D'Olivera British mixed-race cricketer who was chosen to replace the injured Tom Cartwright in the late 60s tour of SA: the SA gov't refused to allow him to play, thus getting themselves banned from international sport.	AGB
5.	who acquainted the Tswana people with the confusing story of Egeon's twin sons?
	Sol Plaatje Translator of Shakespeare into African languages (Egeon is in Comedy of Errors)	AGB
6.	who loved honey with a passion that we, with a sweet-shop on every corner, cannot hope to understand?
	A bear of little brain, Winnie the Pooh	Ian Watkins
	Poet Tatamkhulu Afrika ??	Don Seltzer
	Khoikhoi (Hottentots) South-African Folk-tales	Jessie Strader
	The Bushmen of the Kalahari from Laurens van der Post's The Lost World of the Kalahari	AGB
	Just to clarify - the question is a direct quote from the first chapter of Van Der Post's book.	AGB
7.	who regretted lack of achievement, with so large an outstanding agenda?
	Cecil Rhodes Regretted that he could not annex the planets of other stars	Adam Q
	or maybe just a ref. to his last words: "So little done, so much to do."	AGB
8.	who was the victim of a tapeworm's instruction to a schizophrenic?
	Dr Verwoerd SA Prime Minister murdered by a madman, driven by his tapeworm/demon	AGB
9.	which flagship was accompanied by Reijger and Goede Hoope?
	Drommedaris Jan van Riebeek - founded Cape Town	Bill Nyden
10.	where was government conducted from a railway siding?
	Machadodorp In 1900 it became the Capital of S Africa for 3 weeks when President Kruger ran his government from railway carriages in a siding of the Machadodorp Railway Station.	Kerry Webb
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E.
1.	what is Penwith?
	Land's End West Penwith is the westernmost part of Cornwall	Martin Watts
2.	whence 19/20 at Manchester?
	The Stretford End... ... of Trafford Park cricket ground whence Jim Laker took 19 Australian wickets in one test match. Thanks Kerry	Martin Watts
3.	wherein - two legless paupers confined to dustbins?
	'Endgame' Play by Samuel Beckett	Oliver Mundy
4.	whose work on crop rotation earned him a derogatory nickname?
	"Turnip" Townsend 18th century agrarian reformer	Martin Watts
5.	which tragic tale ended 'I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever'?
	Graham Greene - "The End of the Affair"	Pawel Golik
6.	where did the congregation consist of an old marsh-donkey and a wet yoke-weary bullock?
	Manhood's End More Kipling.	Martin Watts
7.	where did Jack spend ½d on a roll and ½d on some cheese at a Chandler's Shop?
	Mile-End The Life of Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe	Don Seltzer
8.	where were pigs' teeth stuck into the trunk of a wych-elm?
	Howards End	Jack Marr
9.	what began as a settlement on the Prittle Brook?
	Southend-on-Sea	Don Seltzer
10.	what overlooks Sprinkling Tarn?
	Great End Mountain in the Lake District	Adam Q
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F.
1.	whose papal audience proved fatal?
	Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad Died duing John Paul I's enthronement in 1978	Kerry Webb
2.	who is remembered for his petrol bomb?
	Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov The Molotov cocktail	Adam Q
3.	who introduced us to an uncle and three sisters?
	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Plays: Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters	Bill Nyden
4.	who, during 14 years of generous subsidies, never met his benefactor?
	Pyotr Tchaikovsky Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck insisted that they not meet during the period of her subsidy (1877-90) although it is said that they met twice by accident.	Kerry Webb
5.	which monarch outscored his English counterpart in his marital arrangements?
	Ivan IV had 8 wives; his contemporary Henry VIII only managed 6.	AGB
6.	whose complicity in the murder of his lover's spouse insured the imperatricial succession?
	Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734-1783) Lover of Princess Catherine, who became Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great) in 1762 through a conspiracy which Orlov led. His brother Alexei is thought to have been the actual assassin of the previous Tsar, Peter (Catherine's husband).	Oliver Mundy
7.	which spitefully insulted cuckold was fatally wounded by his brother-in-law?
	Alezander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) The great Russian poet issued a challenge to Georges d'Anthès, accusing him of intriguing with Pushkin's wife Natalya. D'Anthès, who had lately married Natalya's sister, gave Pushkin his death-wound in the encounter.	Oliver Mundy
8.	whose predictions were acknowledged in the naming of number 101?
	Dmitri Mendeleev Element no 101 - Mendelevium, was named to honour the creator of the periodic table.	Pawel Golik
9.	who shared the Prix Galabert with Glenn?
	Yuri Gagarin Astronauts both	AGB
10.	who investigated canine salivation?
	Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Experiments in conditioned response.	Bill Nyden
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G.
1.	for whom did Zaretski act as second?
	Lenski Tchaikovsky's opera Eugen Onegin	Bill Nyden
2.	which contestants were slain with the same envenomed point?
	Hamlet and Laertes	Bill Nyden
3.	who died in the Brecknock Arms following a duel with his brother in law?
	Colonel Fawcett Actually, refused admittance to the Brecknock Arms, the party went to the Camden Arms, where the colonel died.	Bill Nyden
4.	who was challenged to a duel by a Gibraltarian, whose patriotism had been impugned?
	William Pitt the Younger ... who was challenged by George Tierney.	Caroline L
5.	who allowed his opponent to leave a message for Patterson beneath his silver cigarette case?
	Professor Moriarty Doyle: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - The Final Problem	Bill Nyden
6.	whose performance against the three-handed marvel was described by the Princess as 'unique'?
	Liszt As described by Princess Belgiojoso, after a piano duel with Sigismund Thalberg of the 'three-handed' technique	Don Seltzer
7.	who was killed by his father in single combat as the sun sparkled on the Oxus stream?
	Sohrab Killed by his father Rustum (Matthew Arnold poem)	Adam Q
8.	whose second was accused of surreptitiously stabbing his opponent in Hyde Park?
	Lord Mohun Mohun was killed in a duel by the Duke of Hamilton; Mohun's second, MacCartney, promptly killed the Duke.	AGB
9.	which cuckold was mortally wounded at Barn Elms on 16th January?
	Earl of Shrewsbury duelled with George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham	AGB
10.	who fell to a frontal blow and then completely lost his head?
	Goliath I Samuel 17:38-51	Bill Nyden
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H.	Which pirate:
1.	inspired Sir Walter Scott?
	John Gow John Gow was supposed to be the inspiration for the character of Capt. Cleveland in "The Pirate"	Pawel Golik
2.	had a terminal encounter with a crocodile?
	Captain Hook In Peter Pan	Adam Q
3.	masqueraded as Sir Charles Ewan, Governor of St Kitts?
	Captain Sharkey Arthur Conan Doyle: The Green Flag	Bill Nyden
4.	was terminated off Ramsey when the Marine Offence Act became law?
	Radio Caroline A pirate radio station anchored in Ramsey Bay	Adam Q
5.	together with her colleague Mary, pleaded pregnancy and escaped the gallows?
	Anne Bonny Colleague and friend of Mary Read aka Bloody Mary, both supposedly impregnated by Jack Rackham aka Calico Jack	Jaap Fabriek
6.	had a high, old, tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken in the capstan bars?
	Billy Bones Treasure Island	Adam Q
7.	was placed in his apprenticeship through a mishearing of the word pilot?
	Frederic Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance	Bill Nyden
8.	was hacked to pieces and roasted limb by limb in the Gulf of Darien?
	Francois l'Ollonais a nasty piece of work apparently...	AGB
9.	tended his geraniums in his window box in Bridgewater?
	Captain Blood	AGB
10.	hated man too much to feel remorse?
	Conrad the "hero" of Byron's "The Corsair" - a POB connetion at last!	AGB
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I.
1.	where warn't there nobody but just me and pap left?
	a little farm down at the bottom of Arkansaw From Adventures of Hucklebery Finn	Don Seltzer
2.	where did Willingdon Beauty die peacefully in his sleep?
	The Manor Farm which later, post-revolution, became "Animal Farm" (Orwell)	AGB
3.	where, in the Frome valley, did Angel, the pupil farmer, fall in love?
	Talbothay Dairy Farm where lived Tess of the D'Urbervilles (T. Hardy)	AGB
4.	where does Bessie, smelling like a cowshed, snore bass and gruff in a loft?
	Salt Lake Farm Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas	Don Seltzer
5.	where did the farmer find his gin sprung with three toes of a lutrine paw lying in a red spatter about it?
	On the Taw or the Torridge In "Tarka the Otter"	Martin Watts
	Hill Farm suggested by Sara W., though subject to detailed confirmation	AGB
	Caen Farm at least according to a young relative - usually reliable! - who looked in her copy for me.	AGB
6.	from its fulicine origins, and after periodic encounters with thymallus, what was the tributary's ultimate landmark?
	Philip's farm where the brook joined the river Tennyson's poem "The Brook" I had to learn bits of it in school!	Adam Q
7.	which farm was successively demolished by Edward VI, William & Mary, George II and George IV?
	Cold Comfort Farm Rebuilt by Elizabeth, George I, and George III. Left alone by the Charleses. (Cold Comfort Farm-- Stella Gibbons)	Katherine S.H.
8.	from which farm did Martin, the young gander, depart with his passenger?
	Nilsson's farm in West Vemminghog Township from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils	Astrid Bear
9.	which farm of some 500 acres was Dickson's retirement home?
	Blaweary Dickson McCunn, John Buchan's retired grocer	Martin Watts
	Blaweary Farm, nr Carrick Buchan's Dickson McGunn (as suggested by Martin S.), in "Castle Gay"	AGB
10.	to which farm, Jurby way, was Tommy sent to work?
	Renshent The farm in "Tommy Big-eyes" by TE Brown	AGB
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J.
1.	what is a WLAR?
	A Winchester Light Automatic Rifle	AGB
2.	where is there peace and holy quiet?
	Grantchester in Rupert Brooke's "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"	Jack Marr
3.	who was the master of Thornfield Hall?
	Edward Rochester Edward Rochester is the Master of Thornfield Hall in "Jane Eyre"	Kerry Webb
4.	which club did Race leave to manage A C Monza?
	Melchester Rovers Melchester Rovers are a fictional football team with whom Roy Race spent most of his illustrious career in the British comic strip Roy of the Rovers, which first appeared in Tiger at its inception in 1954.	Kerry Webb
5.	who wrote of his hero's Innocence, Wisdom and Incredulity?
	G.K. Chesterton The "Father Brown" stories	Philip Johnson
6.	whose 20th century lymantrid emulalated a 17th century cervid?
	Sir Francis Chichester His Gipsy Moth IV emulated Drake's 16th century Golden Hind	Martin Watts
7.	what name was given to the Belgic town - Calleva?
	Silchester Roman British town	Adam Q
	Silchester Town in Hampshire, U.K. (the Roman 'Calleva Atrebatum')	Oliver Mundy
8.	what coat, typically boasts a velvet collar?
	A Chesterfield	AGB
9.	where was Dr Arabin appointed Dean?
	Barchester The Reverend Francis Arabin was made Dean of Barchester in Ch. 52 of Barchester Towers.	Kerry Webb
10.	where do 11 U's unite?
	Manchester Manchester United is a football team of some repute, with 11 members in the team.	Kerry Webb
	Colchester Colchester Utd are known as "The Us" - I never new that before today!	AGB
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K.
1.	what is a VSD?
	Ventricular Septal Defect The most common congenital heart defect	Pawel Golik
	aka "hole in the heart"	AGB
2.	in which tale did Ticki end it with Evipan?
	The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene	Bill Nyden
3.	what featured a doomed octet of D'Ascoynes?
	Kind Hearts and Coronets Film: 1948, starring Alec Guinness as all eight D'Ascoynes.	Bill Nyden
4.	what combines Dexamphetamine with Amylobarbitone?
	Drinamyl—"Purple Hearts" Drinamyl (a mixture of dexamphetamine and amylobarbitone) was a popular psychodelic drug in the 60s, in the form of purple heart-shaped pills	Pawel Golik
5.	in what did Marlow describe the corrupt, but charismatic Kurtz?
	The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad	Bill Nyden
6.	what, obliquely, was once milk-white, now purple with love's wound?
	a little western flower . . .maidens call it love-in-idleness the flower from the love potion in Midsummer Night's Dream	Astrid Bear
	Heartsease or the pansy, aka love-in-idleness	AGB
7.	what was the ultimate destination of the phthisical Leithen?
	Sickheart River In the novel by John Buchan	Philip Johnson
8.	in what serial did Dr Kate succumb to Leukaemia?
	Heartbeat 90s serial set in 60s Yorkshire	AGB
9.	who indiscriminately demanded decapitation?
	Queen of Hearts Lewis Carrol: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Bill Nyden
10.	what marks the site of the Tolbooth?
	The Heart of Midlothian Heart-shaped motif set into the cobblestones in Parliament Square, Edinburgh, Scotland; the Tolbooth was an ancient prison.	Oliver Mundy
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L.	Which words are particularly associated with these small towns and villages:
1.	Repton
	Dear Lord and Father of Mankind sung to Parry's tune "Repton"	AGB
2.	Thaxted
	I vow to Thee my country Music by Holst	Adam Q
3.	Wolvercote
	Oh Jesus I Have Promised sung to trad. tune "Wolvercote"	AGB
4.	Rockingham
	When I Survey The Wondrous Cross sung to trad. tune "Rockingham"	AGB
5.	Down Ampney
	'Come down, O love divine' Tune by Ralph Vaughan Williams	Oliver Mundy
6.	Cwm Rhondda
	Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah Name of hymn tune	Adam Q
7.	Abbots Leigh
	Father, Lord of all Creation sung to the trad. tune "Abbot's Leigh"	AGB
	Lord, we thank thee for the pleasure More likely as it has a connection to King William's, It was written for Dr Cotton, Master of Marlborough College and Dean Farrar, old boy of KWC was also later a Master of Marlborough	Adam Q
	Glorious things of Thee are spoken This was the original setting.	Phyllis Styles
8.	St Clement
	The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended One of my parents, favourite hymns and sung at both their funerals	Adam Q
9.	Monkland
	'Let us with a gladsome mind' Tune by J. Wilkes (not that John Wilkes!) (also set to words 'Praise, O praise our God and King' in some old Methodist hymn-books)	Oliver Mundy
10.	Cranham
	"In the Bleak Midwinter" Christmas carol - words written by Christina Rossetti, with the tune written by Gustav Holst. He called it 'Cranham', for the place where he composed it.	Kerry Webb
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M.
1.	who had a Lonely Hearts Club Band?
	Sergeant Pepper Beatles LP	Adam Q
2.	who was hoodwinked by Sir Percy at Laragne?
	Lieutenant Godet Emmuska Orczy: Sir Percy Hits Back in the The Scarlet Pimpernel series.	Bill Nyden
3.	who liked gramophone records to be played at speed 61?
	Colonel Bramble from The Silence of Colonel Bramble By André Maurois	Don Seltzer
4.	whose Concert Party duet with Lofty Sugden got to No. 1?
	Sgt. Major Williams (Windsor Davies) It Ain't Half Hot, he sung Whispering Grass duet with Lofty Sugden (Don Estelle) itot to No. 1 in the pop charts	Adam Q
5.	who had bestowed upon him the high-sounding title of Governor of La Merced?
	Major Jonquier in CS Forester's "The Gun"	AGB, Don S.
6.	who shot tiny field mice every night with huge bullets from the .45 he had stolen from the dead man?
	Clevinger From Catch 22	John Meyn
	and he's a Lieutenant.....	AGB
	Bombardier Havermeyer as a friend now informs me, with quotes from Heller's text! I now think that "bombardier" is his occupation, but "Captain" is his rank...	AGB
7.	who could quote historical fights between 490 BC and 1815 AD?
	Major-General Stanley. "I can quote the fights historical; from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical."	Kerry Webb
8.	whose favourite game would end with the command 'Change at Löhne!'?
	Cpl Himmelstoss Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front"	AGB
9.	which lepidopterist claimed to have taken Lungtungpen?
	Private Mulvaney more Kipling	Bill Nyden
10.	who related how he lost his ear in Venice?
	Brigadier Gerard 1903 story by Arthur Conan Doyle	Oliver Mundy
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N.	Who or what:
1.	began as Crocetti?
	Dean Martin born Dino Paul Crocetti	Bill Nyden
2.	shared his cloak with a beggar at Amiens?
	St Martin	Adam Q
3.	device is used to limit equine cervical extension?
	Martingale Part of a horse's harness	Bill Nyden
4.	is a female calf, rendered infertile by its twin male calf?
	Freemartin A freemartin is a female bovine with a masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries. Genetically, the cow is female, but it is sterilized in utero by hormones from a male twin. [Wikipedia]	Kerry Webb
5.	island witnessed the most lethal volcanic eruption of the twentieth century?
	Martinique Explosion of Mount Pelée	Adam Q
6.	was produced by Wallace, Walter, Edwin and Charles in a disused soap factory in Southall?
	Martinware Pottery	Bill Nyden
7.	shares the same choice of accommodation as Merops and Alcedo?
	Sand Martin (Riparia paludicola) All are birds that nest in cavities (Merops is the bee-eater and Alcedo the kingfisher)	Pawel Golik
8.	built a palace inspired by Garnier, next to Sandeman's?
	The Duke of Abrantes (Duque de Abrantes) Palacio Pemartín in Jerez, on the grounds of the The Royal School of Equestrian Arts where dancing Andalusian horses work. Garnier built the Paris Opera too.	Bob Nyden
	The palace was built by the Pemartins who were partners with Sandeman's and later sold to the Duke	Adam Q
9.	might be regarded as the pharmacist's bible?
	The Physician's Desk Reference Because I've seen it on the desk of both Aunt & Uncle who are Pharmacists...	David Millians
	Martin's Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences	Adam Q
	Martindale: The complete drug reference	Susan B
10.	travelled to America with Mark Tapley?
	Martin Chuzzlewit Eponymous novel by Charles Dickens	Oliver Mundy
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O.
1.	who stood in for Sam Bideford?
	Peter Duck He joined the schooner as adult crew after Captain Flint's friend Sam couldn't make it	Adam Q
2.	whose guilt was confirmed by Dick's flash?
	George Owden and Ralph Steckley Pete took the photo and Bill fired the flash in 'The big Six'	Ian Watkins
	George Owdon and Ralph Strakey In The Big Six	Adam Q
3.	what did the doctor's son set adrift to protect No. 7?
	The Margoletta and the Hullabaloos to save the coots in 'Coot Club'	Ian Watkins
4.	what prehistoric creature accessed Speedy with splatchers?
	The Mastodon "Secret Water" by Arthur Ransome	Philip Johnson
5.	which vessel was lost through monkeying around with a cigar?
	The schooner 'Wild Cat' - Gibber smoking and dropping the cigar in Missee Lee	Ian Watkins
6.	what species' addition to the Jemmerling Collection was thwarted?
	a Pair of Great Northern divers in 'Great Northern?' What's shot is History. What's missed is mystery', Jemmerling	Ian Watkins
	Ransome called them Colymbus immer but the name is now Gavia immer Also known to North Americans as Common loons and to Canadians in particular as cash in the hand	Adam Q
7.	where did they leave a new halfpenny in a round brass box?
	At the peak of Kanchenjunga "Swallowdale"	Philip Johnson
8.	what viral infection placed three families in quarantine?
	Mumps "Winter Holiday"	Philip Johnson
9.	where was the Baltic home of the barque Pommern?
	Mariehamn (Maarianhamina), Finnland (Aland islands) That's where she's moored now as a museum ship.	Pawel Golik
	"the island harbour of Mariehamn in the Baltic" Dady tells the Swallows about the Pommern when they sail past her in "We didn't mean to go to sea"	Adam Q
10.	who turned out not to be an armadillo?
	Timothy "Pigeon Post"	Philip Johnson
	Timothy Stedding Basedon Ransome's prospecting friend Oscar Gnosspelius	Adam Q
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P.	Which University
1.	has a caprine clock tower?
	Coimbra	Kerry Webb
2.	boasts a 406 year old laburnum?
	Leiden in their Hortus Botanicus	AGB
3.	was founded by King Gustav II Adolf?
	Tartu University (Estonia) Formerly known as Academia Dorpatensis or Academia Gustaviana	Pawel Golik
4.	displays vítores, originally painted in bulls' blood?
	University of Salamanca	Bill Nyden
5.	thrived on the proceeds from tobacco and chocolate?
	Bristol Supported by the Willsand Fry families	Martin Watts
6.	was transferred to the new national capital following a conflagration?
	Academia Aboensis, Finland The first university in Finland, Academia Aboensis, was established in Turku in 1640 by Christina, the Queen of Sweden and Finland. In 1828, following the Great Fire of Turku, the university was transferred to Helsinki, the new capital of the country, which at the time belonged to the Russian Empire.	Kerry Webb
7.	has a contemporary edifice, likened to a typewriter?
	Christ's College, Cambridge http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/gallery/christscollege/christs_008	Pawel Golik
	Christ's College Cambridge http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Christ's_College_New_Court_.JPG	Martin Watts
8.	stands on the site of an inn 'at the sign of the ox'?
	Padua built on the site of an inn "at the sign of the ox"	AGB
9.	was founded by King George II?
	Gottingen in 1734 as the Georg August University of Gottingen	AGB
	Columbia University, New York Columbia University, as King's College by the Church of England, receiving a royal charter in 1754 from George II of Great Britain. See wikipedia	Jerry Clough
10.	incorporates Botany Bay?
	Trinity College, Dublin Name given to College vegetable garden!	AGB
Top Gunroom

Q.
1.	what terminus is ursine?
	Paddington	Kerry Webb
2.	where does the canal lack the grandeur of its namesake?
	Little Venice On the Regent's Canal	Martin Watts
3.	who would appear to have places at Smithfield and the Strand?
	Bart Simpson St Bart's Hospital in Smithfield; Simpsons-in-the-Strand restaurant just off The Strand. Maybe.	AGB
4.	which district derives its name from the appearance of St Mary Matfelon?
	Whitechapel The chapel of St Mary Matfelon had white walls	Adam Q
5.	where might an obelisk be perceived as a memorial to a North African seamstress?
	Cleopatra's Needle Egyptian obelisk on the Thames Embankment	Adam Q
6.	which establishment, in the interest of political rectitude, discarded its Bavarian name for that of a Gaelic province?
	Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh being, before marriage, Having been Phillip Mountbattern, the anglisied version of Batternburg	Ian Watkins
	The Coburg Hotel in Berekely Square... ... which it became the Connaught Hotel	Martin Watts
7.	what former hostelry was not the residence of a former Foreign Secretary?
	Jack Straw's Castle "Jack Straw addressed his fellow revolting peasants from a hay wagon on Hampstead Heath"	Martin Watts
	The Temple	WG
8.	where do frequent delays recall a famous late arrival over 200 years ago?
	Victoria?	WG
	Trafalgar Square Scene of traffic-jams, and Nelson was literally late for his own funeral in 1806. The procession was so long that it took all day for Nelson's coffin to reach St. Paul's, and he didn't arrive until after dark.	Susan B
9.	from what corner of London is it possible to see Copenhagen?
	Hyde Park Corner Duke of Wellington is riding hishorse Copenhagen in the statue of him there	Adam Q
10.	whence the ill-fated Liza Kemp?
	Lambeth "Liza of Lambeth", Somerset Maugham's 1st novel	AGB
Top Gunroom

R.	During 2007:
1.	what form of confectionary bothered Zaheer?
	Jelly Beans a long and rather obscure story of India's cricket tour to England.....	AGB
2.	which ensemble rubbished Pomp and Circumstance?
	Smashing Pumpkins Youtube	Bob Nyden
	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra played 'Land of Hope and Glory" on a rubbish dump, on instruments made of tossed-away items, to highligh environmental issues: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0KzUbXcLxmY	AGB
3.	who reluctantly accepted the rust-proof qualities of bronze?
	Andres Romero?? 3rd place in the rainy British Open?	Don Seltzer
	Margaret, Baroness Thatcher aka "The Iron Lady". A bronze statue of her was placed outside the House of Commons, and she joked that though she would have preferred iron, at least bronze won't rust.	AGB
4.	where did hyoid misrepresentation cause multinational distress?
	At the Bob Woolmer autopsy Originally thought to be death by strangulation	Martin Watts
5.	which herb has withered leaving memories of a north London diet?
	Alan Coren deceased humorist, aka "The Sage of Cricklewood", and author of "The Cricklewood" Diet (Cricklewood is a residential district in north London).	AGB
6.	whose investiture has recalled a previous recognition of bovine excellence?
	Sir Ian Terence "Beefy" Botham OBE 1997, Knighthood 2007	AGB, Martin W.
	the "previous recognition" could be the OBE, or could be reference to that old chestnut of the knighting of a suculent roast as "Sir Loin".	AGB
7.	where has a noontide run eclipsed Cecil's eighty year old record?
	Great Court at Trinity College	Don Seltzer
8.	who spoke of unrivalled love of life, laughter, fun and folly?
	Prince Harry at memorial service for Diana	Don Seltzer
9.	which piscine Mandarin scholar has become the 26th?
	Kevin Rudd He became the 26th Australian Prime Minister on 3 December 2007. He is a scholar of the Mandarin language, and the rudd is a small fish.	Kerry Webb
10.	who has progressed from KGB via MI5 to CMG?
	Oleg Gordievsky Russian KGB defector honoured by Queen - CMG being the same honour that Fleming had Bond receive.	AGB