King William's College Annual Quiz - 2008-2009

In his last match at the age of 59, he scored 15 and 25 for the Gentlemen of England playing Surrey at The Oval

The operetta was based on Shaw's Arms and the Man

At Fort Myers (VA) in 1908, Thomas Selfridge was the first man killed in powered aeroplane crash

Elected mayor of Aldeburgh (means 'old fort') in 1908, the first woman mayor in UK. Was first woman doctor in UK, 1865.

1908 Great Race from New York to Paris

The Cullinan diamond was cut into smaller diamonds used in the crown jewels

British prime minister, resigned on 3 April 1908, died on 22 April 1908. But that's 19 days, not 16?

Poop, poop!

Lord Hugh Cecil was best man

...led to his becoming King Manuel II of Portugal

The oranges were more plentiful than usual that year.

"Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller v."

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

That's what it sounds like, but I've never read any

"At daybreak Billy Buck emerged from the bunkhouse and stood for a moment on the porch looking up at the sky. He was a broad, bandy-legged little man with a walrus mustache...."

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn."

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." - the first line of the book.

This begins "They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off--Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye."

Alice book by Lewis Carroll

"What hath God wrought?" - first message (actual line "... what God hath wrought.)"

In Cold Comfort Farm

Cabled Scotland Yard that Crippen was aboard, Dee followed on faster Laurentic to arrest Crippen in Quebec

“Just sighted 300 Germans. Please send one rifle and 300 rounds of ammunition. Very urgent!” (He was requesting cartridges, not bullets)

Riddle of the Sands. Davis asked him to bring a Rippingill stove to the Dulicbella

Al Smith

"Mercer is since your time," said Holmes. "He is my general utility man who looks up routine business.

it was a telegram: Holmes stopped at a post-office and sent off a telegram on our way. The answer reached us in the evening, and he tossed it across to me.

BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WON'T DROWN

In Buchan's novel "The Power House"

Used by Bismarck to create the Franco-Prussian War

Queen Victoria sent a telegram to Gladstone. Deliberately it was left uncoded - so that the rebuke would be leaked.

Queen Vctoria to Gladstone

The original name "Sauda-ey" means 'Island of sheep' in Norse

(Old Scandinavian faar (sheep) + ey (island)

Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" overture

Granted by King David I to the Benedictine Abbey of Reading in Berkshire

St Moluag cut off one of his fingers to win a race

Bonnie Prince Charlies great-grandfather was John III Sobieski of Poland

Special breed of sheep that eat seaweed

Contaminated by anthrax in WW2 and quarantined until decontaminated

'Duncan Gray cam' here to woo' by Robert Burns

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Catriobna"

Collaborated with Nazis

Sang duet with Robert Merrill: "Au fond du temple saint" from The Pearl Fishers

Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale

-ling ending seems to be the link

The only one of the Wadden barrier islands that ends with -ling.

Medieval artist, apprenticed to van der Wyden. Created a shrine in Bruges for the relics of St. Ursula.

It's a sport (sort of), and geometry (angle), ends with -ling, and the next answer is about a fish.

It's a lepidopteran (a butterfly) and it ends with -ling

Grape that is used in Piesporter wine

These are grapes. The wine for which Piesport is famous is called "Piesporter", though.

was known as The Foolish

Borgia in Italian

Looks like the connection may be VI or 6

it was widely believed that his sister Princess Louise Auguste was fathered by Struensee, his father's doctor

First western style school in Thailand

Born on December 14th 1895, the same date on which Prince Albert died in 1861 and Princess Alice Maud Mary died in 1878

Magaret Tudor (daughter of Henry VII) was grandmother to both of his parents

...was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, the first

Shakespeare's plays, parts 1, 2 and 3

Developed by L..L. Zamenhof

Even though Romanian is derived from Vulgar Latin, it got this particular feature from some Balkan languages (Albanian?). Typical male definite article suffix is -ul, but the grammar is complicated.

Spoken by a Slavonic minority in Eastern Germany

also known as Sorbian or Lusatian (spoken in certain districts of Eastern Germany)

One of the Rheto-roman languages, one of the four official languages of Switzerland.

...or so I'm told!

It did occur to me that English has the reverse - a future that - sometimes - looks like a past. The Future Subjunctive ("....If I were to go to sea.....") uses "were", most recognizable as a plural past indicative of "to be" (Soon they were all at sea.....")....

Another language that almost lost the seven-case system is Bulgarian, where only presonal pronouns retained vestigal case forms. Macedonian and Bulgarian are quite similar, so the authors may have Bulgarian in mind.

Slovene does retain the full use of the dual, as does Sorbian (but it is not a national language). Lithuanian had dual, but by 1930s it became nearly obsolete (it is still sometimes found in poetry). And what about Hebrew?

A board game, and also a name of an edible mollusc. Seafood appears to be the connection for this section.

Nursey Rhyme Mary, Mary , quite contrary

film, retitled "The Playgirl and the War Minister"

a.k.a Norway Lobster

Rev Langhorne founded the Loretto School in Musselburgh.

A character in one of Dickens's novels

Sam Weller in Pckwick Papers

Sam Weller in Pckwick Papers (sorry about that)

From "Under Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas: " ...ships the oars, drifts slowly in the dab-filled bay, and, lying on his back in the unbaled water, among crabs’ legs and tangled lines, looks up at the spring sky."

blue-green algae - Kingdom Monera

Blue flower in the plant kingdom

Flowers in vegetable kingdom

In Lewis carroll, poem "The voice of the Lobster" from Alice in Wonderland

From Alice in Wonderland

Lady Macbeth, notorious for sleepwalking

Rome and Palermo or Siracusa (La Sonnambula)

Another train named after a person

Wiesbaden and Prague

A train named "Don Giovanni" links Prague with Venice. Is the theme simply trains with given names?

Venice - Ljubljana

Venice and Ljubljana

author of The Good Soldier Svejk

Copenhagen and Munich. (The Constant Tin Soldier)

This one was tough to find, as the train is no longer in service.

Brussels - Strasbourg - Basel. So: Monnet or Schuman?

Brussels and Basel

was imprisoned in Sönderborg, but the railway connection eludes me.

Sibelius wrote the "King Christian II Suite"

St Petersburg and Helsinki (King Christian II)

Judith and the three mute wives appear in Béla Bartók's opera "Bluebeard's castle". EuroCity train "Bartók Béla" links Budapest with Frankfurt.

Judith is the wife in Bartok's opera Bluebeard and finds the other previous wives

Goya's two majas, clothed and nude?

thankee Gerry

A train named "Pegasus" links Amsterdam with Zurich - that has to be the theme: named trains.

Salvador Dali considered Perpignan railway station the centre of the universe

A train named "Salvador Dali" runs between those two cities.

Barcelona and Milan (La Persistencia de la Memoria)

1919 Finnish attempt against Russia failed-don't know if the names are the same river

Aunus was also the name of a Finnish tugboat remade into a gunboat in 1940. See http://heninen.net/aunus/english.htm

From Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius : "Stout Lartius hurled down Aunus Into the stream beneath;"

Lord Macaulay – Horatius, The Lays of Ancient Rome

from a poem by Robert Bridges "There is a hill beside the silver Thames...and laden barges float by banks of myosote"

Pied Piper drowned the rats of Hamelin in the river but the Mayor didn't pay

In Verne's "Five Weeks in a Balloon" the initials of explorer Andrea Debono are found cut into a rock. (Chapter 18)

Richard hannay becomes a river boat engineer in "Greenmantle"

Joshua 3: 9-17

R.L. Stephenson's "An Inland Voyage"

in Huckleberry Finn

Rudyard Kipling's Just-So Story "The beginning of the Armadillo"

Sohrab killed his son Rustum

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Founded as Stanley Villa, known as "Owd Reds", changed named to Accrington Stanley in 1893.

scored a hat trick - category seems to be "Stanley"

Scored 3 in the FA Cup Final 1953, Stanley Matthews match

Only 20th Century Cup Final hat-trick – Blackpool 4 Bolton Wanderers 3 – 1953

"My lips are sealed" is a quote attributed to Baldwin, and the theme is Stanley.

According to Britannica online, Port Stanley formerly Port William

and Port Louis was a capital of Falklands before Stanley.

I am the very model...Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Glyn Daniel was in a tv show by that name, apparently

Guessing here; the date is for the battle of Qatre Bras, leading up to Waterloo. Is the common thread military Earls?

Sam Small - "Pick oop tha' musket"

Old Sam

Fought with Charles II at Battle of Worcester

Character in Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party"

Harold Pinter's "The birthday party". Names referring to the characters Goldberg & McCann

Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party

"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"

The landlady is Mrs. Lupin (Martin Chuzzlewit)

Bleak House

"The coroner is to sit in the first-floor room at the Sols Arms, where the Harmonic Meetings take place twice a week," Bleak House

Rogue Riderhood was believed drowned and was taken to that tavern.

Mr Sleary

Pub in "Hard Times"

not sure which book - found it in Google "Fireside Dickens"

Sketches by Boz

Inn in Dickens' "Pickwick Papers"

Oliver Twist

was where Wackford Squeers held his interviews in "Nicholas Nickleby".

Inn in Dickens' "Great Expectations"

"Barnaby Rudge"

aide de camp to General "Mad" Anthony Wayne

"I like Ike."

Nickname was Old Kinderkook - OK

Which it should be Old Kinderhook

‘I like Ike’

Just guessing

Bull Moose

Monrovia, Liberia

July 4, 1826

welLINGton (= heather = calluna)

aPIa (Samoa)

tOKyo

buCHARest. According to wikipedia, char is one of the main fish species of Windermere.

OtTAWa, Taw runs into the sea near Barnstaple

??Not a member state,technically.

The pudding is a Charlotte RUSSE (thanks QI)

BRUSSElls

budAPEst

isLAMAbad

Semi-metals are Bismuth (Bi), Antimony (Sb) and Arsenic (As) (am assuming element has to be fully inside name)

gaBORONe, capital of Botswana. Needed a list of capital cities, a list of semimetals and a few lines of perl - is that cheating?

boron in Gaborone

MaNILa

has no official capital

nil in Manila

The church of St Ethelburga-the-Virgin within Bishopsgate is located in London's EC2 postcode area.

A Yellowhammer is a bird, which St. Ethelburga is not.

"A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" (London EC2) by Middleton

Thomas Middleton – A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

From "Silence of the Lambs" - book and film

In "Far from the Madding Crowd"

In Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (bird theme?)

In Nicholas Nickleby

in A Gun for Sale By Graham Greene

From "Antic Hay" by Aldous Huxley: ‘That’s one of the subjects,’ said Shearwater, ‘like the Great Wall of China and the habits of Trematodes, I don’t allow myself to be interested in.’

Edwina Crane is a character in Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet". In the first book, "The Jewel in the Crown", she witnesses the brutal, sectarian murder of one of her Indian schoolteaher collagues. She later - a the "widow" of the Empire that has, in her eyes, now died, she performs suttee, dressing in a white sari and setting fire to herself in a small outbuilding. However, if "October 27" is mentioned as the date of her death (and it may well have been the day of Diwali, the Festival of Lights" in that year....), then that mention will be in the third book of the series, "The Towers of Silence", where the circumstances of her death are reported to the English community in Pankot. Can AGB find his "Towers of Silence" to check this? He cannot.

Paul Scott – The Towers of Silence

In Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockinbird": "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Swan is the protagonist of the fourth of Banville's "Scientific Tetrology". The first book is "Doctor Copernicus". Both Copernicus and Swan were mathemeticians.

In Farquar's play "The Recruiting Officer", Kite announces that "I am the learned Copernicus"

George Farquhar – The Recruiting Officer

Findlater's Dry Fly Sherry

Name of fly on the label

The obvious answer, but what is the "following my leader" thing?

Follows a 'leader' of ionised air to (or from) the ground

A type of salmon fly

Trinity college houses the shrine and there is a Trinity muskie lure

Type of fly used in trout fishing - link may be to fly fishing

Another fly

Another fly

Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova - but where's the connection?

Victoria is not the answer - she was great grandmother, not great aunt. Fishing flies named after royals?

Named for Princess Alexandra of Denmark

nymph

Another type of dry fly

Jean Valjean, the protagonist of Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" was prisoner #24601 in Toulon. Upon his release from prison he was taken up by the bishop Myriel of Digne, and abused his trust by sealing silver from him.

Milady poisoned Catherine Bonacieux at the Carmelite convent in Bethune in "The Three Musketeers" by A. Dumas.

In "Madame Bovary"

In "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The Surgeon's Mate - Patrick O'Brian

"The Day of the Jackal" - Frederick Forsyth

After the Reichenbach Falls

From the poem 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'

From Shakespeare's Henry V: "Come, uncle Exeter, go you and enter Harfleur"

from Mr Standfast by John Buchan

Died 11 January 2008

...has been granted protected geographical status

Silver medallist in women's quadruple sculls (rowing) in 2004 Olympics, gold medallist in individual pursuit (cycling) in 2008 Olympics

Indian Frankincense found to reduce symptoms of arthritis

At My Mother's Knee… and Other Low Joints

...while on a fundraising walk for Leukaemia Research

"The bell at Ripon Cathedral, which has rung at 11am to mark Shrove Tuesday since the 15th century, has signalled the start of the city's pancake race for the past 11 years. However, the event, in which children, traders, soldiers and even clergy compete, has been abandoned because of the amount of work needed to carry out risk assessments. The Dean of Ripon, the Very Rev Keith Jukes, who helps organise the races, said: "We have looked at this and there are a number of reasons why it won't take place and a big reason this year is, sadly, health and safety." (from Daily Telegraph)

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/sep/06/europeancapitalofculture2008.design (apparently coleopteran as it's the home of the Beatles?)

might be the ship nabbed by Somali pirates - Sirius - "like a diamond in the sky"

Title of a painting sold at Christies