King William's College Annual Quiz - 2011-2012

In the Asch Building, NYC, Killed 146 workers

Stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia

Letters stencilled on painting

Clocks started at the moment of George V's coronation

Zuleika Dobson

in "The Female of the Species"

He assassinated Russian Prime MinisterPyotr Stolypin during a performance of the opera on September 14 1911.

First to the South Pole

La Dame aux Camélias silent film

Previously they were unpaid

Dominican monk who created a gallery of mural maps in a corridor of the Vatican, c. 1580.

Vignette in bottom left-hand corner, showing Augustus ordering a survey of the known world

1637 map of Caernarvonshire (now part of Gwynedd)

Ogilby's volume of road-maps, 'Britannia' (1675), undoubtedly varies between solid and broken lines in delineating roads, although I do not know for a fact what meaning he attaches to the distinction.

'A Descripsion [sic] of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland & Ireland' (1603 map)

Mapped all English counties at about the same time the Ordnance Survey was doing it

Presented to Charles II

Developed the lobotomy in order to treat mental illnesses including depression. Shared a Nobel Prize for it.

Son of Phillipa of Lancaster, sister of Henry IV of England

Portuguese writer and politician

marriage to Princess Isabel of Spain 1496

Died 1578, Battle of Al-Qaṣr Al-Kabīr

For mutiny

Born in Portugal, Queen of Charles II

Governor General of Goa surrendered to India in 1961

by A.A. Milne

Colours in the title - this one fits

Colours in book titles

Collection of Buchan's stories set in the Borders

Light bearer

Meaning of name in Greek - Chemical elements theme

OsO4 is a volatile compound with an acrid smell.

from tantalus/tantalize

ytterbium, yttrium, terbium, and erbium

It was named for Niobe, the daugter of Tantalus. Until 1949, it had also been called Columbium.

Discovered by Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Gallus means rooster or cock in Latin

From German Kobold a type of goblin

from Greek osme

Elemental osmium is practically odourless - it's the tetroxide that gve it the name.

From Greek "brómos", meaning stench

The section is about mushrooms. Is "death angel" a real oxymoron though?

Chrys. kills w/ pyrethrens; tansy wards off ants; citr. shoos skeeters; borax: roaches, etc. get on hairy legs, lick off and slices innards

It was used to make insecticide in European folk tradition.

Cramp balls or King Alfred's cake

It is believed to heve been the cause of death of Charles VI.

The common name was originally "Judas's ear" now known as "Jew's ear" or "jelly ear".

Lamellibranch are oysters

John Betjeman poem

Ronald Reagan

Where Hans Lippershey, supposed first inventor of the telescope, lived. Two others claimed to have invented the telescope within a short space of time.

1689 painting by Mein dert Hobbema

Dorothea Brooke (elder sister of Celia) rejects Sir James Chettam in favour of the desiccated pedant Casaubon

[Addendum] Subtitled 'A Study of Provincial Life'.

[Not entirely satisfactory: I cannot explain the 'classically educated' reference.]

RAF base.

He wrote a play called "The Roaring Girl" about a female cutpurse.

This was her original name.

Roger's wife

from Watership Down by Richard Adams

Just So Stories by Kipling

Lobo, Rag and Vixen by Ernest Seton-Thompson

Rabbit, Run

The work of Mary Barbara Bailey.

Alice in Wonderland

Nursery rhymes by Beatrix Potter

The original spelling of rarebit

Fulica armillata - red-gartered coot

Shakespeare's Henry V

? in 1348, Agincourt was 1415

Principal Herald of England established in 1415

Winston Churchill

In the song 'Mud, Mud,Glorious Mud' (associated with Flanders & Swann and with Ian Wallace). The lovers are hippopotami.

Falstaff to Henry V in Henry IV Part 1, Act 2, Scene 2

Bertha Benz drove her husband Carl's first car from Mannheim to Pforzheim to prove its reliability. She used her garter to insulate a shorted ignition wire.

I.e. fetters: a pun on 'crewel', a coarse textile, and 'cruel'.

in "The Death of the Duke of Buckingham" by Alexander Pope

From Alexander Pope's description of the squalid death, in 1688, of George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham ('Moral Essays')

Malvolio complains in Twelfth Night Act 3, Scene 4

In L P Hartley's "The Shrimp and the Anemone".

commemorating the execution of Edith Cavell

Was originally Bishop's Lynn until Henry VIII Norfolk towns and vilage theme

Roy's of Wroxham claims to be the largest village store

Sarah Hare had a wax effigy made of herself in her will

in Arthur Ransome's Coot Club, Dr Dudgeon has a bream weathercock

1075 - 1094 when it moved to Norwich

for her three sons Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III

Widow of Gustav I of Sweden

in Farewell to Arms

She was told about the School of Pain when she is bedridden by her cousin Helen in "What Katy Did".

Wuthering Heights, re her loves for Linton versus Heathcliff.

wife # 6 but not writing to Henry VIII

Taming of the Shrew, Act 5, Scene 1

Songs 'Cloudbusting' and 'The Big Sky' from the album 'Hounds of Love'

1920s song celebrating the 'shimmy' dance

Did not say "obey" to William in wedding vows

Epstein sculpture

Newport Transporter Bridge. I now recall going over this in 1970s but didn't know it was called a gondola.

Mythical sunken land beyonf Cornwall

Welsh connection

Easter Monday, 1896

The White Knight told Alice that he had "completed his design to keep the Menai Bridge from rust by boiling it in wine".

Richard Burton

Babs wad a race car

1797 last invasion of Britain Theme= Welsh towns

Henry V before Agincourt

His assassin's original name was Ramachandra

Burned at the stake in 1415 Sancta Simplicitas

To complete the answer

In 1904 shot Russian G-G

The January Uprising of 1863. Brzóska was the last leader of the Uprising and was hanged in 1865.

Mexican War of Independence, 1811

Executed 1958 reburied in 1989 as communism fell

The Free Fishers

In Buchan's Runagates Club stories

In Buchan's Mr Standfast he was a German spy who disguised himself well

The Three Hostages

Spy in 39 Steps took ths name, he was murdered

Midwinter

The Island of Sheep

The House of the Four Winds

Butler in The Power-House

John Buchan book

a crossbred dog used by poachers

Used for poaching fish in cookery

Henry V Act 4 Scene 6

It celebrates awful opening lines.

French literary prize. Again the court theme.

The Star Chamber

full name Court connection?

William III of England was riding there in 1702 when his horse stumbled on a molehill and the King broke his collarbone.

Erected in 1863

Port Harcourt, Nigeria named by Lugard built to export coal

WWI battlefield

There seems to be a 'cock' theme to this section

Shot with his bow and arrow by the Sparrow (passer domesticus).

Name of two steam locomotives

Engraulids are anchovies

The lady was Welsh

The train in The Lady Vanishes starts in Mandrika

Codename for the clearing of the Roer Triangle, 1945.

The Jock Scott is a salmon fly.

Alternative feather to kingfisher or Blue chatterer

Yeoman of the Guard

In 'The Sorcerer' (Gilbert & Sullivan) (his introductory song)

G&S, Utopia, Limited

The Grand Duke

In 'Princess Ida' (Gilbert & Sullivan)

A poem by Gilbert

The Soldiers of our Queen in Patience

In the Act 1 Finale of "Iolanthe".

In the Act 1 Finale of "Iolanthe".

In 'The Gondoliers' (Gilbert & Sullivan) (song in Act II, 'There lived a king')

Pirates of Penzance (theme may be Gilbert's lyrics?)

Ruddigore

Died after living in Star and Garter Nursing Home

Two horses were electrocuted Kid cassidy survived

Died 10 February 2011

Knowles was previously Bishop of Sodor and Man, Isaac Barrow was also

Queen`s Speech on her visit

Played both roles

Swam crawl down the Thames through Bablock Hythe

Lost appeal at tribunal for dismissal in December 2010