King William's College Annual Quiz - 2012-2013

by John Keats

Keats

From "Diamond Dust & Other Stories" by Anita Desai

Holmes was playing the Barcarolle on his violin

Author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

DECLINE and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee (not Rise)

New research led by Yale University scientists suggests that a ROCKY planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. Rocky connection eg Time-warp tough guy, Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Ingenious, but I don't think that it is right. I think has to have "Diamond" in the title. Either one work looking at several people or several different works with the same title.

by Kate Kray

from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Scroll to the end of http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/swallowfield.html

Description by Norman Mailer

Not Philadelphia

See Flashman and the Mountain of Light

Later promoted to Empress

?

3rd child of John of Gaunt. These were her husbands.

Walter's widow

5th daughter of George the 3rd

Cannon in Dover Castle

Hungarian countess who killed many girls to bathe in their blood

Memorial to the horses of the Boer War

Luke 1 Vs. 41-45

In Richmal Compton's Just William books

Richmael Crompton's William books

from The High Tide on the Coast of Linconshire by Jean Ingelow, 1571

Jean Ingelow The High Tide on the coast of Lincolnshire

Falstaff "escaping" in the buck basket.

Verdi operas, not the original play

Don Alvaro

extra M at the end of the name

That's the way my penseros are va-ing.

Again the verdi version

In the burial vault of Charles the Great at Aachen Carlos visits the grave of the emperor Charlemagne (Carlo Magno), whose successor, the new Holy Roman Emperor, is being elected by delegates from the relevant countries. Carlos resolves to change his life if he is crowned (Cavatina: Oh, de'verd'anni miei/ "Oh, the dreams and deceits of my youth"). Hiding behind the vault, he overhears a gathering of conspirators including Silva and Ernani. Ernani swears to murder Carlos. The conspiracy is foiled when Carlos's attendants enter and surprise the conspirators.

Westerly point of the Northern Island of New Zealand

Killed in the Delft magazine explosion of 1654. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel_Fabritius

Goldfinch painting, Mauritshuis

Cartographer to the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie

Was the(only) lunch guest of William the Silent of Orange who was shot on his way downstairs after the meal. va Uylenburgh was the father of Saskia, wife of Rembrandt

Dutch microscopist

Raid on the Medway in 1667 Anglo-Dutch War

Painting of the HMS Royal Charles off Chatham

A canonical rererence!

Fairfax Harbour, Papua New Guinea

I haven't read "The Guinea Pig's History of Biology" but I suppose there could be moles in it

Wrote books with those names. See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-kenneth-mellanby-1406138.html

pen name for Richard Harris Barham whose family owned Tappington Hall

Part of the family estate included a manor called Tappington Wood, often alluded to in the Ingoldsby Legends. from http://www.tappingtonhall.co.uk/

Film set around the TT races

George du Maurier's story

Battle of Megiddo

Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductors are often credited with each having independently invented the IC (integrated circuit)

The ladies of Llangollen

Mistress Quickly describes Rugby as "no tell-tale nor no breed-bate" in the Merry Wives of Windsor

Osceola was an early pen name used by Danish author, Karen Blixen. Osceola was also known as Billy Powell

Sewing machines

Isaac seems to be the connection

Chez Mr Jeremy Fisher in Beatrix Potter's Tale - "Sir Isaac Newton wore his black and gold waistcoat... instead of a nice dish of minnows, they had a roasted grasshopper with lady-bird sauce..

Maybe Observations on Daniel and the Apocalypse of John (1733) should be the answer to this question instead of the next one.

The Compleat Angler. John 21:3 is "Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing."

His " Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)"

Come let us join our cheerful tongues, lyrics by Watts

Come, let us join our cheerful songs Revelation 5: 11-13)

The Wise Men (1986)

The prosecution of Frederick Seddon for poisoning

Bishop of Sodor & Man & St Asaph. Served as Gov. of the Isle of Man

Irish nationalist who was elected to both seats in 1852

Snowfield in George Eliot's Adam Bede is also said to be based in Wirksworth

From the poem by Sir John Betjeman

I happened to read about it in a tourish brochure a week ago, while in Dublin

There is a (modern) gravestone there with his name on

(Not sure why "appropriately") Frank Vigar and Peter Smith made 218 for the last wicket playing for Essex against Derbyshire in 1947.

Known as the Cathedral of the Peak

Statue of Florence Nightingale (Lady of the Lamp) had a hospital in Üsküdar during the Crimean War

Üsküdar is modern day Scutari. There isa statue of Florence Nightingale in London Road, Derby.

Statue of Florence Nightingale (Lady of the Lamp) had a hospital in Üsküdar during the Crimean War

The cook at the White Horse Inn spread the eggs and almond paste on top of the tart instead of stiring it into the mixture. Jack Aubrey likes Bakewell Tarts.

Royal Shrovetide Football (not FIFA rules)

St Ann's Well is a geothermal spring (and also bottled by the Buxton water company, but not for free!)

School motto in Latin

Coriolanus says it: Hear you this Triton of the minnows?

The Walrus and the Carpenter

How should I your true-love know From another one? By his cockle bat and' staff And his sandal shoon.

Taming of the Shrew

"Without his roe, like a dried herring"

Midsummer Night's Dream, not sure about the rest

"You may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel"

in Macbeth

For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams—all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.

Merchant of Venice Act 1 Scene 1 "Let me play the fool. [...] But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion

Merchant of Venice

His face is all bubukles and whelks and knobs and flames o' fire;

"a plague o' these pickle herring! " after a belch in Twelfth Night

Composed "Oedipus Rex"

wrote Prometheus Bound

Opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Gluck's opera Alceste is based on the play Alcestis by Euripides

Platonic love

Phalacrocorax aristotelis (L., 1761) (European shag)

Cited by Linnaeus in Philosophia Botanica (1751)

Conium maculatum, hemlock

March Up Country

The Frogs

Batrachomyomachia (Ancient Greek: ???????????????, from ????????, frog, ???, mouse, and, ????, battle) or the Battle of Frogs and Mice is a comic epic or parody of the Iliad, definitely attributed to Homer by the Romans, but according to Plutarch the work of Pigres of Halicarnassus, the brother (or son) of Artemisia, queen of Caria and ally of Xerxes. Some modern scholars, however, assign it to an anonymous poet of the time of Alexander the Great.

The Battle of Frogs and Mice

The very model of a Modern Major General- Pirates of Penzance

Anton von Webern set a poem in praise of the ancient Greek gods o in his First Cantata

by Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg "an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family"

Principal Latin source for the story of Pygmalion and Galatea, which is parodied in the operetta 'Die schoene Galathee' by the 19th-century Austrian composer Franz von Suppé (who bore the Italian title 'Cavaliere'). Ovid does not give a name to the animated statue.

Count Ditters von Dittersdorf - Metamorphoses - symphonies

http://www.amazon.com/24x36-Theres-Always-Vermont-Poster/dp/B0058I1L0C

vertical lift bridge across Cape Cod Canal

Cape Cod Canal

Moby Dick, Chapter 15 "Chowder"

from poem by Emma Lazarus

island off Cape Cod, MA

It was designed by James Gamble Rogers, who designed many of Yale's "Collegiate Gothic" structures. Rogers said his design for the tower was inspired by "Boston Stump," the 272-foot (83 m) tower of the parish church of St Botolph in Boston, England. The 15th-century Boston Stump is the tallest parish church tower in England. Rogers also based some details on the 16th-century tower of St Giles church in Wrexham, Wales, where Elihu Yale is buried.

Slowing light to 38 mph, at near absolute zero

Clarence "Bob" Birds Eye frozen food

World's first mountain-climbing steam cog railway

possibly General John Stark and his brother William

Robert Frost, The Generations of Men

"The Letter" by Somerset Maugham

"The dog it was that died."

The orphan was Philip Carey in Maugham's "Of Human Bondage"

in Maugham's short story "The Trembing of a Leaf"

Spelling

Dies of hiccups in Maugham's "P&O"

Wife of the Curator in The Temptation of Neil MacAdam

From Liza of Lambeth

in Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence"

Maugham's "Cakes and Ale"

from Maugham's Ashenden, a collection of short stories

Pygmalion written in 1912 but not performed until 1913.

Pmallion

Of the Salvation Army

In his final message

Russian for Truth

Supposed location of hoax find was Barkham Manor, Piltdown

Won silver at the team épée event in the 1906 Olympics. Was a survivor of the Titanic. "Criticism after the disaster suggested that he had boarded the emergency boat in violation of the "women and children first" policy, that the boat had failed to return to rescue those struggling in the water, and that his offer of five pounds to each of the lifeboat's crew might be viewed as a bribe to keep their distance from those still in the water" "Duff Gordon denied that his offer of money to the lifeboat's crew represented a bribe, and the British Board of Trade's inquiry into the disaster accepted his denial on this point. The inquiry nonetheless concluded that, if the emergency boat had rowed towards the people who were in the water, instead of staying away, it might very well have been able to rescue some of them."

Silver in Fencing for GB in 1906, Survived Titanic sinking with wife and her secretary in Lifeboat 1, only 12 people on board though capacity was 40. He was accused of bribing lifeboat crew to allow him into the lifeboat before other women and children and also prevented them returning to look for survivors. Duff Gordon denied that his offer of money to the lifeboat's crew represented a bribe, and the British Board of Trade's inquiry into the disaster accepted his denial on this point. The inquiry nonetheless concluded that, if the emergency boat had rowed towards the people who were in the water, instead of staying away, it might very well have been able to rescue some of them.

Leaving just Sweden and the UK to complete.

Something to do with handling the ball? No combination I enter into Google helps me.

Something to do with handling the ball? No combination I enter into Google helps me.

If you enter the numbers and a year into Google you get numerous hits for various football codes. Soccer is the code where as far as I know, there is no "manual contact". "On the field of play, the number of goals increased aided by the 1912 rule preventing goalkeepers from handling the ball outside the penalty area". The penalty area is known as the 18-yard box!

The statue was erected in secret during the night and 'magically' appeared on 1st May 1912.

Arizona was just over a month later

The three wavy lines above each other, symbolizing Denmark’s three straits: Oresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt

The pottery took its name from the Wemyss family, titled incumbents of Wemyss Castle on the east coast of Fife. The Kingdom, a nickname for Fife, Scotland.

Kingdom of Fife

Argenta Porcelain

Porcelain factories

The reference is to Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.

Famous for his paintings of swans in flight on royal worcester

Spelling

Sorry, previous entry incorrect

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.(Song of Solomon)

The farmer will never be happy again; He carries his heart in his boots ; (A. P. Herbert)

"For Carlyle the Age of Machinery had killed 'spontaneous growth' and had diminished poetry and religion to 'a product of the smaller intestines?'"

Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas

from Jonson's Bartholemew Fair

From "Patience" by G&S

"might excite his languid spleen"

From "Mr Steadfast" by John Buchan

"In the dark womb where I began My mother's life made me a man." Wordsworth

" I stick this probe In the posterior lobe— Behold the cerebellum A smoky yellow, like old vellum!" T.E.Brown

Tennyson, "Locksley Hall"

Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man

"But Constantine reserved the right to determine his own religious practices, and even to intervene in the life of the church, for he considered himself 'bishop of bishops'."

Raided a German airfield at Estourmel for VC

Henty V Act 1: The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,

Denis Price, playing Louis Mazzini tells Alec Guinness's Lord Henry D'Ascoyne

Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope

He was beheaded on Montmartre and set off from there

Killed in the great storm of 1703

Martyred in Uganda in 1884

Last Catholic Bishop of Iceland

In Copenhagen

From the Just So Stories

Siames cat in The Incredible Journey

Cats the Musical, or T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

by Lynley Dodd

Also see Charlezzzzz's poem on the subject

Kitten in Ransome's We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

From "Animal Heroes" by Ernest Thompson Seton

Gray, Ode on the death of a favourite cat

Beatrix Potter

From "The Cat and the Moon" by Yeats.

Floris

YSL

Guerlain

The Castello del Valentino, an historic residence of the House of Savoy which now houses the Architecture Faculty of the Unveristy of Turin

Tonino Lamborghini (logo the Bull) and Coty

Nino's grandfather, Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti

Dior

Skull & crossbones on the label

Avon

Calvin Klein

Prada

Carven

Guerlin's

Gold 29, Silver 17, Bronze 19, Total Medals 65

of the moonies

nicknamed "Butzi", son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, was a German designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article3383541.ece

(perceiving post-independence Scotland)

Thomas babington Macaulay wrote of the beacon signals in his poem "The Armada" "the red glare on Skiddaw woke the burghers of Carlisle"

moon landing

The step out of his capsule and leap (skydive) was likened by media to Neil Armstrong's "one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind". Would prefer to see the answer as Neil Armstrong though.

Hockney had an exhibition "A Bigger Picture" at the RA and was awarded the Order of Merit in the 2012 New Year's Honours.

Rebecca House is a hospice founded by Robin and Dwina Gibb

delivered the weather forecast on BBC Scotland

Shropshire Union Fly-Boat 'Saturn' carried the Olympic Torch over the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct