King William's College Annual Quiz

King William's College Annual Quiz - 2013-2014

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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).
— Adam Quinan
"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est"
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A.	In the year 1913:
1.	what famous club was founded at Vrigstraat 20?
	PSV Eindhoven Dutch soccer club	AGB
2.	where, innovatively, were both events made bipartite?
	Mixed and Ladies Doubles at Wimbledon Both introduced in 1913 - but how is that an exact answer to the Q?	AGB
	Isle of Man Junior TT - two laps on the first day, four on the second day, Senior TT three and then four laps)	The Quizmaster says.......
3.	where did the Emperor of India lose his uncle to a single gunshot?
	Sarajevo	Joanne Thomson
	Thessaloniki (Thessalonica), Greece King George I of Greece was assassinated by Alexandros Schinas, 18th March 1913. Of Danish birth, George was brother to Queen Alexandra of Great Britain and thus uncle to her son King George V, penultimate Emperor of India.	Oliver Mundy
	Thessaloniki King George I of Greece	The Quizmaster says.......
4.	which authority on tubes was elected to the Presidency at Burlington House?
	Sir William Crookes Vacuum-tube physicist to Pres. of the Royal Society	AGB
5.	who established the relation between an element's X-ray frequency and its atomic number?
	Henry Moseley One of Rutherford's team.	Martin Watts
6.	the celebration of the arrival of which migrant parasite took place for the first time in a Saxon city?
	Cuckoo Delius' "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring" premiered in Leipzig (as Radio 3 has just told me!)	AGB
7.	after increasing problems in EC4, whose grand vernal display moved to SW3?
	Royal Horticultural Society moved to the Royal Hospital	Graham
8.	which boy was born and would compose a nominal reminder 20 years later?
	Benjamin Britten born 1913 and wrote choral variations 'a boy was born' in 33	Graham
9.	who served which country as President for less than one hour?
	Pedro Lascuráin President of Mexico	Graham
10.	what might perhaps have anticipated Tom and Jerry?
	Act allowing temporary release and re-arrest of sufragettes Colloquially, the "Cat and Mouse Act" of 1813	AGB
	I meant 1913 of course.....	AGB
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B.	Who:
1.	was a red head?
	Vivaldi??????	Graham
	Giovanni Battista di Jacopo aka Il Rosso Florentino	AGB
	Titian A red herring?	Lois
	Rosselino Antonio Gamberelli	The Quizmaster says.......
2.	was strabismic?
	Marty Feldman??????	Graham
	Guercino (the artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)	Poll Skeeping
	Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri	The Quizmaster says.......
3.	was a little dyer?
	Tintoretto Theme of the Old Masters?	Martin Watts
4.	was the little old painter of the hospital?
	Pinturicchio? 'Pinturicchio', the nickname of Bernardino di Betto, means 'little painter' in the Perugian dialect, but I cannot account for either 'old' or 'hospital'.	Oliver Mundy
	Vacchietta, Pittor dello Spedale Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo/Lorenzo di Petro	The Quizmaster says.......
5.	was so-named because his brother was portly?
	Sandro Botticelli Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, whose brother Antonio was a portly goldsmith.	AGB
6.	was so-named because his father was a gardener?
	L'Ortolano Giovanni Battista Benvenuti	The Quizmaster says.......
7.	was so-named because he liked to paint birds?
	Paolo Uccello	AGB
8.	used a trefoil signature?
	Garofalo ('Clover') aka Benvenuto Tisi	AGB
9.	was Clumsy Tom?
	Masaccio Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone	Martin Watts
10.	was Little Tom?
	Masolino Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini;	Martin Watts
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C.
1.	whence all Mannions
	"All Mannions come from Manannan" Yeats' "Three Songs to the one Burden".	AGB
2.	who loved his country and loved his lass?
	Parnell A Yeats poem - Come Gather Round Me Parnellites	Lee Ann R
3.	a long-legged bird flew over three Chinamen carved in what?
	Lapis Lazuli From Yeats poem, Lapis Lazuli	Lois
4.	who forgot cruelly that even lovers are not immune from drowning?
	The mermaid Another Yeats poem	Lee Ann
5.	whose pupils would range from round to crescent and crescent to round?
	Minnaloushe In Yeats's poem 'The Cat and the Moon'.	Oliver Mundy
6.	where would I build a modest home and live in solitude, growing beans and keeping bees?
	Innisfree Yeats poem: Lake Isle of Innisfree	Lois
7.	whose purity was likened favourably to a tall candle before the crucifix?
	"But purer than a tall candle before the Holy Rood Is Cathleen the daughter of Hoolihan" Yeats' "Stories of Red Hanrahan".	AGB
8.	who wore small holes in his shoes and large holes in his gown?
	Father John O'Hart	Lee Ann
9.	where were the fiddler's cousin and brother priests?
	Kilvarnet (cousin) and Moharabuiee (brother). In Yeats's poem 'The Fiddler of Dooney'.	Oliver Mundy
10.	where did my cap acquire a halfpenny?
	Windy Gap In the poem "Running to Paradise"	Anna Ravano
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D.	Where:
1.	did Loring fight with the crippled Paul de la Fosse?
	Shalford Above which village I used to live. Whilst Ferraris were being designed there.	Graham
2.	was MgSO4.7H2O found to be of therapeutic benefit?
	Epsom???? as in Salts	Graham
	bath epsom salts	phil
3.	did Blanche save the doomed Neville by clinging to the clapper of the curfew bell?
	Chertsey	Lee Ann
4.	did the riders encounter the gouty Lord Winterton approaching the churchyard steps?
	Chiddingfold From Cobbett's Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey ...	Kerry Webb
5.	did the rector combine his clerical duties with those of a Royal appointment at Greenwich?
	Burstow where John Flamsteed first Astronomer Royal was also parish priest	Graham
6.	according to the diarist, did Alice catch and eat a jack pike when expecting a future archbishop?
	Guildford (wherein I resided before coming to America) George Abbot's mother was Alice but I can't suss the diarist.	Graham
7.	was which composer's body interred in St Peter's churchyard nearly a year after his death?
	Frederick Delius A Yorkie, of course.	Graham
	Limpsfield, Surrey Graham has the essence of the matter, but strictly the question was 'where' rather than 'who'. Delius had died at Grez-sur-Loing near Fontainebleau.	Oliver Mundy
8.	was the chalky grave in which the former NSW Justice Minister's victim was found?
	Woldingham Chalk Pits murder	Graham
9.	does an edifice recall, nominally, an Uttar Pradesh mausoleum?
	Dhaka, Bangladesh Where a copy of the Taj Mahal is built	Graham
	Shah Jahan Mosque connection via name to the builder. More likely this option as it is in Surrey as are the other answers - so far	Graham
	Woking Shah Jahan Mosque	Graham
	Woking	The Quizmaster says.......
10.	did council meetings have a condimentary flavour?
	Branston This northern town shares the name of a well-known brand of condiments	Joanne Thomson
	Godalming The council chambers used to be in a building called the Pepperpot or Pepper Box	Graham
	Godalming	The Quizmaster says.......
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E.
1.	which one is 140 not out?
	Perseus Cluster? Six members of the Perseus Cluster were discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest in 1863.	Kerry Webb
	No.1 Sutherland First locomotive on IOM railway in 1873	AQ
	Sutherland	The Quizmaster says.......
2.	which was formerly noteworthy as Northworthy?
	Derby? This city was called 'Northworthig', or Northworthy, before the Norsemen re-named it. (County towns? Football clubs?)	Oliver Mundy
	No.2 Derby IOM railway locomotive named after Earls of Derby	AQ
3.	which, initially, recognises George Henry's contribution?
	Lewes (Sussex)? The Victorian historian G. H. Lewes had the forenames 'George Henry', but the Sussex county town predates him by at least a thousand years. Not really satisfactory, but if the theme is indeed 'county towns' it may answer.	Oliver Mundy
	No. 10 G.H. Wood Named after Company secretary and director George Henry Wood	AQ
	G.H. Wood	The Quizmaster says.......
4.	which is the Glaswegian intruder amongst the Mancunians?
	No.15 Caledonia Only locomotive built in Glasgow	AQ
5.	where, alphabetically, is there a hiatus between the fifteenth and the third?
	No.4 Loch Nameplate is split between O (15th letter) and C	AQ
6.	which, according to Tacitus, should be more appropriately located fifty miles south?
	No. 5 Mona Tacitus called Anglesey Mona	AQ
7.	which intended Scandinavian sounds to have Mercian ancestry instead?
	No,3 Pender Planned to be named Viking named Pender after Company director sounds like Mercian leader Penda	AQ
8.	which is arrived at by adding the eight to the twenty-four?
	No. 7 Tynwald House of Keys has 24 members, Legislative Council has eight. Sitting together to make Tynwald.	AQ
9.	which three took thirty years to become fourteen?
	Neptune's moons??? Three were found and then a long gap, but looks like 32 years? Are all these Qs to do with plants?	Graham
	Bugger. To do with PLANETS
	No.14 Thornhill Originally Manx Northern railway No.3 renumbered to No.14 when comopanies merged	AQ
	Thornhill	The Quizmaster says.......
10.	which might have been named Zarah?
	Venus Bright, shining, brilliant	Graham
	No.8 Fenella Character in Scott's Peveril of the Peak also known as Zarah in the book	AQ
	Fenella	The Quizmaster says.......
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F.	Where:
1.	did Blair join the militia?
	Catalonia George Orwell in the Spanish Civil War	Martin Watts
	Barcelona, Catalonia to refine	AQ
2.	did the schismatic antipope spend his final years?
	Benedict XIII at Valencia	Don Seltzer
	Peniscola (with a tilde on the 'n' Benedict XIII	The Quizmaster says.......
3.	did di Luna unknowingly order the execution of his brother?
	Zaragoza (Saragossa) Location of Count di Luna's castle in Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'	Oliver Mundy
	Aliaferia, Zaragoza	The Quizmaster says.......
4.	did Jack and Stephen meet during an Italian quartet in Government House?
	Port Mahon :-)	Graham
	Port Mahon M&C opening scene	Don Seltzer
5.	did the future Superior General suffer significant injuries to both legs during the siege?
	Pamplona in 1521 Ignatius of Loyola	Don Seltzer
6.	did a 1930's traveller find a scruffy little town, built round an open drain and smelling of fruit skins and rotten fish?
	Algeciras from Laurie Lee's memoir As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning	Don Seltzer
7.	did el Bueno throw down his dagger to the besiegers for the execution of his son?
	Tarifa Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, known as Guzmán el Bueno	Don Seltzer
8.	did Brother Bernard poison the garrison with white arsenic?
	Leon C.S. Forester's The Gun	AQ
9.	was the bastion blown up by a Christmas pudding?
	Badajoz from Old Sam's Christmas Pudding	Don Seltzer
10.	did Pelayo initiate the re-conquest?
	Covadonga, in 722 Beginning of the reconquest of Iberia from the Moors	Don Seltzer
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G.
1.	who, in his delusion, discovered on a dateless day, that he was the King of Spain?
	Poprishchin in Gogol's 'Diary of a Madman'	AGB
	Nikolai Gogol	The Quizmaster says.......
2.	which narrator enjoyed oysters, cake, and cheese following the burial of his brother on 18th March?
	Pepys	AGB
3.	which diarist described a new pastime on Wednesday 13th January, namely, filling packets with powdered gravy?
	Anne Franck	AGB
4.	in which travelogue were the erratic movements of a goat, chased by a dog, a boy and his parents, witnessed on Saturday 24th?
	Stevenson's 'Travels with a Donkey'? Uncertain, but it sounds like the kind of incident Stevenson encountered.	Oliver Mundy
	Diary of a Pilgrimage Jerome K. Jerome	The Quizmaster says.......
5.	which self-styled intellectual wrote of driving through Glasgow at 11am on August 26th and counting twenty-seven drunks in one mile?
	Adrian Mole From his Secret Diary	Kerry Webb
6.	in what journal does the author boast of eating a penny twelfth cake on Thursday 6th January at every suitable shop between St Paul's and the Exchange?
	James Boswell	AGB
7.	which diarist sorrowfully quoted from Pablo Naruda, following the death of the best man of the force, and one of its pillars, on April 25th?
	Che Guevara The Bolivian Diary, Rolando	The Quizmaster says.......
8.	which traveller, having earlier witnessed the hanging of two men, determined on 22nd October to petition for the repeal of the law?
	William Cobbett Rural Rides	The Quizmaster says.......
9.	who pondered on April 27th, on the peculiarity of Going's always coming and Cummings' always going?
	Pooter Diary of a Nobody (theme is diarists)	AQ
	Charles Pooter	The Quizmaster says.......
10.	who recorded being shown the Onacratulus of Pliny at Rotterdam on August 13th?
	John Evelyn Visited Rotterdam on 13 August 1641 - although the pelican eludes me.	Kerry Webb
	John Evelyn? Evelyn does indeed mention the onacratulus (defined as a pelican-like bird, as implied by Kerry), but the place and date do not seem to match (Naples, April 1645).	Oliver Mundy
	He did see a pelican in Rotterdam on that date August 13, 1641 "I was also shown a pelican, or onocratulas of Pliny, with its large gullets, in which he kept his reserve of fish; the plumage was white, legs red, flat, and film-footed, "	AQ
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H.	In a descriptive handbook, published 150 years ago, to what places were the following words applied:
1.	'It is the largest piece of artificial water in the kingdom'?
	Virginia Water Bradshaw's Illustrated Tourists' Handbook (and similar titles)	Don Seltzer
2.	' ... employed in the salmon and eel fisheries, and manufacture of paper, soap, candles and leather ... '?
	Coleraine	Don Seltzer
3.	' ... several important mines ... producing tin, copper, nickel, with clay, and china stone for the Staffordshire potteries ... '?
	St Austell	Don Seltzer
4.	'Excellent bacon and hams are cured here, and vast numbers of small cattle pass this way to be fattened for market in Norfolk and Essex'?
	Dumfries	Don Seltzer
5.	'A bath-house has been built over some valuable springs which rise from the pits, and are very beneficial in cases of scrofula and similar complaints'?
	Ashby-de-la-Zouche	Don Seltzer
6.	' ... one mass of dilapidation and filth; the old crumbling houses being used by the poor wherever they can find something like a roof to cover them'?
	Limerick	Don Seltzer
7.	' ... by day it will be found dirty and irregularly built, without order or management, decent roads or footpaths, no supply of water ...'?
	Merthyr	Don Seltzer
8.	' ... there are no roadside inns worth the name; the ale is wretched stuff, and it is safest to take provisions with you on an excursion'?
	Douglas, Isle of Man	Don Seltzer
9.	' ... formerly noted for wire works, but now a seat of the linen trade, especially diapers, drills, ducks, ticks etc'?
	Barnsley	Don Seltzer
10.	'No particular manufacture, but celebrated for its cakes and brawn'
	Shrewsbury	Don Seltzer
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I.	Where:
1.	did Dessie's lad score 7/8?
	Windsor Racecourse Richard Hughes, son of Dessie Hughes, won seven of eight races there in October 2012	Kerry Webb
2.	did Spicer survive an attack by Colleoni's mob?
	Brighton Brighton Rock	Graham
3.	was the programme suspended following shocking events?
	Newbury electric shock kills horses	Graham
4.	did races begin when a widower occupied the English throne?
	Chester 1539 by Henry VIII after the death of Jane Seymour	The Quizmaster says.......
5.	did a Hampshire batsman and county captain suffer fatal injuries in a fall?
	Aintree George Ede	Graham
6.	did James Stanley pre-empt his somewhat Strange descendent by 153 years?
	Epsom A document of 1625 refers to 'William Stanley who in running the race fell from his horse and brake his neck'. His descendant Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby and founder of the Derby Stakes, sponsored his first race - The Oaks, named after an estate of his - in 1779; his father held the title Lord Strange.	Oliver Mundy
	Institute Derby horse races In 1627 James Stanley 7th Earl of Derby instituted a horse race, the Manx Derby on the Isle of Man. The Epsom Derby named by the 12th Earl son of Lord Strange, was first run 1780	AQ
	Answer is Langness on the Isle of Man Pretty well on the grounds of King William's College	AQ
	Castletown (which is right next to KWC and Langness)	The Quizmaster says.......
7.	was a race renamed in honour of the course's founder, 219 years later?
	Doncaster St. Leger after Anthony St. Leger who lived there	Graham
	Ascot Queen Anne Stakes	Graham
	Ascot Queen Anne Stakes	The Quizmaster says.......
8.	did Foxhall win in the year of the benefactor's assassination?
	Newmarket The racehorse Foxhall, born in Kentucky, won the Cesarewitch Handicap in 1881, the year when the Russian prince after whom the race was named (later Tsar Alexander II) was assassinated.	Oliver Mundy
9.	was a race inaugurated by a future Governor of St Lucia?
	Doncaster Anthony St Leger (which makes the answer above wrong :-(()	Graham
10.	uniquely, were there no finishers?
	Towcester All the riders fell	Graham
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J.	Where:
1.	was the Vanes' shabby home?
	Euston Road Oscar Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray	AQ
2.	did Gaffer's daughter find new lodgings?
	Church Street, Smith Square This was the address of the home of Jenny Wren in "Our Mutual Friend", with whom Lizzie Hexam lodged for a time.	Kerry Webb
3.	did Barry Bedrington share a flat with Danny Hoag?
	A cul de sac of Earls Court Road Noel Coward poem Not Yet the Dodo
4.	did three worn steps lead to Sir Joseph's front door?
	Half Moon Street A POB reference from the Yellow Admiral	Jacquie Milner
	Shepherd Market I think Diana lived in Half Moon Street	Poll Skeeping
	Shepherd Market	The Quizmaster says.......
5.	does the man from Bow walk down gloved and un-gloved?
	The Strand (London) 'Burlington Bertie from Bow', song by W. Hargreaves, c. 1915: 'I walk down the Strand with my gloves on my hand, / Then I walk down again with them off.'	Oliver Mundy
6.	did Holmes sustain two lacerated scalp wounds in a "murderous attack"?
	Regent Street, 'outside the Café Royal' 'The Adventure of the Illustrious Client' (Conan Doyle)	Oliver Mundy
7.	had Archie opened his house and roosted in a corner of it?
	Grosvenor Street Archie Roylance in John Buchan's Three Hostages	AQ
8.	do the red trams and brown trams pour down?
	Holloway Road John Betjeman's poem "The Sandemanian Meeting-House in Highbury Quadrant"	AQ
9.	is the house which Belloc could not afford?
	St James's Square Hillaire Belloc "The Author"	The Quizmaster says.......
10.	do you walk your flowery way?
	Piccadilly From 'Patience' (Gilbert & Sullivan): the preceding lines are 'As you walk down Piccadilly / With a poppy or a lily / In your me-di-aeval hand.'	Oliver Mundy
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K.	Which Royal infant:
1.	was born at W1J 6QB?
	HMQ, In Mayfair Princess Elizabeth as she then just was....	AGB
2.	was given a septet of names?
	Edward VIII Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David	AQ
3.	shared a birthday with our eponymous monarch?
	Princess Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe of Denmark Born April 21, 2007	Joanne Thomson
	Princess Margaret Born on 21 August as was King William IV of King William College	AQ
	Princess Margaret	The Quizmaster says.......
4.	was his father's sixteenth and last child, yet still succeeded him as king?
	Edward II and much good did it do him....	AGB
5.	was born prematurely at the Fürstenhof due to her mother's pleurisy, and died the same day?
	Princess Charlotte Augusta Louisa (1819) Daughter of William IV of the United Kingdom and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen	Kerry Webb
6.	was born in the precinct of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, where his mother had taken refuge?
	Edward V the church is aka Westminster Abbey.....	AGB
7.	was the younger of twin boys, but still became king on his father's death?
	James II of Scotland	The Quizmaster says.......
8.	was rumoured to have been substituted for live coals?
	Prince James Francis Edward Stuart The Old Pretender, said to have been a substitute smuggled in in a warming pan	Poll Skeeping
9.	would be known to the family as Pussy?
	Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, elest child of Queen Victorica	Gerry Strey
	Ms Galore James Bond Film	Lois
	Victoria, Princess Royal and Kaiserin Queen Victoria's oldest child	The Quizmaster says.......
10.	was like the 11th Hussars?
	Edward VII, eldest son of Victoria and Albert 11th Hussars were Prince Albert's Own	AQ
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L.	What:
1.	word precedes 'fugaces labuntur anni'?
	eheu Horace	AGB
2.	three words precede 'cui dolet meminit'?
	cui placet obliviscitur Cicero	AGB
3.	two words precede 'semper aliquid novi'?
	Graeciae dictum Pliny (I believe this is a trick Q, to which many answers will be 'Africa"....	AGB
	ex Africa AGB may wish to discuss with the Quizmaster!	The Quizmaster says.......
4.	four words precede 'cras minus aptus erit'?
	qui non est hodie Ovid	AGB
5.	three words precede 'fieri infectum non potest'?
	factum est illud Plautus (or maybe Terence....)	AGB
6.	five words precede 'si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi'?
	Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli Ausonius	AGB
7.	four words precede ' nimium est perdere'?
	satis est superare inimicum Publilius Syrus	AGB
8.	three words precede 'nolentem trahunt'?
	Ducunt volentem fata Seneca	a
9.	three words precede 'pacem apellant'?
	Ubi solitudinem faciunt Tacitus ('quoting' Calgacus)	AGB
10.	two words precede 'non est temendi'?
	Dolendi modus Pliny (though this is usually seen as "dolendi modus timendi non autem' in Sir Francis Bacon's version....	AGB
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M.
1.	which 15 year-old missed which target in Bologna?
	Anteo Zamboni, missed Mussolini October 31, 1926	Don Seltzer
2.	who fired a bullet into which male cervid without obvious ill-effect?
	John Flammang Schrank 1912 Shot (ineffectively) Teddy "Bull Moose" Roosevelt	AGB
3.	which epileptic farmer failed with two pistol shots to kill which segregationist leader?
	Pratt failed to assassinate Vorwoerd in South Africa	AQ
4.	whose paper-knife failed, just, to puncture whose aorta at a booksigning at Blumstein's?
	Izola Curry, Martin Luther King September 20, 1958	Don Seltzer
5.	whose wedding day was interrupted by an explosive bouquet thrown from a balcony by which librarian?
	Mateu Morral Roca, Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Victoria Eugenia 31 May 1906	Don Seltzer
	Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Victoria Eugenia, by Mateu Morral Roca oops, wrong order	Don Seltzer
6.	whose premature closing of his 16th anniversary speech saved him from whose time-bomb by thirteen minutes?
	Hitler, Georg Elser 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch	Don Seltzer
7.	which leader, together with a number of spacemen, survived a shooting by which army-deserter?
	Leonid Brezhnev, by Viktor Ilyin 22 January 1969	Don Seltzer
8.	which priest failed to kill which senior cleric with a bayonet at a famous Marian shrine?
	Juan María Fernández y Krohn, Pope John Paul II 12 May 1982 at Fatima	Don Seltzer
9.	who missed which target when attending one of Colley Cibber's plays?
	James Hadfield, missed George III 'She would, and she would not', at Drury Lane, May 15, 1800	Don Seltzer
10.	who launched his Suzuki Swift at which monarch's bus, but missed?
	Karst Roeland Tates, Queen Beatrix April 30, 2009	Don Seltzer
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N.
1.	when do we smother our feelings with difficulty?
	When Constabulatory Duty's To Be Done Policeman's Song from Pirates	Graham
2.	who was rescued from Prince Rupert Sound by Diefenbaker?
	Constable Benton Fraser Due South	Graham
3.	who offered 1,000 guineas for the copyright of A Tale of Flodden Field?
	Archibald Constable	Don Seltzer
	Archibald Constable Scott's publisher	Graham
4.	whose appointment to lead the Kingdom's force was a first for her gender?
	Pauline Clare Chief Constable of Lancashire Police	Graham
	Norma Graham First female Chief Constable of Fife (Kingdom of)	The Quizmaster says.......
5.	who became Lord High Constable following the murder of her libertine father?
	Diana Denyse Hay, Countess of Erroll LH Constable of Scotland	Graham
6.	which former Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man received a constabulary appointment?
	Ian Macfadyen Appointed Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle	Graham
7.	who suggested to his monarch giving the vineyards to a barbarous people?
	the Constable of France Henry V. "And if he be not fought withal, my lord, Let us not live in France; let us quit all And give our vineyards to a barbarous people."	Graham
8.	who had his thumb nearly chewed off by the huge and hideous mulatto?
	Constable Downing in Conan Doyle's 'Wisteria Lodge"	AGB
9.	who eventually uncovered evidence of Sam Brattle's innocence?
	Constable Toffy Vicar of Bullhampton	Don Seltzer
10.	who had houses at 35 Charlotte Street and at Well Walk?
	John Constable	Don Seltzer
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O.
1.	what comes in Bali's bottle?
	Saint-Geron water Bottle designed by Alberto Bali	AQ
2.	what received a reginal epithet from Franz Josef?
	Borsec Mineral Water Emperor Franz Josef called it the Queen of Mineral Waters.	Kerry Webb
3.	where does the warm water bubble up in Transcaucasia?
	Old Tbilisi (Tiflis), Georgia The location of the sulphur baths there seems about right.	Oliver Mundy
	Jermuk (Yermuk), Armenia Probably a better candidate than the above, since the Yermuk waters are extensively bottled.	Oliver Mundy
	Borjomi, Georgia	The Quizmaster says.......
4.	where is water, named after the Roman goddess of public welfare, extracted?
	Uruguay Source of "Agua Mineral Salus"	Joanne Thomson
	Vidago, Portugal	The Quizmaster says.......
5.	where does the bottle depict a naked man, walking away, carrying two buckets?
	Krusmolle Kilde, Denmark	The Quizmaster says.......
6.	the foundation of what was laid by a Henn and later adopted a triple cardiac trademark?
	Radenska Mineral Water It's a Slovenian brand, founded by Karl Henn and it's best known as the Three Hearts brand.	Kerry Webb
7.	with what did Mikael refresh himself in the cabin before meeting Figuerola?
	Ramlosa? These are characters in "The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" - which I haven't quite read yet.	Kerry Webb
8.	which producer invoked the services of a giraffe as a tall quencher?
	Perrier Giraffe in advertisement image	AQ
	Eptinger, Switzerland	The Quizmaster says.......
9.	what Eifel product is distinguished by a lion and a star?
	Gerolsteiner	AQ
10.	what is extracted from the Holy Well?
	Malvern water	AQ
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P.
1.	who, in reality, killed Lord Bellasis?
	John Rex 'For the Term of His Natural Life', by Marcus Clarke	Don Seltzer
2.	who married Julia in the Savoy Chapel?
	Rex Mottram Brideshead Revisited	Don Seltzer
3.	who failed to arrest the Beer Baron of Springfield?
	Rex Banner The Simpsons	Don Seltzer
4.	who sent Wolfe to address Les Quinze Maîtres in West Virginia?
	Rex Stout, author of Too Many Cooks, Re Nero Wolfe, set in WV Literally true, but probably not the answer	Lois
5.	what sometime residents of South Dakota are now known as Sue and Stan?
	Tyrannosaurus rex fossils found in SD	Graham
6.	what did Cocteau and Daniélou borrow from Sophocles for the Russian maestro?
	Oedipus rex for Igor Stravinsky	Don Seltzer
7.	what was the initial name of the unique Blue Riband record-breaker?
	SS Guglielmo Marconi initial name for SS Rex	Don Seltzer
8.	who painted a North Devon village for Wedgwood?
	Reginald John "Rex" Whistler	Don Seltzer
9.	with what did Corning market Schott's discovery?
	trademark Pyrex	Don Seltzer
10.	where is Wryhtel's Water-meadow?
	Wrexham was referred to as ’ derived from Wristlesha/Wrightlesham meaning Wryhtel's Water-meadow	Don Seltzer
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Q.
1.	which Bengali poet was a Nobel laureate?
	Rabindranath Tagore First non-European Laureate.	Graham
2.	which parsee became peacefully hydrargic?
	Freddy Mercury	AQ
3.	who died playing polo on the Tiger's 11th birthday?
	Sawai Man Singh II Pretty sure it is him, but I can't get the tiger connection	Graham
	Iftikhar Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi His son Mansur Ali Khan is nicknamed Tiger was 11	AQ
	Nawab of Pataudi	The Quizmaster says.......
4.	who suffered terminally through the treachery of Mir Jafar?
	Siraj ud-Daulah Lost the Battle of Plassey and was executed partially because of the intentionally bad advice given him by Mir Jafar	Joanne Thomson
5.	whose state of undress was inappropriately ridiculed by Churchill?
	Gandhi 'half naked fakir'	AQ
6.	for whom did Chutney Popcorn illustrate her thespian rather than her epicurean qualities?
	Madhur Jaffrey Actress and food writer	Martin Watts
7.	which Great Leader's birthday is celebrated on 25th December?
	Muhammad Ali Jinnah Founder of Pakistan	Martin Watts
8.	who was betrayed by his friend Man Singh as he slept?
	Ramachandra Pandurang Tope, known as Tatya Tope Man Singh betrayed him to the British	Graham
9.	whose End did Jules Verne offer as an alternative?
	Nana Sahib "The End of Nana Sahib" was an alternative title for "The Steam House"	Kerry Webb
10.	which Begum Sahib's perfume caught fire?
	Jahanara	Charles Miller
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R.	During 2013:
1.	why might Ivanovic now be doubly shy?
	Bitten in a soccer match... He was one bitten (by Luis Suarez, the Uraguayan Scouser thug), and will now be twice shy...	AGB
2.	how has Love-in-a-mist been roughly handled?
	Nigella Lawson (Nigella Damascena is known as Love-in-a-mist) Photographs published of her now ex husband apparently assaulting her.	Martin Watts
3.	where was the triumphant Gala boy brought down to earth?
	Hexham R. Mania from Galashiels following Grand National win	The Quizmaster says.......
4.	where did an urban thief take a grip and enjoy a jubilee meal?
	Tower of London Two ravens, Grip and Jubilee, killed by a fox	The Quizmaster says.......
5.	for whom did "pills or a powder or something in a bottle" prove inadequate?
	Seamus Heaney	Don Seltzer
6.	how did eleventh-placed 66 bring a new meaning to Riding for the Disabled?
	First ever race in TT by one-armed rider The traditional IoM TT Race Q! Chris Mitchell, wearing 66, finished 11th in a race.	AGB
7.	who, having once targeted an abbey, has now settled for the Lodge?
	Tony Abbot The Lodge is the Prime Ministers residence in Canberra	Jacquie Milner
8.	whose sad departure has reminded us of a big cat's dentition?
	Gillian Kean Dandelion Trust (dent de lion; lion's tooth)	Gerry Strey
	Tom Clancy dies Book, The Teeth of the Tiger	The Quizmaster says.......
9.	why were Opinion Poll and Restraint of Trade excluded?
	Doped with steroids Doped racehorses in a British racing scandal	AGB
10.	who opened the Bash Street School Library?
	Duke and Duchess of Rothesay Prince Charles and Camilla in their Scottish guise	Poll Skeeping
	Duchess of Cornwall	The Quizmaster says.......