King William's College Annual Quiz

King William's College Annual Quiz - 2015-2016

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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.	During 1915:
1.	who developed an innovative equine?
	Hugo Junkers ? Junkers J 1 - "Tin Donkey"	Sid
	william tritton, foster's of Lincoln Little Willie, the first tank - sort of cavalry piece, hence equine	kjg
	Hugo Junkers (all-metal aircraft, nicknamed Blechesel/Sheet-metal donkey)	The Quizmaster says:
		frank
2.	what oversized delivery brought joy to Dolly and Marty?
	Frank Sinatra he was a big baby and his parents were Dolly and Marty	Guest
3.	whose work was also recognised by Barnard and Matteucci?
	The Braggs (father and son) won both the Matteuci and Barnard Medals for Physics. The son won the Nobel Prize for Physics in the same year	Guest
4.	which two spies in the cigar business faced the firing squad on the same morning?
	Haicke Janssen and Willem Roos Executed Tower of London. "Cigars" code for warships.	Guest
5.	whose determination to have no hatred or bitterness for anyone would be later set in stone?
	Edith Cavell (last words before she was shot) The phrase 'have no . . . anyone' follows her better-known statement 'Patriotism is not enough'.	Oliver Mundy
6.	which eponymous vessel met its Waterloo at the hands of an adversary, which had been an ally 100 years earlier?
	Blucher German Cruiser named for Waterloo general, sunk at Battle of Dogger Bank by Royal Navy	Adam Q
7.	where did the British deployment of Red Star backfire owing to inclement weather?
	The Battle of Loos Chlorine gas attack that blew back to the British lines.	Martin Watts
8.	what yarn revealed the murderous activities of the Black Stone?
	Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan novel	Adam Q
9.	which former MO to the Pennywell Colliery passed away?
	Dr W.G. Grace Cricketer and medical man	Adam Q
10.	from what disaster did PL 11 rescue the first survivors?
	Sinking of Lusitania	Nathan Varnum
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B.
1.	Who took prizes with canaries?
	Sir Impey Biggs We learn in "Strong Poison"	Adam Q
2.	Who was the victim of a cactus booby-trap?
	William Noakes Cactus in a bowl set up to smash his head in "Busman's Honeymoon"	Adam Q
3.	Who provided details of cadaveric rigidity from his copy of Dixon Mann?
	P.C. Duncan In "Five Red Herrings"	Adam Q
4.	Which product of the Royal Free was thought to have administered air emboli?
	Mary Whittaker "Unnatural Death" Nurse trained at Royal Free hospital	Adam Q
5.	Who lost his gold pince-nez in a stranger's astrakhan collar during the rush-hour at Victoria?
	Hercule Poirot	Dennis Thompson
	Thomas Crimplesham Glasses ended up in the collar of the murderer's coat. Dorothy L. Sayers "Whose Body"	Adam Q
	Thomas Crimplesham ( Whose Body ?)	The Quizmaster says:
6.	Who was one of the most exclusive hairdressers in the West End who produced an ivory-handled razor that travelled via Stamford?
	Endicott Made cut throat razor in "Have His Carcass" Seem to be Peter Wimsey stories	Adam Q
7.	Which air pilot, carrying vital evidence from New York, came down near Whitehaven?
	Air Pilot Grant "Clouds of Witness". carried Lord Peter Wimsey across the Atlantic	Adam Q
8.	Which Boer war veteran died from arsenic poisoning on 10 November?
	General Fentiman died on November 10th However, the poison was digitalis not arsenic and he was too old for the Boer War?	Adam Q
	General Fentiman .Which Crimean war veteran died from digitalin poisoning on 10 November? -a correction in the Guardian	charlie
9.	Who died as a result of acoustic bombardment by Batty Thomas et al?
	Deacon, the butler In Dorothy L. Sayers' "The Nine Tailors" (Batty Thomas et al are bells, and Deacon deafened to death by them)	Anna Ravano
10.	Who was saved by a dog-collar?
	Harriet Vane In Gaudy Night, it prevented her strangulation by the villian	Wanda Finch
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C.
1.	Who was returned for Condaford in the general election?
	Eustace Dornford In John Galsworthy's "Over the River"	Adam Q
2.	In what election were 45 green umbrellas used to influence voters?
	Eatonswill Pickwick Papers	Tassie Tigers
3.	In which constituency was Mr Browborough's election reversed due to bribery?
	Tankerville Trollope, Barsetshire Chronicles	Adam Q
4.	In which West Indian constituency was the election "sweetness done and turning sour"?
	Elvira "The suffrage of Elvira" - V S Naipaul	Anonymous
5.	Which crusader's ultimate election was so prolonged that electors were threatened with starvation?
	Teobaldo Visconti, elected Pope in 1271 with the name of Gregory X after a The conclave laster over two years and the election came only after the cardinals were locked in and their food rations cut.	Anna Ravano
	Pope Pius IX	The Quizmaster says:
6.	Who won the election, having engineered the demise of the four favourites, and then chose self-cremation?
	Carlo Ventresca "Angels & Devils" - Dan Brown	Sid
7.	Which MP for Aylesbury was expelled, but later headed the poll when he stood for Middlesex?
	John Wilkes Wilkes and Liberty!	Adam Q
8.	Who spoke in support of the Liberal candidate in Brattleburn, a Tory stronghold?
	Richard Hannay 39 Steps, chapter 4	Martin Watts
	Twisdon/Hannay (John Buchan – The Thirty-nine Steps)	The Quizmaster says:
9.	Whose supposedly forged red letter led to the government's electoral defeat?
	Grigory Zinoviev Published in the Daily Mail. No comment.	Martin Watts
10.	Whose election was declared by Albert Theophylus Despard-Smith?
	Dr Crawford In C.P.Snow's "The Masters" very easy to Google but, in my defence, I have read the book	Guest
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D.
1.	Where was the Tide Waiter based?
	Gravesend Customs officer who boarded all ships prior to going up the Thames	peterk
	shoreham possible alternative as customs post	kjg
	Greenwich (Customs Officer)	The Quizmaster says:
2.	Where was £53m inappropriately acquired?
	Tonbridge securitas robbery in 2006	peterk
3.	Where did the blinded Gloucester attempt suicide?
	On some cliffs. Maybe at Dover? In King Lear	Charlezzzzz
	definitely Dover	Helen
	Dover cliffs (W S Shakespeare – King Lear)	The Quizmaster says:
4.	Where did Simpkinson lose his fiddle-patterned table spoons?
	Margate Misadventures at Margate: A legend of Jarvis's Jettey	peterk
5.	Where is the circulation of blood nominally remembered in a hospital setting?
	Ashford William Harvey Hospital	peterk
	Willesborough, Ashford, Kent The William Harvey Hospital.	Martin Watts
	Ashford (William Harvey Hospital)	The Quizmaster says:
6.	Where, according to Lucy's elder cousin and chaperone, were we all hopelessly behind the times?
	Tunbridge Wells A sentiment expressed by Miss Bartlett in "A Room with a View" by E.M. Forster	Anna Ravano
7.	Where does a 20 second cycle operate from an octagonal tower?
	North Foreland Lighthouse in Kent Kent related answers?	Adam Q
	North Foreland Lighthouse	peterk
8.	Where does the bell-tower resemble a three-tiered tepee?
	St Augustine's Church Brookland , Kent	Adam Q
9.	What did Bradshaw liken to the victim of Vesuvius?
	A railway station at the Crystal Palace "The visitor from London is conveyed to the station of the Crystal Palace in ... the exact facsimile the interior of a building discovered in the ruins of Pompeii." Bradshaw's Guide	Guest
	The station is probably Sydenham In London now, but in Kent when Bradshaw was written	Helen
	Sandwich "The traveller, on entering this place, beholds himself in a sort of Kentish Herculaneum, "	Big Jack
	Sandwich (‘a sort of Kentish Herculaneum’)	The Quizmaster says:
10.	Where is the home of the episcopal digit?
	Faversham, Kent Bishop's Finger Strong Kentish Ale brewed by Shepherd Neame
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E.
1.	What was built as a wayfarers' chapel on the Via Devana?
	The Round Church at Cambridge The Round Church of Cambridge was founded in about 1130 by the Fraternity of the [round] Church of the Holy Sepulchre and was originally a wayfarers' chapel,	Guest
2.	What has occupied a site in Sheep Street for over 900 years?
	Holy Sepulchre Church, Northhampton round church founded in 1098-1100 by Simon de Senlis, Earl of Northampton, in thanks for his safe return from the Crusades. Its design was based on the original Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.	Guest
3.	Which concert venue originally housed a turntable of the LNWR?
	The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, north London. Commissioned by Robert Stephenson, completed 1847; spirit warehouse 1869-1964, then avant-garde theatre.	Oliver Mundy
4.	Where does a circular tour reveal numerous examples of Jurassic geology?
	The Corona Tower, Canterbury Cathedral Round, and built of Caen stone (a Jurassic limestone)	Guest
	The Rotunda Museum, Scarborough	Helen
	Rotunda Museum, Scarborough	The Quizmaster says:
5.	Which building is based on the plans of Mario Asprucci, commissioned by the Bishop of Derry?
	Ickworth House Round house in Bury St. Edmonds	Adam Q
	Mussenden Temple, County Derry Built by Bishop of Derry, Asprucci architect of temple of vesta	charlestownboy
	Ickworth House	The Quizmaster says:
6.	Which edifice, formerly housing a Science Library, owed its building to an Old Savilian physician's bequest?
	Radcliffe Camera Radcliffe left £40000 in his will to build this	peterk
7.	Where did midwifery give way, through a Gate, to a diplomatic film venue?
	The Rotunda, Dublin World's first maternity hospital contained a Round Room and Assembly Hall. The Round Room became the Ambassador Cinema and the Assembly Hall the Gate Theatre.	Guest
8.	In which little village did the Knights of St John build their church?
	?Torpichen Village in Scotland where knights of St. John built their church	peterk
	Little Maplestead, Essex Round Church built by the Order	Adam Q
	Little Maplestead, Essex	The Quizmaster says:
9.	Where did Campbell create a copy of the Villa Almerico Capra?
	Mereworth Castle in Kent Colen Campbell built a copy in 1723	Adam Q
	Chiswick House Villa Capra specifically mentioned in wikipedia entry	charlie
	Mereworth Castle, Kent (Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda, Vicenza)	The Quizmaster says:
10.	Where did Rienzi initiate an annual festival 120 years ago?
	Queen's Hall, London (destroyed 1941) Original home of the annual Promenade Concerts (now BBC-run), in which Wagner's overture to 'Rienzi' was the first work played (conductor Henry J. Wood).	Oliver Mundy
	Queen's Hall (continued) The theme seems to be 'round structures', but Queen's Hall was not circular. I wonder if the compiler has forgotten that the 'Proms' did not move to the Albert Hall, which is round, until the 1940s?	Oliver Mundy
	Royal Albert Hall (Promenade concerts)	The Quizmaster says:
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F.
1.	Which line is left where for buns?
	?Swiss Northrn Railway, Baden Zurich gentry sent their servants to Basen on this line to buy buns that were only available there	peterk
	Great Central Line, Banbury From a John Betjeman poem	Daizy
	?Kirkmicheal (don't know the line) From Buchan, the compiler's favourite author!	Helen
	Great Central Line at Banbury (John Betjeman)	The Quizmaster says:
2.	Where did the express train draw up unwontedly?
	Adlestrop Poem by Edward thomas	Richard
3.	On what railroad do livestock pass free through the toll gate?
	Rock Island Line song	Adam Q
4.	To what do the words "Jamme, jamme, 'ncoppa, jamme jà" apply?
	The first funicular to the top of Vesuvius The words, in Neapolitan dialect, mean, "Let's go, let's go, to the top, let's go"	Anna Ravano
	The words are from the song "Funiculì funiculà" celebrating the funicular..	Anna Ravano
5.	Where did the convict and the boy with violin go on till the train came in?
	At the Railway Station, Upway Poem - Thomas Hardy	Sid
6.	Whence the goods, delaying the eight o'clock excursion train for an hour (or more)?
	Kilrush Music Hall song by Percy French: "Are ye right there, Michael?" ..The excursion train starting at eight...there's a goods from Kilrush coming in....	Guest
7.	What station was the Catalan surrealist's "Centre of the Universe"?
	Perpignan Dali considered it the centre of the universe	Adam Q
8.	Where, in reality, did Celia and Trevor enjoy a short relationship?
	Carnforth Railway station Scene of the film Brief Encounter
9.	Where was the Normandy train's arrival depicted?
	Gare Saint-Lazare "Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare" by Claude Money	Guest
10.	Where did Nordens Strauss locate his gallop?
	Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen	Tassie Tigers
	copenhagen steam railway	charlie
	Copenhagen Steam Railway (Hans Christian Lumbye)	The Quizmaster says:
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G.
1.	What is St Antony's sister?
	Wolfson College, Cambridge Sister College of St Antony's College, Oxford	Guest
2.	Where might Beetle Drives be particularly popular?
	Wolfsburg Hometown of the Volkswagen Beetle car	Adam Q
3.	What enquiry elicited the reply "I am George, I am"?
	Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? Play by Edward Albee	Adam Q
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf despite the missing comma after am, in the question!	kjg
4.	What has an almost unique tolerance of a diterpene-rich diet?
	Dancing goats According to legend, the goats were observed to be more energetic after eating coffee beans	Kilian Metcalf
	Wolf Coffee Maker Coffee is rich in diterpenes. The goat answer doesn't seem to fit with the Wolf theme.	Kilian Metcalf
	Aardwolf Termites are full of the stuff	Scotty
	Aardwolf (Toxic chemical in specific termites)	The Quizmaster says:
5.	Which named canid may be observed by the congregation at Kirk Andreas?
	Fenrir Wolf Carved on Norse stone cross Fenrir is fighting Odin at Ragnorok	Adam Q
	Fenris/Fenrir Wolf (Thorwald’s Cross)	The Quizmaster says:
6.	Who confronted Lungri at the cave mouth, claiming possession of the man's cub?
	Rakshi, the Mother Wolf claimed Mowgli Kipling's Jungle Book	Adam Q
	Raksha (Mother Wolf, Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book )	The Quizmaster says:
7.	Who described a silent nocturnal interment on a Galician rampart?
	Charles Wolfe The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna	Adam Q
8.	What was, in 1972, uniquely surmounted by a helipad?
	Wolf Rock Lighthouse off Lands End First lighthouse to have a helipad installed	Adam Q
9.	The death of which hero is remembered in Matlock?
	General Wolfe Abraham Heights overlooking Matlock (Wolfe victor of the Battle of the Heights of Abraham, Quebec)	guest
10.	Which establishmecvnt dominates the Mittelhaardt?
	The Bűrklin-Wolf estate (probably not) well known for its rieslings	Guest
	Dr Bürklin-Wolf (wine estates)	The Quizmaster says:
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H.
1.	Who named his daughter after Great Aunt Betsey?
	David Copperfield. Miss Betsey Trotwood had been David's second mother in Dickens's novel.	Oliver Mundy
2.	Who was called the Tee'd Ball by the young advocates?
	David Balfour in sequel to Kidnapped	Don Seltzer
3.	Where were Middle Eastern differences settled "with one accord"?
	Camp David David the common theme?	Don Seltzer
4.	Which "King" lost his life in the battle across the river from San Antonio?
	Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier	Don Seltzer
5.	Whose cardiectomy remnant was interred beneath an example of Chlorophora excelsa?
	David Livingstone heart buried beneath a tree in Africa	Don Seltzer
6.	Which leading Covenanter was hung, drawn and quartered for complicity in an archiepiscopal murder?
	David Hackston Although he did not articipate in the actual kiling he knew about it and watched	Adam Q
7.	Who witnessed the suicide of the kaffir king and Christian minister in the Rooirand cave?
	David Crawfurd	Don Seltzer
	David Crawfurd (continued) The reference is to John Buchan's early novel 'Prester John'.	Oliver Mundy
8.	Which hairy little man with pink lips and a wall eye came out of the sun?
	Dai Bread, was it? from somewhere in Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood	Charlezzzzz
9.	Who received an apparently well-deserved caprine nickname?
	David Lloyd George the Goat For his many mistresses	Adam Q
10.	Who underwent a nocturnal mammary transformation?
	Wasn't it Virginia Woolf's Orlando?(Mammaries aint half.) Woke up and found he'd been turned into a woman.	Charezzzzz
	Prof David Alan Kepesh The Breast by Philip Roth	peterk
	David Bourne in story by Hemingway	kjg
	David Kepesh (Philip Roth – The Breast )	The Quizmaster says:
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I.
1.	What was the undoing of Sir Claude Amory?
	Poison in his coffee Agatha Christie's play 'Black Coffee'	Kilian Metcalf
	Black Coffee	The Quizmaster says:
2.	What is appropriately marketed in pellet form?
	Kopi luwak ? certain species of musang or luwak (Asian Palm Civet) consumed the coffee fruits, yet they left the coffee seeds undigested in their droppings....cleaned, roasted and ground this coffee became popular	Guest
	Gunpowder Tea it was in their advertising	Helen
	Gunpowder Tea	The Quizmaster says:
3.	What crimson infusion has hypotensive properties?
	Hibiscus tea	Lee Ann Roberts
4.	What beverage's infallibility bore a papal comparison?
	Ale? Belloc: Now the Faith is old and the Devil is bold .... But we that sit in a sturdy youth And still can drink strong ale Let us put it away to infallible truth That always shall prevail.	Guest
	Bovril Two infallible powers the Pope and Bovril	peterk
	Bovril (Old advertisement depict ing Pope Leo XIII with Bovril)	The Quizmaster says:
5.	What did the Rocky Mountain fur-trapper consider to be superior to whisky?
	hooch? "squirrel whiskey, because two drinks of it makes you want to climb a tree"	Guest
	Lapsing Souchong James A Michener's Centennial fur trapper describes this as a man's tea - better even than whisky	peterk
	Tea Teddy Roosevelt in Vigot of Life"	Big Jack
	Tea Should read "VigOR of Life": " I had also taken a flask of whisky for emergencies—although, as I found that the emergencies never arose and that tea was better than whisky when a man was cold or done out. I abandoned the practice of taking whisky on hunting trips twenty years ago. "	Big Jack
	Lapsang Souchong (James Mitchener – Centennial)	The Quizmaster says:
6.	what was brought to the incarcerated Bufo following the bubble-and-squeak?
	A tray with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in it in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. Brought to Toad by the jailor's daughter. Wind in the Willows	Martin Watts
7.	with what did his mother dose Peter on his escape from the garden?
	Camomile tea Given to P. Rabbit after his escape from Mister MacGregor's garden	Charlezzzzz
8.	what is the choice of the precious Gaborone detective?
	Redbush tea	Lee Ann Roberts
	Rooibos (Redbush) tea Mma Precious Ramotswe of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	Adam Q
	Red Bush Tea	The Quizmaster says:
9.	what citrous concoction recalls a great reformer?
	Lemonade and Clarence Darrow I think he slugs it down in the Monkey Trial movie	Charlezzzzz
	Earl Grey tea PM for Reform Bill of 1832 and Earl Grey tea is flavoured with Bergamot orange	Adam Q
	Earl Grey Tea	The Quizmaster says:
10.	what spots characterise von Recklinghausen?
	Cafe au lait spots	Peterk
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J.
1.	What was partnered on bended knee?
	"Later Alligator" - Bobby Charles "On Bended Knee" was the B-Side	Sid
2.	Which two protagonists share a liking for Allie?
	Noah and Lou The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks	peterk
	Swampy and Cranky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where's_My_Water%3F:_Swampy's_Underground_Adventures	A visitor to the site
	Swampy and Cranky ( Where’s my Water – Disney game)	The Quizmaster says:
3.	How was Miss Languish's strong will described by her aunt?
	"an allegory on the banks of the Nile" From "The Rivals" by R. B. Sheridan. Lydia Languish's aunt is Mrs Malaprop. POB reference! Stephen quotes Mrs Malaprop to describe Diana in the 13 Gun Salute	Guest
	'She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile' Sheridan, "The Rivals"	Martin Watts
4.	What name was given by Disney to Barrie's anonymous reptile?
	Tick-Tock, or Tic Toc Crocodile in the Peter Pan movie	Don Seltzer
	Tick-Tock	The Quizmaster says:
5.	Who maintained that he who trusts a woman will walk on duckweed in a pool?
	The Mugger of Mugger Ghaut The Undertakers, story in Kipling's Second Jungle Book	Adam Q
6.	Who displayed his distinctive motif when winning for the second time at West Side?
	Rene Lacoste Crocodile logo, won championships at West Sde Tennis Club in NY	Adam Q
7.	What suffered solar destruction following pachydermal confrontation?
	The Enormous Crocodile Story by Roald Dahl	Sid
8.	Who enjoyed a fusion initially with Horus, and later with Ra?
	Sobek, the Egyptian crocodile god He was first conflated with Horus and later in history with Ra	Adam Q
9.	Who changed hands while crossing the Irish Sea?
	Daisy An Alligator Named Daisy - Diana Dors movie	Sid
	A ferry called The Alligator it was sold when halfway across the Irish Sea	Helen
	An Alligator Named Daisy	The Quizmaster says:
10.	Which island trio has reptilian etymology?
	Caymans	Peterk
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K.
1.	What were the pipe-cleaners stolen from Uncle Jim?
	Parrot's feathers From Swallows and Amazons Feathers theme?	Adam Q
	Green feathers (Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons)	The Quizmaster says:
2.	Why might the jay wrongly be seen as more precious than the lark?
	Feathers are more beautiful	Tassie Tigers
	Because his feathers are more beautiful (Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew, Petruccio reassuring Kate)	The Quizmaster says:
3.	What characterised the little men apart from coloured jacket and cap?
	white owl's feather It was another thing that the "little men" wore in the poem:Up the airy mountain/down the rushy glen/we daren't gho a-hunting/for fear of litrle men. Etc/	Charlezzzzz
4.	What was the crest of Blind John, adopted by the victorious leader after the battle in 1346?
	Prince of Wales Feathers (Three feathers) Adopted by the Black Prince after the Battle of Crecy where Blind King John was captured	Adam Q
	Three ostrich feathers (from John of Bohemia, since then Prince of Wales’s crest)	The Quizmaster says:
5.	What, developed by Rex and Cromie, owed its name to Harold, and brought immediate success for Geoff?
	Norton Featherbed motorcycle frame Developed by Rex and Cromie McCandless, Harold Daniell was test rider and Geoff Duke rode it to TT victory	Adam Q
6.	What, in addition to the Yellow Jacket did the British commander receive after victory at Changzhou Fu?
	Peacock feathers	Tassie Tigers
7.	In what tale does David, living with his parents at Firetown, receive a rifle for his 14th birthday?
	Pigeon Feathers short story by John Updike (but it is his 15th birthday)	Don Seltzer
8.	In what tale did Joseppi stumble out the Musoline Overture on a zither in Wadi Halfa?
	The Four Feathers 1902 novel by A E W Mason	peterk
9.	Which scarecrow was created by a pipe-smoking New England witch?
	Feathertop By Nathaniel Hawthorne	Adam Q
10.	Which clandestine group saved Ran on the edge of Exmoor?
	The Feather Men Secret vigilante group who supposedly helped Ranulph Fiennes	Adam Q
	The Feathermen	The Quizmaster says:
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L.	Which code name was given to the agent who:
1.	thwarted Weitsprung?
	Sapphire	peterk
	Amir Operation Weitsprung was thwarted by Gevork Vartanian, a Soviet spy codenamed Amir	Manninagh
	Amir (Gevork Vartanian – the plan to assassinate Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in Tehran)	The Quizmaster says:
2.	faked the demolition of the Mosquito factory?
	Zig-Zag	peterk
3.	warned the High Command of the threat from FUSAG?
	Garbo Real name: Juan Pujol Garcia. Awarded OBE and Iron Cross.	Martin Watts
4.	threatened revelation following the death of her beloved dog?
	Treasure Real name Nathalie Sergueiew	Martin Watts
5.	successfully misled Rommel and employed his notional girlfriend Misanthrope?
	Cheese	peterk
	Cheese Real name Renato Levi	Adam Q
6.	photographed Sir Hughe's secret papers and was rewarded with counterfeit sterling?
	Cicero German spy who was valet to Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen in Ankara in 1942	Adam Q
7.	began by proving himself to the Abwehr with a report on Pierre Laval?
	Scout Dusky Popov British double agent in WW2	peterk
	Artist real name Jebson	Helen
	Artist (Johnny Jebsen)	The Quizmaster says:
8.	nearly blew it when he mistakenly confused Glass and Sand?
	Dusan Popov aka Tricycle	Sid
9.	was known as Leonhard by his German paymasters?
	Tate (Wulf Schmidt) Danish spy called Leonhard by the Germans who was turned by Double Cross committee after being caught on landing
10.	later dug up artefacts in Corsica?
	FIDO Roger Grosjean (French Air Force). MI5 double agent in WWII. Became a very successful archaeologist in Corsica.	Guest
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M.
1.	What does the Bard credit with subtlety?
	Prospero's Isle in The Tempest You do yet tast some subtleties o' th' isle, that will not let you believe things certain.	Larry Finch
	The Sphinx Love's Labours Lost - "	peterk
	CLEOPATRA ALL ANSWERS SET IN EGYPT. SHAKESPEARE CREDITS HER WITH "WIT,COQUETRY,PERSEPTION,SUBTELTY,IMAGINATIOIN	JAN -MARY
	Sphinx As peterk says, Love's Labours Lost "Subtle as Sphinx". Also fits in better than Cleopatra with the "what" of the question.	Guest
	The Sphinx Love's Labours Lost - "	peterk
	The Sphinx ( Love’s Labour’s Lost; Act 4, sc.3, 1)	The Quizmaster says:
2.	Where does Kitchener have an Elephantine companion?
	Islands in the Nile at Aswan Kitchener and Elephantine Islands	Adam Q
3.	Where did pigeon-shooting lead to inappropriate British reprisals?
	Denshawai, Egypt 1906 incident	Don Seltzer
4.	Where did Mrs Doyle narrowly escape death from a falling boulder?
	Somewhere along the Nile In Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile"	Anna Ravano
	Abu Simbel	Scotty
	Abu Simnel (Agatha Christie – Death on the Nile) Typo????	The Quizmaster says:
5.	Where was the P&O liner Mongolia expected at 11am on Wednesday 9 October?
	Suez Around the World in Eighty Days	Don Seltzer
6.	Where did the French lieutenant find the trilingual text which provided the key to understanding the ancient scripts?
	Rosetta Location of the Rosetta Stone which gave the clue for the interpretation of Egyptian scripts.	Oliver Mundy
	Rosetta	Don Seltzer
7.	For what was Rigoletto substituted for the opening of the Opera House?
	Aida Cairo Opera House, at the opening of the Suez Canal 1869	Don Seltzer
8.	Which heir presumptive drowned when his train fell into the river?
	Ahmad Rifaat Pasha A special train conveying Ahmad Rifaat Pasha was being carried on a car float across the Nile at Kafr el-Zayyat. The train fell off the car float into the river and the prince was drowned.	Guest
9.	Where did Wüstenfuchs's substitute suffer a fatal heart attack?
	El Alamein Gen Stumme, substituting for Rommel (Wüstenfuchs/Desert Fox)	Don Seltzer
10.	Where did Giocante stand on the burning deck?
	Battle of the Nile Had to learn the awful poem in the sixth grade. "The boy stood on the burnng deck, etc"	Carlezzzzz
	On board the ill-fated French three-decker 'L'Orient'. The ship blew up during the Battle of the Nile (1798). He was the son of Captain Casabianca. As Charlezzzzz has implied, Felicia Hemans's poem of 1826 romanticises the incident.	Oliver Mundy
	Aboukir Bay Where Battle of the Nile took place	kjg
	Aboukir Bay (Felicia Dorothea Hemans – Casabianca)	The Quizmaster says:
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N.	The etymology of which country's name:
1.	rules out mendacity?
	Burkina Faso "Land of Honest Men"	Don Seltzer
2.	describes littoral wealth?
	Ivory Coast or Cote d'Ivoire	Don Seltzer
	Costa Rica probably a better answer	Don Seltzer
	Costa Rica	The Quizmaster says:
3.	suggests sacred insularity?
	Samoa 'Holy Center'	Don Seltzer
	Sri Lanka also means holy island in Tamil	Helen
	Holy Island, Lindisfarne	Adam Q
	Sri Lanka	The Quizmaster says:
4.	recalls the Dude's favourite cocktail?
	Belarus White Russian in The Big Lebowski	Don Seltzer
5.	shows the long reach of a Basque windmill?
	Bolivia Bolivar/Bolibar (windmill valley) was the origin of SImon Bolivar's ancestors	Don Seltzer
6.	misrenders the name of an East India Company captain?
	Kiribati adapted from Gilbert Islands, Capt Thomas Gilbert	Don Seltzer
7.	derives from pachydermal slaughter?
	Ivory Coast pity the poor elephants whose tusks were exported from there	Charlezzzzz
	Côte d’Ivoire	The Quizmaster says:
8.	derives from crustacean abundance?
	Cameroon from Portuguese of River of Shrimp	Don Seltzer
9.	warns of shallow waters?
	Bahamas from baja mar, shallow sea	Don Seltzer
10.	has lunar connections?
	Comoros from Arabic	Don Seltzer
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O.
1.	What Viennese dance celebrated 26 July?
	The Radetzky March? celebrating Radetzky's victory in the Battle of Custoza (1848) against the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Italian First War of Independence.	Anna Ravano
	Joseph Strauss Annen-Polka St Anna's day is 26 July	Adam Q
	Annen Polka (Johann Strauss)	The Quizmaster says:
2.	Who responded to news of the lugger in Kitt's Hole?
	Superintendent Dance Treasure Island	peterk
	Supervisor Dance (Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island)	The Quizmaster says:
3.	What reckless delight is enhanced by an abundance of Xeres?
	'The wildest of dances'. Chorus 'Dance a cachucha' from W. S. Gilbert's libretto for 'The Gondoliers'.	Oliver Mundy
	Cachuca	The Quizmaster says:
4.	In what did the snail decline the whiting's invitation to take part?
	"Will you walk a little faster," said the whiting to the snail In the poem,maybe by Edward Lear or Lewis Carroll	Charlezzzzz
	The Lobster Quadrille A dance described in a nonsense poem in "Through the looking-glass"	Larry Finch
	Lobster Quadrille (Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland)	The Quizmaster says:
5.	In which morbid exercise does a xylophone represent an osseous rattle?
	Saint-Saëns' tone-poem 'Danse Macabre'. 'Dance' seems to be the common factor here.	Oliver Mundy
6.	What famous dance sequence precedes Grimaldo's attempt on the life of Badoero?
	The Dance of the Hours in the opera 'La Gioconda' Occurs at the end of the third act	Kilian Metcalf
7.	Who "waltzed" in happy anticipation of a rendezvous with Marianne?
	Baron Ochs? In Der Rosenkavalier	Guest
	Frank Churchill? in Sense and Sensibility	Helen
	British army officers at ball on eve of battle of Waterloo "Marianne" is the iconic female representation of the French nation	Scotty
	colonel Brandon Sense and Sensibility	kjg
	Baron Ochs (Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier)	The Quizmaster says:
8.	In what did two geriatrics rekindle their love in West Yorkshire?
	Last tango in Halifax	Peterk
9.	In what pas de deux does Pertussis seem to participate?
	In the Nutcracker Sugar Plum Fairy and Prince Whooping-Cough dance the pas de deux	Adam Q
	Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Prince Coqueluche in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet)	The Quizmaster says:
10.	What was sung from the shade of a Coolibah?
	'Waltzing Matilda' (song by A. B. Paterson) The words refere to a 'swagman' who 'camped . . . under the shade of a coolibah tree'.	Oliver Mundy
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P.	What:
1.	day shares with Bridget?
	Barinbreac Cake baked on Feb 1st St Bridget's day	peterk
	Baked Alaska Day (1st February)	The Quizmaster says:
2.	did Ramsay combine with Turtle Soup?
	Tiramisu	peterk
3.	was named after Margaretha, Märtha and Astrid?
	Princess Cake Named after three Swedish princesses	Adam Q
4.	was inspired through an invitation to see Elsa of Brabant?
	The Lohengrin (or Elsa) cake There is a wedding and, perhaps, a wedding cake in Lohengrin (for him and his bride, Elsa). Here's an example of the sort of thing that was inspired by the opera - a tier of fruitcake and chocolate genoise layers filled with Swiss meringue butter cream. The tiers are covered with white marzipan, glazed with fondant, dotted with royal icing and then accented with fresh flowers and satin ribbon.	Guest
	Peach Melba Dame Nelly sang the role of Elsa	Scotty
	Peach Melba (Nellie Melba invited Escoffier to a performance of Lohengrin)	The Quizmaster says:
5.	was Tom's intended fate prior to his rescue from beneath the attic?
	To be made into "a kitten dumpling roly-poly pudding" by Anna Maria the rat The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, by Beatrix Potter
6.	according to the Captain, always ate better if it did not scald your gullet?
	Treacle Pudding Jack says it of luke warm pudding in The Reverse of the Medal	Guest
7.	is a sweetened combination of egg yolk and a Sicilian wine?
	Zabaglione	Lee Ann Roberts
8.	creation formerly had the sobriquet "solognotte"?
	Tart Tatin	Larry Finch
9.	do Margrethe's subjects use as a shibboleth?
	Rødgrød red groats with cream -The name of the dish in Danish features many of the elements that make Danish pronunciation difficult for non-native speaker	Guest
	not red groats, but red currant pudding	Astrid Bear
	Rødgrød med fløde	The Quizmaster says:
10.	moistens the lip and brightens the eye?
	Pumpkin pie Poem 'The Pumpkin' by John Greenleaf Whittier	Kilian Metcalf
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Q.
1.	On what was Smiler fed?
	Cow and Gate Artwork for Smiler in Wiltshire history Centre	peterk
2.	Where is the vanelline source of ferruginous waters?
	Harrogate It's got ferruginous (chalybeate) spas and a forest of Scots Pines for the vanilline (if vanelline is a misprint)	Guest
	Tewit Well, Harrogate	Sid
	Tewit Well Tewit=Plover. Latin name Vanellus	s
	Harrogate (The Tewit Well)	The Quizmaster says:
3.	Whose scholarly woodpecker was a wooden bookend?
	Oliver Postgate	Tassie Tigers
4.	Where, according to Bede, was Adda's brother the Abbot?
	Gateshead Looks like North east England answers	Adam Q
5.	What was given its name by Lamancha owing to the execrable food and wine?
	The Runagates Club Stories by John Buchan	Adam Q
6.	Where was she heard singing about her laddie's blue bonnet and dimpled chin?
	Sandgate, Tyneside In the song, The Keel Row	Adam Q
7.	To which establishment was the frisky prentice hauled with fanfares?
	to Newgate prison. cleped Perkyn Revelour. He was as ful of love and paramour As is the hyve ful of hony sweete; [But when he got out of hand he was] somtyme lad with revel to Newegate. Chaucer's "Cook's Tale". .... That he was	Guest
	I left out the first line: A prentys whilom dwelled in oure citee	Guest
8.	Where in 1940 were tables for two laid as tables for four?
	Margate Margate 1940 poem by Sir John Betjeman	peterk
9.	What was earned by William and discarded by Tony?
	Stansgate	peterk
10.	Whence the Cholmeleians?
	Highgate Highgate School is a British day-only independent school in Highgate, London.	Guest
	Should have mentioned the school is also called The Cholmeley School and the dear knows how they pronounce that	Guest
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R.	During 2015:
1.	which popular character fell to a Minnesota toxophilite?
	Cecil the Lion Killed by a Minnesota dentist in Tanzania	Adam Q
2.	whose crown-scarred skull has found a final resting place?
	Richard III	Don Seltzer
3.	where has a polychrome hybrid of Galanthus been relaunched?
	Liverpool Mersey ferry named Snowdrop has been painted in multi-coloured Dazzle camoflage	Adam Q
4.	which archiepiscopal foundation has closed its doors after 432 years?
	St Bee's School	peterk
5.	for which sleuth has his luscinial escapade now turned out to be his swan song?
	Inspector Wexford "No Man's Nightingale" is last novel in series as Ruth Rendell died in 2015	Sid
6.	which anthem, played in error, was equally erroneously attributed to Kazakhstan?
	Manx National anthem Played instead of El Salvador's at a soccer match in Maryland. Erroneously said to be Kazakhstan's (see Borat)	Adam Q
7.	which six-times winner did his final lap almost 65 years after his first victory?
	Geoff Duke Six time Isle of Man TT winner died in 2015	Adam Q
8.	how has Suffragette militancy progressed to Suffragen achievement?
	Libby Lane, first woman consecrated as Church of England bishop appointed suffragan bishop of Stockport 17 Dec 2014	Kilian Metcalf
	Consecrated in Jan 2015	Kilian Metcalf
9.	how did a redesigned garden contribute to gold in China?
	Greg Rutherford Built long jump pit in garden	peterk
10.	how has Bellerophon returned at the expense of Aquila?
	Parachute Regiment Pegasus emblem reinstated	Sid