King William's College Annual Quiz - 2016-2017

the Democratic incumbent defeated Republican Charles Evan Hughes in the electoral college

Assasinated by Freidrich Adler - "Adler" is German for eagle.

Hilda von Einem in Greenmantle

His symphony No. 4, also known as "The Inextinguishable", was finished in 1916.

Dahl later said that his funniest moment was being born

Admiral Beatty at the Battle of Jutland

Convicted of treason based on an interpretation of the Treason Act 1351; as he put it, he was "hanged on a comma."

The elephant, named Mary, an exhibit in Sparks's Circus, had killed a trainer.

The 1916 Grand National was cancelled because Aintree Racecourse was taken over by the War Office. However, a substitute race known as the Racecourse Association Steeple Chase was held at Gatwick Racecourse. The Gatwick races from 1916 to 1918 are not typically included in the true Grand National record books.

Labor camps Borkum and Helgoland, and concentration camps Norderney and Sylt

Steam ship thought to be satanic in Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea (Channel Island connections?)

We got half of it

Venus was a prize cow liberated from the fictional Channel Island in the book "Appointment with Venus" by Jerrard Tickell

Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake

1781 surrender of Jersey to the French

Both won Victoria Cross (Sartorial?)

By Algernon Charles Swinburn, "From the depths that abide and the waves that environ / Seven rocks rear heads that the midnight masks"

Paddel steamer Superb in 1850, south of Jersey

The Carolinas are named after Carolus, the Latin form of King Charles. The island of Jersey was given to Sir George Carteret after he proclaimed the kingship of King Charles II.

The surname Carteret in represented in North Carolina (NC) with 'Carteret County' and in New Jersey (NJ) by the borough of Carteret. Elizabeth, New Jersey is named for his wife.

In kiplings poem

"The Female of the Species" by Kipling

"Ubique" by Kipling

"The Ballad of the 'Bolivar'" by Kipling

Just a typo

Just So Stories by Kipling

Poem A Child's Garden by Kipling

nd that is why I have to lay/Out in the garden all the day//Our garden is not very wide/and cars go by on either side etc etc

But tuberculosis is the long form

Delilah (poem by Kipling)

"Coastwise Lights" by Kipling

Half of the answer

Eponymous poem by Kipling

"Eddi's Service" by Kipling

Possibly a typo for scincomorphic in the question? Cullen skink is a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions.

From "Moby Dick"

Try Pots Inn in Moby Dick

in "Ulysses", ch. 4

P O'B?

From "The Thirteen Gun Salute": From these he went on to check their surgical instruments, the grim saws, retractors, artery-hooks, gags, leather-covered chains; and then the more massive substances such as portable soup, stored in flat wooden cases of thirty-six slabs apiece, lime and lemon juice, plaster of Paris for healing broken limbs in the oriental manner (much favoured now by Dr Maturin), and neat square bales of lint, each marked with the broad arrow.

Esau

Walter Scott's The Fortunes of Nigel

Huntingtower by John Buchan

Made from the nests of cave swiftlets

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

This round are all FA Cup Finals

Final held at Stamford Bridge (Harold II); Huddersfield had already lost there before

Sunderland were in the second division, so should they (and not Leeds) be 'out of season'?

Book of isaiah

Bury 6 Derby 0

Played at Crystal Palace

Lyrics in the song

Name of girl in Rose of Tralee

Twitching is seeing a rare bird

He appeared in Peter Ustinov's play 'Beethoven's Tenth' (1983) – but apparently not as Beethoven himself, the author having taken that part. I cannot verify the reference to 'Manfred'.

In a tv play called Kessler

Played Ludwig Kessler in "Kessler" Character later in series took name Manfred Dorff

Presented to Henrietta Maria in 1625 at Amiens

The Rose Street pub crawl

From Laurie Lee's "Cider with Rosie"

said by the dying Charles Foster Kane in "Citizen Kane"

In the Solent, in July 1545.

Palácio de Mateus, Vila Real. The Palácio de Mateus is depicted on the label of Mateus rosé wine

Roseola is a disease of children caused by HHV-6B virus

In "Moonraker"

Chang was thrown through a clock which was in St Mark's Clocktower which was accessed through the Venini Glass shop and museum. In the film this is a collection of different places and studio work.

Translated to Clocktower

Hemingway, "Across the River and into the Trees", ch. IX

"Prete Rosso" was Antonio Vivaldi's nickname because of his hair.

Antonio Vivaldi, affectionately called "The Red Priest".

Maleficio is a bell rung to signal an execution

Paintings by Tintoretto (Little Dyer)

In the book England by Johann Wilhelm von Archenholtz published in late 18th century

It is from Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens. Mr Eustace was the classical tourist.

It is in both books

'George Eliot''s much younger husband, John Cross

Venice's thrice-burned opera house

Leonado da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" depicts a human in various positions (including showing four legs) in a circle.

Founded by Floriano Francesconi in 1720 with the name "Alla Venezia trionfante" (Venice triumphant)

opened December 1720 by Floriano Francesconi as “Alla Venezia Trionfante” rechristened “Caffè Florian” in honour of its owner

'The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo' (Lear), line 1. The common factor seems to be the syllable '-man'; 'Ellan Vannin' is Manx for 'Isle of Man'.

7th generation family vineyard 'Considered one of Germany’s finest producers of Spatburgunder'

apparently the red hand symbolizes Ulster

Roman Catholic seminary for Scots

St Norbert's day is June 6 or D-Day

Two Roman roads cross here

Tasmanian Devil or Tasmanian Wolf

Uhuru is highest point on the mountain

Area of Borneo where Land Dayaks , as opposed to POB's Sea Dayaks, live.

Areas of Borneo

in Shakedspeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", I, ii: "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows [...] With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine Moschata is the musk rose and rubiginosa is

in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale

believing his son Ferdinand had drowned in a shipwreck on their return journey from North Africa, where Alonso's daughter had married the king of Tunis.

in Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost"

Lady Macbeth. Heard this during His murder

Lady Macbeth heard those cries while Macbeth was killing him.

In "King John". Chatillon invites King John to resign in favour of Arthur Plantagenet, son of his deceased brother Geoffrey.

See Anna's, below.

Henry VI Pt 3

Says "take her, fair son" giving Catherine to Henry at the end

Henry V

in Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

From Shakespeare's "Pericles, Price of Tyre," the king has a riddle from which Pericles understands that the kind and his daughter engage in incest.

Hanged on April 21 1792 for protesting against Portuguese rule. Now a public holiday.

Twin towers each with a Liver bird?

Design is similar to that of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

Brazilian football player who organised a "democratic management of his club by the players during Brazilian dictatorship

Book by Jules Verne The Cryptogram

Brazilian sculptor who carved statues of 12 prophets in Congonhas

Aleijadinho (Portuguese for little cripple) was a Brazilian sculptor who carved statues of 12 prophets

Superseded by Everest in 1852 and then K2

'Brazil' seems to be the common factor. This mountain was rated the country's highest until 1965 but was then demoted to third place.

In the "Carta Testamento," he writes, "Serenely, I take my first step on the road to eternity and I leave life to enter History."

The American James Harden-Hickey had claimed the island and declared himself as James I, Prince of Trinidad.

A blue star represents Spica on the flag of the Brazilian state of Pará. Spica is also the star representing Pará on the Brazilian flag.

In the explanation

Berthollet was the Savoyard chemist

In "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit"

Jeeves in the Offing: "“I know if anyone called me a carrot-topped Jezebel, umbrage is the first thing I'd take. Who was Jezebel, by the way? The name seems familiar, but I can't place her.” “A character in the Old Testament, sir. A queen of Israel.” “Of course, yes. Be forgetting my own name next. Eaten by dogs, wasn't she?” “Yes, sir.” “Can't have been pleasant for her.” “No, sir.” “Still, that's the way the ball rolls.”"

Bertie's cousins in The Inimitable Jeeves'.

"Aunts Aren't Gentlemen"

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

In "Right Ho, Jeeves"?

The Mating Season

Bobby Wickhams cousin. Appears in several Jeeves books

Early Wooster story

You were allowed eight "free" windows instead of seven

In the stage direction for "Savonarola Brown", a poetic drama written by the main character in Max Beerbohm short story of the same name: 'Enter Michaelangelo. Andrea del Sarto appears for a moment at a window. Pippa passes'

Famous Raymond Chandler quote

Characters in the prison sitcom 'Porridge'

"And a constant sound of flushing runneth from windows where The toothbrush too is airing in this new North Oxford air From Summerfields to Lynam's" May-Day Song for North Oxford - John Betjeman

"I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little as the days ran on."

2 Kings 9:30

Sisera was killed with a tent peg by Jael. His mother waited for his chariot, peering through the window - Judges 5:28

From the lyrics of the eponymous song on 'Sgt Pepper'

from the Beatles album 'Revolver' actually

in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark: "Six inches is perfectly adequate. More is vulgar. One should have an innate sense of these things."

From the lyrics of George Formby's "When I'm Cleaning Windows"

Terboven was German Reichskommissar and shared power in occupied Norway with Quisling

Developed cheese slicer

Developed a hotel key-card that used 32 holes and thus had about 4 billion combinations.

Developed "Kielland's Forceps" in 1916 by Dr. Christian Kielland of Oslo (keeping with the Norwegian theme of these questions).

Seems to be a typo for 'Erebus'. Wrewcks of Franklin's ships found near Gjoa Haven , Canada

First to sail through North West Passage in Gjoa

Kon-Tiki helped by the Humboldt Current

Leprosy also known as Hansen's disease, Neisser discovered the pathogen but Hansen did not believe him at first (Famous Norwegians)

Killed by Thorir Hund

First Sec-Gen of the UN, succeeded by Dag Hammarskjold

Pictured on Norwegian 100 krone bank note

First books brought out on the "Tam O'Shanter"

Stephen Mitchell and Son, tobacco brand

Founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband

Sir Thomas Bodley served at The Hague 1588–96; two years later he undertook to set the library founded in the 1430s by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, on a new footing.

Built by Michael Honywood one of Mary Honywood's 114 grandchildren

Founded by the great Liberal statesman W. E. Gladstone (1809-98), who at the age of 86 helped to transport his own books in a wheelbarrow from his home, Hawarden Castle, to the library he had founded in the nearby village.

Named after John Percival

There is a modern clock on the wall outside called Chronophage (Time eater)

Sir Sydney Jones was a member of Alfred Holt & Co, owners of the Blue Funnel shipping line.

Merry Wives of Windsor

"The Jackdaw of Rheims"

Alternative name for Bear's Foot

“Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.” Charles Kingsley

"Smell", one of his "Five Senses" series of paintings, rediscovered in New Jersey

Klimt’s The Kiss in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in the Belvedere palace, Vienna, previously belonged to Prince Eugene of Savoy, 1663 –1736, general and statesman. It was a multi-sensory experience..

Ethel Mannin, Fragrance of Hyacinths

"Some random touch – a hand’s imprudent slip – The Terminals – a flash – a sound like ‘Zip!’ A smell of burning fills the startled Air – The Electrician is no longer there!" The Benefits of Electricity - Hillaire Belloc

"A Subaltern's Love Song" by John Betjeman

you can find this in more places than water - but it really needs to be a SMELL.

W H Auden, 'In Praise of Limestone' (May 1948) ".....Are our common prayer, whose greatest comfort is music Which can be made anywhere, is invisible, And does not smell."

Hillaire Belloc "Jim, Who Ran Away from his Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion"

from the Kingsley Amis novel 'Lucky Jim'.

In the BBC radio series 'Mrs. Dale's Diary'. Mrs. Dale commonly introduced each episode with a scene-setting narrative in which she acknowledged being 'rather worried about Jim'.

Children's book by John Masefield

Corker about a lad who falls in among coastal smugglers and Devon night-riders

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome

The Minister in 'Yes Minister' (comedy series by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn)

He, Israel Hands, Abraham Gray and Ben Gunn are characters in Stevenson's 'Treasure Island'.

Gilbert's poem The Yarn of the Nancy Bell "I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig"

By Conrad

"Little Billee", WM Thackeray, "To gorging Jack says guzzling Jimmy, “We ’ve nothing left, us must eat we.”" Here we have the holy triumvirate, a Jimmy, cannibalism recommended and ungrammatically.

Jim is set free in Miss Watson's will

Rockford Files

Nat King Cole, "Smile"

In Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'.

T.S. Eliot Whispers of Immortality

Muriel Spark in The Girls of Slender Means

Secretary of State

Novel Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

Ted Hughes' poem Pike

The poem is correct but the actual words are wrong. "Pike, three inches long, perfect Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin."

Song of old man Kangaroo

Brooke's 'Grantchester' : "Cambridge people rarely smile, being urban, squat and packed with guile."

Former UK PM on his resignation

Wrote: The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg

Magician whose catch phrase was 'not a lot'.

One of two stolen Van Gogh paintings recovered in Naples after being stolen for 14 years.

...'angry, unwashed, Make America Great Again swarm, desperately gripping their concealed-carry compensators and belting out a mini-erection inducing ‘mashed potato,’ hoping to impress their cousin.'

Known as the "Purple Witch" died in Chile

Since 2002 awarded for outstanding scientific work in mathematics

Professor Kosterlitz is the 14th Laureate affiliated to Gonville and Caius.

Nobel prize for physics, alumnus of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Since 2002 awarded for outstanding scientific work in mathematics

After Gerald Durrell's 'My Family and Other Animals'.

Seven members of Sale Sharks rugby team broke a hotel lift because together they weighed too much.

The NASA Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on 4 July.