King William's College Annual Quiz

King William's College Annual Quiz - 2018-2019

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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 1918:
1.	where did whose reign last for 66 days?
	Finland Frederick Charles Louis Constantine of Hesse was the elected king of Finland before renouncing his throne.	Graham
2.	who tragically missed the night train from Lisbon to Porto?
	Sidonio Pais, President of Portugal Pais was assassinated in the train station at Lisbon by José Julio de Costa on December 14th.	Prag Katta
3.	where would Bolshevik 'surrender' be annulled eight months later?
	Brest-Litovsk The eponymous Treaty between Germany and Russia (11 March 1918) was superseded by the Armistice in November.	Oliver Mundy
4.	which supreme competitor had scored 80 when finally dismissed by Brown?
	Manfred von Richthofen The Red Baron allegedly shot down by Arthur Brown	Adam Q
5.	who published cynical views on an eminent convert to Rome, a ground-breaking headmaster and a 'Chinese' martyr?
	Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians	Adam Q
6.	who led the development of gasses for chemical warfare, but was selected by KVA for his work on facilitating N₂+3H₂↔2NH₃.
	Fritz Haber	Poll Skeeping
7.	whose passing was mourned by his wife Emma and their daughter Chouchou?
	Claude Debussy	Poll Skeeping
8.	who gave up everything and was the guest of Count Godard and his family?
	Kaiser Wilhelm II Was given sanctuary by Count Godard Bentinck in the Netherlands	Adam Q
9.	whose closing words from Horace were sadly only too true?
	Wilfred Owen Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori	Poll Skeeping
10.	of what did Sykes take charge 13 days after its formation?
	The RAF His predecessor, Trenchard, was Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) for only 13 days after the RAF was founded.	Poll Skeeping
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B.
1.	to what See was Aramis appointed?
	Vannes In Dumas' Musketeers sequel The Vicomte de Bragelonne	Adam Q
2.	who was credited with 'style' by Calverley?
	Bishop of Sodor and Mann In Col. Calverley's song in G&S Patience, Rowley Hill is believed to be the origin	Adam Q
3.	who banished the three Fathers to Craggy Island?
	Bishop Len Brennan In TV sitcom Father Ted	Adam Q
4.	who was preferred to Dr Grantley for what position on his father's death?
	Dr Proudie, Bishop of Barchester	Poll Skeeping
5.	to what position was Dr Rowlands, Williams's stern housemaster, elevated?
	Bishop of Roslyn Dr Rowlands Housemaster to Eric Williams at Roslyn school depicted in "Eric or Little by Little" by FW Farrar	Mary Fisher
6.	over what was the good fellow, Bob, to be offered a pay rise during the festive season?
	A bowl of punch Ref: Dicken's A Christmas Carol	Wanda Finch
	"a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop" (punch) Bishop is the theme here	Adam Q
	A bowl of bishop Bob Cratchit, hitherto downtrodden clerk to the transfigured Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' (Dickens)	Oliver Mundy
	A bowl of Smoking Bishop	The Quizmaster says
7.	after feasting late and long, who, smiling, advised Olaf that it was bedtime?
	Sigurd the Bishop From Longfellow's "The Musician's Tale - The Saga of King Olaf"	Prag Katta
8.	which peeled priest addressed the Protector as proditor?
	Henry Beaufort, Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester Shakespeare, Henry VI	Gerry Strey
9.	what is labelled with a signpost for Canterbury?
	Bishops finger Shepherd name beer	dreadnought
10.	from whose largesse did Valjean benefit?
	Bishop Myriel Gives Jean Valjean silver candlesticks in Les Miserables	Adam Q
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C.
1.	whence the Diehards?
	Gorbals John Buchan Dickson McCunn books Glasgow related section	Adam Q
2.	which Park witnessed disasters costing 25 and 66 lives?
	Ibrox Park Glasgow Rangers football stadium	Adam Q
3.	where, after 150 years, do they continue 'to play for the sake of playing'?
	Queen's Park Football Club The club is currently the only amateur club in the Scottish Professional Football League; its amateur status is reflected by its Latin motto, Ludere Causa Ludendi – "to play for the sake of playing".	Graham
	Hampden Park QPR's ground	The Quizmaster says
4.	where did the repeated administration of Antimony lead to a public execution on the Green?
	Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow The home of Edward William Pritchard, tried and convicted of the murder of his wife and mother in law and hanged at Glasgow Green on 28th July, 1865	Graham
	22 Royal Crescent Was part of Sauchiehall Street	The Quizmaster says
5.	where does a great patriot stand above the inscription 'There shall be a Scottish Parliament'?
	Buchanan St in Glasgow Statue of Donald Dewar	Adam Q
6.	what, according to Fairservice had nane o' yere whig-maleeries and curliewurlies and open-steek hems about it?
	The Minster or Cathedral Church of Glasgow Description by Andrew Fairservice in Walter Scott's Rob Roy	Adam Q
	High Kirk of Glasgow/St Mungo’s Cathedral	The Quizmaster says
7.	where can the surrealist's depiction of the crucified Christ be seen floating high above Port Lligat?
	Kelvingrove Art Gallery Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross	Adam Q
	Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow Work by Salvatore Dali: Christ of Saint John of the Cross	Larry Finch
8.	where does the eponymous tower commemorate the designer of former newspaper offices?
	Mackintosh Tower In the building now known as The Lighthouse, the tower was originally part of the Glasgow Herald offices designed Charles Rennie Mackintosh	TomF
	The Lighthouse aka Mackintosh Tower - Glasgow Mackintosh designed the Herald Tower which was designed to hold large reservoir of water to fight any fire that might occur in the printing press room of the Herald newspaper.	Prag Katta
9.	where did Mussa Ali transmit the fatal virus to Nurse Wilson?
	Knightswood Fever Hospital, Glasgow In 1950 Mussa Ali was treated for smallpox and recovered but the nurse caught it and died	Adam Q
10.	which noted pantomime venue is Dasypodine?
	The SEC Armadillo The Scottish Event Campus has a venue that is notably shaped like an armadillo.	Prag Katta
	Clyde Auditorium/Armadillo	The Quizmaster says
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D.	In which tale:
1.	did Kitty Kid masquerade as Ada Mason?
	Mystery of the Blue Train	Larry Finch
	All of these are Agatha Christie mysteries	Larry Finch
2.	was the Mephistophelian host fixed by a dummy?
	Cards on the Table The murder takes place during a game of bridge.	Gerry Strey
3.	did a showing of Not a Sparrow coincide with the running of the St Leger?
	The A.B.C. Murders	Adam Q
4.	was the recognition that two cousins were named Magdala crucial to the solution?
	Peril at End House Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot mystery	Wanda Finch
5.	did a sometime German spy masquerade as a Swede who had been killed in a train crash?
	Murder in Mesopotamia Dr. Leidner was not who he said he was.	Prag Katta
6.	did a retired judge confess all in a bottle message found by the Master of the Emma Jane?
	And Then There Were None Agatha Christie book also known as Ten Little **********	Adam Q
7.	was a reading from Plato's Phaedo recalled in the course of a posthumous exoneration?
	Five Little Pigs The reading was the description of the death of Socrates. All of the answers in this round are Agatha Christie's Poirot stories.	TomF
	Five Little Pigs The reading was the description of the death of Socrates. All of the answers in this round are Agatha Christie's Poirot stories.	TomF
8.	was a very dangerous Italian agitator, masquerading as an archaeologist, detained?
	Death on the Nile Guido Richetti is revealed to be a murderer being pursued by Poirot's friend.	Prag Katta
9.	did thirteen take revenge for the murder of a toddler?
	Murder on the Orient Express Murderer of Daisy Adams (based on the Lindbergh baby)	Wanda Finch
10.	were there confusing events at 17 Regent Gate?
	Lord Edgeware Dies	Adam Q
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E.	Where:
1.	was Tilia reduced to 7ft?
	St Lawrence cricket ground in Canterbury, Kent The St Lawrence lime tree (tilia) was inside the boundary and was broken by a windstorm in 2005 leaving a 7' stump	Adam Q
2.	did Garry and Frank take 36 and 34 off Malcolm?
	SWANSEA GARRY SOBERS HIT MALCOLM NASH FOR 36 OF ONE OVER AND FRANK HAYES HIT NASH FOR 34	PB
	St Helen’s, Swansea	The Quizmaster says
3.	did Steve and Venkat say "Enough" after 62 balls?
	Sabina Park Kingston Jamaica West Indies v England Test match abandoned-dangerous pitch	PB
4.	is the venue a memorial to a Brotherly Leader and Guide?
	Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore Cricket ground named after former Libyan leader	Adam Q
5.	did rain terminate the event with an aggregate score of 1,981?
	Durban 1939 England vs South Africa cricket Test match	Adam Q
	Kingsmead, Durban	The Quizmaster says
6.	did the home side make 42 and 87 after snow caused abandonment on the previous day?
	Buxton June 1975 Derbyshire were playing Lancashire In the county championships, when play was delayed for a day by a freak storm that started as rain, then became hail and then snow.	Prag Katta
	The Park, Buxton	The Quizmaster says
7.	did Eddie and Botham appear on opposite sides in an ODI?
	A pig Eddie Hemmings and Sir Ian were suspected by Aussie fans of being a bit overweight and released a pig with Eddie and Botham written on either side.	Nino in Oz
	Brisbane Cricket Ground Location of incident with pig
	The Gabba, Brisbane	The Quizmaster says
8.	was the international venue uniquely below sea-level?
	Georgetown Cricket ground in Guyana	Adam Q
	Bourda, Georgetown	The Quizmaster says
9.	was the pavilion the victim of suffragette arson?
	Nevill Pavilion at Tunbridge Wells During the years 1913-1914 there was a campaign by suffragettes to disrupt male institutions. Among these were cricket grounds. The Neville pavilion was burned down and it was reported that suffragette pamphlets and a photo of Emmeline Pankhurst were found at the site.	Prag Katta
10.	did fried squid render the ball unplayable?
	Boland Park, Paarl, South Africa The ball was hit outside the boundary into a pan of fried calimari	Gerry Strey
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F.	What:
1.	takes its name from James I's Physician?
	Lobelia Named after the Belgian Matthias de Lobel (or L'Obel), James I's physician and botanist.	Poll Skeeping
2.	is a drupe of drupelets brought together by a Californian judge?
	The Loganberry Bred by Judge Logan	The Badger
3.	South American lily takes its name from an alumnus of Uppsala University?
	Alstroemeria named after Clas Alströmer by his close friend Linnaeus	Don Seltzer
4.	tuber is named after that alumnus's Curator at his natural museum and garden?
	Dahlia Named after Anders Dahl	Adam Q
5.	heated fire-iron was named after a renowned herbalist and Rector of Erfurt University?
	Johann Hieronymus Kniphof Red hot poker genus is kniphofia	Adam Q
6.	shrub is named after a Pomeranian polymath, who was Physician to the House of Holstein-Gottorp?
	Sperlingia For Otto Sperling, physician and botanist	Gerry Strey
	Weigela After Christian Weigel	Dreadnought
	Weigela	The Quizmaster says
7.	is named after a Montpellier academic, who proposed a classification of plant families?
	genera candollea and candolleodendron Augustin Pyramus de Candolle	Gerry Strey
	Magnolia After Pierre Magnol, from Montpellier	Carol Hunter
	Magnolia	The Quizmaster says
8.	was found in Mexico by an Envoy, who was later the 8th President's War Minister?
	Poinsettia Named for Joel Roberts Poinsett	Don Seltzer
9.	tuberous cultivar is named after a sometime Intendant on Hispaniola?
	Begonia Michele Begon de la Picardiere	Gerry Strey
10.	was named after the Physician to Mark Antony's son-in-law?
	The banana Generic name 'Musa', from Antonius Musa who was physician to the Emperor Augustus.	Oliver Mundy
	Euphorbia from Euphorbus physician to Juba II of Namabia who married Cleopatra Selene daughter of Mark Antony and Cleaopatra	Mary Fisher
	Namibia
	Euphorbia	The Quizmaster says
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G.	Which periodical:
1.	was found under Adrian's bed by his mother?
	Big & Bouncy magazine Pauline (Adrian's mum) finds them......	Graham
2.	provided Mr Finch with a £10 prize for solving a cross-word?
	The Daily Yell Meleager Finch in "The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleagers Will" a Lord Peter Wimsey story by Dorothy L Sayers	Mary Fisher
	Daily Yell Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey short story	Peterhw
3.	carried the headline DIAR KNAB NI EFIL OT THGUORB EERHT?
	YADRETSEY Red Dwarf episode	Adam Q
4.	published an ode by the Poet Laureate to the seasonal fluctuation of its sales?
	The Daily Beast Scoop - Evelyn Waugh	Mary Fisher
5.	described the brutal slaying of two summer visitors as they frolicked in the chill waters off the Scotch Road Beach?
	Amity Leader Newspaper in Jaws book	Adam Q
6.	under the headline BRILLIANT POLICE INVESTIGATION, described a dog kennel concealing bodies in a disused well?
	North Surrey Observer Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Retired Colourman	Adam Q
7.	likened the death of Tom Robinson to the senseless killing of songbirds by hunters and children?
	The Maycomb Register Mr. B.B. Underwood, wrote this in an editorial for that local newspaper in chapter 25 of "To Kill a Mockingbird."	Prag Katta
	The Maycomb Tribune	The Quizmaster says
8.	had an office which looked like a public lavatory in honest native white tile?
	The Stradhoughton Echo This is the description in the novel "Billy Liar" by Keith Waterhouse	Prag Katta
9.	was successfully established by the schoolmaster's son of Kilmaclavers?
	Craw Press or The Centre-Forward The Centre-Forward is the first paper founded by Thomas Carlyle Craw who owns 15 newspapers in Buchan's Castle Gay. Not sure what is the right answer	Adam Q
	The Centre-Forward	The Quizmaster says
10.	was delivered by an owl at a cost of 5 Knuts?
	Daily Prophet Harry Potter books (also priced at one Knut)	Adam Q
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H.
1.	what was likely to give Pistol indigestion?
	Leek Fluellen made him eat it after he had said that the very smell made him 'qualmish' (Shakespeare, 'Henry V')	Oliver Mundy
2.	what proved to be soporific for Benjamin and his family?
	Lettuce Eaten by Benjamin Bunny and his children in 'The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies' (Potter).	Oliver Mundy
3.	what was dismissed as no more than a College-educated relative?
	"Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a college education" Mark Twain: "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson"	The Bager
4.	what, according to the hookah-smoking larva, can variably influence height?
	'The mushroom' [nibbling one or the other side of] According to the Caterpillar in 'Alice in Wonderland'	Oliver Mundy
	Mushroom The Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland	Adam Q
5.	what were all snatched by the greedy monarch while dining with his sister-in-law?
	Peas? First introduced to France in Louis xiv time and very fashionable at Versailles.	Dreadnought
	Peas William of Orange lunching with Princess Anne - found in The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy	Carol Hunter
6.	what culinary combination features in the refrain of a ditty describing an amphibian's final journey?
	Roly-poly, Gammon and Spinach "A Frog He Would A-wooing Go"	The Badger
7.	with what, specifically, did the old gentleman in the black velvet cap darken the air?
	Onions, turnip-radishes, and other small vegetables Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens Chapter 41	Bob
	Onions, turnip radishes and other small vegetables Nicholas Nickleby	Dreadnought
8.	what extraction project beneath the floating island had taken eight years?
	[Extracting sunlight from] cucumbers 'Gulliver's Travels' (Swift): a research project at the Academy of Lagado.	Oliver Mundy
9.	to what spring growth were the Premiers in days of old likened?
	Asparagus Prime Ministers and such as they grew like asparagus in May (Gondoliers)	Dreadnought
10.	what was a relic of Leopold's poor mama?
	Potato Leopold Bloom's potato in Ulysses by James Joyce	Bob
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I.
1.	who wrote about the polymath, Joseph Bologne?
	Roger de Beauvoir Wrote a novel about Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, The Black Mozart	Adam Q
2.	whose prestige product honours a Former Naval Person?
	Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill	Adam Q
3.	who progressed from Arras via Sens and Rouen to finally settle in Avignon?
	Pierre Roger Pope Clement VI held posts in all these cities	Graham
4.	who was the life and soul of King's Abbot, but was stabbed by the local GP?
	Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie, 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' (1926), an early Poirot novel.	Oliver Mundy
5.	who added the inscription 'Like this poor creatur' at the front of Miss Lee's dictionary?
	Roger Walker In Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons book "Missee Lee"	Adam Q
6.	who was put ashore on a Kerry beach by SM U-19, but due to a bout of Malaria was apprehended soon afterwards?
	Sir Roger Casement Irish patriot and gun-runner executed for treason, 1916.	Oliver Mundy
7.	who out-performed his brother Osborne and became a Senior Wrangler and Fellow of Trinity?
	Roger Hamley Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters	Lee Ann Roberts
8.	which gentleman of Worcestershire received a huge pike from Will Wimble?
	Sir Roger de Coverley Archetypal benevolent country squire in Addison & Steele, 'The Spectator', 1711.	Oliver Mundy
9.	who prepared a seven-part treatise of great scholarship for Clement IV?
	Roger Bacon Thirteenth-century philosopher and scientist (his 'Opus Maius').	Oliver Mundy
10.	who was accused of the murder of the Doomed Acme?
	Roger Rabbit Acme was murdered by Judge Doom who framed Roger	Adam Q
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J.
1.	where is the Blue Slipper?
	Blackgang Chine Blue Slipper is a type of clay deposit	Adam Q
	The Undercliff	The Quizmaster says
2.	where did nightingales warble and sing?
	In The Garden At Swainston Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson	Adam Q
3.	from where were the boys evacuated to Brantwood?
	Bembridge School Evacuated in WW2 to the Lake District	Adam Q
4.	where did Sophie's grandson find the window too narrow?
	Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight Charles I imprisoned there; escape attempt faile	The Badger
5.	which monument seems greatly inferior to its elderly Orcadian namesake?
	Hoy Monument or Alexandrian Pillar on St Catherine's Down Old Man of Hoy is a rock stack in the Orkneys	Adam Q
6.	where did Trenchard and Block leave the Bonaventure on their way to the Bugle?
	Cowes, Isle of Wight Moonfleet. section on Isle of Wight	Adam Q
	Carisbrooke why, I am not so old but that I too can play the fool, and we will let St. Malo be, and make for Carisbrooke. I know the castle; it is not two miles distant from Newport, and at Newport we can lie at the Bugle, which is an inn addicted to the contraband.	BIG JACK
	Cowes	The Quizmaster says
7.	where was Arthur's boy blamed for the missing 5/- postal order?
	Royal Naval College, Osborne The Winslow Boy, play by Terence Rattigan	Adam Q
8.	once Brighton, now Newport, where is W11 housed?
	Isle of Wight Steam Railway in Havenstreet W11 is an engine operated by the railway originally called Brighton and renamed Newport	Adam Q
9.	where did the clog-shod young lady walk about?
	Ryde Edward Lear limerick There was a Young Lady of Ryde, Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied. She purchased some clogs, And some small spotted dogs, And frequently walked about Ryde.	Adam Q
10.	where did Lot's Wife go missing?
	The Needles Name of a outcrop that collapsed in 1764	Adam Q
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K.
1.	what was reduced by twenty in 1967?
	UK Drink Driving limit Road Traffic Act 1967	PB
	Fifty year rule For release of government documents became thirty year rule	Dreadnought
	Fifty Year Rule	The Quizmaster says
2.	what urges adhesion to the desk on terra firma?
	The First Lord's song, 'When I was a lad' (Gilbert & Sullivan, 'H.M.S. Pinafore') 'Stick close to your desk and never go to sea, / And you all may be rulers of the Queen's Navee'.	Oliver Mundy
	"this golden rule" Be careful to be guided by this golden rule — Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,	Adam Q
	Golden Rule	The Quizmaster says
3.	what prohibited shoes or boots with spikes or springs?
	Marquess of Queensberry Rules Rule Number 11.	Bob
4.	what postulates that individuals in warmer climates have longer limbs?
	Allen's Rule Formulated by Joel Asaph Allen in 1877	Gerry Strey
5.	according to what should three miles take one hour, with an additional one hour for climbing 2000ft?
	Naismith's rule I was expecting Wainwright, but couldn't find him quoted. All I can say is I would hate to hike with Naismith. That's bloody fast, especially the climbing.	Graham
6.	what is a formula relating to the concentration of a lethal gas to the length of exposure required to cause death?
	Haber's rule	Poll Skeeping
7.	what was formulated following the shooting of the Prime Minister's Personal Secretary?
	The McNaghten Rules Judges' rules for determining the criminal responsibility of the insane. James McNaghten tried to shoot Sir Robert Peel in 1843; his secretary Edward Drummond received the bullet instead.	Oliver Mundy
8.	in what do ladies go twice round the New and once round the Old?
	St Rule trophy Ladies golf competition at St Andrews	dreadnought
9.	what was the invention of an Orford mathematician?
	The slide rule Invention of Henry Coggeshall of Orford.	Poll Skeeping
	Coggeshall Rule	The Quizmaster says
10.	what patriotic offering is derived from Alfred?
	Rule Britannia Arne wrote it for the opera Alfred	Adam Q
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L.
1.	who was allowed a gill of beer a day?
	Moses The Raven in Animal Farm	Graham
2.	who viewed his domain upon Arkindale Side?
	Baron of Raven Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby	Don Seltzer
	The Baron of Ravensworth	The Quizmaster says
3.	with what birth defect was Greene's corvid assassin afflicted?
	Harelip Raven in Graham Greene's A Gun For Sale	Adam Q
4.	whose gait was likened to that of a gentleman with exceedingly tight footwear?
	The Ravens at the Tower of London So described by Charles Dickens, who kept a pet Raven which is thought to be the inspiration for Poe's poem, after the two men met during Dickens trip to the US.	Prag Katta
	Grip’s	The Quizmaster says
5.	where did Muriel go after Gretna, although not changing her name for a further ten years?
	Ravenglass River Irt locomotive used in Gretna as Muriel, moved to Ravenglass and then rebuilt and renamed 10 years later
6.	to what was the scowling Calvinist minister likened as the Marquis knelt on the scaffold?
	Raven flocking around a dying deer Execution of Montrose, poem by Aytoun	Adam Q
7.	to whom did the ravens bring bread and meat twice daily by one of Jordan's tributaries?
	Prophet Elijah	Adam Q
8.	which worldwide messengers represented thought and memory?
	Hugin and Munin Odin's Ravens	The Badge
9.	what word was uttered from atop the bust of Pallas?
	"Nevermore" From Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven" after perching "... upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door", the titular Corvid replies thus to the protagonist's request to, "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”	Prag Katta
	Nevermore Poe's The Raven	Larry Finch
10.	although the rocks remain, what follows?
	Raven Seek Thy Brother Third book in Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water trilogy	Adam Q
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M.	Which Hospital:
1.	was a beneficiary of the South Sea Bubble?
	Guy's Thomas Guy, its patron and founder, made a fortune from the South Sea Bubble	Gerry Strey
2.	recalls an alternative title of Princess Diana?
	?Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital Grimsby Grimsby District General Hospital opened 26 July 1983 and renamed after her death	Peterhw
	Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester one of the several titles held by Princess Diana	Mary Fisher
	Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester	The Quizmaster says
3.	was built as a Memorial to a solicitor's wife at Moor Edge?
	Fleming Memorial Hospital, Newcastle	Adam Q
4.	was renamed after a Welsh surgeon and a pioneering English nurse?
	The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry	Kate Bunting
5.	was a Memorial to a pioneer in anaesthesia, whose extraction device still remains popular?
	Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Named after James Young Simpson who demonstrated chloroform as anaesthesia and invented "Simpson's Forceps" for use in childbirth.	Bob
6.	was established with an endowment from a former physician to Belvedere House, Calcutta?
	Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries Dr James Crichton (1765-1823) his legacy endowed the hospital, he had been physician to the Governor General of India	Mary Fisher
7.	owed its foundation to the bequest of the Bursar of a Hall in the same street?
	Addenbrookes Cambridge	Dreadnought
8.	was financed by the legacy of the inventor of a sniper's rifle?
	Christie Hospital Manchester Financed by legacy of Joseph Whitworth inventor of first sniper rifle	Peterhw
9.	was named after a grandly multiparous 'Farmer's Wife'?
	Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital 'Farmer' George III wife had 15 children	Adam Q
10.	was founded by a sometime Master Cutler?
	JESSOP HOSPITAL, SHEFFIELD FOUNDED BY THOMAS JESSOP, WHO WAS A MASTER CUTLER	Carol Hunter
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N.	Which seat of learning is named after:
1.	a canonised Bishop?
	Laval University, Quebec Saint Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, first Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec, canonised 3 April 2014	Arthur Jones
	Neumann University?	Dreadnought
	Laval	The Quizmaster says
2.	a Glaswegian fur-trader?
	McGill University James McGill	Adam Q
3.	a slave trader and corrupt Indian administrator?
	Yale University Elihu Yale of the East India Company	Adam Q
4.	an excommunicated Friend and telegraph pioneer?
	Cornell University Ezra Cornell	Adam Q
5.	a butcher's son and Emmanuel graduate, who bequeathed £780?
	Harvard College	Poll Skeeping
6.	a former pupil of the classical scholar, Alexander Adam and friend of Walter Scott?
	University College London Lord Brougham, founder UCL 1826, pupil of AA	Peterhw
	Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia named after George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, a contemporary of Walter scot and fits the theme of the round	Arthur Jones
	Dalhousie	The Quizmaster says
7.	a Quaker abolitionist and successful wholesale grocer?
	Johns Hopkins University	Adam Q
8.	a sometime ferryman and later railway magnate?
	Vanderbilt University Cornelius Vanderbilt	Adam Q
9.	a combatant in the Tobacco War?
	Duke University I'm not sure about this as James Buchanan Duke was responsible for the Tobacco War but was not necessarily an active combatant.	Prag Katta
10.	a Baptist Ulsterman?
	Brown University Rhode Island Founded by Baptist’s ? Ulsterman 1761	Peterhw
	McMaster	The Quizmaster says
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O.
1.	which entomologist was lost in the Grimpen Mire?
	Stapleton Owner of the Hound of the Baskervilles	Adam Q
2.	who drowned, aged 29, when his schooner, Don Juan, sank?
	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Poll Skeeping
3.	who succumbed to the whirlpools of the Seine on June 7th 1832?
	Inspector Javert Having benefited from Jean Valjean's goodness upon the barricades and unable to reconcile the good man with the criminal, Javert's worldview is shaken and leads to his suicide in the Seine.	Prag Katta
4.	who fell fatally into a weeping brook from a broken willow branch?
	A little tom tit Mikado song Tit Willow	Adam Q
	Ophelia Hamlet Act 4 Scene 7	Bob
	Ophelia	The Quizmaster says
5.	who was seen as a ghost, dripping along in a bathing dress to the Congregational Hall?
	Captain Webb, the Channel swimmer In Betjeman's verse 'A Shropshire Lad'	Kate Bunting
6.	whose corpse was preserved in vinegar following a riding accident in an Anatolian river?
	Frederick I (Barbarossa) HRE He drowned in a river in Turkey on 10 June 1190, after falling from or being thrown by his horse.	Prag Katta
7.	who wrote that she had found her grave, where her grave was waiting for her?
	Rosanna Spearman character in The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins she commits suicide leaving a letter asking forgiveness and "I have found my grave where my grave is waiting for me"	Mary Fisher
8.	who drowned, together with Emily's cousin, in a storm off Yarmouth?
	Steerforth David Copperfield	Poll Skeeping
9.	who is remembered, with her brother, in Dorlcote churchyard?
	Tom and Maggie Tulliver Mill on the Floss by George Eliot	Gerry Strey
10.	who drowned, heavily laden, in the River Ouse near Lewes?
	Virginia Woolf She put stones in her pockets and committed suicide in the river	Lee Ann Roberts
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P.	Which island or island group:
1.	gained psittacine relief?
	Norfolk Island conservation of the Norfolk Island Parakeet or Green Parrot which had been seriously endangered	Mary Fisher
	South Georgia Operation Paraquet was the British military operation to recapture South Georgia during the Falklands war	Mary Fisher
	South Georgia	The Quizmaster says
2.	was discovered on New Year's Day?
	Christmas Island	Gerry Strey
	Bouvet Island Discovered Jan 1st 1739. The link seems to be islands in the Atlantic.	Bob
	Annabón	The Quizmaster says
3.	had an Imperial association with an eminent MHK?
	(maybe?) Isle of Man MHK member of the House of Keys - Queen Elizabeth II is Lord of Mann her ancestor George IV Emperor of India	Mary Fisher
	St Helena Colonel Mark Wilks governor of St Helena during Napoleons exile, Member and Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man	Mary Fisher
	St Helena	The Quizmaster says
4.	take their name from a mainland feature 450km distant?
	Cape Verde islands	Dreadnought
5.	were named after the Tory Member for Great Marlow during a welfare voyage?
	Falkland Islands Named Falkland Sound after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland (MP for Great Marlow) by John Strong commanding the HMS Welfare	Bob
6.	saw the surgeon accidentally marooned and obliged to survive on avian-polluted water and sulid blood?
	St Paul's Rocks HMS Surprise	Poll Skeeping
7.	was noted for cannibal land-crabs and stunted tree ferns?
	Trinidade & Martin Vaz Islands Also known as South Trinidad, located off Brazil	Adam Q
8.	was home to the poor people who lived on a cinder?
	Ascension Island	Mary Fisher
9.	is partly both inaccessible and luscinial?
	Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands Part of the Trista da Cunha group. Inaccessible is pictured on cover of TGS	Don Seltzer
10.	is home to a unique fiscal?
	Yap? Stone money	Lee Ann Roberts
	Newfoundland Atlantic cod was referred to as "Newfoundland currency"	Bob
	Western Isles? As in Procurator Fiscal	Dreadnought
	Sao Tome Newton's Fiscal (a bird)	Dreadnought
	São Tomé	The Quizmaster says
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Q.	Which pupil:
1.	was originally regarded as strictly luetic?
	Argyll Robertson pupil syphilis	Mary Fisher
2.	smashed open Paton's desk and burned the contents?
	Evson, "one of the new fellows" From: "St. Winnifred's or The World of School" by Frederich Farrar	Prag Katta
3.	copied off Raddleston and wrongly translated 'nobody' into 'nullus corpus'?
	Stephen Greenfield Fifth Form at St Dominic's	Adam Q
4.	when writing home, reported a 9-0 defeat by porridge court and requested a 'bakterial gun'?
	Nigel Molesworth Down with Skool	Adam Q
5.	was, with one exception, the vilest manufacturer of "barbarous hexameters" that King had ever dealt with?
	Beetle Kipling's alter ego in Stalky & Co.	Adam Q
6.	suffered a terminal failure of his 'darling little heart', following a walk with his tutor in the Bois de Boulogne?
	Morgan Moreen From the story, "The Pupil" by Henry James	Prag Katta
7.	during his music lesson in the organ loft, pulled out the vox humana and played Pop goes the Weasel?
	Peter Beste-Chetwynde In Evelyn Waugh, 'Decline and Fall' (1928).	Oliver Mundy
8.	was small, neat, and famous for her spritely gymnastics and glamorous swimming?
	Eunice Gardiner Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Dreadnought
9.	copied his algebra off Fletcher, reproducing four tremendous howlers?
	Gordon Caruthers In "The Loom of Youth" by Alec Waugh.	Poll Skeeping
10.	was listed after Bassenthwaite and before Beccles?
	Battersby In "Good-bye Mr. Chips" by James Hilton.	Poll Skeeping
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R.	During 2018:
1.	which NCO is 2nd class?
	Sargeant Wilson Dads Army commemorative stamps June 2018 - 2nd class stamp "Do you think that's wise Sir?"	Mary Fisher
2.	whence the theft of items of the Vasa regalia?
	Stragnas Cathedral, Copenhagen Part of the Crown Jewels of Sweden, stolen on 1st August.	Oliver Mundy
3.	which circumnavigator has been inspired by Verne?
	Mark Beaumont Cycled round the world. Actually took 78 days.	Poll Skeeping
	David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd	The Quizmaster says
4.	which unique avian species has been released on Loch Fad?
	Bluebird Donald Campbell's rebuilt speedboat was tested here	Adam Q
5.	whose subterfuge recalled a fictitious deception at waterfalls near Meiringen?
	Arkady Babchenko Russian journalist who co-operated in faking his own death in the Ukraine; cf. Sherlock Holmes's 'death' in the Reichenbach Falls (Conan Doyle, 'The Final Problem').	Oliver Mundy
6.	whose apparent half-nelson produced tears in Kiev (not to mention Cairo and Liverpool)?
	Sergio Ramos Ramos's manoeuvre on Mohamed Salah in the Champions League final in Kiev made the latter weep.	Poll Skeeping
7.	who was given Kilkeel, while his only predecessor had received Arklow?
	Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Baron Kilkeel is a subsidiary title. Previous Duke of Sussex, Prince Augustus Frederick, son of George III, was Baron Arklow instead	Adam Q
8.	how has St James caused trouble in the Baie de Seine?
	Coquilles St Jacques (St James scallop) French & British fishermen in conflict over harvesting them in the Baie de Seine	Adam Q
9.	who has made a smooth exit from eternal inflation?
	Stephen Hawking in death released fro the expanding universe ?	Mary Fisher
10.	whose delivery was described as Raw God?
	Bishop Michael Curry Royal Wedding	Kathryn