King William's College Annual Quiz - 2021-2022

Marie Stopes opened a clinic which offered birth control to women

Rupert Birkin is profoundly affected by Gerald Crich's death

Nobel Prize literature

Saint-Saëns, composer and pianist, had long been in the habit of spending the winter in Algiers.

WW1 German war criminals trial

Love of Three Oranges premiered at Auditorium Theatre in Chicago

Customs House burnt by the IRA

During the Rig wars

Rif

One of Arthur Ransome's boats.

Ninth Fort scene of Nazi massacre in 1941

Karl Xie of swede

Karl XIE of Sweden and Peter the great of Russia in the Great zz

Karl XII of Sweden and Peter the great of Russia in the Great Northern War

C S Forrester. The Commodore

The Sun-Joffe manifesto stated that Russia had no imperialist claims over China

Adolphe Joffe

Fits theme better

In 1798 Tsar Paul 1 of Russia offered Louis XVIII the use of Jelaga Palace.

Was administered by French until 1923, when it became part of Lithuania after a staged revolt

Was administered by French until 1923, when it became part of Lithuania after a staged revolt

Gediminas tower

Hamundarson got his atgeir ( hewing spear) from Hallgrimur when raiding the island of Eysysla

Modern name for Eysysla

Lighthouse

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

He wrote book 'Lend Me Your Ears'

Since the theme is fools!

If you wish to succeed/As a jester you'll need/To consider each person's auricular

Fool in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Earl of Suffolk's Jester, epitaph written by Dean Swift

Fool in Tennyson's idylls of the King

Shown thus in an anonymous painting of 1545.

Archbishop Laud was only five feet tall.

Hugo's play " Le roi s'amuse".

The fool from the same play.

In Kipling's eponymous poem. (Actually it was Gilbert the Physician who followed.)

French name for bishop. Tour is the rook.

the knight is next to the rook

Kings Court chess variant, the Jester starts next to the rook (tour) and can move one or two squares diagonally

French chess bishop

his fictional character Sid Halley former Champion jockey

Bill Beaumont (Rugby Union) and Willie Carson (Jockey) were team captains on BBC's "A Question of Sport" in the 80s. The final round was a head-to-head round.

remounted Billy Barton in the 1928 Grand National to finish second in a field of 2 remaining

won 1990 Grand National on Mr Frisk beating former record of Red Rum by 14 seconds

the Magnificent Seven at Ascot 28/9/21 first ride Wall Street seventh ride Fujiyama Crest

Brigadier Gerard won 17 of his 18 races all with Joe Mercer

Jockey on Santa Claus 1964 Derby winner

He won jockey championships between 1931 -1953 except for 1941 when Henry Wragg (The Head Waiter) won

won BBc Sports Personality of the Year 2009 following Ryan Giggs in 2008 and before Mark Cavendish in 2010

won The Derby on Psidium owned by Etti Plesch the only female owned to have 2 Derby winners the other was Henbit

It's a teste fly.

From the Rolling Stones' 1960s album Beggar's Banquet

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Tennyson poem

Keat's poem St Agnes' Eve(20th January)Madeline in Keat poem St Agnes' Eve.While he forth from the closet brought a heap         Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd;         With jellies soother than the creamy curd,         And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon;         Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd         From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one,  From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon. 

In Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Beatrix Potter, Tale of Johnny Town Mouse

In Bellini's 1831 opera 'La Sonnambula'.

In Henry IV part II

Horatio Nelson married Francis Nisbet

It's defo a reference to Fleming's Live & Let Die

The lair of the (Bond) villainous Dr Kananga

To Have and to Have not by Ernest Hemingway, Harry Morgan

V S Naipaul short story

Major Jones character in the comedians by Graham Greene

1717, Jean Martel escaped

Beginning of RotM, Jack meets Sam Panda

In 1802 the 8th West Indian Regiment rose up against officers at their post in Prince Rupert’s, Dominica. The white officer in charge of the fort, Major Gordon, was court martialled.

Execution of Maurice Bishop provoked US invasion

In C. S. Forester's story 'The Star of the South', part of 'Hornblower in the West Indies'.

Sir Thomas Fell, flag captain to Admiral Hornblower

Yvonne is the heroine he falls in love with.

Her name was Catharine Glover. 'St. John's Toun' is an old name for the for Perth.

Michael Henchard later attained this status

Peter Pienaar, Hannay's hunter friend and later WW1 pilot

The cabinet Minister. Play by Arthur Wing Pinero

Elias Gotobed, senator in eponymous novel by Trollope

Grape-Nuts cereal was often advertised with the slogan, “There’s a reason."

Holy book

Pickwick Papers chapter 49 the Bagman's Uncle."He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. He said he always found that, taken without vinegar, they relished the beer."

It’s also the Palm Nut Eagle. Saw one at the Hawk Conservancy in Winchester.

Von Mueller, a Kiel botanist who migrated to Australia, named Macadamia Ternifolia after his colleague, John Macadam

The Tempest. Caliban.

A major source of dietary selenium

Queen Mab's chariot in Romeo and Juliet

Queen Man. Romeo and Juliet.

the people of Selkirk are known as Souters

Wordworth, in Yarrow Unvisited, observes a swan and writes "float double, swan and shadow"

Yarrow Unvisited by William Wordsworth

Poem by Sir Walter Scott

The Maid of Neidpath by Sir Walter Scott

at butcher and fly half Ned Haig suggestion the birthplace of Rugby Sevens in 1883

at butcher and fly half Ned Haig suggestion the birthplace of Rugby Sevens in 1883

Mary, Queen of Scots, rode 25 miles from Jedburgh to Hermitage castle to see the wounded James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwellsee

Trimontium (Newstead) Roman fort near Melrose in the Scottish Borders (NOT Australia!)

Jimmy Guthrie and Steve Hislop

Ballade of the Tweed by Andrew Lang

Whiteadder Water and Blackadder Water meet.

Where Whieadder and Blackadder Waters meet

Succeeded Henry Pelham as PM

The Unknown Prime Minister and only Canadian born PM of the UK

Alleged last words: "I think that I could eat one of Bellamy's meat pies"

"I think I could eat one of Bellamy's meat pies."

Referring to De Valera

Lord Rusell was under 5' 5"" in height. He was Prime Minister 1846-52 and 1865-66

Mocked by Harold Wilson for his aristocratic background, Douglas-Home mildly suggested that he was neither more nor less responsible for his ancestry than Wilson was for his.

Edward VII was holidaying in Biarritz so Asquith had to go there to be made PM

1953 Nobel Prize in Literature

Play by Brandon Thomas

In Edward Lear's 'The Pobble who Had No Toes').

I think this one is Jamaica Inn.

Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene

The Commodore

Came to supervise Nancy and Peggy Blackett in The Picts and The Martyrs by Arthur Ransome

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Baby Alexander is Peppa Pig's cousin, son to Aunt Pig. I do not have such comprehensive knowledge of Peppa Pig that I could tell you whether he ever falls in a trough.

In the Tale of Pigling Bland Alexander - who is hopelessly volatile - got stuck inside the hoops of the pig trough and had to be rescued

Baby Alexander is Peppa Pig's cousin, son to Aunt Pig. I do not have such comprehensive knowledge of Peppa Pig that I could tell you whether he ever falls in a trough.

In the 'Jeeves' stories of P. G. Wodehouse. The chef is Anatole.

Aunt in Cold Comfort Farm

Author of a standard medical textbook in 1676

Mostly famous for treating Bonaparte's hemorrhoids, but also first described dupuytren's contracture

Herberdens nodes

Mount Sinai hospital in New York

Colles fracture of the wrist

Surgeon, anatomist, painter and illustrator, philosopher, contributor to the 'Bridgewater Treatises' and describer of Bell's Palsy.

Munchausen's syndrome by proxy inventing fake symproms in another.

Münchhausen's syndrome

Hirschsprungs disease

Was diagnosed as a child with the now-called 'Christmas Disease'

Stations on Paris metro

The area used to be called Chauvemont which means bare hill but bat in French is chauvesouris

Daubenton is a type of bat

It’s

Both of these are Bordeaux chateaux

Both of these are Bordeaux chateaux

Both of these are Bordeaux chateaux

(Ch. Calon Ségur and Phélan Ségur

Battle in 1859

Battle where Vercingetorix surrendered to Caesar

Modern high rise development equivalent to Canary Wharf in E14

= Billngsgate fish market in E14

A ventriloquist's doll, voiced by Peter Brough, in the popular B.B.C. radio series 'Educating Archie'.

opera "Patience" Gilbert & Sullivan

In Buchan's John Macnab

Agatha Christie's first husband who married Miss Miller after being divorced by Agatha for infidelitydivorce

first husband of Agatha Christie nee Miller they first met at a dance in Ugbrooke in 1912

I saw ‘family seat in the borders’ and thought of the protagonist in Rob Roy (whose cousin Diana was surely an inspiration for Diana Villiers) and I looked but the main character is called Andrew not Archie. However, my husband’s DVD has Tim Roth as a character named Archibald. He can’t remember anything about a felon hanging, I’m going to reread the book and see if I can find an Archie of make it fit.

The chap in Rob Roy was never sent to ‘run’ the family seat in the borders, just to be there, not a fit at all.

The Weir of hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson 1896.The novel tells the story of Archie Weir, a youth born into an upper-class Edinburgh family. Because of his Romantic sensibilities and sensitivity, Archie is estranged from his father, who is depicted as the coarse and cruel judge of a criminal court. By mutual consent, Archie is banished from his family of origin and sent to live as the local laird on a family property in the vicinity of the Borders hamlet Hermiston.

In Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'The Secret Garden'.

described by Winston Churchill

Viceroy of India lostban eye at Ypres

There were many Archie Douglasses but this is the one

Nero Wolfe's assistant and chauffeur

TV series 2016 Jericho.The series re-imagines the story of the building of the Ribblehead Viaduct, which is renamed the Culverdale Viaduct in the show.

Has to be a reference to Last of the Summer Wind

They were trying to winch it up, I think, and it landed on Howard's car.

Dracula

British Rail poster

VIctoria refused to cross it at the opening because she was afraid of the height

Completed on Queen Victoria's coronation day

Also known as the Seaton viaduct

St Andrew's church has a Saxon round tower that predates the Norman church

Now base for the mortgage Advice Bureau

It's Norwich, not the Haymarket in Edinburgh that I thought of first

Norwich drew against Bayern Munich in 1993 UEFA Cup winning 3-2 on aggregate

It's the emblem and nickname of Norwich City FC, and AFAIK it was Huguenots who brought them there.

Stations of the cross

The nurse is Edith Cavell

Marianne and Leo are characters in a book called The Go Between, set in Norfolk, if that jogs any memories. I don’t have a copy.

She uses it as an excuse to meet her lover.

Coot Club by Arthur Ransome

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Zuleika Dobson

NASA helicopter

Gower salt marsh lamb

the meteorite

Mali's Halima Cisse has set the world record for most children to survive one birth. She was transferred to Casablanca where she gave birth to 5 boys and 4 girls.

Train collision

Train collision

Train collision

Train collision

Much-loved UK F1 commentator who gave us "And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself" & many more. Died in '21

Holly is the 18th hole at Augusta

Liverpool football player under Shankly won FA cup

1965 FA cup

Both played in the 1965 FA Cup Final, Liverpool's first win

Bill Shankley

Both scored

Won FA Cup for Liverpool with extra time goal

They were reported as changing the name of a character from "Fatty".

It follows the renaming of Spotty as Scotty, but I can’t guarantee that too was in 2021

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