Author Topic: King William College Quiz 2011 (Read 38384 times)

Wowbagger · « **on:** 23 December, 2011, 12:18:45 am »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/dec/22/king-williams-college-quiz-2011

I reckon 2.4 is Ordnance Survey.

Collated answers:

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1 1911

the triangle shirtwaist factory fire which killed 150+ workers. It lead to fire protection legislation in US (David Martin)
Mona Lisa (clarion)
Braque's painting "The Portuguese" (beowulf)
Liver building (Pickled Onion)
Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson or an Oxford love story (PeteB99)
The Female of the species - Kipling (PeteB99)
Dmitri Bogrov shot the russian prime minister Pyotr Stolpin (David Martin)
Amundsen to the south pole (PeteB99)
Sarah Bernhardt (clarion)
MP's; part of the Liberal Welfare reforms (Allflattious)

2 Maps

Ignazio Danti (professor palindrome)
Mappa Mundi (Hereford Cathedral) (professor palindrome)
Christopher Saxton - his county map of Caernarvonshire (professor palindrome)
Ordnance Survey (Wowbagger), The symbol was in use before OS - I reckon John Speed C17 but ICBW (Pickled Onion)
Balthasar Floriszoon van BERCKENRODE (professor palindrome)
Joan Blaeu (Gus)
Piri Reis, the Turkish cartographer. The map referred to is his map of South America. (Regulator)
Christopher and John Greenwood (beowolf)
Gerardus Mercator , the Mercatormuseum in Belgium (Gus)
Professor Johannes Klencke (Andrij)

3

Roger of Salerno (Pickled Onion)
Henry the Navigator (Tom B)
Jose Saramago (professor palindrome)
Ferdinand II of Aragon (Phil)
Sebastian of Portugal (1554 - ?1578) (professor palindrome)
Ferdinand Magellan (Mr Larrington)
Manuel Pedro Guimaraens (softspeaker)
Mary Queen of Scots (djmc)
Manuel António Vassalo e Silva (Pickled Onion)

4 Novels with colours in the title

The Scarlett Letter (Pancho)
The Red House Mystery (David Martin)
The Purple Land (clarion)
Jason and the Golden Fleece (PeteB99)
A Clockwork Orange (John Henry)
The Yellow Admiral - Patrick O'Brian (PeteB99)
White Mischief (JStone)
The Black Arrow, R. L. Stevenson (softspeaker)
Greenmantle - given the theme but IIRC, most of that was set overseas (Tom B) / The Green Man by Kingsley Amis. - The (former) don in question isn't actually a ghost but this has to be the answer. (Pancho)

5 Elements

Phosphorus (liam_whippet)
Argon (beowolf)
Nitrogen (PeteB99) / Ruthenium (David Martin) / Osmium (Si_Co) ??
Tantalum (Diver 300)
Ytterby (fuaran)
Niobium (Wowbagger)
Gallium - pun on 'le coq' - discovers middle name (Si_Co)
Cobalt (Tom B)
Strontium (fuaran)
Bromine (Tom B)

6 Fungi

Destroying Angel (Pickled Onion)
Fly agaric? (Pingu)
Penny bun (Pickled Onion)
Giant Puffball
Cramp Balls or King Alfred's Cake - Daldinia Concentrica (nicknack)
Liberty Cap: both a summit of Mount Rainier and a common name of the hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe semilanceata.
(So psilocybin is the hallucinogen.) (softspeaker)
Death cap (fuaran)
Jew's ear is a parasitic fungus (Pingu)
Amethyst Deceiver (Tim Hall)
Oyster (it's also a bivalve) (fuaran)

7 Middle

Middlesborough (Snakehips)
Middlewich (Snakehips)
Middlesex! (Phil)
'The mad dog of the Middle East' (Phil)
Middelburg (Phil)
The Avenue at Middelharnis (Wowbagger)
Middlemarch (Phil)
The Middle of Next Week (ex-forummer)
Middle wallop (Snakehips)
Thomas Middleton (clarion)

8 "Garters and suchlike"

coloured bands (eg red gartered coot Fulica armillata or black collared Jay Cyanolyca armillata) (David Martin)
could be the Order of the Garter (David Martin)
"an Earl and a Knight of the Garter" (Attlee) (Tom B)
"His inamorata adjusted her garter / And lifted her voice in duet" - Hippopotamus song, Flanders & Swann (Tim Hall)
Falstaff tells Hal to use his own heir-apparents garters (professor palindrome)
Used to insulate a wire (professor palindrome)
Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. (David Martin)
The George and Garter (Pancho)
Cross-gartering (Malvolio - Twelfth Night) (Juan Martin)
Guts for Garters (PeteB99)

9 Norfolk

Diss (PeteB99)
Hunstanton (L P Hartley The Shrimp and the Anemone) (PeteB99)
Norwich Cathedral (Wowbagger)
Kings Lynn (softspeaker)
Roys of Wroxham (PeteB99)
Holt - Sir John Gresham , Greshams School, Worshipful company of fishmongers (PeteB99)
Stow Bardolph - Effigy of Sarah Hare (PeteB99)
Horning - From Arthur ransomes Coot Club (PeteB99)
Thetford (1075-1094) (David Martin)
King's Lynn (on top of the corn exchange) (Pickled Onion)

10 Kates

Catherine de'Medici ? (Tom B)
Catharine Stenbock of Sweden (beowolf)
Catherine Barkley? From A Farewell to Arms? (Pancho)
Katy Carr ("What Katy did") (Pancho)
Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights (djmc)
Catherine Howard (PeteB99)
"First kiss me, Kate, and we will." (rower40)
Kate Bush (Hounds of Love album includes the songs Cloudbusting and The Big Sky) (fuaran)
My sister Kate, who could shimmy like jelly on a plate (Tim Hall)
Kate Middleton (PeteB99)

11 Wales

Epstein statue in Llandaf cathedral (PeteB99)
Newport (the transporter bridge) (Mr Larrington)
The Bells of Aberdovey (PeteB99) / Lake Vyrnwy (Blade)
Brecon (the cathedral has a cresset stone with 30 candles) (David Martin)
Snowdon Mountain Railway. In its original design, only gravity held the loco onto the rack rail. As soon as the pinion disengaged from the rack after a derailment at some points, the engine hurtled off downwards. The coach, not attached to the engine, stayed on the rails and was braked to a stop, but one passenger took fright and jumped. (rower40)
Menai Bridge (Pancho)
Burton went to Mecca - maybe the answer? (Pancho) probably has a Richard Burton connection. (clarion)
Pendine sands - A land speed record car after it crashed (PeteB99)
Cardigan (the first time was at Radnor) (David Martin)
Fishguard. French invasion, innit. (Tim Hall)

12 John Buchan(?)

Rosa Klebb disguised herself as a maid to steal the Lector from James Bond (David Martin)
Vallance (beowolf)
Reinmar was Dr Christoph (Runagates Club - Pugh's Story) (professor palindrome)
The Graf Otto von Schwabing (beowolf)
Theopilus Digby was Mr Scudder in the 39 steps (PeteB99)
Valdemar Haraldsen - Buchan's The Island of Sheep (beowolf)
Prince John - Buchan's The House of the Four Winds (beowolf)
Routh (professor palindrome)

13 Courts (?)

The courts of the morning (David Martin)
Court Bouillon (Pancho)
Agincourt (Pancho)
Prix Goncourt (Tim Hall)
The Sun, as in "The Sun King" (Diver300) / the Star Chamber? (clarion)
Hampton Court (Pancho)
Dovercourt or Harwich (Pancho)
Viscount Lewis Harcourt, then secretary of state for the colonies. (David Martin)
Jubecourt is the site a mile from Esnes (PeteB99)
Walnut Tree Court, Queens' College Cambridge (Pancho)

14 "Cock"

Stormcock (Wowbagger)
Cock Robin (Snakehips)
Cock O' the North (steam engines 9903 and 2001) (David Martin)
Scotch Woodcock (PeteB99)
lesser redpoll (Snakehips)
Alfred Hitchcock (Pingu)
Blackcock (Snakehips)
Pat Pocock (PeteB99)
Jungle Cock (David Martin)

15 Gilbert & Sullivan

Wilfred in "The Yeomen of the Guard" (rower40)
John Wellington Wells in "The Sorcerer" (rower40)
Princess Zara in"Utopia Limited" (rower40)
Ludwig in "The Grand Duke" (rower40)
King Gama in "Princess Ida" (rower40)
Colonel Calverley in "Patience" (rower40)
Fairy Queen in "Iolanthe" (rower40)
Don Alhambra Del Bolero in "The Gondoliers" (rower40)
Major-General Stanley in "The Pirates of Penzance" (liam_whippet/HTFB)
Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd (aka Robin Oakapple) in "Ruddigore" (rower40)

16 Which patriot of which country?

William Wallace (Scotland) was eulogised by Blind Harry (fuaran)
Ghandi (India) assasinated by Nathuram Godse (originally Ramachandra) (PeteB99)
Joan of Arc (Si_Co)
Kaj Munk, Denmark (Gus)
Jan Hus of Czechoslovakia (or whatever it's called today) - burned at stake 1415. (Pancho)
Giuseppe Mazzini - Italian subversive and insurgent fighting for a unified Italy. (Pancho)
Eugen Schauman, Finland (professor palindrome)
Stanisław Brzóska; Poland (Gus)
Father Miguel Hidalgo, a leader of the Mexican revolution (David Martin)
Imre Nagy, Hungary (professor palindrome)

17 Rabbits

Miffy (russellm)
Jessica Rabbit in "Who framed Roger Rabbit." (Tim Hall)
General Woundwort (Pancho)
a cat-rabbit (Just So Stories) (Pancho)
Raggylug (Pancho)
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom (Pancho)
Bunnykins (Pancho)
White Rabbit (Pancho)
Cecily Parsley (Pancho)
Welsh Rarebit/Rabbit (Tim Hall)

18 2011

Hillary Duff (David Martin)
Nancy Wake (David Martin)
Newbury (David Martin)
Trevor Bailey (aka 'Barnacle') (Tom B)
Graeme Knowles, the dean of St Paul's (Pingu)
Dublin Castle (HM the Queen) (David Martin)
Characters played by Donald Hewlett (PeteB99)
Serafin Marin killed the last bull at La Monumental arena Barcelona (PeteB99)
David Walliams (Thames swim) (PeteB99)
Major General Keith Cima, Chief Yeoman Warder removed from post (?) (Juan Martin)

Scoreboard: (Counting people who have given firm answers and haven't been challenged - whether or not they're right is another matter…)

PeteB99	25
David Martin	20
Pancho	19
professor palindrome	12
rower40	11
beowolf	8
Tim Hall	8
fuaran	7
Pickled Onion	6
clarion	5
Phil	5
Tom B	5
Gus	4
Snakehips	4
softspeaker	4
Wowbagger	4
Pingu	3
djmc	2
Juan Martin	2
Mr Larrington	2
Si_Co	2
liam_whippet	1.5
Allflattious	1
Andrij	1
Diver 300	1
John Henry	1
JStone	1
nicknack	1
Regulator	1
russellm	1
HTFB	0.5

David Martin · « **Reply #1 on:** 23 December, 2011, 12:37:56 am »

4.4 is Ulysses? The survivor of Scylla and Charybdis.
5.2 must be a sloth
5.1 could be one of the planets - venus. Is there supposed to be a theme through the answers as some of them seem like they could have multiple answers.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2 on:** 23 December, 2011, 12:38:47 am »

I think that within each section there will be a theme.

fuaran · « **Reply #3 on:** 23 December, 2011, 01:17:17 am »

Section 5 could be elements?
If so, 5.9 is Strontium, 5.5 is Ytterby.

Peter · « **Reply #4 on:** 23 December, 2011, 01:32:18 am »

4.9 Is Buchan's The 39 Steps and possibly also Huntingtower

liam_whippet · « **Reply #5 on:** 23 December, 2011, 02:12:03 am »

5.1 Phosphorus.

15.9 'A modern major-general' - Gilbert and Sullivan

Gus · « **Reply #6 on:** 23 December, 2011, 03:18:24 am »

16.4 is Kaj Munk, Denmark

Tim Hall · « **Reply #7 on:** 23 December, 2011, 07:35:54 am »

8.4 His inamorata adjusted her garter
And lifted her voice in duet

Flanders and Swann, Hippopotamus song.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #8 on:** 23 December, 2011, 07:47:38 am »

Is 10.9 my sister Kate, who could shimmy like jelly on a plate?

Diver300 · « **Reply #9 on:** 23 December, 2011, 07:52:29 am »

5.4 is Tantalum
I think that 5.2 is Xenon, the stranger or foreigner as it doesn't react with anything.

John Henry · « **Reply #10 on:** 23 December, 2011, 07:56:02 am »

4.5: A Clockwork Orange

Regulator · « **Reply #11 on:** 23 December, 2011, 07:56:23 am »

2.7 is Piri Reis, the Turkish cartographer. The map referred to is his map of South America.

Pancho · « **Reply #12 on:** 23 December, 2011, 07:57:06 am »

Thanks guys, and keep going: My mum will expect me to have the answers by Boxing Day.

Pancho · « **Reply #13 on:** 23 December, 2011, 07:57:59 am »

4.1 The Scarlett Letter

Pancho · « **Reply #14 on:** 23 December, 2011, 07:59:52 am »

5.1 Phosphorous.

Diver300 · « **Reply #15 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:05:47 am »

13.5 The Sun, as in "The Sun King"
13.6 A mole hill tripped the horse of a king, but I forget which.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #16 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:08:20 am »

17.2 Jessica Rabbit in "Who framed Roger Rabbit."

17.10 Welsh Rarebit/Rabbit

I spy a theme.

Pancho · « **Reply #17 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:09:52 am »

11.7 Burton went to Mecca - maybe the answer?

Pancho · « **Reply #18 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:14:19 am »

17.8 White Rabbit

Pancho · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:17:12 am »

17.3 General Woundwort

Theme - rabbits - definately

Diver300 · « **Reply #20 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:21:38 am »

5.6 Niobium

Pancho · « **Reply #21 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:23:05 am »

17.7 Bunnykins

Tim Hall · « **Reply #22 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:23:45 am »

18.4 Have any famous cricketers/commentators/umpires died this year?

Pancho · « **Reply #23 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:26:21 am »

17.5 Raggylug

Pancho · « **Reply #24 on:** 23 December, 2011, 08:28:39 am »

17.4 a cat-rabbit (Just So Stories)

Author Topic: King William College Quiz 2011 (Read 38384 times)

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