King William’s College quiz: the answers
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1 Fire in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (146 died) 2 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (by Vincenzo Peruggia) 3 – Braque’s (painting – The Portuguese) 4 The Liver Building (Liverpool – 22 June) 5 Max Beerbohm (Zuleika Dobson) 6 Rudyard Kipling (The Female of the Species) 7 Dmitri Bogrov (shot Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin at Kyiv Opera House) 8 Roald Amundsen (reached South Pole on 14 December, one month ahead of Scott) 9 Sarah Bernhardt (film – La Dame aux Camélias) 10 Members of Parliament (Commons vote)
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1 Egnazio Danti (Vatican Gallery of Maps) 2 Mappa Mundi (Hereford Cathedral) 3 Christopher Saxton’s 4 John Ogilby 5 Baltasar Florisz van Berckenrode’s 6 Hans Woutneel’s 7 Piri Reis 8 Christopher and John Greenwood 9 Gerardus Mercator (Sinkt Niklaas) 10 Johannes Klencke
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1 Egas Moniz (prefrontal leucotomy) 2 Henry the Navigator 3 José Saramago (Baltasar and Blimunda [Memorial do Convento], Nobel laureate 1998) 4 King Manuel I 5 King Sebastião I (1578) 6 Pope John XXI (Pedro Julião aka Petrus Hispanus) 7 Magellan 8 Manoel Pedro Guimaerans 9 Catherine of Braganza 10 General Vassalo e Silva (Goa, 1961)
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1 The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 2 The Red House Mystery (AA Milne) 3 The Purple Land (WH Hudson) 4 Brown on Resolution (CS Forester) 5 A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) 6 The Yellow Admiral (Patrick O’Brian) 7 White Mischief (James Fox) 8 The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) 9 Grey Weather (John Buchan) 10 The Green Man (Kingsley Amis)
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1 Phosphorus (Greek mythology) 2 Argon (Greek – “the inactive one”) 3 Osmium (from Greek osme, “smell”) 4 Tantalum (from Tantalus) 5 Ytterby (Stockholm Archipelago) 6 Niobium (also previously known as Columbium) 7 Gallium (Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran) 8 Cobalt (German kobold) 9 Strontium (after the village of Strontian) 10 Bromine (from Greek bromos, “stench”)
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1 Destroying Angel 2 Fly Agaric 3 Penny Bun 4 Giant Puffball 5 King Alfred’s Cakes and Cramp Balls 6 Liberty Cap, Magic Mushrooms 7 Death Cap (Charles VI) 8 Jew’s Ear (Auricularia auricula-judae) 9 Amethyst Deceiver 10 Oyster Mushroom
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1 Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough (Wilf Mannion) 2 Middlewich (Cheshire) 3 Rural Middlesex (John Betjeman) 4 This mad dog of the Middle East (President Ronald Reagan – Col Gadaffi – New York Times 10 April 1986) 5 Middelburg (Netherlands – invention claimed by Zaccharias Jansen and Hans Lippershey) 6 Middelharnis (Painting by Meindert Hobbema in the National Gallery) 7 Middlemarch (George Eliot) 8 The Middle of Next Week (Lewis Carroll – Sylvie and Bruno) 9 Middle Wallop 10 Thomas Middleton (with Thomas Dekker – The Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse – 1610)
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1 Red-gartered (Coot – Fulica armillata, a South American species) 2 Garter King of Arms (William Bruges) 3 An earl and a knight of the garter (Clement Attlee’s Limerick about himself) 4 She adjusted her garter (Flanders and Swann – The Hippopotamus Song) 5 His own heir-apparent garters (Henry IV Part I, I, ii, 43) 6 Insulation of ignition wire (Bertha Benz’s 1888 journey) 7 Crewel (cruel) garters (King Lear II, ii, 190) 8 The George and Garter (Alexander Pope – Epistles to Several Persons) 9 This cross-gartering (Twelfth Night III, iv, 20) 10 Your guts for garters
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1 Diss (John Betjeman) 2 Hunstanton (LP Hartley – The Shrimp and the Anemone) 3 Norwich Cathedral (Edith Cavell) 4 King’s Lynn (formerly Bishop’s Lynn, present name established in 1536 on seizure by the Crown) 5 Wroxham (Roy’s) 6 Holt (Gresham’s School – Fishmongers) 7 Stow Bardolph (Sarah Hare) 8 Horning (Dr Dudgeon, Arthur Ransome – Coot Club) 9 Thetford (1075-94) 10 Swaffham (Ceres)
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1 Catherine de Medici 2 Catherine/Katarina Stenbock (King Gustav Vasa of Sweden) 3 Catherine Barkley (Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms) 4 Katy Carr (Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did) 5 Catherine Earnshaw’s (for Linton and Heathcliff – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights) 6 Katherine Howard (to Thomas Culpeper) 7 (First) kiss me Kate … (Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew) 8 Kate Bush (Hounds of Love – Cloudbusting and The Big Sky, 1985) 9 My sister Kate’s (I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate – Armand J Piron) 10 Kate Middleton (marriage vows)
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1 Llandaff Cathedral 2 Newport (Transporter Bridge over the River Usk) 3 Aberdovey 4 Brecon Cathedral (Cresset stone) 5 Snowdon (Mountain Railway – 6 April 1896) 6 Menai Bridge 7 Holyhead (George Borrow – Wild Wales) 8 Pendine Sands (Parry-Thomas) 9 Cardigan (Giraldus Cambrensis – The Journey Through Wales – 1188) 10 Fishguard (1797)
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1 John Scantlebury Blenkiron (The Courts of the Morning) 2 Vallance (The Free Fishers) 3 Dr Christoph (The Loathly Opposite) 4 Moxon Ivery / Graf Otto von Schwabing (Mr Standfast) 5 Sandy Arbuthnot (The Three Hostages) 6 Franklin P Scudder (The Thirty-Nine Steps) 7 Alastair Maclean (Midwinter) 8 Valdemar Haraldsen (The Island of Sheep) 9 Prince John (The House of the Four Winds) 10 Routh (The Power-House)
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1 The Courts of Morning (John Buchan) 2 Court Bouillon 3 Agincourt (Shakespeare – King Henry V, Act 4 scene 3, 3-27) 4 Prix Goncourt 5 The Court of Star Chamber 6 Hampton Court Park (William III’s riding accident which led to his death) 7 Dovercourt 8 Lewis Vernon Harcourt’s (Port Harcourt, Nigeria) 9 Béthincourt (Ray K Imus) 10 Walnut Tree Court, Queens’ College, Cambridge
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1 Stormcock (Mistle Thrush) 2 Cock Robin 3 Cock o’ the North (LNER engines) 4 Scotch Woodcock 5 Cock a doodle doo 6 Thomas Love Peacock’s (Shelley) 7 Alfred Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes – 1938 film) 8 Operation Blackcock (The Roer Triangle embacing Roermond, Sittard and Heinsburg, 1945) 9 Pat Pocock (Surrey v Sussex at Eastbourne, 15 August 1972) 10 Jungle Cock
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1 Wilfred (The Yeomen of the Guard) 2 John Wellington Wells (The Sorcerer) 3 The Princess Zara (Utopia Limited) 4 Ludwig (The Grand Duke) 5 King Gama (Princess Ida) 6 Colonel Calverley (Patience) 7 Queen of the Fairies (Iolanthe) 8 Don Alhambra del Bolero (The Gondoliers) 9 Major-General Stanley (The Pirates of Penzance) 10 Robin Oakapple, aka Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd (Ruddigore)
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1 William Wallace – Scotland (Blind Harry, late 15th century minstrel) 2 Mahatma Gandhi – India 3 Joan of Arc – France 4 Kaj Munk – Denmark 5 Jan Hus – Bohemia (now Czech Republic) 6 Giuseppe Mazzini – Italy 7 Eugen Schauman – Finland 8 Stanislaw Brzóska – Poland 9 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla – Mexico 10 Imre Nagy – Hungary
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1 Miffy (Dick Bruna) 2 Jessica Rabbit (Film – Who Framed Roger Rabbit) 3 General Woundwort (Richard Adams – Watership Down) 4 That cat-rabbit (Rudyard Kipling – The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo) 5 Raggylug (Ernest Thompson Seton – Wild Animals I Have Known) 6 Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom’s (John Updike – Rabbit Run) 7 Bunnykins china (Sister Mary Barbara Bailey for Royal Doulton) 8 The White Rabbit (Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) 9 Cecily Parsley (Beatrix Potter) 10 Welsh Rabbit
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1 HM the Queen (Perth Mint’s gold coin) 2 Nancy Wake (“White Mouse” WW2 spy died at Star and Garter forces retirement home) 3 Newbury race course (electrocution of Fenix II and Marching Song) 4 Trevor Bailey (“Barnacle” died in house fire) 5 Rt Rev Graeme Knowles, Dean of St Paul’s (former Bishop of Sodor and Man) 6 Dublin Castle (HM the Queen’s speech) 7 Donald Hewlett died (It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and You Rang M’Lord) 8 Serafin Marin’s (killed the last bull at Barcelona’s La Monumental as bullfighting banned in Catalunia) 9 David Walliams 10 Maj Gen Keith Cima (dismissed as governor of the Tower of London)
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