Once more unto the quiz dear friends...
I won't be updating over Christmas, but as per tradition, have the King William's college quiz.
General knowledge paper 2012-2013, sat by the pupils of King William's College, Isle of Man
"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est"
1.
1 What are diamonded with panes of quaint device?
2 What tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?
Diamonds are Forever, Ian Fleming
3 What made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?
4 What stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman Barcarolle?
5 Who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the Roman Empire?
6 What title embraced studies, amongst others, of a walking talking killing machine, a hell fighter, the time-warp tough guy and an honourable man?
7 What was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal shooting with pearls?
8 What diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?
9 What blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalolopolis?
10 What was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?
Koh-i-Noor
2. (Elizabeths?)
1 Who was known as the Queen of the Blues?
2 Who went from Hastings to Holland, and then to Cornwall?
3 Who retained the embalmed "capital" remnant of her executed husband?
4 Which corpulent lady was affectionately known by her family as Betty Humbug?
Elizabeth of Hesse-Homburg
5 How is Tolhuys's creation bearing the inscriptions Victoria, Libertas and Scalda popularly known?
6 Which legendary serial gynaecocide was consigned to immurement, while her accomplices were burned at the stake?
Elisabeth Bathory
7 Where is Whitehead's equine memorial to more than two and a half years of deadly conflict?
Port Elizabeth
8 Who felt quickening at six months on receiving her cousin's good news?
St Elizabeth
9 Who lisped her threat to repeatedly scream to the point of vomiting?
10 Which relative called "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!"?
3. In what work:
1 does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?
2 is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?
3 does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a monk?
4 does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the chief magistrate?
5 does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing that he was the son of a gypsy?
6 does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following a meteorologically induced period of insanity?
7 does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived 'affair', followed by uxoricide and then suicide?
8 is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a fortune-teller?
9 is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of Aachen?
10 does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?
4. Who:
1 held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?
2 is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?
3 built an insular wooden cabin by a sea which took his name?
4 is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?
5 was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?
6 was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on the day of his fatal shooting?
7 was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a cherem?
8 stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?
9 developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?
10 removed Royal Charles from Chatham?
5. Who:
1 put Fairfax on the map?
2 wrote of guinea pigs and moles?
3 supposedly came from Tappington?
4 won on a Rainbow (and also Florrie)?
5 modelled for The Pitcher Goes to the Well?
6 recognised his 20th-century Armageddon when elevated to the Lords?
7 was credited with the invention of IC?
8 shared with Eleanor at Plas Newydd?
Sarah Ponsonby
9 was neither gossip nor breadbate?
10 surveyed Itseqqortoormiit?
6.
1 Whose first pseudonym was adopted from Billy Powell?
2 Who wrote morbidly of the dead stretched at the cross roads?
3 Who was successfully sued by Howe for patent infringement?
4 Who enjoyed cigale rôti with sauce à la coccinelle at Chez Pêcheur?
5 Whose contemplative discourse was prefaced with a quote from St John 21:3?
6 Who took unified joys from a multitude of tongues from words derived from a Patmos vision?
7 Who wrote about the wisdom of Acheson, Harriman and four others?
8 Who led the successful prosecution in a famous fly-paper case?
9 Who held a governorship and two bishoprics simultaneously?
10 Which member for Harwich, chose to sit for Youghal?
7. Where:
1 in reality, was Snowfield?
2 are the branchy trees white with rime?
3 may Robin Hood's lieutenant have been buried?
4 appropriately, did Vigar and Smith provide a final two ton twist?
5 might the splendour of St John the Baptist earn the village city status?
6 does the heroine who illuminated Üsküdar look down on London Road?
7 did an error with the eggs and almonds spawn a famous dessert?
8 does Lent kick off with a historic two day match?
9 does St Ann provide free drinks 24/7?
10 is the gate free from blame?
8.
1 Of what fishes was who declared the Triton?
2 Who likened the haberdasher's offering to a bivalve?
3 Who was likened to which dried clupeid without his roe?
4 Who reminded Goodfellow of hearing a mermaid on whose back?
5 Who suggested that land might be purchased as cheap as what malodorous fish?
6 Who intoned about whose jaws, mixed with a poisonous root and a lupine tooth?
7 Who, in alluding to age, refers to what creature progressing in reverse?
8 Who chose to play the fool and alluded to a small bait-fish?
9 Whose face had pimples, described as what gastropods?
10 Who found that what soused fish caused flatulence?
9. Who:
1 inspired Stravinsky?
2 described a raptor's daily meal of liver?
3 inspired the forester's son from Erasbach?
George Frederick Handel
4 described a chaste form of mutual appreciation?
5 was acknowledged specifically by the binomial pioneer?
6 described by one writer as an "equine irritant", was the victim of Conium?
7 wrote about 10,000 involved in a fraternal conflict?
8 wrote of warring amphibians and rodents?
9 received a pattered mention by Stanley?
10 inspired a titled Austrian composer?
10. Where:
1 is there always snow?
2 did the hirsute hunter board the train?
3 is rail traffic enabled by a vertical descent of 41 m?
4 could you have chowder for breakfast, dinner and supper?
5 do Alvares and Rivera interchange with Abraham and Jacob?
6 did the finding of wild grapes prompt the explorer to name the island after his daughter?
7 does a 20th-century Stump also include features of St Giles?
8 did an ocular phenomenon exploit low temperatures?
9 were the cogs first motivated by Hero?
10 did two Starks idle down?
11.
1 Who shot Geoff Hammond?
2 Who, on his death bed, quoted from Goldsmith's Elegy?
3 To which firm of accountants was the club-footed orphan articled?
4 Whose seaside suicide was greeted by six slim splashing struggling sharks?
5 Who succumbed to uncontrollable diaphragmatic spasms in the Arabian Sea?
6 Which Russian libertine was lost in the Borneo jungle in pursuit of the Assistant Curator?
7 For what, in Mrs Hodges' own private opinion, was hoak preferable to helm?
8 Who, having left one painter for another, ended her life with Oxalic Acid?
9 Which diamond merchant spent £260 on a sable cape and muff?
10 Whose final ante-mortem word was "England"?
12. In 1912
1 who put phonetics on the stage?
George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)
2 who was promoted to glory at Hadley Wood?
3 who wrote finally "For God's sake look after our people"?
4 what truth was officially revealed on the anniversary of Marx's birth?
Pravda
5 what Barkham Manor "discovery" was revealed in Burlington House?
Piltdown Man
6 which silver medallist was exonerated at inquiry, following an accusation of bribery?
7 in what were Austria, Bohemia and Luxembourg guilty of "no show"?
8 whose range of manual contact was reduced from 50-65 to 18?
9 what May Day gift was secretly erected overnight?
10 what addition followed Oklahoma?
New Mexico
13.
1 Who created a Circus with Dame Laura?
2 Whose work in Chelsea "never can happen again"?
3 What factory mark represents the Sound and two Belts?
4 Which Bohemian produced cabbage roses for whom in the Kingdom?
5 Who first placed designs in silver on green pottery for which company?
6 The Saxon Hercules was instrumental in the establishment of what factory?
7 Who famously painted great white birds in flight for which company?
8 Which Salopian firm illustrated bird-assisted Chinese fishing?
9 What French product is identifiable by a hunting horn?
10 Which Magyar product is literally eosinophilic?
14.
1 What is likened to a round goblet?
2 What does the Farmer carry in his boots?
3 Of what are Poetry and Religion a product?
4 What would Steffi weep to see, burst like a cave?
5 Which organ of the tobacconist is rotted, and which is spotted?
6 What might be excited by a bashful young potato or a not-too-French French bean?
7 What did the Robson brothers settle for the large Bostonian?
8 Where did my mother's life make me a man?
9 What is a smoky yellow like old vellum?
10 Wherein does Hope spring eternal?
15.
1 Who was the Bishop of Bishops?
2 Whose exploits at Estourmel earned him an award for valour?
3 Who likened Harry to an urtically sheltered ripening strawberry?
4 What disguise did Mazzini adopt when confronting the Rev Lord Henry?
5 Who might have included preaching to beefeaters and taking care of religious documents in his CV?
6 Who, following decapitation, picked up his head and carried it for 10 km, delivering a sermon as he walked?
7 Who was killed, together with his wife, by a collapsing chimney during the Great Storm?
8 Who was murdered in East Africa 16 months after his ordination?
9 Which Nordic Bishop was beheaded for opposing Lutheranism?
10 Which mounted warrior was recreated by Bissen?
16.
1 To whom were all places alike?
2 Who was rescued by Reino and revived by Helvi?
3 Which curious character would claim a preference for grouse?
4 Who pilfered and pillaged, and snitched and stole all over town?
5 What thought experiment questioned the Copenhagen interpretation?
6 Who was revived with rum and milk after rescue from flotsam off the Dutch coast?
Sinbad the Kitten?
7 Who was an impudent fraud that never had any financial backing?
8 Who learned, terminally, that "one false step is ne'er retrieved"?
9 Who was Mrs Ribston's cousin (who did not give credit)?
10 Whose pupils were lunar responsive?
17. Which spirited concoction of which House: (perfumes!)
1 is an amaryllid?
2 is papaveraceous?
3 recalls pink-tipped pale hands?
Guerlain (Shalimar)
4 recalls a Piedmontese foundation?
5 might have been named Jolly Roger?
6 shares its name with a Breton music festival?
7 might be translated as inconsistency?
8 might be derived from Taro root?
9 suggests a raptor's grasp?
10 is a riding-habit?
18.
During 2012:
1 justify 29-17-19-65.
2 which unifying Messiah has waned irreversibly?
3 whose passing recalled the development of an earlier 911?
4 what revealed Dunearnin', Indisarray, Inveruin and Rum deal?
5 what, among many others, might have reawakened the Cumbrian burghers?
6 what event has recalled one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind?
7 whose bigger and bigger and bigger creations have merited a bigger award?
8 how is sadness over Erithacus bringing happiness to Rebecca?
9 how did Rothesay deliver cold, wet and windy weather?
10 where was a flame seen on Saturn?
ETA: when replying multiple times, please reply to yourself unless you're replying to yourself. Makes life much easier for me! Thanks.
General knowledge paper 2012-2013, sat by the pupils of King William's College, Isle of Man
"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est"
1.
1 What are diamonded with panes of quaint device?
2 What tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?
Diamonds are Forever, Ian Fleming
3 What made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?
4 What stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman Barcarolle?
5 Who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the Roman Empire?
6 What title embraced studies, amongst others, of a walking talking killing machine, a hell fighter, the time-warp tough guy and an honourable man?
7 What was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal shooting with pearls?
8 What diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?
9 What blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalolopolis?
10 What was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?
Koh-i-Noor
2. (Elizabeths?)
1 Who was known as the Queen of the Blues?
2 Who went from Hastings to Holland, and then to Cornwall?
3 Who retained the embalmed "capital" remnant of her executed husband?
4 Which corpulent lady was affectionately known by her family as Betty Humbug?
Elizabeth of Hesse-Homburg
5 How is Tolhuys's creation bearing the inscriptions Victoria, Libertas and Scalda popularly known?
6 Which legendary serial gynaecocide was consigned to immurement, while her accomplices were burned at the stake?
Elisabeth Bathory
7 Where is Whitehead's equine memorial to more than two and a half years of deadly conflict?
Port Elizabeth
8 Who felt quickening at six months on receiving her cousin's good news?
St Elizabeth
9 Who lisped her threat to repeatedly scream to the point of vomiting?
10 Which relative called "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!"?
3. In what work:
1 does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?
2 is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?
3 does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a monk?
4 does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the chief magistrate?
5 does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing that he was the son of a gypsy?
6 does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following a meteorologically induced period of insanity?
7 does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived 'affair', followed by uxoricide and then suicide?
8 is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a fortune-teller?
9 is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of Aachen?
10 does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?
4. Who:
1 held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?
2 is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?
3 built an insular wooden cabin by a sea which took his name?
4 is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?
5 was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?
6 was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on the day of his fatal shooting?
7 was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a cherem?
8 stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?
9 developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?
10 removed Royal Charles from Chatham?
5. Who:
1 put Fairfax on the map?
2 wrote of guinea pigs and moles?
3 supposedly came from Tappington?
4 won on a Rainbow (and also Florrie)?
5 modelled for The Pitcher Goes to the Well?
6 recognised his 20th-century Armageddon when elevated to the Lords?
7 was credited with the invention of IC?
8 shared with Eleanor at Plas Newydd?
Sarah Ponsonby
9 was neither gossip nor breadbate?
10 surveyed Itseqqortoormiit?
6.
1 Whose first pseudonym was adopted from Billy Powell?
2 Who wrote morbidly of the dead stretched at the cross roads?
3 Who was successfully sued by Howe for patent infringement?
4 Who enjoyed cigale rôti with sauce à la coccinelle at Chez Pêcheur?
5 Whose contemplative discourse was prefaced with a quote from St John 21:3?
6 Who took unified joys from a multitude of tongues from words derived from a Patmos vision?
7 Who wrote about the wisdom of Acheson, Harriman and four others?
8 Who led the successful prosecution in a famous fly-paper case?
9 Who held a governorship and two bishoprics simultaneously?
10 Which member for Harwich, chose to sit for Youghal?
7. Where:
1 in reality, was Snowfield?
2 are the branchy trees white with rime?
3 may Robin Hood's lieutenant have been buried?
4 appropriately, did Vigar and Smith provide a final two ton twist?
5 might the splendour of St John the Baptist earn the village city status?
6 does the heroine who illuminated Üsküdar look down on London Road?
7 did an error with the eggs and almonds spawn a famous dessert?
8 does Lent kick off with a historic two day match?
9 does St Ann provide free drinks 24/7?
10 is the gate free from blame?
8.
1 Of what fishes was who declared the Triton?
2 Who likened the haberdasher's offering to a bivalve?
3 Who was likened to which dried clupeid without his roe?
4 Who reminded Goodfellow of hearing a mermaid on whose back?
5 Who suggested that land might be purchased as cheap as what malodorous fish?
6 Who intoned about whose jaws, mixed with a poisonous root and a lupine tooth?
7 Who, in alluding to age, refers to what creature progressing in reverse?
8 Who chose to play the fool and alluded to a small bait-fish?
9 Whose face had pimples, described as what gastropods?
10 Who found that what soused fish caused flatulence?
9. Who:
1 inspired Stravinsky?
2 described a raptor's daily meal of liver?
3 inspired the forester's son from Erasbach?
George Frederick Handel
4 described a chaste form of mutual appreciation?
5 was acknowledged specifically by the binomial pioneer?
6 described by one writer as an "equine irritant", was the victim of Conium?
7 wrote about 10,000 involved in a fraternal conflict?
8 wrote of warring amphibians and rodents?
9 received a pattered mention by Stanley?
10 inspired a titled Austrian composer?
10. Where:
1 is there always snow?
2 did the hirsute hunter board the train?
3 is rail traffic enabled by a vertical descent of 41 m?
4 could you have chowder for breakfast, dinner and supper?
5 do Alvares and Rivera interchange with Abraham and Jacob?
6 did the finding of wild grapes prompt the explorer to name the island after his daughter?
7 does a 20th-century Stump also include features of St Giles?
8 did an ocular phenomenon exploit low temperatures?
9 were the cogs first motivated by Hero?
10 did two Starks idle down?
11.
1 Who shot Geoff Hammond?
2 Who, on his death bed, quoted from Goldsmith's Elegy?
3 To which firm of accountants was the club-footed orphan articled?
4 Whose seaside suicide was greeted by six slim splashing struggling sharks?
5 Who succumbed to uncontrollable diaphragmatic spasms in the Arabian Sea?
6 Which Russian libertine was lost in the Borneo jungle in pursuit of the Assistant Curator?
7 For what, in Mrs Hodges' own private opinion, was hoak preferable to helm?
8 Who, having left one painter for another, ended her life with Oxalic Acid?
9 Which diamond merchant spent £260 on a sable cape and muff?
10 Whose final ante-mortem word was "England"?
12. In 1912
1 who put phonetics on the stage?
George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)
2 who was promoted to glory at Hadley Wood?
3 who wrote finally "For God's sake look after our people"?
4 what truth was officially revealed on the anniversary of Marx's birth?
Pravda
5 what Barkham Manor "discovery" was revealed in Burlington House?
Piltdown Man
6 which silver medallist was exonerated at inquiry, following an accusation of bribery?
7 in what were Austria, Bohemia and Luxembourg guilty of "no show"?
8 whose range of manual contact was reduced from 50-65 to 18?
9 what May Day gift was secretly erected overnight?
10 what addition followed Oklahoma?
New Mexico
13.
1 Who created a Circus with Dame Laura?
2 Whose work in Chelsea "never can happen again"?
3 What factory mark represents the Sound and two Belts?
4 Which Bohemian produced cabbage roses for whom in the Kingdom?
5 Who first placed designs in silver on green pottery for which company?
6 The Saxon Hercules was instrumental in the establishment of what factory?
7 Who famously painted great white birds in flight for which company?
8 Which Salopian firm illustrated bird-assisted Chinese fishing?
9 What French product is identifiable by a hunting horn?
10 Which Magyar product is literally eosinophilic?
14.
1 What is likened to a round goblet?
2 What does the Farmer carry in his boots?
3 Of what are Poetry and Religion a product?
4 What would Steffi weep to see, burst like a cave?
5 Which organ of the tobacconist is rotted, and which is spotted?
6 What might be excited by a bashful young potato or a not-too-French French bean?
7 What did the Robson brothers settle for the large Bostonian?
8 Where did my mother's life make me a man?
9 What is a smoky yellow like old vellum?
10 Wherein does Hope spring eternal?
15.
1 Who was the Bishop of Bishops?
2 Whose exploits at Estourmel earned him an award for valour?
3 Who likened Harry to an urtically sheltered ripening strawberry?
4 What disguise did Mazzini adopt when confronting the Rev Lord Henry?
5 Who might have included preaching to beefeaters and taking care of religious documents in his CV?
6 Who, following decapitation, picked up his head and carried it for 10 km, delivering a sermon as he walked?
7 Who was killed, together with his wife, by a collapsing chimney during the Great Storm?
8 Who was murdered in East Africa 16 months after his ordination?
9 Which Nordic Bishop was beheaded for opposing Lutheranism?
10 Which mounted warrior was recreated by Bissen?
16.
1 To whom were all places alike?
2 Who was rescued by Reino and revived by Helvi?
3 Which curious character would claim a preference for grouse?
4 Who pilfered and pillaged, and snitched and stole all over town?
5 What thought experiment questioned the Copenhagen interpretation?
6 Who was revived with rum and milk after rescue from flotsam off the Dutch coast?
Sinbad the Kitten?
7 Who was an impudent fraud that never had any financial backing?
8 Who learned, terminally, that "one false step is ne'er retrieved"?
9 Who was Mrs Ribston's cousin (who did not give credit)?
10 Whose pupils were lunar responsive?
17. Which spirited concoction of which House: (perfumes!)
1 is an amaryllid?
2 is papaveraceous?
3 recalls pink-tipped pale hands?
Guerlain (Shalimar)
4 recalls a Piedmontese foundation?
5 might have been named Jolly Roger?
6 shares its name with a Breton music festival?
7 might be translated as inconsistency?
8 might be derived from Taro root?
9 suggests a raptor's grasp?
10 is a riding-habit?
18.
During 2012:
1 justify 29-17-19-65.
2 which unifying Messiah has waned irreversibly?
3 whose passing recalled the development of an earlier 911?
4 what revealed Dunearnin', Indisarray, Inveruin and Rum deal?
5 what, among many others, might have reawakened the Cumbrian burghers?
6 what event has recalled one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind?
7 whose bigger and bigger and bigger creations have merited a bigger award?
8 how is sadness over Erithacus bringing happiness to Rebecca?
9 how did Rothesay deliver cold, wet and windy weather?
10 where was a flame seen on Saturn?
ETA: when replying multiple times, please reply to yourself unless you're replying to yourself. Makes life much easier for me! Thanks.