KWC Quiz
Usual rules, here we go!
1 During 1915:
1 who developed an innovative equine?
Triumph? (Type H)
2 what oversized delivery brought joy to Dolly and Marty?
Frank Sinatra
3 whose work was also recognised by Barnard and Matteucci?
William Bragg
4 which two spies in the cigar business faced the firing squad on the same morning?
Haicke Janssen and Willem Roos
5 whose determination to have no hatred or bitterness for anyone would be later set in stone?
Edith Cavell
6 which eponymous vessel met its Waterloo at the hands of an adversary, which had been an ally 100 years earlier?
SMS Blucher
7 where did the British deployment of Red Star backfire owing to inclement weather?
Battle of Loos
8 what yarn revealed the murderous activities of the Black Stone?
The 39 Steps (white_hart)
9 which former MO to the Pennywell Colliery passed away?
WG Grace (legionseagle)
10 from what disaster did PL 11 rescue the first survivors?
Luisitania
2 (This is Dorothy L Sayers)
1 Who took prizes with canaries?
Sir Impey Mann
2 Who was the victim of a cactus booby-trap?
Noakes
3 Who provided details of cadaveric rigidity from his copy of Dixon Mann?
4 Which product of the Royal Free was thought to have administered air emboli?
Mary Whittaker
5 Who lost his gold pince-nez in a stranger’s astrakhan collar during the rush-hour at Victoria?
Thomas Crimplesham
6 Who was one of the most exclusive hairdressers in the West End who produced an ivory-handled razor that travelled via Stamford?
Endicott
7 Which air pilot, carrying vital evidence from New York, came down near Whitehaven?
Air Pilot Grant
8 Which Boer war veteran died from arsenic poisoning on 10 November?
General Fentiman
9 Who died as a result of acoustic bombardment by Batty Thomas et al?
Deacon
10 Who was saved by a dog-collar?
Harriet Vane
3
1 Who was returned for Condaford in the general election?
Eustace Dornford, the Forsyte Saga
2 In what election were 45 green umbrellas used to influence voters?
3 In which constituency was Mr Browborough’s election reversed due to bribery?
Tankerville - Phineas Redux (coughingbear)
4 In which West Indian constituency was the election “sweetness done and turning sour”?
5 Which crusader’s ultimate election was so prolonged that electors were threatened with starvation?
6 Who won the election, having engineered the demise of the four favourites, and then chose self-cremation?
7 Which MP for Aylesbury was expelled, but later headed the poll when he stood for Middlesex?
8 Who spoke in support of the Liberal candidate in Brattleburn, a Tory stronghold?
9 Whose supposedly forged red letter led to the government’s electoral defeat?
Zinoviev (white_hart)
10 Whose election was declared by Albert Theophylus Despard-Smith?
4 (I think this is all Kent)
1 Where was the Tide Waiter based?
2 Where was £53m inappropriately acquired?
Tonbridge
3 Where did the blinded Gloucester attempt suicide?
Dover
4 Where did Simpkinson lose his fiddle-patterned table spoons?
5 Where is the circulation of blood nominally remembered in a hospital setting?
Ashford
6 Where, according to Lucy’s elder cousin and chaperone, were we all hopelessly behind the times?
Tunbridge Wells (me and slemslempike)
7 Where does a 20 second cycle operate from an octagonal tower?
North Foreland Lighthouse (happydisciple)
8 Where does the bell-tower resemble a three-tiered tepee?
Brookland (fanf)
9 What did Bradshaw liken to the victim of Vesuvius?
10 Where is the home of the episcopal digit?
Faversham
5 Circular buildings
1 What was built as a wayfarers’ chapel on the Via Devana?
Holy Sepulchure, Cambridge
2 What has occupied a site in Sheep Street for over 900 years?
Holy Sepulchure, Northampton
3 Which concert venue originally housed a turntable of the LNWR?
Camden Roundhouse
4 Where does a circular tour reveal numerous examples of Jurassic geology?
Weymouth (gominokouhai)
5 Which building is based on the plans of Mario Asprucci, commissioned by the Bishop of Derry?
Ickworth House (gominokouhai)
6 Which edifice, formerly housing a Science Library, owed its building to an Old Savilian physician’s bequest?
Radcliffe Camera (legionseagle)
7 Where did midwifery give way, through a Gate, to a diplomatic film venue?
8 In which little village did the Knights of St John build their church?
Rosslyn (gominokouhai)
9 Where did Campbell create a copy of the Villa Almerico Capra?
10 Where did Rienzi initiate an annual festival 120 years ago?
6
1 Which line is left where for buns?
2 Where did the express train draw up unwontedly?
Adlestrop (el_staplador)
3 On what railroad do livestock pass free through the toll gate?
The Rock Island line (el_staplador)
4 To what do the words “Jamme, jamme, ’ncoppa, jamme jà” apply?
Vesuvius funicular railway (pjie2)
5 Where did the convict and the boy with violin go on till the train came in?
The railway station, Upwey (el_staplador)
6 Whence the goods, delaying the eight o’clock excursion train for an hour (or more)?
7 What station was the Catalan surrealist’s “Centre of the Universe”?
Perpignan
8 Where, in reality, did Celia and Trevor enjoy a short relationship?
Carnforth (kotturinn)
9 Where was the Normandy train’s arrival depicted?
10 Where did Nordens Strauss locate his gallop?
Copenhagen Steam Railway; Lumbye (kotturinn)
7 (canines)
1 What is St Antony’s sister?
Wolfson College, Cambridge
2 Where might Beetle Drives be particularly popular?
3 What enquiry elicited the reply “I am George, I am”?
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf (gominokouhai)
4 What has an almost unique tolerance of a diterpene-rich diet?
5 Which named canid may be observed by the congregation at Kirk Andreas?
Fenris
6 Who confronted Lungri at the cave mouth, claiming possession of the man’s cub?
Raksha (pjie2)
7 Who described a silent nocturnal interment on a Galician rampart?
Charles Wolfe (me and el_staplador)
8 What was, in 1972, uniquely surmounted by a helipad?
Wolf Rock Lighthouse
9 The death of which hero is remembered in Matlock?
General James Wolfe
10 Which establishmecvnt dominates the Mittelhaardt?
8 (Davids, thanks tree_and_leaf)
1 Who named his daughter after Great Aunt Betsey?
David Copperfield
2 Who was called the Tee’d Ball by the young advocates?
3 Where were Middle Eastern differences settled “with one accord”?
4 Which “King” lost his life in the battle across the river from San Antonio?
Davy Crockett (me and caulkhead)
5 Whose cardiectomy remnant was interred beneath an example of Chlorophora excelsa?
6 Which leading Covenanter was hung, drawn and quartered for complicity in an archiepiscopal murder?
David Hackston (tree_and_leaf)
7 Who witnessed the suicide of the kaffir king and Christian minister in the Rooirand cave?
David Crawfurd (tree_and_leaf)
8 Which hairy little man with pink lips and a wall eye came out of the sun?
9 Who received an apparently well-deserved caprine nickname?
David Lloyd George (tree_and_leaf)
10 Who underwent a nocturnal mammary transformation?
9 (drinks)
1 What was the undoing of Sir Claude Amory?
Black coffee
2 What is appropriately marketed in pellet form?
3 What crimson infusion has hypotensive properties?
Rooibos (pjie2)
4 What beverage’s infallibility bore a papal comparison?
5 What did the Rocky Mountain fur-trapper consider to be superior to whisky?
6 what was brought to the incarcerated Bufo following the bubble-and-squeak?
Tea and toast
7 with what did his mother dose Peter on his escape from the garden?
Camomile tea (antisoppist)
8 what is the choice of the precious Gaborone detective?
Rooibos
9 what citrous concoction recalls a great reformer?
Earl Grey tea (pjie2)
10 what spots characterise von Recklinghausen?
Cafe au lait (pjie2)
10 (I think this is reptiles)
1 What was partnered on bended knee?
2 Which two protagonists share a liking for Allie?
3 How was Miss Languish’s strong will described by her aunt?
an allegory on the banks of the Nile
4 What name was given by Disney to Barrie’s anonymous reptile?
Tick-Tock
5 Who maintained that he who trusts a woman will walk on duckweed in a pool?
6 Who displayed his distinctive motif when winning for the second time at West Side?
7 What suffered solar destruction following pachydermal confrontation?
The Enormous Crocodile (white_hart)
8 Who enjoyed a fusion initially with Horus, and later with Ra?
Sobek
9 Who changed hands while crossing the Irish Sea?
10 Which island trio has reptilian etymology?
Cayman (caulkhead)
11 (this is feathers)
1 What were the pipe-cleaners stolen from Uncle Jim?
Green parrot feathers (el_staplador)
2 Why might the jay wrongly be seen as more precious than the lark?
Because his feathers are more beautiful (gominokouhai)
3 What characterised the little men apart from coloured jacket and cap?
A white owl's feather (antisoppist)
4 What was the crest of Blind John, adopted by the victorious leader after the battle in 1346?
Three ostrich feathers (sollers)
5 What, developed by Rex and Cromie, owed its name to Harold, and brought immediate success for Geoff?
6 What, in addition to the Yellow Jacket did the British commander receive after victory at Changzhou Fu?
7 In what tale does David, living with his parents at Firetown, receive a rifle for his 14th birthday?
8 In what tale did Joseppi stumble out the Musoline Overture on a zither in Wadi Halfa?
The Four Feathers
9 Which scarecrow was created by a pipe-smoking New England witch?
10 Which clandestine group saved Ran on the edge of Exmoor?
12 Which code name was given to the agent who:
1 thwarted Weitsprung?
2 faked the demolition of the Mosquito factory?
Zigzag (hano)
3 warned the High Command of the threat from FUSAG?
Garbo (hano)
4 threatened revelation following the death of her beloved dog?
5 successfully misled Rommel and employed his notional girlfriend Misanthrope?
Cheese (hano)
6 photographed Sir Hughe’s secret papers and was rewarded with counterfeit sterling?
Cicero (hano)
7 began by proving himself to the Abwehr with a report on Pierre Laval?
Tricycle (hano)
8 nearly blew it when he mistakenly confused Glass and Sand?
9 was known as Leonhard by his German paymasters?
10 later dug up artefacts in Corsica?
13 (I think this is Egypt - updated, the Nile, thanks legionseagle)
1 What does the Bard credit with subtlety?
Cleopatra, serpent of the Nile (legionseagle)
2 Where does Kitchener have an Elephantine companion?
3 Where did pigeon-shooting lead to inappropriate British reprisals?
4 Where did Mrs Doyle narrowly escape death from a falling boulder?
Rameses Temple (legionseagle and coughingbear)
5 Where was the P&O liner Mongolia expected at 11am on Wednesday 9 October?
Suez, Around the World in 80 Days (drplotka)
6 Where did the French lieutenant find the trilingual text which provided the key to understanding the ancient scripts?
Fort Julien
7 For what was Rigoletto substituted for the opening of the Opera House?
Aida
8 Which heir presumptive drowned when his train fell into the river?
9 Where did Wüstenfuchs’s substitute suffer a fatal heart attack?
10 Where did Giocante stand on the burning deck?
Ship Orient; Battle of the Nile
14 The etymology of which country’s name:
1 rules out mendacity?
2 describes littoral wealth?
Costa Rica (castiron)
3 suggests sacred insularity?
4 recalls the Dude’s favourite cocktail?
Belarus (happydisciple)
5 shows the long reach of a Basque windmill?
6 misrenders the name of an East India Company captain?
7 derives from pachydermal slaughter?
Ivory Coast (el_staplador)
8 derives from crustacean abundance?
9 warns of shallow waters?
Bahamas (pjie2)
10 has lunar connections?
15 (dances, thanks el_staplador)
1 What Viennese dance celebrated 26 July?
2 Who responded to news of the lugger in Kitt’s Hole?
3 What reckless delight is enhanced by an abundance of Xeres?
cachua, fandango, bolero (el_staplador)
4 In what did the snail decline the whiting’s invitation to take part?
Lobster Quadrille (el_staplador)
5 In which morbid exercise does a xylophone represent an osseous rattle?
Danse Macabre (happydisciple)
6 What famous dance sequence precedes Grimaldo’s attempt on the life of Badoero?
7 Who “waltzed” in happy anticipation of a rendezvous with Marianne?
8 In what did two geriatrics rekindle their love in West Yorkshire?
Last Tango in Halifax (el_staplador)
9 In what pas de deux does Pertussis seem to participate?
10 What was sung from the shade of a Coolibah?
Waltzing Matilda (el_staplador) "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me (megpie71)
16 What: (cakes and puddings I think)
1 day shares with Bridget?
Cake pops
2 did Ramsay combine with Turtle Soup?
3 was named after Margaretha, Märtha and Astrid?
Prinsesstarta (antisoppist)
4 was inspired through an invitation to see Elsa of Brabant?
5 was Tom’s intended fate prior to his rescue from beneath the attic?
Being turned into an roly-poly pudding (white_hart)
6 according to the Captain, always ate better if it did not scald your gullet?
Treacle pudding (drplotka)
7 is a sweetened combination of egg yolk and a Sicilian wine?
Zabaglione (kotturinn)
8 creation formerly had the sobriquet “solognotte”?
Tarte Tatin
9 do Margrethe’s subjects use as a shibboleth?
rødgrød med fløde
10 moistens the lip and brightens the eye?
17 (gates, thanks tree_and_leaf)
1 On what was Smiler fed?
2 Where is the vanelline source of ferruginous waters?
3 Whose scholarly woodpecker was a wooden bookend?
Oliver Postgate (tree_and_leaf, white_hart halfway!)
4 Where, according to Bede, was Adda’s brother the Abbot?
5 What was given its name by Lamancha owing to the execrable food and wine?
Runagates club (tree_and_leaf)
6 Where was she heard singing about her laddie’s blue bonnet and dimpled chin?
Sandgate (pjie2)
7 To which establishment was the frisky prentice hauled with fanfares?
Newgate (coughingbear)
8 Where in 1940 were tables for two laid as tables for four?
9 What was earned by William and discarded by Tony?
Stansgate (antisoppist)
10 Whence the Cholmeleians?
18 During 2015:
1 which popular character fell to a Minnesota toxophilite?
Cecil the Lion
2 whose crown-scarred skull has found a final resting place?
Richard III
3 where has a polychrome hybrid of Galanthus been relaunched?
4 which archiepiscopal foundation has closed its doors after 432 years?
5 for which sleuth has his luscinial escapade now turned out to be his swan song?
Inspector Wexford (coughingbear)
6 which anthem, played in error, was equally erroneously attributed to Kazakhstan?
7 which six-times winner did his final lap almost 65 years after his first victory?
8 how has Suffragette militancy progressed to Suffragen achievement?
9 how did a redesigned garden contribute to gold in China?
10 how has Bellerophon returned at the expense of Aquila?
ETA: Continuing to add answers. Apologies if I've filled in any myself that you got in comments - I'm slowly going through the answers. Nice crop this year, I have to say! This entry was originally posted at http://clanwilliam.dreamwidth.org/234821.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
1 During 1915:
1 who developed an innovative equine?
Triumph? (Type H)
2 what oversized delivery brought joy to Dolly and Marty?
Frank Sinatra
3 whose work was also recognised by Barnard and Matteucci?
William Bragg
4 which two spies in the cigar business faced the firing squad on the same morning?
Haicke Janssen and Willem Roos
5 whose determination to have no hatred or bitterness for anyone would be later set in stone?
Edith Cavell
6 which eponymous vessel met its Waterloo at the hands of an adversary, which had been an ally 100 years earlier?
SMS Blucher
7 where did the British deployment of Red Star backfire owing to inclement weather?
Battle of Loos
8 what yarn revealed the murderous activities of the Black Stone?
The 39 Steps (white_hart)
9 which former MO to the Pennywell Colliery passed away?
WG Grace (legionseagle)
10 from what disaster did PL 11 rescue the first survivors?
Luisitania
2 (This is Dorothy L Sayers)
1 Who took prizes with canaries?
Sir Impey Mann
2 Who was the victim of a cactus booby-trap?
Noakes
3 Who provided details of cadaveric rigidity from his copy of Dixon Mann?
4 Which product of the Royal Free was thought to have administered air emboli?
Mary Whittaker
5 Who lost his gold pince-nez in a stranger’s astrakhan collar during the rush-hour at Victoria?
Thomas Crimplesham
6 Who was one of the most exclusive hairdressers in the West End who produced an ivory-handled razor that travelled via Stamford?
Endicott
7 Which air pilot, carrying vital evidence from New York, came down near Whitehaven?
Air Pilot Grant
8 Which Boer war veteran died from arsenic poisoning on 10 November?
General Fentiman
9 Who died as a result of acoustic bombardment by Batty Thomas et al?
Deacon
10 Who was saved by a dog-collar?
Harriet Vane
3
1 Who was returned for Condaford in the general election?
Eustace Dornford, the Forsyte Saga
2 In what election were 45 green umbrellas used to influence voters?
3 In which constituency was Mr Browborough’s election reversed due to bribery?
Tankerville - Phineas Redux (coughingbear)
4 In which West Indian constituency was the election “sweetness done and turning sour”?
5 Which crusader’s ultimate election was so prolonged that electors were threatened with starvation?
6 Who won the election, having engineered the demise of the four favourites, and then chose self-cremation?
7 Which MP for Aylesbury was expelled, but later headed the poll when he stood for Middlesex?
8 Who spoke in support of the Liberal candidate in Brattleburn, a Tory stronghold?
9 Whose supposedly forged red letter led to the government’s electoral defeat?
Zinoviev (white_hart)
10 Whose election was declared by Albert Theophylus Despard-Smith?
4 (I think this is all Kent)
1 Where was the Tide Waiter based?
2 Where was £53m inappropriately acquired?
Tonbridge
3 Where did the blinded Gloucester attempt suicide?
Dover
4 Where did Simpkinson lose his fiddle-patterned table spoons?
5 Where is the circulation of blood nominally remembered in a hospital setting?
Ashford
6 Where, according to Lucy’s elder cousin and chaperone, were we all hopelessly behind the times?
Tunbridge Wells (me and slemslempike)
7 Where does a 20 second cycle operate from an octagonal tower?
North Foreland Lighthouse (happydisciple)
8 Where does the bell-tower resemble a three-tiered tepee?
Brookland (fanf)
9 What did Bradshaw liken to the victim of Vesuvius?
10 Where is the home of the episcopal digit?
Faversham
5 Circular buildings
1 What was built as a wayfarers’ chapel on the Via Devana?
Holy Sepulchure, Cambridge
2 What has occupied a site in Sheep Street for over 900 years?
Holy Sepulchure, Northampton
3 Which concert venue originally housed a turntable of the LNWR?
Camden Roundhouse
4 Where does a circular tour reveal numerous examples of Jurassic geology?
Weymouth (gominokouhai)
5 Which building is based on the plans of Mario Asprucci, commissioned by the Bishop of Derry?
Ickworth House (gominokouhai)
6 Which edifice, formerly housing a Science Library, owed its building to an Old Savilian physician’s bequest?
Radcliffe Camera (legionseagle)
7 Where did midwifery give way, through a Gate, to a diplomatic film venue?
8 In which little village did the Knights of St John build their church?
Rosslyn (gominokouhai)
9 Where did Campbell create a copy of the Villa Almerico Capra?
10 Where did Rienzi initiate an annual festival 120 years ago?
6
1 Which line is left where for buns?
2 Where did the express train draw up unwontedly?
Adlestrop (el_staplador)
3 On what railroad do livestock pass free through the toll gate?
The Rock Island line (el_staplador)
4 To what do the words “Jamme, jamme, ’ncoppa, jamme jà” apply?
Vesuvius funicular railway (pjie2)
5 Where did the convict and the boy with violin go on till the train came in?
The railway station, Upwey (el_staplador)
6 Whence the goods, delaying the eight o’clock excursion train for an hour (or more)?
7 What station was the Catalan surrealist’s “Centre of the Universe”?
Perpignan
8 Where, in reality, did Celia and Trevor enjoy a short relationship?
Carnforth (kotturinn)
9 Where was the Normandy train’s arrival depicted?
10 Where did Nordens Strauss locate his gallop?
Copenhagen Steam Railway; Lumbye (kotturinn)
7 (canines)
1 What is St Antony’s sister?
Wolfson College, Cambridge
2 Where might Beetle Drives be particularly popular?
3 What enquiry elicited the reply “I am George, I am”?
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf (gominokouhai)
4 What has an almost unique tolerance of a diterpene-rich diet?
5 Which named canid may be observed by the congregation at Kirk Andreas?
Fenris
6 Who confronted Lungri at the cave mouth, claiming possession of the man’s cub?
Raksha (pjie2)
7 Who described a silent nocturnal interment on a Galician rampart?
Charles Wolfe (me and el_staplador)
8 What was, in 1972, uniquely surmounted by a helipad?
Wolf Rock Lighthouse
9 The death of which hero is remembered in Matlock?
General James Wolfe
10 Which establishmecvnt dominates the Mittelhaardt?
8 (Davids, thanks tree_and_leaf)
1 Who named his daughter after Great Aunt Betsey?
David Copperfield
2 Who was called the Tee’d Ball by the young advocates?
3 Where were Middle Eastern differences settled “with one accord”?
4 Which “King” lost his life in the battle across the river from San Antonio?
Davy Crockett (me and caulkhead)
5 Whose cardiectomy remnant was interred beneath an example of Chlorophora excelsa?
6 Which leading Covenanter was hung, drawn and quartered for complicity in an archiepiscopal murder?
David Hackston (tree_and_leaf)
7 Who witnessed the suicide of the kaffir king and Christian minister in the Rooirand cave?
David Crawfurd (tree_and_leaf)
8 Which hairy little man with pink lips and a wall eye came out of the sun?
9 Who received an apparently well-deserved caprine nickname?
David Lloyd George (tree_and_leaf)
10 Who underwent a nocturnal mammary transformation?
9 (drinks)
1 What was the undoing of Sir Claude Amory?
Black coffee
2 What is appropriately marketed in pellet form?
3 What crimson infusion has hypotensive properties?
Rooibos (pjie2)
4 What beverage’s infallibility bore a papal comparison?
5 What did the Rocky Mountain fur-trapper consider to be superior to whisky?
6 what was brought to the incarcerated Bufo following the bubble-and-squeak?
Tea and toast
7 with what did his mother dose Peter on his escape from the garden?
Camomile tea (antisoppist)
8 what is the choice of the precious Gaborone detective?
Rooibos
9 what citrous concoction recalls a great reformer?
Earl Grey tea (pjie2)
10 what spots characterise von Recklinghausen?
Cafe au lait (pjie2)
10 (I think this is reptiles)
1 What was partnered on bended knee?
2 Which two protagonists share a liking for Allie?
3 How was Miss Languish’s strong will described by her aunt?
an allegory on the banks of the Nile
4 What name was given by Disney to Barrie’s anonymous reptile?
Tick-Tock
5 Who maintained that he who trusts a woman will walk on duckweed in a pool?
6 Who displayed his distinctive motif when winning for the second time at West Side?
7 What suffered solar destruction following pachydermal confrontation?
The Enormous Crocodile (white_hart)
8 Who enjoyed a fusion initially with Horus, and later with Ra?
Sobek
9 Who changed hands while crossing the Irish Sea?
10 Which island trio has reptilian etymology?
Cayman (caulkhead)
11 (this is feathers)
1 What were the pipe-cleaners stolen from Uncle Jim?
Green parrot feathers (el_staplador)
2 Why might the jay wrongly be seen as more precious than the lark?
Because his feathers are more beautiful (gominokouhai)
3 What characterised the little men apart from coloured jacket and cap?
A white owl's feather (antisoppist)
4 What was the crest of Blind John, adopted by the victorious leader after the battle in 1346?
Three ostrich feathers (sollers)
5 What, developed by Rex and Cromie, owed its name to Harold, and brought immediate success for Geoff?
6 What, in addition to the Yellow Jacket did the British commander receive after victory at Changzhou Fu?
7 In what tale does David, living with his parents at Firetown, receive a rifle for his 14th birthday?
8 In what tale did Joseppi stumble out the Musoline Overture on a zither in Wadi Halfa?
The Four Feathers
9 Which scarecrow was created by a pipe-smoking New England witch?
10 Which clandestine group saved Ran on the edge of Exmoor?
12 Which code name was given to the agent who:
1 thwarted Weitsprung?
2 faked the demolition of the Mosquito factory?
Zigzag (hano)
3 warned the High Command of the threat from FUSAG?
Garbo (hano)
4 threatened revelation following the death of her beloved dog?
5 successfully misled Rommel and employed his notional girlfriend Misanthrope?
Cheese (hano)
6 photographed Sir Hughe’s secret papers and was rewarded with counterfeit sterling?
Cicero (hano)
7 began by proving himself to the Abwehr with a report on Pierre Laval?
Tricycle (hano)
8 nearly blew it when he mistakenly confused Glass and Sand?
9 was known as Leonhard by his German paymasters?
10 later dug up artefacts in Corsica?
13 (I think this is Egypt - updated, the Nile, thanks legionseagle)
1 What does the Bard credit with subtlety?
Cleopatra, serpent of the Nile (legionseagle)
2 Where does Kitchener have an Elephantine companion?
3 Where did pigeon-shooting lead to inappropriate British reprisals?
4 Where did Mrs Doyle narrowly escape death from a falling boulder?
Rameses Temple (legionseagle and coughingbear)
5 Where was the P&O liner Mongolia expected at 11am on Wednesday 9 October?
Suez, Around the World in 80 Days (drplotka)
6 Where did the French lieutenant find the trilingual text which provided the key to understanding the ancient scripts?
Fort Julien
7 For what was Rigoletto substituted for the opening of the Opera House?
Aida
8 Which heir presumptive drowned when his train fell into the river?
9 Where did Wüstenfuchs’s substitute suffer a fatal heart attack?
10 Where did Giocante stand on the burning deck?
Ship Orient; Battle of the Nile
14 The etymology of which country’s name:
1 rules out mendacity?
2 describes littoral wealth?
Costa Rica (castiron)
3 suggests sacred insularity?
4 recalls the Dude’s favourite cocktail?
Belarus (happydisciple)
5 shows the long reach of a Basque windmill?
6 misrenders the name of an East India Company captain?
7 derives from pachydermal slaughter?
Ivory Coast (el_staplador)
8 derives from crustacean abundance?
9 warns of shallow waters?
Bahamas (pjie2)
10 has lunar connections?
15 (dances, thanks el_staplador)
1 What Viennese dance celebrated 26 July?
2 Who responded to news of the lugger in Kitt’s Hole?
3 What reckless delight is enhanced by an abundance of Xeres?
cachua, fandango, bolero (el_staplador)
4 In what did the snail decline the whiting’s invitation to take part?
Lobster Quadrille (el_staplador)
5 In which morbid exercise does a xylophone represent an osseous rattle?
Danse Macabre (happydisciple)
6 What famous dance sequence precedes Grimaldo’s attempt on the life of Badoero?
7 Who “waltzed” in happy anticipation of a rendezvous with Marianne?
8 In what did two geriatrics rekindle their love in West Yorkshire?
Last Tango in Halifax (el_staplador)
9 In what pas de deux does Pertussis seem to participate?
10 What was sung from the shade of a Coolibah?
Waltzing Matilda (el_staplador) "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me (megpie71)
16 What: (cakes and puddings I think)
1 day shares with Bridget?
Cake pops
2 did Ramsay combine with Turtle Soup?
3 was named after Margaretha, Märtha and Astrid?
Prinsesstarta (antisoppist)
4 was inspired through an invitation to see Elsa of Brabant?
5 was Tom’s intended fate prior to his rescue from beneath the attic?
Being turned into an roly-poly pudding (white_hart)
6 according to the Captain, always ate better if it did not scald your gullet?
Treacle pudding (drplotka)
7 is a sweetened combination of egg yolk and a Sicilian wine?
Zabaglione (kotturinn)
8 creation formerly had the sobriquet “solognotte”?
Tarte Tatin
9 do Margrethe’s subjects use as a shibboleth?
rødgrød med fløde
10 moistens the lip and brightens the eye?
17 (gates, thanks tree_and_leaf)
1 On what was Smiler fed?
2 Where is the vanelline source of ferruginous waters?
3 Whose scholarly woodpecker was a wooden bookend?
Oliver Postgate (tree_and_leaf, white_hart halfway!)
4 Where, according to Bede, was Adda’s brother the Abbot?
5 What was given its name by Lamancha owing to the execrable food and wine?
Runagates club (tree_and_leaf)
6 Where was she heard singing about her laddie’s blue bonnet and dimpled chin?
Sandgate (pjie2)
7 To which establishment was the frisky prentice hauled with fanfares?
Newgate (coughingbear)
8 Where in 1940 were tables for two laid as tables for four?
9 What was earned by William and discarded by Tony?
Stansgate (antisoppist)
10 Whence the Cholmeleians?
18 During 2015:
1 which popular character fell to a Minnesota toxophilite?
Cecil the Lion
2 whose crown-scarred skull has found a final resting place?
Richard III
3 where has a polychrome hybrid of Galanthus been relaunched?
4 which archiepiscopal foundation has closed its doors after 432 years?
5 for which sleuth has his luscinial escapade now turned out to be his swan song?
Inspector Wexford (coughingbear)
6 which anthem, played in error, was equally erroneously attributed to Kazakhstan?
7 which six-times winner did his final lap almost 65 years after his first victory?
8 how has Suffragette militancy progressed to Suffragen achievement?
9 how did a redesigned garden contribute to gold in China?
10 how has Bellerophon returned at the expense of Aquila?
ETA: Continuing to add answers. Apologies if I've filled in any myself that you got in comments - I'm slowly going through the answers. Nice crop this year, I have to say! This entry was originally posted at http://clanwilliam.dreamwidth.org/234821.html. Please comment there using OpenID.