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The 101st annual quiz from King William's College on the Isle of Man.

1

During the year 1905:

1	What opened with Blue Bell?	Aldwych Theatre
2	What little red flower appeared in a new guise?	The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Orczy)
3	Whose election recalled that of his Uncle Wilhelm?	Prince Carl of Denmark elected King Haakon VII of Norway (Wilhelm had been elected King George I of Greece)
4	Whose big cat got into the wild beasts' show in Paris?	Henri Rousseau's (Le Lion Affamé at the exhibition of Les Fauves)
5	Whose discovery of mycobacteria took him to prize-giving on December 10?	Robert Koch's (Nobel Prize)
6	Which organisation was formed to alleviate excessive constabulary restrictions?	Automobile Association
7	What was the result of arthropod larvae appearing en route for Tendra?	Potemkin Mutiny
8	Under what title was a long letter to Bosie published?	De Profundis (Oscar Wilde - posthumously)
9	What collapse interrupted a theatre's rebuilding?	Charing Cross Station (Avenue Theatre)
10	What brought jollity to Vienna?	The Merry Widow (Lehar)

2

1	Whose clandestine marriage thwarted Robinson?	Carolina and Paolino's (Cimarosa - The Secret Marriage)
2	Who enjoyed mince and quince at their wedding breakfast?	The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Edward Lear - The Owl and the Pussycat)
3	At whose wedding was the unknown groom accused of magic by his rival?	Lohengrin and Elsa's (Wagner - Lohengrin)
4	At which event were the affianced first represented by Nancy and Francesco?	The Marriage of Figaro (Nancy Storace and Francesco Benucci at the Burgtheater, Vienna, May 1, 1786)
5	Whose hasty marriage was prompted by knowledge of Fra Filippo's departure for the continent?	Gino Carella and Lilia Herriton's (EM Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread)
6	After whose wedding did the bride send slices of cake to her companions in the pork-dressing business?	Jude Fawley and Arabella Donn's (Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure)
7	At whose quiet wedding were Traddles and Sophy, and Doctor and Mrs Strong the only guests?	David Copperfield and Agnes Wickfield's (Dickens - David Copperfield)
8	At whose quiet wedding were "he and I, the parson and clerk, alone present"?	Mr Rochester and Jane Eyre's (Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre)
9	Which miserable object was accused of treachery by his bride?	Ko-Ko (WS Gilbert - The Mikado)
10	At whose wedding feast did they eat sturgeon and pike?	Minnehaha and Hiawatha's (Longfellow - The Song of Hiawatha)

3

Who wrote about the Isle of Man with the following words:

1	"The coast runs level to the Point of Ayre A waste of sand, sea-holly and wild thyme"	TE Brown (Bella Gorry - The Pazon's Story)
2	"He strides through the tamarisks down to the ocean Beyond the lush curraghs of sylvan Lezayre"	John Betjeman (The Exile)
3	"Oh, what do Manx fairies think of claret in Sulby Glen? Alas, where are the fairies now?"	Henry Cadman (Harry Druidale, Fisherman from Manxland to England)
4	"... also a memorial pillar dedicated to one Governor Smelt with a flat top for a statue, and no statue standing on it"	Wilkie Collins (Armadale)
5	"But the old pile soon rose before him, serene, and sternly still, amid the sleeping ocean. The banner, which indicated that the Lord of Man held residence, hung motionless by the ensign staff."	Sir Walter Scott (Peveril of The Peak)
6	"... they visited a copper-mine by the side of the Head, and filled their pockets with bits of quartz or red shining spar ..."	FW Farrar (Eric, or Little by Little)
7	"The day was calm and beautiful. Old Barrule wore his yellow skull-cap of flowering gorse . . ."	Hall Caine (The Manxman)
8	"The glowing orb of the sun was already soft enough to look at almost directly, bisected in the middle by some strange Celtic tower on the top of the cliff, that from the distance had the look of a giant key."	David Baddiel (The Secret Purposes)
9	"... the Calf of Man, on which are no habitations, but only a cottage or two lately built"	John Ray (The Ornithology of Francis Willughby)
10	"Where ancient trees this convent-pile enclose, In ruin beautiful ..."	William Wordsworth (At Bala-sala, Isle of Man)

4

Which Book inspired:

1 Whose oratorio about the Hasmoneans? 2 Whose oratorio about a loyal daughter- in-law? 3 Which Lancastrian's rendering of the writing on the wall? 4 Which Etonian's oratorio about a major owner of livestock? 5 Whose oratorio for the Pietà, in which the heroine is a murderess? 6 Which Londoner's serenata, comprising a dialogue between He and She? 7 A mysterium, which preceded whose appointment as professor? 8 Which Tudor favourite's representation of grieving verses? 9 Which Nazi exile's oratorio involving a bovine effigy? 10 Which Tivoli organist's marine oratorio?

5

What:

1 Is a bibionid? 2 Grows in fairy rings? 3 Provides quality duvets? 4 Might be translated as redskin? 5 Was described by the English Hippocrates? 6 Is now worn on 5th, although formerly on 24th? 7 Is luminous, and witnessed by seamen? 8 Are equidistant from Whitekirk? 9 Is the gourmet's bivalve? 10 Is single-bloomed?

6

Of what figures of speech or rhetorical devices are the following examples:

1	The town was starving?	synecdoche
2	I can't find it any blooming where?	tmesis
3	Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true?	oxymoron
4	For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws/ For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws?	anaphora
5	Not to mention their unpaid debts of several millions?	paralipsis
6	There was an atmosphere of gloom and despondency?	hendiadys
7	Love's fire heats water, water cools not love?	chiasmus
8	The low last edge of the long low land?	alliteration
9	If you don't do as I say I'll . . . ?	aposiopesis
10	A citizen of no mean city?	litotes

7

In which tale:

1	Was there solar/lunar confusion?	The Snowman
2	Were multiple embraces terminated at 86?	The Swineherd
3	Was the hero confronted by rodent paskontrol?	The Steadfast Tin Soldier
4	Did a cervical arthrodesis prevent an arranged marriage?	The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep
5	Was postmaturity managed patiently beneath the leaves of Arctium?	The Ugly Duckling
6	Was a transformation preceded by exsanguination and glossectomy?	The Little Mermaid
7	Did the heroine die from hypothermia on New Year's Eve?	The Little Match Girl
8	Were there three cases of canine macrophthalmia?	The Tinderbox
9	Was insomnia due to a deeply hidden pulse?	The Princess and the Pea
10	Was there syncope in Santa Croce?	The Bronze Pig

8

Evaluate:

1 Tarrant's County Seat. 2 Devonshire's Derbyshire home. 3 Lancaster's successful 10 cent store. 4 St Custard's most celebrated alumnus. 5 The location of White Surrey's final saddling. 6 The breed of Malmesbury's notorious escapees. 7 The location of Wilfrid Fox's tree garden. 8 A visitor to the Wye valley on 13/7/98. 9 The site of an Edwardian resignation 10 The creator of Quirk as narrator.

9

What:

1 Vessel could fill 25 Salmanazars? 2 Comes, appropriately, in a clear bottle? 3 Regional addition caused anger in Marne? 4 House took over the crypt of St Niçaise Abbey? 5 Was the important creation of Holden and Colonet? 6 At their first dinner, did James and Tiffany drink with caviar? 7 Venerable house first used ice to remove the lees? 8 Can be found at 5 Place du Général Gouraud? 9 Museum houses the world's largest cask? 10 Vessel recalls a great Babylonian feast?

10

Which town is associated with:

1 Glazed carrots? 2 Whipped cream with sugar and vanilla? 3 Baked offal and calf's feet with Calvados and cider? 4 Deep-fried amphibian limbs garnished with fried parsley? 5 Scalloped puff pastry filled with an almond and rum mixture? 6 A liquid mixture of carrots, onions and leeks with rice and crème fraîche? 7 Fish stock, white wine, freshwater crustaceans and cream? 8 Fillets of anchovy, eggs, lettuce, tuna and black olives? 9 Sweet and sour onion salad with raisins? 10 Sweet mutton pies?

11

Which of Peter's successors:

1	Was a troglodyte?
2	Was attacked with a kris by a surrealist painter?
3	Was saved from strangulation by an eclipse of the sun?
4	Narrowly avoided the fate of an authority on ocular disease?
5	Underwent exhumation, re-clothing, re-enthronement and trial?
6	Was vilified by Petrarch as an ecclesiastical Dionysius with his infamous artifices?
7	Claimed that his office was God-given and should be enjoyed?
8	Finally succumbed on the disappearance of a celestial body?
9	Allegedly died through a satanic blow to the head?
10	Was depicted protecting a Lilliputian Siena?

12

Which thriller features:

1 Aigion? 2 Napoli? 3 Matapan? 4 Nantesville? 5 Morning Star? 6 Fort Ticonderoga? 7 Morning Rose? 8 Marianne? 9 Canton? 10 Vectra?

13

Extract homophones from the following oblique hints:

1 Rabbit pie 2 54 and 100 3 Pelvic viscus 4 Needled and cultured 5 Washerwoman and bargewoman 6 Connects between bear and twins 7 Twelve for Mr Badger 8 Cherry hangs limply 9 Line up a pot 10 Sandstone

14

1 Of what plight was a certain motorcycle devoid? 2 Complete "________ engineering contraptions" 3 What motorcycle was built like a structure to cross a river? 4 What motorcycle was all right and had a Ptolemaic predecessor? 5 What motorcycle failed to win a TT, while displaying 1066 and all that on its tank? 6 What had a big exhaust and should not have been passed on an anti-clockwise circuit? 7 What motorcycle proclaimed that a son was better than his father? 8 What nickname indicated the use of another maker's spares? 9 What fruit flew to a lowly finish in the 1921 Junior TT? 10 What missile was made like its firing mechanism?

15

Wombling free, what destination:

1	Is partly algebraic?	Totteridge and Whetstone (treatise on algebra by Robert Recorde The Whetstone of Witte)
2	Implies inept play at whist?	Whitechapel (Whitechapel whist is aces and kings first).
3	Should be good for woodcock?	Roding Valley (roding is territorial flight of woodcock)
4	Features Pegasus and Agnus Dei?	Temple (badges of Inner and Middle Temple)
5	Commemorates the Calabrian defeat of Reynier?	Maida Vale (Battle of Maida 1806)
6	Recalls an arboreal disaster in the year of the Regent's promotion?	Fairlop (great oak blown down in 1820)
7	Is derived from Falkes de Bréauté?	Vauxhall
8	Suggests olive trees in Tuscany?	Arno's Grove
9	Was formerly Tyburn Gate?	Marble Arch
10	Was originally worth 6/8?	Angel (English gold coin from 1465)

16

Who or what:

1 Is realgar? 2 Was Colin Campbell of Glenure? 3 "Cocktail" uses methylated spirits? 4 Do Salopians know as Bessie Brantail? 5 Was the site of Maria Marten's murder at Polstead? 6 First appeared to Darsie's friend, Alan, in a green gown? 7 Asked "What's the French for fiddle-de-dee?" 8 Is, alternatively, Turf and Towers? 9 Was snared on Stormy Mountain? 10 Suffered lupine deception?

17

Who:

1 Were tea brokers in Mincing Lane? 2 Was a pawnbroker in Saxe-Coburg Square? 3 Was the well-known Curzon Street money-lender? 4 Was set up in medical practice at 403 Brook Street? 5 Imported the red wines of Bordeaux in Fenchurch Street? 6 Had rooms in Montagu Street, close to the British Museum? 7 Were the solicitors in practice at 426 Gresham Building? 8 Was the fictitious practitioner at 369 Half Moon Street? 9 Were funeral directors in the Kennington Road? 10 Was a poulterer at 117 Brixton Road?

18

During 2005:

1 Where did the Jolly Farmer fall in? 2 Which 12 have been reduced by one to eight? 3 Where has a Saxon phoenix been restored to normality? 4 How has severe weather affected Kent boundary regulations? 5 What inherited dermatological disorder has benefited from a wader's determination? 6 Where has a heart specialist taken over to treat a dictatorial disease afflicting the nation? 7 Which sometime Beagle passenger has recently celebrated her birthday? 8 Where did a Walk in the Park lack sufficient motivation? 9 Whose final embrace has been worthily remembered? 10 Which Gentleman is now Up in the Clouds?

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4

1 I Maccabees, Handel (Judas Macabbaeus)

2 Ruth, Berkeley (Ruth)

3 Daniel, Walton (Belshazzar's Feast)

4 Job, Parry (Job)

5 Judith, Vivaldi (Juditha triumphans)

6 Song of Songs, Boyce (Solomon)

7 Genesis, Massenet (Eve)

8 Lamentations, Tallis (Lamentations of Jeremiah)

9 Exodus, Schoenberg (Moses and Aaron)

10 Jonah, Carissimi (Jonas)

5

1 St Mark's Fly (Bibio marci)

2 St George's Mushroom

3 St Cuthbert's Duck (Eider)

4 St Anthony's Fire (Erysipelas)

5 St Vitus's Dance (Sydenham's Chorea)

6 St John's Wort (Tynwald Day)

7 St Elmo's (or St Helen's) Fire

8 St Baldred's Boat and St Baldred's Cradle (East Lothian)

9 Coquille St Jacques

10 St Olaf's Candlestick (One-flowered Wintergreen)

8

1 Fort Worth (Texas)

2 Chatsworth

3 Woolworths (second store)

4 Molesworth (Willans and Searle)

5 Bosworth (King Richard III)

6 Tamworth (pigs)

7 Winkworth (Arboretum, Surrey)

8 William Wordsworth (Tintern Abbey)

9 Kenilworth (King Edward II)

10 Maria Edgeworth (Thady Quirk in Castle Rackrent)

9

1 Barrique

2 Louis Roederer's Cristal

3 Aube

4 Taittinger

5 Thick-bodied bottle

6 Clicquot Rosé

7 Henri Abele

8 Pommery

9 Mercier

10 Balthazar

10

1 Vichy (Carottes à la Vichy)

2 Chantilly

3 Caen (Tripe à la mode de Caen)

4 Riom (Grenouilles à la mode de Riom)

5 Pithiviers (Gâteau de Pithiviers)

6 Crécy (Potage Crécy)

7 Nantua

8 Nice (Salade Niçoise)

9 Monaco/Monte Carlo (Oignons à la Monégasque)

10 Pézenas (Petits pâtés de Pézenas)

11

1 Celestine V

2 Paul VI (at Manila, 1970 - Benjamin Mendoza y Amor Flores)

3 Benedict IX

4 Pius XI (collapse of roof of Vatican library. cf., John XXI's death at Viterbo)

5 Formosus

6 Clement VI (Lettres sans Titre, XIX)

7 Leo X

8 Urban IV (Great Comet, 1264)

9 John XII

10 Calistus III (Sano di Pietro - Pinacoteca, Siena)

12

1 The Guns of Navarone

2 Death Train

3 Fear is the Key

4 When Eight Bells Toll

5 Ice Station Zebra

6 The Golden Rendezvous

7 Bear Island

8 Puppet on a Chain

9 Caravan to Vaccarès

10 HMS Ulysses

13

1 doe and dough

2 tun (54 gallons) and ton (a century)

3 ilium and ileum

4 purl (knitting) and pearl

5 Toad and towed (Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows)

6 links and Lynx (constellation)

7 bore and boar

8 drupe and droop

9 queue and cue

10 martin and marten

14

1 trouble (DOT - devoid of trouble)

2 Odd (a nickname for OEC with duplex steering)

3 Francis-Barnett (who had this motto in the 1920s, when their frames were made of bolted up straight tubes)

4 OK Supreme Lighthouse model (Pharos of Alexandria, built by Ptolemy II)

5 Velocette (while 1926-27-29 TT WINNERS was on their tanks. Harold Willis, their development engineer, called this 1066 and all that)

6 Big Port AJS (Port is passed to the left)

7 Brough Superior (built by George Brough, his father had built the Brough)

8 Norton Spares Used (1930s nickname for the NSU. Walter Moore, the designer, had left Norton for NSU, hence the similarity of the two makes)

9 Banana (The Wooler was nicknamed The Flying Banana by Graham Walker because its yellow tank extended beyond the steering head. It came 34th)

10 Royal Enfield Bullet (Company slogan - Made like a gun)

16

1 Red Arsenic

2 Red Fox (RL Stevenson - Kidnapped)

3 Red Biddy (with red wine)

4 Redstart

5 The Red Barn (1827)

6 Lilias Redgauntlet (Sir Walter Scott -Redgauntlet)

7 The Red Queen (Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass)

8 Red Cotton Night-cap Country (Robert Browning)

9 Redruff (Ernest Thompson Seton - Wild Animals I Have Known)

10 Little Red Riding Hood

17

1 Ferguson and Muirhead (The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire)

2 Jabez Wilson (The Red-headed League)

3 Sam Brewer (The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place)

4 Dr Percy Trevelyan (The Adventure of the Resident Patient)

5 Westhouse and Marbank (A Case of Identity)

6 Sherlock Holmes (The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual)

7 Graham and McFarlane (The Adventure of the Norwood Builder)

8 Dr Hill Barton (The Adventure of the Illustrious Client)

9 Stimson and Co. (The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax)

10 Mrs Oakshott (The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle)

18

1 Southend-on-Sea pier

2 Twelve Apostles (limestone pillars, Victoria, Australia)

3 Dresden (reconsecration of Frauenkirche)

4 Lime tree at St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, blown down

5 Epidermolysis bullosa (crossing of Humber by Graham Boanas)

6 Ecuador (Alfredo Palacio)

7 Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Aged 175)

8 Epsom (Motivator won the Derby from A Walk in the Park)

9 Horatio Nelson's ("Kiss me Hardy")

10 Sir John Mills (title of his autobiography)