The 104th King William's College General Knowledge Paper (2008-2009)

01

During the year 1908:

01-01

who announced T?

Henry Ford

Model T automobile

01-02

who finished at 59 with 15 and 25?

William Gilbert Grace

cricketer

01-03

what confectionery was inspired by Shaw?

'Chocolate Soldier'

operetta by Oscar Nathan Straus, inspired by Shaw's play 'Arms and the Man'

01-04

who gained her second first at an old east-coast fort?

Elizabeth Garett Anderson

Elizabeth Garett Anderson: first female physician qualified in England; also first female mayorin England, in Aldeburgh, Suffolk (Aldeburgh meaning 'old fort'); or

'1905 Flyer', second edition of first airplane of Wright brothers, flown at Fort Myers, Virginia

01-05

where did the Thomas Flyer arrive on the Asiatic mainland?

Vladivostok

Great Automobile Race of 1908; route had been planned across Bering Strait, but went via Japan instead

01-06

whose birthday present was cut into nine pieces for the family headdress and other equipment?

King Edward VII of Great Britain

Cullinan Diamond, over 3000 carats, in the Transvaal in 1907

01-07

whose resignation pre-empted his demise by just 16 days?

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

British Prime Minister, first called 'Prime Minister', in fact

01-08

which tale launched a nouveau riche boy-racer?

Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

01-09

for whom was Lord Hugh best man?

Winston Churchill

Lord Hugh Cecil

01-10

what event elevated Manuel?

Double assassination of Carlos I of Portugal and Luis Philippe, son and heir of Carlos I

Manuel's father and brother

02

Who began what by:

Book beginnings

02-01

recalling unusual citrous abundance?

Lawrence Durrell, 'Clea'

'The oranges were more plentiful than usual that year.'

02-02

describing his subject's physiognomy with a succession of v's?

Dashiell Hammett, 'The Maltese Falcon'

'Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth' or

Alan Moore (illustrated largely by David Lloyd): V, in 'V for Vendetta', whose alliterative motto may be a reference to Faust?

02-03

justifying the creation of a short palindromic nickname for "himself"?

Charles Dickens, 'Great Expectations'

Philip 'Pip' Pirip

02-04

describing the emergence at dawn of a moustached little man with bowlegs?

02-05

recalling melancholy inspiration from early evening sights and sounds in a rural churchyard?

Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard'

02-06

suggesting that it was generally accepted that a well-heeled loner must be looking for a lady?

Jane Austen, 'Pride and Prejudice'

02-07

describing a studio filled with the scents of roses, lilac and pink-flowered thorn?

Oscar Wilde, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

02-08

describing his hero facing execution and recalling the –discovery of ice?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'

02-09

recalling a send-off from family and friends at Charing Cross?

E.M. Forster, 'Where Angels Fear to Tread'

02-10

providing an alibi for the white kitten?

Lewis Carroll, 'Through the Looking Glass'

03

Telegrams?

03-01

Whose ground-breaking effort quoted Numbers XXIII, 23?

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

'What has God wrought?'

03-02

Who wired who confirming worst fears and requesting gumboots?

Flora Poste

Stella Gibbons, 'Cold Comfort Farm'

03-03

Whose telegram caused Dew to hasten westward on the Laurentic?

Henry Kendall

Master of the SS Montrose, regarding Dr Crippen

03-04

Who, on sighting the enemy, urgently requested a firearm and 300 bullets?

Stationmaster at Voi

Tsavo National Park

03-05

Whose expression of delight was accompanied by a request for a patent oil cooking stove?

Arthur Davies

Erskine Childers, 'The Riddle of the Sands'

03-06

With what single word did the defeated Governor allegedly advise cancellation of the papal travel arrangements?

Unpack

Alfred Emanuel Smith, US presidential election, 1928

03-07

Who described a suave, Bohemian, elderly, storekeeper in the Commercial Road?

Mercer (to Sherlock Holmes)

Conan Doyle, 'The Adventure of the Creeping Man, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'

03-08

Which repetitious message prompted the query "Does that mean Yes?"

'Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown.'

Arthur Ransome, 'Swallows and Amazons'

03-09

Who discovered a crumpled telegram reading "Suivez à Bokhare Saronov"?

Sir Edward Leithen

03-10

On what occasion was the royal wrath not expressed in code?

04

Scottish islands

04-01

What is the Island of Sheep?

Soay

Soay, Foray, Fair from Old Norse for sheep and island; or novel by John Buchan?

04-02

Where did the sea cave inspire Op 26?

Staffa

Fingal's Cave, Mendelssohn op. 26

04-03

Where was Magnus Erlendsson executed?

Orkney Mainland

04-04

What was David's gift to the Berkshire monks?

Isle of May

04-05

Where did an amputated digit earn its owner the right to build a monastery?

Lismore

St Moluag

04-06

Where did the great grandson of King John III make his first British landfall?

Eriskay

Bonnie Prince Charlie, of King John III Sobieski of Poland

04-07

Where is the unique mutton derived from a diet of Laminaria?

North Ronaldsay

seaweed

04-08

Where was quarantine enforced for 48 years?

Gruinard

site of government experimentation with anthrax

04-09

To what was Meg's deafness compared?

Ailsa Craig

Robert Burns, 'Duncan Gray'

04-10

Where was Andie Dale the prefect?

The Bass Rock or The Bass

RL Stevenson, 'Catriona', sequel to Kidnapped

05

Travelling from Nordic lands, try unravelling:

..ling

05-01

the eponymous traitor,

Vidkun Quisling

05-02

then Merrill's famed fisherman partner

Jussi Bjorling

Robert Merrill, American baritone, performances include duet in 'The Pearl Fishers'with JB

05-03

and a misplaced cygnet,

ugly duckling

05-04

contrasting with a little anser,

gosling

05-05

thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,

Terschelling

Brent Geese were released there in 1999

05-06

while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,

Hans Memling

Early Netherlandish painter

05-07

and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport

angling

05-08

and try to catch a little trout

tickling

fingerling? greyling?

05-09

or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative

grayling

lepidoptera includes butterflies, moths

05-10

before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality

Riesling

06

Who:

VI

06-01

was Foolish?

Charles VI of France

06-02

was Rodrigo de Borja y Borja?

Pope Alexander VI

06-03

invested Henry Sinclair as Earl of Orkney?

Haakon VI of Norway

06-04

had a half-sister sired by his –father's physician?

Frederick VI of Denmark

06-05

founded a Siamese school, which was later named in his honour?

Rama VI of Siam

06-06

was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?

George VI of England

06-07

was the offspring of parents sharing the same grandmother?

King James I of England (and VI of Scotland)

06-08

was the 36th and last in a line started in 1299?

Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire

Line of sultans

06-09

was blinded by his mother Irene?

Constantine VI

06-10

was tripartite?

Henry VI

Shakespeare's play in three parts

07

07-01

Which language was developed by a Polish ophthalmologist?

Esperanto

07-02

Which language of the Romance group has a definite article suffix?

Romanian

07-03

Of which European language is the origin unknown, even to the experts?

Basque

a 'language isolate'

07-04

Which geographically Scandinavian language is not linguistically Scandinavian?

Finnish

Sami?

07-05

Which European language is the only survivor of its branch of the Indo-European group?

Greek

07-06

Which Slavonic language is spoken in a country whose national language is not Slavonic?

Sorbian

07-07

Which European language is spoken by about 1% of the population of Switzerland?

Romansh

believed descended of Vulgar Latin

07-08

Which European language has a past tense form which looks like a future?

Catalan

07-09

Which Slavonic language has done away with the case forms of nouns?

Bulgarian

Macedonian?

07-10

Which European national language still retains the dual number?

Slovenian

between singular and plural

08

What:

08-01

is also a game using 28 marbles?

abalone

08-02

formed part of a linear horti–cultural decoration?

cockles

'Mary, Mary, quite contrary'

08-03

are typically preserved in seasoned butter in Lancashire?

(brown) shrimp

08-04

when released in America, suggested involvement with Christine Keeler?

prawn

'The Amorous Prawn'

08-05

are geographically confusing names of what is neither one thing nor the other?

Bombay Duck?

Related to phrases 'neither fish nor flesh' or 'neither fish nor fowl'?

08-06

pelecypod was perhaps familiar to the pupils (and their successors) of Rev Thomas Langhorne?

mussel

Instructor at a school in Musselburgh

08-07

did the man from the Borough regard as the invariable accompaniment of poverty?

oyster

Charles Dickens, 'Pickwick Papers'

08-08

legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?

crab

Dylan Thomas, 'Under Milk Wood'

08-09

nominally, has blue representatives in another kingdom?

periwinkle

or oyster? Blue Oyster Cult; kingdom in the taxonomic sense

08-10

when baked too brown, must sugar his hair?

lobster

Lewis Carroll, ''Tis the Voice of the Lobster'

09

Journeying on what, between which termini, might one's thoughts turn to:

Passenger Trains

09-01

sleepwalking?

Heidi Express, Tirano to Chur

09-02

elliptical orbits?

Johannes Kepler, Leipzig to Prague

09-03

the quintessential libertine?

Casanova, Ljubliana to Venice

09-04

a soldier without a passport?

Jarslav Hasek, Prague to Budapest

'The Good Soldier Svejk'

09-05

the founding father of the EU?

Jean Monet, Brussels to Strasbourg

09-06

the royal prisoner of Sönderborg?

Sibelius Express, Helsinki to St. Petersburg

Christian II of Denmark

09-07

Judith and three mute wives?

Bartok Bela, Budapest to Wien

'Bluebeard's Castle'

09-08

clothed and naked versions?

Francisco de Goya, Madrid to Paris

Maja

09-09

the mount of Bellerophon?

Pegasus, Amsterdam to Zurich

09-10

melting clocks?

Salvador Dali, Barcelona to Milan

10

Which river:

10-01

received the defeated Aunus?

Tuulos

Aunus expedition, a failed Finnish incursion into East Karelia during the Russian Civil War; or

Volkhov, final resting place of ship thus named?

10-02

floats laden barges by banks of myosote?

Thames

Robert Seymore Bridges, 'There is a hill beside the silver Thames'; myosote: borage, forget-me-nots

10-03

was central to the non-payment of a mayoral debt?

Weser

Hamlyn, Pied Piper

10-04

was identified without doubt by the discovery of the initials AD

Nile

Jules Verne, 'Five Weeks in a Balloon'

10-05

saw Captain Schenk acquire an engineer to replace the deceased Walter?

Danube

John Buchan, 'Greenmantle'

10-06

despite being in flood, could be crossed dry-shod following clerical plantar immersion?

Jordan

Joshua 3:13

10-07

provided drinks for kine, and horses, and little humorous donkeys?

Oise

Robert Louis Stevenson, 'An Inland Voyage'

10-08

along with Cairo was passed unnoticed by the raft in the fog?

Ohio

Mark Twain, 'Huckleberry Finn'

10-09

was a source of shelly snails and green lettuces?

Amazon

Rudyard Kipling, 'Just So Stories for Little Children'

10-10

witnessed a case of unwitting filicide?

11

Who or what:

Stan? Stanley?

11-01

had instinct?

11-02

reds started as Villa?

Accrington Stanley FC

11-03

uniquely, got three in whose match?

11-04

claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?

Stanley Baldwin

'lips are sealed'

11-05

was formerly William and succeeded Louis?

Port Stanley

Falkland Islands

11-06

in repetitive utterances, anticipated Glyn Daniel et al?

Major-General Stanley

Gilbert and Sullivan, 'Pirates of Penzance'; Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

11-07

described a small arm accident on 17/6/15?

Stanley Holloway

'Sam Small'

11-08

was executed at Bolton after Worcester?

James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby

11-09

was targeted by Nat and Dermot?

Stanley Webber

Harold Pinter, 'The Birthday Party'

11-10

was presumptuous?

Henry Morton Stanley

'Doctor Livingstone I presume!'

12

Where:

pubs in novels of Charles Dickens

12-01

was the mistress leguminous?

Blue Dragon

'Martin Chuzzlewit', Mrs Lupin

12-02

were the Harmonic Meetings regularly held?

Sol's Arms

'Bleak House'

12-03

was Rogue resuscitated after his prolonged immersion?

Six Jolly Fellowship-Porters

'Our Mutual Friend'

12-04

did the circus manager point out that "People must be amuthed"?

Pegasus's Arms

'Hard Times'

12-05

did the curate speak for one hour and 25 minutes at an anti-slavery meeting?

The Goat and Boots

'Sketches by Boz'

12-06

did a little, yellow high-shouldered man, with a fixed grim smile, tell about a queer client?

The Magpie and Stump

'Pickwick Papers'

12-07

did the landlord report that Phil was so drunk that a boy might take him?

Three Cripples

'Oliver Twist'

12-08

did the Yorkshire schoolmaster interview tutors and pupils?

Saracen's Head

'Nicholas Nickleby'

12-09

did the strange man stir his rum-and-water with a file?

The Three Jolly Boatmen

'Great Expectations''

12-10

did the hangman bind the old man to his chair?

The Maypole

'Barnaby Rudge'

13

US Presidents

13-01

Who remained a bachelor?

James Buchanan

13-02

Who had been ADC to Mad Anthony?

William Henry Harrison

13-03

Who was described as a withered little apple-john?

James Madison

'Mrs. Madison is a fine, portly, buxom dame...but as to Jemmy Madison—ah poor Jemmy!—he is but a withered apple-john.': satirical essayist and author Washington Irving, 1811

13-04

Whose nickname was perfect for a slogan of approval?

Dwight Eisenhower

'I like Ike'; or

Martin Van Buren, nicknamed Old Kinderhook (OK)

13-05

Who enlisted as a private, but came out as a brevet major?

William McKinley

13-06

Who maintained that silence ensured no need for repetition?

Calvin Coolidge

13-07

Who, in his youth, admitted to cutting down a cherry tree?

George Washington

13-08

Who compared his strength to that of a male cervid?

Theodore Roosevelt

'as strong as a bull moose.'

13-09

Who is remembered, nominally, in West Africa?

James Monroe

Monrovia, capital of Liberia

13-10

Which two died on the same day?

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson

1826-07-04

14

Within the capital of which member state of the United Nations will you find:

string appears in capital city names

14-01

calluna?

New Zealand

Wellington: ling, an alternative name for heather, the genus of which is Calluna

14-02

3.14159?

Samoa

Apia: pi

14-03

that its alright?

Tokyo? Bangkok? Melekeok (Palau)?: ok (all three are UN member states)

14-04

a Windermere resident?

Greece

Athens: hen, from Hen Holme, an island in the lake; perhaps also Romania: Bucharest: char (common in the lake)

14-05

a West Country watercourse?

Canada

Ottawa: taw, River Taw

14-06

a pudding distinguished by –ladies' fingers?

trifle?

14-07

a simian representative?

Hungary

Budapest: ape; note Cape Town (legislative capital only, not executive or judicial)?

14-08

a Tibetan monk?

Pakistan

Islamabad: lama

14-09

a semi-metal?

Botswana

Gaborone: boron

14-10

nothing?

Philippines

Manila: nil

15

Who:

bird names

15-01

was morally pure in EC2?

Moll Yellowhammer

Thomas Middleton, 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' in London postcode EC2

15-02

shot Buffalo Bill at Belvedere, Ohio?

Clarice Starling

'Silence of the Lambs'

15-03

went to the wrong church for her wedding?

Fanny Robin

Thomas Hardy, 'Far from the Madding Crowd'

15-04

believed, erroneously, that –Byron murdered Ezra Chater?

Bernard Nightingale

Tom Stoppard, 'Arcadia'

15-05

killed Lord Frederick in a duel, following his return from Belgium?

Mulberry Hawk

Charles Dickens, 'Nicholas Nickleby'

15-06

possessed nothing but the –contents of his wallet, the clothes he stood up in, the hare-lip, the automatic he should have left behind?

Raven

Graham Greene, 'A Gun For Sale'

15-07

was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?

flukes

15-08

wore white for her immolation on October 27?

15-09

advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?

Atticus Finch

Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird'; killing bluejays is okay, mockingbirds no

15-10

posed as Doctor Copernicus?

16

Following my leader, who or what:

Fishing flies

16-01

is a Hampshire jewel?

16-02

decorated Findlater's label?

Dry Fy

16-03

is meteorologically striking?

Thunder and Lightening

16-04

houses Colum Cille's shrine?

Dunkeld Fly

on Isle of Iona, Scotland

16-05

could be wild duck washed down with Ch. Latour?

Mallard and Claret

16-06

might refer to poor Sarah's biliary obstruction?

16-07

is absolutely necessary to a ram?

Tups Indispensible

16-08

was Anastasia's great aunt?

Alexandra

16-09

could have been a crusader?

Knight's Templar

16-10

is a –musteline appendage?

Stoat's Tail

17

In which town:

French towns in literature

17-01

did prisoner 24601 steal the episcopal silver?

Digne

Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables': Jean Valjean

17-02

did Lady de Winter poison the novice at the convent?

Bethune

Alexandre Dumas, 'Three Musketeers'

17-03

was the cathedral like a vast boudoir prepared for Emma?

Rouen

Gustave Flaubert, 'Madame Bovary'

17-04

did Jake, dining alone, drink a bottle of Ch. Margaux for company?

Bayonne

Ernest Hemingway, 'The Sun Also Rises'

17-05

did Duhamel ask that the crayfish should be very lightly boiled just seized?

Verneuil

Alencon? Patrick O'Brian, 'The Surgeon's Mate'

17-06

did la Baronne de la Chalonnière encounter Alexander Duggan at the Hôtel du Cerf?

Gap

Frederick Forsyth, 'Day of the Jackal'

17-07

did Holmes spend some months in a research into coal-tar derivatives?

Montpellier

17-08

were plum-coloured shoes removed to expose red stockings?

Rheims

17-09

did Harry urge his uncle to enter and fortify the town?

Honfleur

Shakespeare, 'Henry V'

17-10

did Hannay receive hellish news from Laidlaw?

Amiens

18

During 2008:

18-01

which gartered kiwi was laid to rest?

Edmund Hillary

18-02

which fine food has gained PGS in Leicestershire?

Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

18-03

who, following 2nd at 2K with 3 others, got 1st at 3K alone?

Rebecca Romero

18-04

which sometime bulbous plant would seem to be involved with "arthrology"?

Marijuana

18-05

who made successive day trips to Abergele, Fountains Abbey and Mugdock?

Ian Botham

18-06

where has the pancake bell ceased to signal the start of a race owing to health and safety issues?

Ripon Cathedral

18-07

where did a giant arachnid briefly invade an apparently –coleopteran habitat?

Lime Street Station, Liverpool

18-08

what legendary diamond fell to the successors of the fictitious Misson?

Shea Stadium

18-09

who got six months for dis–honesty at White Plains?

Marion Jones

18-10

whose jobcentre manager fetched £17.2m?

Lucian Freud